If there is one comment I generally hear above all others (particularly amongst unbelievers), it is this: “What is the world coming to!?” The question implies that the world is subject to a series of uncontrollable events which mankind is a victim of. Naturally, if people believe that mankind is victimised, it absolves mankind from any responsibility for the state of the world. A far better question to ask (and one which correctly concludes that mankind is complicit in the evil taking place in the world) is that which was posed by the Psalmist in Psalm 2:1: “Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?”
As you go through the table of nations in the world today, nearly every nation that we see across the world is in the same tumultuous and rebellious state. Other translations of the Bible would say that the nations are restless. It gives the picture of a restless sea that is constantly churning and it seems that in the last few years the nations have grown even more restless with their rage against God, against Christians and against God’s chosen people, Israel.
Whatever is talked about and whatever is decided at a leadership level, at the core of the decision making of the nations is the desire to act in open revolt against God and establish man as king of the earth. This is not just limited to one or two nations. Even though leaders of the world gather together at the United Nations with a supposedly measured and wise demeanor, what they are actually doing is gathering together in the name of spiritual anarchy. And this is not just limited to world leaders. Psalm 2:2 mentions “kings”, but it also speaks of “rulers.”
The word “rulers” refers to those whose word carries weight. Now, I want to point out a unique issue in our world today: who do young people pay most attention to? Not parents, not pastors, not politicians – it is music stars, celebrities, movie stars, social media influencers. Their words carry enormous weight in the minds of young people today. And what you see in the world is that at all levels of society – from political leaders to corporate boardrooms, to university presidents, to school principals, to cultural leaders and celebrities – they are all acting with one accord to say that they no longer want moral restraint. In other words, what was once unthinkable, what was once unacceptable, what was once unheard of, they now want to be unhindered.
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