Jesus answered the question of the pharisees on when the kingdom of God would come by pointing out to them that it would be as in the days of Noah building the ark.....and as when Lot was taken out of Sodom....in other words no one was concerned about God's judgment coming....which is where we are today....even in the church. Jesus also told them....and us ....to "Remember Lot's wife." So I think that we should remember her....should we not? She was attached to the world of her day....just like we are attached to the world of our day....but there was yet more that Jesus would say as he told the parable of the the persistent widow....where the unrighteous judge finally listened to her just to get her our of his hair. If this was the case....how much more will our righteous judge consider our pleas if we continue to pray? And there was this....as Jesus said...."I tell you he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
Right now....evangelicalism is collapsing in front of our eyes.....as we are all politics today....which we believe to be our savior. I've described it often in these posts in how...."our supply lines have been cut." The loss of the Christian bookstore is key here....for these were all over America....you would almost stumble over them as you simply walked a shopping center concourse. Many unbelievers and inquirers and new Christians may not have exactly had a banquet ahead of them in every book....or even the majority of books....but they did present a buffet in which God could tempt with delicious morsels.....as He did to me forty years ago. The loss of Billy Graham also set us adrift....for he was always present on the television in one way or another....his words pricking the conscience of someone who was merely surfing the channels. Our pulpits today do no more than sell war bonds.....to build a bigger sanctuary....or for televangelists to build a bigger studio.
Jesus had also warned in these passages that there would be those who pronounce.....'here is what you were looking for!'....but that we were not to follow them.....which of course is exactly what we have done with first Donald Trump....and continue to do so with this monstrosity that talk radio and cable broadcasting has become....that claims to speak for us....but they neither know us or our Lord and King.....for if they did they would proclaim His kingship.
Note: The verses referenced here are in Luke 17:12 to 18:8....but they began with this....
"And as he entered into a certain village, there were met him ten men who were lepers, which stood afar off; And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy upon us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back and with a loud voice glorified God, And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks; And he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger, And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath healed thee whole."
Only one of ten....and that could possibly be the percentage of evangelicals today who remember of Whom they were healed.
