There are moments in life where things happen that you can't make any sense of whatsoever. As I am writing this 26 families are grieving the loss of loved ones, 20 of them kindergartener's. This being only the most recent of several like catastrophes over the last several years.
Just the other day I was speaking in a high school on being responsible with social media. In the presentation I showed a video where a girl is asked by her boy friend to send him a nude picture of herself. The video then asks the viewers if she should or should not send it. Half to two-thirds of the 200 students present began yelling aloud, "Do it ... do it!" It was hard for me to absorb. I understand that they were teenagers, but even just a few years ago it would not have been so overwhelming gross.
Roger Meyer comments and asks these questions in one of his blogs. "Christ's prophecy on the Mount of Olives includes His statement that lawlessness will abound in the last days. It's part of Jesus Christ's answer to the disciple's question of what would be the sign of His second coming and of the end of the world. Is lawlessness increasing? Are we nearing the end of the world?"
We are in a new season in the history of the world. Things aren't just changing, they have changed. Rapidly we are moving in a direction that seems only familiar as it relates to the prophetic Scriptures of the Bible. Whether you are a believer or not, you can't deny how this period in history is shaping up, paralleled with these Scriptures.
This new world demands that we prepare ourselves. Intellectually, Spiritually, and physically, we must prepare ourselves. These times wait for the rise of great leaders. Men and women not willing to coast in selfishness, but whose motives seek truth, and are willing to both live and die for it.
