Meanwhile, called to be shining lights in a darkening world (Isa 60:1) as believers we are invited and called and charged to dig deeper, study soberly, pray in alignment with the word of God, understand the ramifications of compliance and defiance to His word, and to speak the truth in love to all around us.<\/p>\n Scriptural-Wiring Truth: <\/strong> There\u2019s correlations between situations and sins and sufferings, between lifestyle choices and how things go socially, between covenant relationship (personal, marital, national) and blessing or accountability.<\/p>\n The cause and effect of unholy national living is chillingly played out throughout scripture, and is currently chillingly playing out in the streets of America. At the risk of offending some: It is not about gun violence. Guns happen to be a tool of choice. Removing the tool will not remove the violence. Of course careful monitoring of gun-accessibility is a good thing, but most violent criminals don\u2019t shop for legal guns in hunting stores. Meanwhile, were we to magically eliminate guns (I won\u2019t even begin to address governments that illegalized guns prior to becoming military dictatorships), violence would take on other forms. Man-\u201ckind\u201d killed mankind thousands of years before the invention of gunpowder.<\/p>\n The issue is a deepening and intensifying worldwide sin climate. We are where we are in the prophetic biblical timeframe. Read the whole book. A defiant \u00a0world has sown rebellion to God for millenniums. The crop of trouble has been watered by everything from counterfeit religions to greed to perversion to spineless and impotent churchianity. The God-intended \u201csalt of the earth\u201d church has for the most part modeled a tasteless and powerless and boring God to a starving and dying world, and the world has understandably looked elsewhere.<\/p>\n 2 Timothy 3:1-2<\/strong> AGAIN: Psalms 12:8<\/em><\/strong> Vileness exalted has opened a floodgate for acts of wickedness, just as God\u2019s wiring diagram of creation has intended. (Isa 1:19-20).<\/p>\n Our covenant nation, has sadly brought it upon ourselves. Here\u2019s more eternal truth, with a promise: Defining \u201cvileness\u201d is reasonably clear. Investigation into what God loves and calls us to walk in, and comparing that to what God hates and particularly what God cites as abomination, paints a reasonably clear picture.<\/p>\n Repentance goes beyond sorry. There\u2019s a \u201cturning-away\u201d component to repentance. A purposeful change as to how things are done, handled, embraced, ignored.<\/p>\n The Psalm 12:8 citation of \u201cwickedness\u201d is about a spirit, not an act. The wicked acts are the symptoms\/ Wickedness is a spirit that is unleashed and in fact fueled, by vileness.<\/p>\n Pornography, abortion, intentional crime, same-sex marriage, happen to be abominations to the Lord. We\u2019re shown, from the past, that unchecked, it can drive things to a terrible condition. Deuteronomy 32:16-17<\/strong> Psalms 106:37-38<\/strong> \u201cAh but wait! Those verses are Old Testament! We\u2019re under the blood of the cross.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed we are. So was Paul \u2013 the converted murderer that God redeemed and called to speak into the great true grace of God that would be upon us who believe. He wrote the book of Romans.<\/p>\n That blossoming church \u2013 and all who would read the New Testament in subsequent years, are presented with these eternal truths: I am of the personal opinion that the teaching and preaching (and writing) of the above verses will shortly be cited as a hate crime, an insensitivity to alternative lifestyles, groups, trends, and \u201cprogressive\u201d movements of society. That too is foretold to us in scripture.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all in the book that few want to read, and at which even fewer choose to tremble.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the troubling work is by our merciful God who is: QUES TO US ALL: <\/strong> Before criticizing the unsaved, who are accountable though they may not know any better, are we, with the added accountability of knowledge, in any manner contributing to vileness being exalted, that in turn opens the wider door for wickedness? In denying the God our forefathers covenanted to serve, in provoking Him to action by legislation of laws and policies that contradict holy principles, we are collectively bringing a curse upon our nation. That curse is violence.<\/p>\n SOME STATS TO CONSIDER:<\/strong><\/p>\n SUICIDE – Suicides per day in the U.S.: 123 ABORTION: U.S. abortions per year: approx. 650,000 DIVORCE AND BROKEN FAMILY: PORNOGRAPHY Every Day: FAIR QUES: Are any of us opening the door to vileness further?<\/p>\n Isaiah 66:1-2<\/strong> Our great and loving and merciful and patient God loves mankind so much that He sent His Son to carry all of the sins of anyone who would repent. How spectacular is THAT?<\/p>\n Back to Psalm 12, in its fullness there\u2019s an assurance for the saint in the distinction between the wicked and righteous: (scripture: NKJV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Troubulation: The title is not an accidental misspell. 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\nHorrific outbursts of violence in our society often generate responses and conditions, most all of which might be\u00a0well-intended efforts (from varying perspectives) to address and terminate Symptoms. Yet the Disease continues.<\/p>\n
\nPsalms 12:8<\/strong>
\n8 The wicked prowl on every side,
\nWhen vileness is exalted among the sons of men. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ……<\/em><\/p>\n
\n8 The wicked prowl on every side,
\nWhen vileness is exalted among the sons of men.<\/p>\n
\nThe fix is not REbuild, or REstructure, or REvision of laws. Nor is it about REpublican or Democrat. The issue is REpentance.<\/p>\n
\n2 Chronicles 7:14<\/strong>
\n14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nA covenant nation, in particular, is responsible for its actions.
\nThe result is violence.
\nJeremiah 40:3<\/strong>
\n3 Now the Lord has brought it, and has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the Lord, and not obeyed His voice, therefore this thing has come upon you. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nIsaiah 1:15<\/strong>
\n15 When you spread out your hands,
\nI will hide My eyes from you;
\nEven though you make many prayers,
\nI will not hear.
\nYour hands are full of blood. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n16 They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
\nWith abominations they provoked Him to anger.
\n17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
\nTo gods they did not know,
\nTo new gods, new arrivals
\nThat your fathers did not fear. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n37 They even sacrificed their sons
\nAnd their daughters to demons,
\n38 And shed innocent blood,
\nThe blood of their sons and daughters,
\nWhom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
\nAnd the land was polluted with blood. <\/em><\/p>\n
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\nRomans 1:16-32<\/strong>
\n16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
\n17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, \u201cThe just shall live by faith.\u201d
\n18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
\n19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.
\n20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
\n21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
\n22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
\n23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man\u2014and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.<\/em>
\n24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,
\n25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
\n26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
\n27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
\n28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
\n29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
\n30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
\n31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;
\n32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nA. Not willing that any should perish but that all might come to repentance; AND
\nB. Has called His saints out of darkness and expressly admonished and even warned us not to partake in the sins of this life; AND
\nC. In love, to warn every man.<\/p>\n
\nWould anyone care to own the fact that in any way supporting or contributing to pornographic activity contributed to a spiritual climate that fostered mass shootings? That X-rated movie one might watch, or market, or participate in, in part unleashes wickedness. Refer back to the wiring diagram example, sort of. We don’t know what our own sin fertilizes.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suicide_in_the_United_States<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFrom 1970 through 2015, a PRO-CHOICE organization, the Guttmacher Institute estimates there have been 45,789,558 abortions in America.
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abortion_statistics_in_the_United_States<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe American Psychological Association estimates 50% of all marriages end in divorce, and although there has been a slight drop in that rate it is because younger adults are not marrying until later in life \u2013 many are living with each other outside of marriage.
\nhttps:\/\/www.apa.org\/topics\/divorce\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.webroot.com\/us\/en\/resources\/tips-articles\/internet-pornography-by-the-numbers<\/a>
\nEvery Second:
\n28,258 users are watching pornography on the internet.
\n$3,075.64 is being spent on pornography on the internet.
\n372 people are typing the word “adult” into a search engine.<\/p>\n
\n37 pornographic videos are created in the United States.
\n2.5 billion emails containing porn are sent or received.
\n68 million search queries related to pornography- 25% of total searches- are generated.
\n116,000 queries related to child pornography are received.<\/p>\n
\n1 Thus says the Lord: \u201cHeaven is My throne,
\nAnd earth is My footstool.
\nWhere is the house that you will build Me?
\nAnd where is the place of My rest?
\n2 For all those things My hand has made,
\nAnd all those things exist,\u201d
\nSays the Lord.
\n\u201cBut on this one will I look:
\nOn him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
\nAnd who trembles at My word. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nPsalms 12<\/strong>
\n1 Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases!
\nFor the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
\n2 They speak idly everyone with his neighbor;
\nWith flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
\n3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
\nAnd the tongue that speaks proud things,
\n4 Who have said,
\n\u201cWith our tongue we will prevail;
\nOur lips are our own;
\nWho is lord over us?\u201d
\n5 \u201cFor the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
\nNow I will arise,\u201d says the Lord;
\n\u201cI will set him in the safety for which he yearns.\u201d
\n6 The words of the Lord are pure words,
\nLike silver tried in a furnace of earth,
\nPurified seven times.
\n7 You shall keep them, O Lord,
\nYou shall preserve them from this generation forever.
\n8 The wicked prowl on every side,
\nWhen vileness is exalted among the sons of men. <\/em><\/p>\n