THE WORLD NEEDS TO BE RESCUED

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(Part 6)

5. The dark side of the Internet—undermining morality

Internet - another invention and the ever increasing use of social networking and electronic devices continues to raise concerns and are having a profound effect on humanity. It truly is a two-edged sword—it can provide a lot of useful information, but there is a dark side that has a corrupting power like nothing else ever made.

It has been for a while now that this concern exists, and many people express the concern of and about social changes that undermines society.

Unfortunately, according to statistics, 30 percent of Internet content is pornography.

It is so easy to morally defile people by making available sinful content, especially to unsuspecting youth. We are just in the beginning stages of this worldwide Internet that includes many pernicious uses, such as pornography, online gambling, identity theft, hucksterism and even sex trafficking.

We are gradually returning to a condition God saw in Noah’s day, but now the violence and corruption, through modern technology, have reached a new level. Back then, “the Lord saw

how great man's wickedness on earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time." (Genesis 6:5)

"Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and full of violence." (Genesis 6:11)

In my book, "Apocalypse Unfolding Now", I wrote that the world is sliding into chaos, right before our eyes, at an ever-increasing speed. Meanwhile, Internet is very much in the core of one of the major causes; immorality, crime, violence, poverty, political corruption, perverted lifestyles, sickness and disease stalk the earth in a fast-increasing acceleration. How close is society now to fitting the apostle Paul’s description of the end-time civilization? He foretold: “You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good.

“They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly” (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

Sad to say, this portrait of society is becoming more the norm today. What would the world look like now if it had the Internet 100 years ago? How much more spiritual corruption would there be? The moral decline so far is quite evident and alarming in just these few years the Internet has become virtually universal. This is another “genie” that’s out of the bottle. And because of its popularity and addictive power, people will not want to put it back in the bottle despite the enormous moral and spiritual damage being done. As Christ said, “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be” (Matthew 24:37).

This specific development is one of the facts that are combining to plunge the world into a holocaust of destruction and death such as has never been seen before - and never shall again!

(END OF PART 6)

to be continued…