What Would I Say In Twenty Years....Or Even Ten?

                I looked around me and saw people dipping and swaying....with one hand raised....and the other holding an alcoholic drink. The word tonight is that 2.1 million people crowded the Copacabana Beach in Brazil to watch Lady Gaga perform....I'm not kidding folks....I couldn't pick Lady Gaga out of a lineup....and there were stadiums and arenas literally full all across America today. Oh there was a day when it was me with one arm raised and the other holding a drink....and I had been to many concerts and many more games of....you pick the sport. I have no room to be critical....but I don't need much room to sit down and weep.
                Someone would say that America has been like this for as long as any of us were alive....and with me that's a long time....and they would be correct....but there are some subtle but key differences. Sport was not the total idolatry that it is today....even college football is screwed up....and a half million people filled that farm up in New York at Woodstock....but then it is much more than just idolatry that is killing us today. I had a foundation that I fell off of....so I was at least aware of it....and was able to climb back on like an exhausted man trying to get back in the boat before the shark got my legs. I do not think that there is much of a foundation today.
                 I was on a long trip very recently....and as always on such trips this website URL was on the back of our SUV....along with some words that I would choose to get people's attention....enough to want to visit the website. So This time I chose the following....ICHABOD....THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED. I passed or was passed by at least a thousand vehicles....maybe two thousand...and not one person was interested enough in those words to visit the website and see what they mean. I know this because it would have had to be a smart phone....and there were no smart phones in the statistics over those hours.
                 When I saw this after arriving at the end of my journey....I won't say that and almost cried....but I felt like crying. The people in these vehicles do not know me from Adam....they have no idea what this website would say....to sum it up....they just had absolutely no interest in what the meaning was of.....ICHABOD....THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED. I've done this before....many times before....and the response....or lack of response....was never like this. God speaks to this in His word when He told Samuel in 1 Samuel 8....that it wasn't Samuel they were rejecting....but they were rejecting God Himself.
                 I'll read....as I do every day of my life....the latest that Trump has either said or done....or the latest on artificial intelligence....or Russia or China or Israel....and I know that it is not changing anyone's thought patterns. I'll talk to a Christian friend about what is happening in the church and around the world....and I get blank stares....or they might tell me that I just have to trust God....which I will respond with why then do we not trust His many warnings to us in His Word....and get another blank stare.
                  I could talk easily for an hour straight on why God's Word tells us that Jesus is returning....now....during this current condition and upheaval in the world. Christians have missed this for two reasons....all of their other interests have crowded out God....in other words killed their discernment....and there are no pastors around to tell them any differently.
                   So....how does that old 70s saying go...."I'm going to rock your world?" Well that is going to happen to us. It will either come all at once or one thing will happen quickly after another....but everyone will suddenly be interested when it happens....and everyone's world will be rocked...whatever it may be that is of God's perfect choosing.
                   Let me finish this post with this.....surely....many of my friends have at least thought this....let me set the stage....twenty years pass....I'll even shorten that to ten years....and we are in the same predicament that we are in today....what would I say after....being proven wrong. I would say two things....one that yes....I was wrong....I did not think that God would wait that long....and two....but even though I would have been proven temporarily wrong....I would still be thankful....for in retrospect....having lived both sides of this....knowing that our wonderful and glorious Lord....and powerful coming King....is right on the doorstep....where all of this pain and suffering will end....and every tear will be dried....no matter how many tears are shed in the tribulation of His coming....it is infinitely better to believe that the King has unsheathed His sword....and His mighty angels are holding back their steads for the word....than to claim that we cannot know when He will return....which would be more accurately stated....we do not really care.