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Police Are In the Process of Examining Over A Million Photos and Videos
21 September 2026: Depravity has seemed to have reached a new low in Pennsylvania, as multiple law enforcement agencies have descended on the house of R.C Horsch and his son, Eugene. The property on Chew Avenue in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia, frequently referred to in news coverage as a “house of horrors”.
The massive investigation into the Horsch property didn’t begin as a missing persons search or a homicide probe—it started with a routine traffic stop. On June 19, 2026, a park ranger stopped a BMW near Independence Mall on Market Street in Philadelphia. The car was being driven by Eugene Horsch (44 years old), and a female passenger was inside who provided a fake identification under the name Blair Tonzelli (who had been reported missing years prior according to NamUS records).
Upon searching, authorities found illegal firearms and a substantial amount of drugs tied to Eugene, leading to his arrest on federal weapon and drug charges. Eugene’s arrest prompted law enforcement to execute search warrants on the family’s property on West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood (where Eugene had lived alongside his late father, Raymond “R.C.” Horsch).
When law enforcement and federal agencies searched the home, they uncovered a massive scale of contraband—including a marijuana grow operation, fake badges, and crucially, digital storage devices containing over a million images and videos. Sifting through that digital evidence is what ultimately blew the case wide open, exposing connections to missing women, abuse, and potential homicides.
Status of Other Individuals Identified in Files
Police and the FBI have identified 58 total people within the recovered photos and videos.
4 appear lifeless (including the victims noted above)
10 suffered drug overdoses well after the videos were taken and were found at separate locations in Philadelphia.
16 were located and interviewed, though police noted they have been largely uncooperative.
25 are known to be alive, and interviews are being scheduled.
3 individuals contacted authorities stating they appear in the images but refused to come forward or cooperate.
Things To Keep in Mind
This massive multi-agency probe began as a routine traffic stop on June 19th. Up until that time there was no investigation at all. The logistical hurdle law enforcement faces by sifting through over 1 million digital items is tremendous. Only 30% has been fully reviewed. There will be no doubt more information as the investigation progresses.
Noah’s Time Revisited
If you are still skeptical about this concept of the return of The Lord Jesus, then you truly deserve a chance to revisit that skepticism. We are right at the very edge of the end of time as we know it. In this day and time, the Bible’s prophecies are coming true at an astounding rate. Even in the supposed ‘safe’ communities, evil and depravity are raising its head. In the last days we are living in, violence is literally everywhere. You deserve this opportunity to reflect on your convictions: Do you honestly believe the world is getting better? Or do you fear for the future of man?
11 Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence. 12 God observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt. 13 So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth!” – Genesis 6:11-13 NLT
God saw that the entire world was corrupt. What kind of corruption? In Genesis 6:11, the word translated as “corrupt” is the Hebrew verb shachath (שָׁחַת). At its foundational, physical level, shachath means to spoil, ruin, decay, or mar—similar to food rotting, a garment being shredded, or an object being broken beyond repair. It describes something that has lost its original integrity, function, or purity.
This corruption goes beyond the definition of corruption in today’s context. This describes a moral decay, now get this: Humans twisting their behavior away from how they were designed to live, departing completely from right conduct.
This is word-for-word, exactly what is going on in the world today. What have we just seen? When this liberal women, just as the Bible predicted, have become corrupt in their thinking to the point where they actually believe that women shouldn’t be held accountable for the murder of young children. People like Lindsay Clancy and Corie Walsh, who committed brutal murders of their own children. using Post-Partum Depression as a justifiable excuse for their actions.
These are the very end of the last days. Even the most ardent atheist will tell you that these days are unsustainable. What we have is this evil political system, Socialism, trying to get control of the entire world in order to pave the way for the antichrist.
An In Depth Look At the False Teachings of Prosperity.
Let’s say I were a truly evil man. One day, I decide I want to poison all my friends who attend my church. So I concoct a poison, and I think to myself: “Now all I need is a tasty drink to lace with poison.” So I head down to my local grocery store and I buy a big bottle of – Apple Cider Vinegar. How many people can I poison? Zero.
And that is the metaphor of the prosperity Gospel. The fact that so many people fall under its spell is because, believe it or not, there is a lot of truth packed into that teaching. That’s why it attracts so many people and why so many people remain. I should know: I spent over 20 years seeking that prosperity.
In fact, if you simply take out a few things from the prosperity Gospel, it would probably very much look like what you believe. And I honest think many a preacher started out with the best of intentions: But as my mom used to warn me, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
A Visit From God
My breakthrough came at a most desperate time. I was absolutely beside myself, not having money to do simple things like go to the grocery store, give the kids snack money to take to school, and bigger things like paying the mortgage. One night, I was so desperate, I prayed a prayer: “God, I know prosperity is real, I know it. There are too many passages in the Bible concerning prosperity for it not to be real. What am I doing wrong?”
God answered me, as loud as I’ve ever heard him. “Money is most dangerous thing to your soul that you will ever have anything to do with!”
“What?” I replied.
“Money is the most dangerous thing to your soul that you will ever have anything to do with!”
“Lord,” I said, “I hear the words, but I don’t understand the meaning.”
He said to me: “Imagine a knock at your door. There stands a young couple and they say to you; ‘we just moved in down the street and we’re Satan worshippers. We’re having a meeting tonight and want to invite you to come.’ What would you say?”
“I would say, I’m a Christian and I will not be coming.”
Then he said, “What if they said ‘Congratulations, you just won Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.’ Would you tell them that you couldn’t accept such a large amount of money because it might damage your relationship with me? Could you turn down a million dollars, even if you knew it would ruin your relationship with me?”
I was speechless, because I knew the answer. I couldn’t turn down that much money. Then while I was thinking on that, he repeated: “Money is the most dangerous thing to your soul you will ever have anything to do with. Sure, you’d turn down the temptation to worship Satan, but would you turn down a million dollars, in order to maintain your relationship to me?”
God had me 100%. Not that I would just wave goodbye to God while on my way to the Bahamas, but I would rationalize it. I would say to myself, ‘no, you’re not that type of guy. You’d be responsible; you’d give some away. You’d pay off your bills, you’d put it away for retirement.’ But that wasn’t all God had to say.
The Love of Money…
God said to me, “When my son was on this earth, he said it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man enter the kingdom of Heaven. It’s not that I don’t like rich people, or I detest people having money, but a rich man finds it almost impossible to trust anything except his money. A rich man finds it nearly impossible to love anything except his money. It’s not that I don’t want to prosper you, I just know what would happen if I did.”
He had me dead to rights. I couldn’t deny it, because in my heart, I knew I was hearing the voice of God. I said, “What do I do?”
He was very calm. He said, “First of all, stop looking at everything the world has and saying, “I want one of those.” That’s called lusting after the things of this earth, and Jesus specifically told you not to do it, yet you do that nearly every day.”
The seed that fell among the thorns represents those who hear God’s word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life and the lure of wealth, so no fruit is produced. – Matthew 13:22 NLT
“Secondly, give some money away every time you get some. Even if it’s $5 or $10 for gas, give a little bit away. It’s very hard to fall in love with money if you’re constantly giving it away.”
“Finally, stop cursing the things you have. Instead of cursing that old car of yours, be thankful you have a car. Instead of cursing that old house, be thankful you have a house. Instead of complaining about that job, be thankful you have a job.”
That was years ago, and nothing happened over night. But as I began realizing that the prosperity Gospel was actually one of the oldest traps in history, as I began to realize that I didn’t really need all these things I wanted, things begin to change. When I quit cursing that old car, it wasn’t a month later until one day, my wife said to me, “I dreamed I bought you a new Jeep.”
I didn’t think much of it at the time, but about 2 weeks later, she said to me, “I think I’ve found you a new Jeep.” And slowly things began to get better. I began to pay off bills instead of accumulating new ones. Things in my life began to improve. As I sit here right now, I seriously cannot think of anything I’d like that I don’t already have. I’m serious: If someone were to walk up to me and say, “I’ll give you $500 with two conditions: 1 you have to spend it on yourself. You can’t save it or pay a bill, you have to spend it on something you want. 2 you have to spend it within 24 hours.”
I would be hard pressed to figure out something that I truly wanted. As I gave up wanting the things this world has, God gave them to me. I really cannot think of anything I want. My bills are paid every month. Now, they may not get paid exactly on time, but I have a whole new approach to paying bills. I pray to God for the money to pay a bill as it comes due. And right now, there are no bills that are due other than this current month’s bills.
Right now, the refrigerator is stuffed to the gills. I had to start reminding my wife, that before she buys a bunch of stuff, to think about whether or not they’ll fit in the refrigerator or our deep freezer. Just today, I was looking through the freezer to see if we had any more frozen vegetables, and that freezer is full to the top.
Can I Tell You A Secret?
You don’t have to, nor should you want to be rich. What is the point? If God is willing to supply your every need, if he’s willing to give you money to get the bills paid, then what is the point of being rich? Having thousands of dollars in the bank, so you can brag about it to your friends? So you can go on a shopping spree any time you want? So you can trust in your money to take care of anything you might need?
And I don’t want to hear the sorry excuse, “I want to be rich so I can have money to help the poor.” Don’t give me that crap! Right now, I could sit down and think of over a dozen preachers out there that have over a million dollars in the bank. And they’re not frantically searching through the internet in order to find people to bless.
No it’s much better to have little, and be able to pay your bills, buy your food, and live on the blessings of God.
There Is No “Needle Gate”
One of the things I have heard with my own ears taught is this myth of the needle gate. The story goes that when Jesus talked about a camel going through the eye of a needle, he didn’t mean an actual sewing needle. He really meant this small gate in the wall surrounding the city of Jerusalem. That gate was supposedly small, only meant for human foot traffic, and if a camel needed to enter it, it would have to get down on the ground and crawl on it’s knees to get through.
The problem is there is no needle gate. In fact, historically, the needle gate story didn’t even appear until around 1500 A.D., when the Catholic Church was trying hard to assure kings who were loyal to the Church that they could get into Heaven despite their wealth.
The Real Truth About Prosperity
The real truth is simple: The Prosperity Gospel is a works gospel. It doesn’t rely on what Jesus has done for us on the cross, but requires people to do things in order to receive from God. Jesus himself warns us against trying to do things in order to please God. The bottom line is this: The reason people don’t receive when they give is because they are trying to earn money from God. The only work God requires of you is to believe on Jesus:
Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” – John 6:28-29 NKJV
You trying to give money in order to receive money is taking Jesus out of the equation. It is trying to earn God’s blessings instead of depending on faith. Like I wrote to you earlier, I spent 20 years trying to give my way to prosperity. It doesn’t work; it doesn’t work because the book of Galatians tells us plainly that it won’t work.
1 Oh, foolish Galatians! Who has cast an evil spell on you? For the meaning of Jesus Christ’s death was made as clear to you as if you had seen a picture of his death on the cross. 2 Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ. 3 How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? 4 Have you experienced so much for nothing? Surely it was not in vain, was it? – Galatians 3:1-4 NLT
This is what we do by trying to depend on your own efforts. You began a good work in the spirit, that is by faith you received Jesus’ gift of salvation, recognizing that you could not save yourself and that your efforts to save yourself are in vain. But now, as a Christian you cannot perfect your walk with God by trying to earn his love, his gifts and his promises by doing things.
Let me give you an example of what this is like: Let’s say that one day you look out the window and you see a car pulling into your driveway. But not just any car; this is your favorite car of all. It is the color you’ve always wanted, it has all the features you want, it is the perfect car for you. And you see the door open and I get out. You come outside running up to me, telling me how much you love my new car, how it is the exact model you’ve always dreamed of having, and even the very color you’ve always wanted.
I say, “Well I’m so glad to hear that. Because I was driving by a car lot today and I saw this car and thought how perfect it would be for you. So because I love you so very much, I bought this car for you.”
Now you reply, “Oh No! I couldn’t accept such a wonderful gift, but I’ll tell you what I will do: I’ll give you $50 for it.”
How big of an insult would that be to me? I do something just to show my love for you, and not only do you reject it, but you insult the value of my gift by offering me $50 for it. How bad would my feelings be hurt; how angry would I be? Well that is exactly what you do when you reject the gift of God and instead try to earn it by works. Jesus perfectly fulfilled the law of the Old Testament, and you, therefore are heirs to the promises of the Old Testament through Jesus. You do not have to tithe in order to receive God’s promises, because Jesus tithed for you!
Because he perfectly fulfilled the law, we know he tithed, giving a tenth of the first fruits of his labors. And as an heir, we receive the blessings of the tithe, not because we tithe, but because we’re heirs through Christ. But not the follower of the Prosperity Gospel. Because they teach their followers that the tithe was before the law, and it must be kept to this very day. Even if that were true (it’s not), we as Christians would still be exempt due to the fact that we approach God through faith in Jesus. It makes it pointless to tithe, because we already have the blessings of the tithe.
You should give to charities, your church, etc. Not because you’re trying to receive from God, but because you don’t want to fall in love with money, and because Jesus taught us to be kind to the poor, and the Apostle Paul told us we have an obligation to support our church. But with 20 years of experience under my belt, I had to learn the hard way that trying to earn money from God is a dead end street.
The Poison’s Bite
The truly dangerous thing of the Prosperity Gospel is two-fold. Number one, it puts under a mentality that everything from God comes with a catch: We have to do something in order to receive from God. This is a very dangerous thing to your immortal soul!
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” – Luke 5:37-38 NKJB
Jesus was the son of a carpenter. Although the Bible never tells us of Jesus’ profession, we know that it was tradition that a son follow in the profession of the father. So from that, we can safely assume that Jesus too was a carpenter by trade. So why then is he teaching us how to store wine?
He isn’t using this analogy to teach us about wine. This is a metaphor about the New Testament versus the Old Testament. Jesus is teaching us that we cannot try to follow the law of the Old Testament and wrap it as a cloak around the New Testament. He is telling that both will be ruined if we do that! One time I myself was questioning God about the role of the Old Testament in my life, and God spoke to me very simply:
Learn from the Old Testament, but live by the New Testament
That is something that I know was God, because there is no way that I am smart enough to come up with that on my own. That is exactly what Jesus was teaching us, and exactly what Jesus told us about himself:
“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.” – John 5:39 NKJV
We are to use the Old Testament as a means to understand the nature of man, and the trials that the Israelis went through in order to bring God’s Messiah into the earth. But when you try to follow the laws of the Old Testament, you are following rules that never applied to you in the first place, and certainly don’t apply to you now that you are a follower of Jesus. We learn who Jesus is in the Old Testament, and we follow the rules laid down in the New Testament in order to please God.
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” – Hebrews 11:6 NKJV
Everyone seems to know this verse, but very few understand it. Turn this verse around, people! If it is impossible to please God without faith, then what is the only thing that pleases him? FAITH.
Your righteousness is as filthy rags to God. Your efforts are tainted through sin, and God will never accept you unless you come to him through faith in Jesus Christ. That is why you don’t follow the law of the Old Testament. That is why you don’t try to earn God’s blessings. And most of all, that is how you get to heaven.
The Stairway To Heaven
The famous song, Stairway to Heaven was by the iconic rock group, Led Zeppelin. Now, I don’t know if that was intentional or not, but the opening line of the song reminds me of the prosperity Gospel. That’s right. The idea that someone can buy their way into heaven. The very first line of the song tells us what the song is about: “There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold, and she’s buying a stairway to heaven.”
The point is, that you cannot buy your way into God’s blessings. You’re not going to pay your way into heaven, nor are you going to pay your way into wealth. And let’s not forget the main thing God taught us about wealth, where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Many, many a person who call themselves Christian are going to be astonished because they will be left behind when the rapture occurs. That’s because their hearts are stored at the local bank, right beside their treasure.
Finally, let me close with a true story. Years ago, in the 1980’s an evangelist went on TV to encourage his followers to give him all of their money. He told them to give their money to him, and then go and write checks for all their needs. He told them that this would be their act of faith, to mail those checks and demonstrate to God their faith. This got a lot of Christians into trouble with the police, as those checks were worthless checks, and writing a check you know to be worthless is a crime.
The Smithsonian American History Museum May Contain False Information
17 September 2026: The Trump administration is preparing to place warning signs outside the Smithsonian American History Museum. These signs would tell visitors that some exhibits contain false or politically biased interpretations of U.S. history.
The Interior Department sent letters to two senators—Lisa Murkowski (R‑AK) and Jeff Merkley (D‑OR)—explaining the plan. The proposal includes 12 temporary signs, though the letters did not describe what the signs will say or how large they will be.
The effort is tied to President Trump’s 2025 executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,”which calls for removing “improper ideology” from Smithsonian properties. The administration argues that Americans should be informed when curators are presenting history in a way meant to influence visitors’ viewpoints.
No Limitations on Depravity
For years, the American people have been quietly deceived. Silently, books have been rewritten, museums have been changed, the narrative has been altered. For example, according to the Smithsonian, slavery wasn’t a time in our history, it was a pattern of ongoing legacy of racism.
At one time, America boasted itself as the great American Melting Pot. The idea being that when someone comes to America, they were encouraged to think of themselves as an American first, and ethnicity second. But today, there are people in this country who intentionally want to perpetuate hatred in America as a way to divide this country. And the reason is spelled out clearly in the Bible.
An Attack On All That Is Moral
The one thing that these people who are trying to revise history want to do, and that is remove anything that is moral, good, patriotic and holy. To them, these values are repulsive. As we can see the depravity of the public actually become bold in their hatred of anything that stands for morality, we see a picture getting clearer each and every day. We are right on the very edge of Time: And as time comes to a close, the Bible’s predictions are impossible to ignore.
5 They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water. 6 Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood. 7 And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed. – 2 Peter 3:5-7 NLT
4 They will reject the truth and chase after myths. – 2 Timothy 4:4 NLT
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! – Isaiah 5:20 NKJV
As The Bible Continues to Come To Pass, An Iranian Nuclear Weapon Was Inevitable
14 September 2026:BREAKING NEWS – The nation of Iran is claiming they are now ready to proceed with testing of a nuclear weapon. I wrote about this back in June of this year, describing the coming nuclear attack on Israel according to Ezekiel chapter 39.
In the book of Ezekiel, he explains something very surprising. He begins to describe what will happen in the aftermath of the Ezekiel 38 war. He describes a clean-up operation that will take place in Israel; and that cleanup, written almost 3,000 years ago, mirrors modern hazmat clean-up protocols. The 39th chapter goes as far as to tell us that Israel will use taxpayer money to hire professionals in order to clean up the land.
According to Tousi TV News, Iran has announced they are ready to proceed with a test of their very first nuclear weapon. The UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) says Iran has 440–441 kg of uranium enriched to 60%, which is weeks away from weapons‑grade if further enriched. Tousi TV claims that Hardline Iranian lawmakers are pushing an urgent proposal to test a nuclear weapon and leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as detailed by The Hormuz Letter on X, though other parliamentary officials state that no official bill has formally reached committee review yet
What This Means
AS we continue to travel down this road, there should be no surprise these things are taking place. Sure, the world continues in their ignorance; they are blinded from the truth by the power of Satan. But we, as Christians can see with every new day, new prophecies are coming to pass day after day. The Bible tells us that the aftermath of the surprise attack on Israel by Persia (Iran), Turkey, and Egypt among other peoples.
The fact that the world is so ignorant of this still bewilders me. In this day and age, the Bible is coming literally true, and the prophecies that we once considered murky and hard to understand are now crystal clear. These are just a few examples of Ezekiel chapter 39 and how clear they have become.
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. – Ezekiel 39:14 KJV
“And they shall sever out men of continual employment” – Israel hires professionals, people who do this for a living. They are people of continual employment, because it is their jobs to travel to different parts of the world and clean up hazardous sites.
“After the end of seven months shall they search” – These hired professionals must wait for seven months before they are allowed to enter the land.
And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog – Ezekiel 39:15 KJV
“When any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it” – Once the area has been cleared for people to travel through it, if they find a bone, they are not to touch it. Instead, they place a sign close by, and it is the duty of the professionals to come and properly dispose of the bone that was missed.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: – Ezekiel 39:11 KJV
“The valley of the passengers on the east of the sea” – The bodies and the debris will be buried east of the Dead Sea. Think of this as downwind of Israel.
Please read the article I wrote on 15 June 2026 for more information about the Ezekiel 39 prophecy: Ezekiel 39: Israel’s Nuclear War
As The World Continues To Grow More Worrisome, People Seek Refuge In Drugs
12 September 2026: According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), Cannabis and hallucinogens stayed at historically high levels in 2023 among adults aged 19 to 30 and 35 to 50. Cigarettes and alcohol use continues to drop, however they are being replaced with drugs. The reasons for this are complex, from legalization to the alternative vaping products, people are finding easier to escape their reality using drugs.
“We have seen that people at different stages of adulthood are trending toward use of drugs like cannabis and psychedelics and away from tobacco cigarettes,” said Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). “These findings underscore the urgent need for rigorous research on the potential risks and benefits of cannabis and hallucinogens – especially as new products continue to emerge.”
The 2024 research showed that among women in 2023, for the first time, cannabis use is more prevalent than among men.
What Isn’t Being Discussed
One thing the study failed to mention even in a cursory way was the motivation. Right now, people may be thankful that the fentanyl crisis has stabilized, at least the overdose deaths are down. While fentanyl use may have decreased only slightly, thanks to the life-saving drug Narcan, deaths from overdose have been decreasing for the last three years.
The Bible Predicts This Trend
In this article, we will answer these questions:
Is drug use mentioned in the Bible?
What drives people to turn to drugs, according to the Bible?
Is drug use a sign of the last days?
The motivations vary from person to person. However, the reasons are all reduced to a common denominator: Happiness. The single motivation for everything we do is happiness. That drives every decision we make; what will make us the happiest. When we’re happy, our brains releases dopamine and that makes us feel good. These drugs mimic the natural dopamine.
The Bible mentions drug use, but there are a few things that a person must understand in order to study the Bible correctly. At the time the Bible was translated into English, there wasn’t any type of modern drugs invented yet. Potions and elixirs were often made by people who indulged in witchcraft and the occult. So many times, when the Bible referenced drug use, the translators would call this ‘sorceries’.
This is proved true by a look at the original Greek. For example:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. – Revelation 9:21 KJV
When examining that text, the original Greek word behind “sorceries” is pharmakeia (φαρμακεία)—the root word from which we get our modern terms pharmacy, pharmacology, and pharmaceutical.
Potions, Drugs, and Poisons: It literally referred to the preparation or use of medicinal herbs, drugs, potions, or intoxicating brews.
The Occult and Magic: Because concoctions and elixirs were frequently mixed by sorcerers, ritualists, and occult practitioners to induce trances, hallucinations, or altered spiritual states, the word naturally came to describe magical arts and witchcraft.
But looking at it from this 21st century, it’s easy to see what the Bible’s actual meaning were. In fact, there are other verses in the Bible where the word sorceries is actually the word pharmakeia.
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. – Revelation 18:23 KJV
In the book of Galatians, the word pharmakeia is actually translated “witchcraft”.
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. – Galatians 5:20-21 KJV
The Bible calls these things ‘works of the flesh’ (Galatians 5:19). Works of the flesh are described as Lusts of the flesh, and are those things that give gratification to the mortal nature of our bodies. And that is exactly what the Bible tells us will be prevalent in the last days.
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. – 2 Timothy 3:1-5 KJV
As the time of the end draws nearer and nearer, we see a most remarkable thing: In every respect of today’s life, the Bible has accurately predicted these things. That’s because God is giving people every chance, every single opportunity, to recognize the times in which we live. The Bible is the most awesome, wonderful book in the history of man. It proves its supernatural origins by predicting the end from the beginning. Think of it: Here we are in 2026, and words written 2,000 years ago are proving true in this day and age.
The Bible predicts the future with 100% accuracy. There is no such thing as failed prophecies. There are simply prophecies that have come to pass, and those that have yet to come to pass. Once you make the decision to trust the authenticity of the Bible, it becomes miraculous to simply read the Bible. As you see the truth of the Bible unfold, you can clearly see God’s hand in the writing of this book.
When truth becomes negotiable, evil becomes inevitable.
10 September 2026: One year ago, Charlie Kirk was allegedly assassinated by Tyler James Robinson. Kirk was holding one of his Turning Point USA campus events. But the question is, what have we learned from this young man’s death?
A Year of Unmasking
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. 21 Woe to those who consider themselves wise and judge themselves clever. 22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are champions at pouring beer, 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice. – Isaiah 5:20-23 CSB
We live in a poisonous cultural climate these days, where free speech is justification for murder. In a twisted, evil, depraved state of mind, people actually justify murder on the basis that someone said something that might cause someone to be offended. Let me tell you what offends me: Murder! That offends me to no end. When you take it upon yourself to end someone’s life for the simple reason you disagree with their point of view, I’m offended with you.
We live in a time:
People celebrate the death of people who offend them.
People condemn punishment for murder.
People praise chaos and hate authority.
People elevate grievance and condemn what is good.
In a way, we are fortunate above all other people in the history of the world. We are living in the very last period of time, and we can like no other group of people on earth can look back and see how accurately the Bible has predicted the future. But at the same time, we live in a time of the most evil generation the world has never known. The moral decay Scripture predicts is no longer a prediction: It is mainstream.
The liberal mindset has taken over the minds and souls of a large group of the population, where the mindset is the end justifies the means, no matter how evil those means are. Jesus predicted the end of days would mirror those of Noah’s time. That is no longer a prediction: It has come to pass.
5And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. – Genesis 6:5-6 KJV
Charlie Kirk died for one thing above all else: He wasn’t afraid to point out the depravity of the world. But little did these evil people realize; when Charlie Kirk died, his mantle fell on thousands of us. We picked that mantle up and now carry it forward.
“This divide in the country today is good versus evil.”
A Year of Situational Ethics
In this past year, facts have become optional. No longer does the world embrace a clear moral code. As we have seen recently, women are rebelling against the idea that killing a child is wrong. They actually advocate this depraved notion that mental illness is an excuse for murder. No, evil is the reason for murder. People who completely turn their backs on God, to go as far as attempt to deny the existence of God. Those people have been given over to a depraved mindset, and once that occurs, there is no limit to the depths of their depravity:
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. – Romans 1:28 NIV
We live in a time where media bias is no longer disputed or denied. The media is openly hostile to the present administration, conservative values and the traditional family. And they have demonstrated complete hatred for Jews, Christians, religion, and the Bible. And no wonder. The Bible is doing exactly what it is predicted to do in the last days. Just as they killed Jesus because he exposed their deeds as evil, so today, the mainstream media condemns anything having to do with the Bible because the Bible is exposing their evil deeds.
“When truth becomes negotiable, evil becomes inevitable”
The Cultural Decay Isn’t Political – It’s Spiritual
“This is nothing short of ridiculous: The idea that moms kill their babies over the lack of access to abortion is tantamount to saying the reason people drown is too much water.“
The world we live in today is predicted in the Bible. In fact, there is more written about the times we are currently living in than any other time, including the days when Jesus walked this earth. Everything from crime to Global Warming, to lawlessness. And it’s all been predicted.
1But know this: Hard times will come in the last days. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people. – 2 Timothy 3:1-5 CSB
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, – Romans 1:24-25 KJV
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. – Matthew 24:12 KJV
What we are seeing now is the evidence of these Scriptures coming to pass. A group of degenerates who praise the killing of Charlie Kirk, simply because he uncovered their disgraceful acts and pointed out the fact that such behavior is wrong, but not only wrong, but the result of an evil mind. But as Charlie always did, he condemned the acts, not the people who did them.
Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen. – Romans 1:24-25 CSB
There has been a flood of false allegations leveled against Charlie Kirk, but none of these supposed statements have been proven true. Kirk condemned the actions of these people but was a man who tried to shine a light into darkness and was killed for his efforts.
What We’ve Actually Learned
We have seen a divide in this country that cannot be healed. And to be frank about it, this is something that I refuse to compromise over. This divide is moral, not political. In a way, I blame Republicans for this. The Democrats are what they are, at least they don’t come as wolves in sheep’s clothing. But it is those Republicans, the conservatives, that I feel has betrayed us more. This divide in the country today is good versus evil.
People are not disagreeing over policy; they are disagreeing over what is good and what is evil. It is two completely different worldviews, and they are not compatible with each other. One view sees man as basically good. The evil that a person does isn’t coming from inside the heart, it’s actually outside influences that causes man to go against his good nature and do evil. This is nothing short of ridiculous: The idea that moms kill their babies over the lack of access to abortion is tantamount to saying the reason people drown is too much water.
The foolish idea that we try to meet “in the middle” and try to find common ground has been proven to be impossible. I don’t want to meet in the middle. Compromise is a dirty word as far as I’m concerned. We are on a road that has no turns. There is no way back. And that is the truth of the matter that we all must face. We are riding on a bus down a one-way road to hell, and one lunatic at the wheel is pretty much good as another.
Silence is Complicity
The one thing we can take away from the death of Charlie Kirk is this: As you stay silent, afraid to voice your opinion, living in fear of telling the truth to the world about the world, as you sit there in silence, you are actually complicit in the evil acts of the world.People who stay silent in fear are actually giving a green light for these despicable acts to continue. It is time for every one of us to be counted: We must take our place and stand up for what we believe in.
The Bible warnings aren’t metaphorical, they are real. They are literal.
Where This Leaves Us
One year later, and the world is darker. The moral lines in the sand are even more clear. The stakes are higher than ever before, and the need for courage is greater than ever. This is the point that you should take to heart like never before. This is a time in your life like never before. You can be the hero you’ve always wanted to be. Now is the time to take a stand for what you believe most. Don’t fear what this world might do to you; the fact of the matter is this world cannot hurt you in the least.
The Christian can live in total peace. There is absolutely nothing that a human being, a group of humans, or the government. No matter what, your salvation is safe in Jesus. The absolute worst thing a person can do to you is kill your body. Then you will immediately be taken into the presence of God Almighty himself! What kind of deal is that? That sounds more like a reward than a punishment! So, fear not! Stand up, speak your mind, and don’t worry about this world. If you’re jailed for speaking the truth, be glad that God has counted you worthy to suffer for the name of Jesus.
We live in a time where very few hearts can be changed. This is a time where the Gospel is preached as a witness to the world. But it is our mission like never before to pick up the mantle left behind by Charlie Kirk, and try to find every single open heart we can find before the final day; what a glorious time that will be!
Read about the mysterious earthquake that occurred the day Charlie Kirk was killed:
Without a doubt the worst book I have ever read in my life. This is a book, I kid you not, that was so bad, I actually regretted reading it. In a way, I feel sorry for the author (I don’t remember her name), but in a way I am still mad at her to this day.
Red Orchestra is a book about 2 woman who attended college here in America but traveled back to their home country of Germany just prior to the outbreak of World War II. I know when the author found this story, she automatically thought this would be a great story for a book. The truth, however, is much different.
These college students decide to start a resistance group in Germany called “Red Orchestra”. However rather than sabotaging railways, and plotting assassinations of top members of the Nazi party, they decide to, wait for it, print fliers. Yes, that’s the big plan they dream up to fight the Nazis – Fliers. While the rest of Germany slept an uneasy sleep, the members of the dreaded Red Orchestra distributed fliers into people’s mailboxes informing them of what was plainly going on outside their windows.
Unlike the truly heroic French resistance, who admirably fought the Nazi invasion of their homeland, sabotaged railway systems, assassinated Nazis, and exposed sympathizers, The Red Orchestra decided sneaking throughout Berlin, stuffing these fliers in people’s mail slots at night was the best approach at stopping the Nazi party.
This was absolutely the worst book I have read in my life. The author goes on and on over the most mundane of things, for example two complete chapters over the plight of a newspaper reporter who finds himself without a job due to the fact that the Nazi party took over newspaper. People are dying by the thousands, but apparently the reporter who lost his job was much more tragic.
At one point, one of the so-called resistance leaders actually joins the Nazi party in order to keep her teaching job. Wait a minute, I thought these women were part of a resistance movement! What exactly are you resisting? Isn’t the point of a resistance movement resisting? Joining the Nazi party is not resisting,that’s capitulation.
Distribution of Anti-Nazi fliers is not resistance: That is called poking a bear with a stick. You are not harming the Nazi party at all, you are a fly buzzing about someone’s head. You are destined to be swatted: Which is exactly what happened to these two American college students. They were sent to Concentration Camps for their crimes, where they both perished. The fact that these women died for absolutely nothing is a sad story that didn’t need retold.
Somewhere between chapters 10 and 12, I decided I had suffered enough. At one point, one of the students actually complained about the noise coming from the cattle trucks full of Jews rambling through the streets keeping her awake. If someone is so callous that the only thing she has to say about Jews being rounded up and taken to Ghettos, is the fact she can’t sleep, then I don’t need to waste more time reading a book about her.
7 September 2026: A second woman, obsessed with Lindsay Clancy, allegedly murders her two-year-old son. Corie Walsh has been charged with murdering her son, Bennett Walsh, by hanging the child by the neck from the rafters in the basement of her family home.
Meanwhile Walsh was upstairs in the bathroom attempting to commit suicide with a knife. Coincidentally, Walsh’s lawyer is also claiming she suffered a psychotic episode as well.
“And they embrace these murders as mental illness, not recognizing through their own ignorance that this is completely unacceptable behavior. What are we, animals that we are slaves of our twisted, evil desires? Do we not have the intelligence, the ability to recognize the fact that we can simply refuse to do something that our evil urges tell us to do?”
Predicted In the Bible
As I have recently notice in several events occurring around the world, the Bible has been predicting events to the very letter. In the Bible, it says there will come a time when people will not only imitate the evil deeds, they see others do, but they will give approval to those who do them.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. – Romans 1:32 NIV
This modern society in which we live has completely crossed the line into the most evil, hate-filled, amoral society. When it gets to the point where a mother, someone usually willing to give her life in order to protect her children, can callously murder her kids and furthermore attempt to get away with such depraved behavior is indicative of the times in which we live.
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. – 2 Timothy 3:1-5 NIV
Let’s face it: This ridiculous idea that man is basically good, and that the reason people do bad things is because of outside influences is being proven false by their actions.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” — Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV)
Most translations render it similarly, with wording like “desperately sick,”“beyond cure,” or “incurably bad.”
The Truth of The Matter
These are people who have been conditioned by over 40 years of abortion to consider the life of a child not as worth as much as the life of an adult. At one time, we valued the life of a child more than the life of an adult. Still to this day, there are parents who would absolutely give their lives in protection of their children. But the new generation of people who don’t share these values.
And this is the generation that the Bible speaks of. Again, let’s talk about the days of Noah. The generation of people who lived in Noah’s time were so bad, so wicked that God actually was sorry he ever created mankind to begin with. These are the times we are living in! We are living in a time when good is considered evil, and evil has been embraced as the new enlightened values of the liberal left.
And they embrace these murders as mental illness, not recognizing through their own ignorance that this is completely unacceptable behavior. What are we, animals that we are slaves of our twisted evil desires? Do we not have the intelligence, the ability to recognize the fact that we can simply refuse to do something that our evil urges tell us to do?
No, is the answer. When mankind begins to believe that man is basically good, nothing becomes basically wrong. Instead of knowing that they are capable of doing wrong, they embrace this idea they themselves are victims of some type of illness. Both of these women had the freedom of choice to deny their base urges. They could have admitted themselves into a psychiatric hospital and been open and frank about those things they are thinking and feeling.
5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them. ” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. – Genesis 6:5-8 NIV
A Bible Study In Grace
In Noah’s time, people were so evil that God actually considered eliminating the entire human race. However, we live under a new covenant (the New Testament) in which God has promised to delay justice until the time of the end. But make no mistake about it, God has not forgotten his judgement. But graciously, God has given all men and women the opportunity to receive forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
But just as the flood eventually came and destroyed the human race, saving only Noah and his family, God’s judgement will visit the remainder of the human race who refused God’s only Son, Jesus.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. – Genesis 6:11-12 NIV
This could be the exact description of this current generation. They have completely forgotten about God and his ordinances, that those who disobey His commands are worthy of death. The only escape is Jesus and his sacrifice in our place can stop the judgement of death. This isn’t the death of the physical body, this is worse. This is eternal separation of the spirit, the real you. Your spirit was meant to live forever; it is eternal.
The Bottom Line
God hasn’t forgotten about the judgement for this evil society; he has simply delayed judgement until the close of this age. For a long time, we have waited for the very times we are living in right now.
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. 10 This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority. – 2 Peter 2:4-10 NIV
A Straightforward Look At The Insanity of Modern Liberalism
4 September, 2026: I have written about this subject many times before, but few things point directly to the soon return of Jesus more than the mentality of the Liberal Democrat. For this midterm election cycle, I feel the damage is already done, and I have lost confidence in the system. So to those who might say I am only writing this to attempt to influence the upcoming election, I don’t think the election can be influenced. Furthermore, I’m starting to lose confidence in the Republican party. In short, we are on a road that has no turns.
The Bible talks about a day right before the return of Jesus that will be marked by violence, lawlessness, and complete hatred of authority, and the perverse attitude and mindset that some translations of the Bible call Depraved.
“As Time comes to a close we can look back like no other generation before us, to see how accurately the Bible is at telling us the end from the beginning.“
BE KIND
The battle cry of the modern liberal, and one of the most hypocritical statements a liberal could make. Because there is nothing kind about the modern liberal. They are violent, hateful, conceited, have no respect for anyone except those who share their beliefs. They honestly believe themselves to be superior to the average person. They believe that we don’t know what’s best for us, and see themselves as some sort of visionary that can lead us into a new future.
I was thinking about this just yesterday, if I had to describe liberals using just one sentence, without hesitation I would quote Romans 1:22:
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools – Romans 1:22 KJV
And I’m not saying this to hurl insults, I am saying that as the proper description for a liberal. Someone who has no idea just how foolish they sound to the rest of us. Can you imagine a liberal world? The truth is suppressed if it is deemed that someone might find the truth offensive. A world where you have to ask people what their pronouns are before you begin a conversation. Despite everyone having their own personalized set of pronouns, you’re expected to remember everyone’s pronouns because it’s considered rude to ask a second time.
Offense: A Sign of the Times
In this world where it is so easy to offend someone, and people behave as if offending someone is akin to murder, it might interest you to know that Jesus himself actually stated this a sign of the end times.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. – Matthew 24:10 KJV
I could close this article right now: Case proven, guilty as charged. It seems that offense is the battle cry of the modern liberal. What kind of mentality puts so much emphasis on whether or not someone is offended by speech? The most important thing is why someone would think that speech should have limitations rather than a person be free to express themselves? There you have your answer: Our Constitution prevents laws that interfere with a person’s right to free speech. In other countries, they have passed laws prohibiting certain speech, shutting the mouths of those who want to express themselves, because someone might be offended.But here in America, its shame that is used as a weapon to stop the mouths of those who would dare disagree with anything they say.
Since when has it become so important to keep people from being offended? What is the point? There were many, many people offended when the British colonists decided to revolt against the British Crown and declare independence for America. I guess there wouldn’t have been a Revolutionary War, and no United States of America had the modern liberal been alive in the 1700’s.
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EVIL: The Heart of Liberal Socialism
Socialism is not a new thing: It wasn’t invented in the 1800’s, and while Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin had a hand in crafting modern socialism, it is a very, very old system. In fact, the very first government in history was socialism.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. – Genesis 11:4 KJV
The Tower of Babel, and the city that subsequently became known as Babylon, was the first attempt at a socialist government. The Bible tells us that mankind embarked on a mission to build a city with a huge tower. They all came together, working alongside each other with a common goal: A utopia apart from God.
And that is the ultimate goal of socialism. To show God that man doesn’t need Him, and can construct a utopia on this earth without his help or his blessing. Now, we’re starting to get a glimpse into the true mindset of the liberal, a grand, impossible mission to show God that man doesn’t need him.
The problem is, man doesn’t know how to govern himself. If you think that isn’t true, look around you. At one time, the United States of America was the closest thing to a perfect system of self-governance: However that model depended on God and His wisdom. Man constantly looked to God for guidance and direction.
But in the late 1950’s, the democrat party began working to remove all traces of God from our government. The tool they used? The writings of Marx and Lenin. Both Marx and Lenin were staunch atheists who advocated for the strict separation of church and state (and the suppression of religion) within Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Some people to this day believe that the phrase “Separation of church and state” is directly from the Constitution; however that phrase was not coined until the 1878 case Reynolds v. United States and the 1947 case Everson v. Board of Education.
The truth is our government was founded on the idea that this type of government could never work without the direct intervention and dependence of God. Their entire point was that government stay out of the business of instituting a state funded church organization.
How To Become A Liberal: 101
The Bible is the most amazing document in all of world history.No other document has ever even came close to incredible feat of writing history in advance with 100% accuracy. In a way, we live in the most awesome time in history. As Time comes to a close we can look back like no other generation before us, to see how accurately the Bible is at telling us the end from the beginning.
The journey to being a liberal is not simply a choice, but a process. Drawing people in and using a step-by-step, much like the gruesome “boiling a frog” analogy. This process is described to the minute detail, in Romans 1:18-32.
18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. – Romans 1:18-20 NLT
Here we see an obvious truth: Everyone of us, at one time or another has come face to face with God. Not his physical appearance, but his evidence. Every adult in this world has had a time in their life where they were given a moment of realization: That everything we see, everything we experience cannot be a result of simple happenstance. We all have had that moment where we came to the realization of God. Either we embraced it, or we dismissed it, but we have all experienced it.
21Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles. – Romans 1:21-23 NLT
According to the Bible, there is no such thing as a atheist. We simply have a population of people who refuse to acknowledge the truth. They have turned away from the one true God. In order to explain a universe and an earth without God, they began dreaming up the most ridiculous things. As a result, pretending to be so smart, their arguments were complete foolishness. Ideas that everything could simply evolve from nothing. Instead of humbling themselves, man began to create all kinds of idols. Giving supernatural abilities to the most ordinary of things, such as Time.
Time is the supernatural entity of the modern world. Take absolutely nothing, sprinkle in the magic ingredient of Time, and viola! We have a universe, planets, stars and an earth. Most importantly we have life, all thanks to the magic ingredient of time.
So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. – Romans 1:24-25 NLT
As they turned their backs on God in favor of their foolish ideas, God fulfilled his promise to man to let him choose his own path. They began to disrespect their bodies, with one another. As their passions for one another increased they shed the values God had instilled in them. They began exposing their nakedness, and exploring the depths of their passions. They abandoned the idea of a monogamous relationship, and instead became slaves of their desires toward one another.
That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved. – Romans 1:26-27 NLT
As the trap they laid for themselves closed in on them, they were powerless to resist the demands their passion placed on them. At first, the women began to indulged their desire for one another, doing things with their bodies that God had never intended them to do. Men quickly followed suit, engaging in things that were shameful to God and their fellow man. They did things with one another that the body was never meant to endure, hurting and causing injury to one another, which was just punishment for the things they were doing.
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. – Romans 1:28-32 NASB
Eventually they got to the point where they completely abandoned God: They put God out of their minds. God relinquished, and turned them over to their depravity. They embraced unrighteousness, hedonism, and the result was unbridled evil. They took on the very persona of the demons that were guiding them all along. As a result, they became filled with nothing but hate.
Everything became intolerable to them, and as they searched for reasons to feed their fury, no sin became unacceptable. Even now, in the darkest recesses of their minds they know they are committing evil acts, they embrace those acts, and encourage others to do the same thing.
This was a long time ago. I was probably 27 or 28 years old. I had decided to drive down the road and try to find some old friends after being out of town for a few months. This was back in the day, when most stores had an array of soda machines (we call them pop machines) in front. I pulled into the parking lot of a neighborhood grocery store. As I was putting my quarters in the machine, a woman came screaming out of the front door carrying a child. Right behind her was this man who was obviously bigger than me.
She reached her car and jumped in, however her window was rolled down and before she could get the car started he reached in and grabbed her by the hair. The child is now screaming as well. I didn’t know what to do, but I knew I had to do something. Before I lost my nerve I started walking toward him and shouted “Leave her alone!”
He told me something to the effect of mind my own business. So I replied, “Try me. Show me how tough you are, or are you just into hitting women?”
He then accused me of being her secret boyfriend. I don’t remember what I said to that, however I kept walking toward him. As I got closer, he let go of the woman and began running away. This was before the days of cell phones, so I had no way to call the police. It was kind of foolish for me, because this was southern West Virginia, and he could have easily gone to his car and got a gun. But I had to take the chance: and that was the bravest thing I’ve ever done, with or without spectators.
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