THE WORLD NEEDS RESCUE

Dr V Marques
Apr 1, 2018
3 min read

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(Part 8)

7. Widespread alternative lifestyles—moral degeneration

In June 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, legalized same-sex marriage, which prior to this had been banned in the United States under federal law. Virtually all the legal moral safeguards to preserve the traditional family are now gone. The floodgates have opened to every kind of alternative lifestyle, and most of the world is following suit.

Just recently in Colombia, the first marriage among three men has taken place, called a poly-amorous relationship. Where will all of this end? No one knows for sure. It is just the beginning of this “social experiment,” and the traditional family unit, something historically upheld, is now being replaced by a multitude of alternative lifestyles.

God sent a reminder to mankind about keeping His laws and not destroying the family in the last days preceding Christ’s return. He warned in Malachi 4:4-6: “Remember the Law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb [Mount Sinai] for all Israel.

See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."

These laws, given to Moses at Horeb, were the foundation of the nation's civil, moral and ceremonial life. These moral laws are still to be obeyed today. These laws apply to all generations. Malachi gives us practical guidelines about commitment to God. God deserves the best we have to offer. We must be able to change our wrong ways of living. We should make family a lifelong priority.

Luke 1:17: "And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous - to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

This New Testament passage was about the role of John the Baptist almost identical to that of an Old Testament prophet, Elijah - to encourage people to turn away from sin and back to God.

In Luke 17:26-30, Jesus Christ described the growing wickedness of the end-time society: “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot … , but the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed."

Jesus warned against false security. We are to abandon the values and attachments of this world and be ready for Christ's return. At no cost must we lose spiritual dimension in our lives.

Where are these trends leading?

Again, we find ourselves witnessing tremendous progress today, but also great moral and spiritual regression. Consequently, we must do our part, protecting ourselves and our families from the perils around us, staying spiritually strong and praying for Christ’s Kingdom to come soon.

Thankfully, God will not allow these seven great dangers now spreading around the world to ultimately wipe out the human race. Jesus will intervene. And in the age to come under His reign, the nightmares of nuclear arms, biological weapons, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, the dark side of the Internet, permissive drug culture and aberrant alternative lifestyles will be things of the past.

Micah 4: 3-4 "He will judge between many peoples and He will settle disputes…"

Let us trust that the day of this millennial description is not too far off in the future and that we can be part of it!

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Reference material:

Mario Seiglie's article "The world needs to be rescued", Jan 2018, Beyond Today magazine.

Organic Consumer Association

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2017 Doomsday Clock Statement, University of Chicago)

NIV Application Study Bible

Global Zero Report, published 2014 in Earth's Future Journal

Wikipedia

American Scientist Magazine, Steven Block, The Growing Threat of Biological Weapons.

(Sebastian Anthony, “Elon Musk Warns Us That Human-Level AI Is ‘Potentially More Dangerous Than Nukes,’” Extreme Tech, Aug. 4, 2014).