The news today spoke of a young man who lured a young girl into his appartment (perhaps forcably brought her) where he proceeded to rape, torture, then kill her. He then began to dismember her with the intension of further sexual activity with the corpse, and then finally plans to eat the body. Demonic? In other news... a man who has a grudge against his neighbor traps her cat, takes it to the animal shelter and has it euthanized. What is the difference between these two people? Personally, I think one was not afraid of getting caught, the other was. When a man has that much hatred towards their neighbor, it seems as though we have left the bounds of human-generated animosity. I do hate to underestimate the human capacity for evil. God knows we are not a nice lot.
The Bible says in Luke 17: 26"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28"It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 29But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
So what is the mission for Christians? Daniel would have hit his knees and started intercession for the evil in his country. Somehow I dont believe Christians are primed for this. Instead, we are NUMBED to the point of disinterest. For a split second, we are appalled, and then the sports headlines catch our eye. The truth of the matter is, if Christians cannot stand in the gap on issues just like this, then this nation is heading for an incredibly quick demise. Strange that it should boil down to us, isn't it?
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