The Warnings Of Forty Years Were Ignored

               It was a short two-paragraph post that began with this sentence....."King Charles I was ruling England without calling a Parliament which were the people's representatives. Taxation, questionable financial dealings and forced loans were some of the issues of contention between the king and his opponents." Oliver Cromwell was mentioned....and a few other people from English history. I finished the post and was about to push the 'publish ' button when....well I'll just add here what became the third and final paragraph of the post...."As I typed in the period of this last sentence, I was somewhat startled as my iPhone trumpeted....(in retrospect....and interesting word to choose)....an emergency weather alert for our area. Thunder and lightning have been lighting up the sky for an hour and the sound of heavy rain pelting the chimney cover has been echoing down to where I sit. I responded to the alert to find out that a Flash Flood Watch is in effect until tomorrow but cannot help but relate this to the warnings that God has given to us for over forty years....and I'm reminded of the words of Jesus in the 16th chapter of Matthew....'When it is evening, you say, it will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, 'There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening. You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times'."
             This whole post was published on June 14....2015....10:01 PM to be exact....Trump's 69th birthday....two days later....June 16....2015....Donald Trump famously....(now infamously)....came down that escalator in the Trump Tower....into not only the 2016 campaign for president....but right smack-dab into the middle of evangelicalism....neither of which would afterwards be the same. We had come down off of the high ground....and the flash flood had come....and carried us all off!