The following two posts are from 2014:
I remember seeing the play Cabaret back in the early seventies at the Stephen Foster Memorial performing arts center on the Pitt campus, and I also remember the extraordinary talents of Lisa Minnelli in the film of the same name but the storyline had an unsettling effect on me even then.
As I think back on it today it's even more disturbing, for our culture resembles a hedonist cabaret in the last days of the Weimar Republic as totalitarianism watches our antics and plans our demise. As Lisa Minnelli's character succumbs to the death spiral of the cabaret at the end of the film she belts out the title song that I'm sure you are familiar with, of which some of the lyrics are:
Life is a cabaret,
Old chum
Come to the cabaret
Come taste the wine,
Come hear the band,
Time for a holiday
No use permitting some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum
It's only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret
"God Sent Us Barack Obama"
I chose the New American Standard Bible for this verse from Hosea 9:7... "The days of punishment have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great." Those faithful preachers who weep in their pulpits....who weep for America, for their children and their children's children, and who weep at what the American church has become, are thought of as country bumpkins, fundamentalist fools and worse. Such is the state of the American mind in this age of rampant rebellion and toxic temperance towards godlessness as our nation surrenders on every hill. Such is the hostility to anything that might interfere with personal plans and goals.
There is no excuse for not seeing the imminent peril our nation faces. There are reasons but not excuses. Our nation's leaders are the beginnings of our punishment. In speaking to a church congregation this past week, New York Congressman Charlie Rangel made this statement..."God sent us Barack Obama." He probably never spoke truer words!
There has never been a perfect storm as is brewing today and we are rapidly becoming a police state as it is about to hit. Yet we party on. Billy Graham has been consistent in his warnings to America. John MacArthur has been consistent also, but we don't have ears to hear, and we don't have eyes to see. We are deaf to the Approaching Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, to use the title of a 1985 book by Rev. Graham
Fervent prayer, steeped in humility and salted with our sweat is our only hope, our only defensive weapon.
I remember seeing the play Cabaret back in the early seventies at the Stephen Foster Memorial performing arts center on the Pitt campus, and I also remember the extraordinary talents of Lisa Minnelli in the film of the same name but the storyline had an unsettling effect on me even then.
As I think back on it today it's even more disturbing, for our culture resembles a hedonist cabaret in the last days of the Weimar Republic as totalitarianism watches our antics and plans our demise. As Lisa Minnelli's character succumbs to the death spiral of the cabaret at the end of the film she belts out the title song that I'm sure you are familiar with, of which some of the lyrics are:
Life is a cabaret,
Old chum
Come to the cabaret
Come taste the wine,
Come hear the band,
Time for a holiday
No use permitting some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum
It's only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret
"God Sent Us Barack Obama"
I chose the New American Standard Bible for this verse from Hosea 9:7... "The days of punishment have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great." Those faithful preachers who weep in their pulpits....who weep for America, for their children and their children's children, and who weep at what the American church has become, are thought of as country bumpkins, fundamentalist fools and worse. Such is the state of the American mind in this age of rampant rebellion and toxic temperance towards godlessness as our nation surrenders on every hill. Such is the hostility to anything that might interfere with personal plans and goals.
There is no excuse for not seeing the imminent peril our nation faces. There are reasons but not excuses. Our nation's leaders are the beginnings of our punishment. In speaking to a church congregation this past week, New York Congressman Charlie Rangel made this statement..."God sent us Barack Obama." He probably never spoke truer words!
There has never been a perfect storm as is brewing today and we are rapidly becoming a police state as it is about to hit. Yet we party on. Billy Graham has been consistent in his warnings to America. John MacArthur has been consistent also, but we don't have ears to hear, and we don't have eyes to see. We are deaf to the Approaching Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, to use the title of a 1985 book by Rev. Graham
Fervent prayer, steeped in humility and salted with our sweat is our only hope, our only defensive weapon.
