Today’s troubles, including lawlessness, predicted in the Bible
In recent days, I have read newspaper articles and heard radio and television reports about the increase of lawlessness in our beloved nation, and I would like to weigh in.
Lawlessness is a description of what is taking place on the streets where there is a great number of protest marches. Yes, there are many who know how to protest peaceably and properly for what they think to be just causes, but there are many who seize them as an opportunity to destroy property and businesses. They even go to the point where some have lost their lives, victimized by those who will resort to violence and shooting, the very thing against which they are protesting. It seems as though they that engage in such violence and lawlessness do so without fear of reprisal. Tragic!
That behavior is hideous and an injustice to those who are doing things in an appropriate manner. Add to that the call of some in positions of leadership in government to defund police, who are the law enforcers! The crime rate is skyrocketing! It seems to me that lawlessness is an apt description of our American culture that has reached new heights. I used to think of lawlessness as an increase in law breaking. Now I see it also means to reduce law enforcement as well.
What is amazing and very telling is that lawlessness is one of the descriptions of what the Bible, in a letter to the Church at Thessalonica, calls the last days! That description, as well as some given by our Lord in the Gospels, describes the current American culture perfectly. His descriptions include such things as this: divisions among ethnic groups, a loss of brotherly love, a culture of hate, and pestilence, or disease. Never in my lifetime have I seen these descriptions to be more appropriate!
Yes, the Bible, the reading of which was eliminated by a court decision in 1963, is authoritative! It defines the last days as the end of the Church Age that will be followed by an Anti-Christian ruler, along with a period of the righteous judgment by a Holy and Just God! The good news is that true believers will be spared that horrible period of seven years and will eventually live in a reign of peace led by our Lord Himself when He returns to earth as He had promised.
—Lee Hallman, Gilbertsville