By Jim Towers
There was another school shooting this week and it seems to be happening on a weekly basis now. Oh yes, and there’s a mad bomber on the loose in Austin, Texas. No one is safe anymore, even in their own homes, work, school or play. These shootings are usually young men who have been brainwashed into believing they won’t have to pay for their actions. They emulate people like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn who fancied themselves social activists, even Hillary Clinton who back in the seventies was an ardent disciple of Saul Alinsky, the author of Rules for Radicals. They think that by committing these acts of violence they will be immortalized. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is so much senseless killing these days that they just fade into oblivion in short order.
They apparently don’t see the big picture in the lives they were destroying. Every action has a consequence, and the day will come when these poor souls will have to meet their maker to answer for their crimes against humanity. They will all have to give an account to Almighty God at the White Throne Judgement – we all will. The only people able to escape this rightful screening are those who have repented and received Christ’s forgiveness. As simple as that sounds, Jesus died for the sins of all mankind. That’s how much God loves us. God knew that we, being human, are faulty and prone to sin in this world.
Nevertheless, the word SIN is seldom heard anywhere in the world today. Yet in God’s way of thinking it exists in many different forms and it’s tearing us apart at the seams. Our once Christian nation is unravelling right before our eyes. Drugs, hopelessness, sexual deviancy, hate, anarchy, crime, and theft are taking center stage.
Big business is ripping us all off as well. Cell phone companies, Facebook, the internet, insurance companies. It is all a reflection of a decaying society. With falsehood in the media and in business you can’t trust anyone anymore. Even some Christian churches are being corrupted in one way or another. Homosexuals are being ordained in Christian churches even though they know nothing of the Word of God and rail against it. Talk about hypocrisy! Apostacy prevails in many churches.
Presently, morality is at an all-time low. Indeed, as the scriptures say, “In the last days people will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.” The clear majority of people are out for money and what they deem as pleasure, and that, without guilt or remorse.
How much longer can these things be allowed to take place before our society collapses under the weight of its overt sin and degradation, only God knows.
About Movies:
The movie about St. Paul came and went without much fanfare, even though it stared Jim Caviezel as Dr. Luke, who wrote about the genealogy of Jesus in the book of Luke in the New Testament. It seems that people (except some Christians) don’t want history lessons, even about Biblical Characters. Aside from those who don’t care to know, many want to know what they can do to escape judgment and retribution as they clearly see the end times approaching. Of course, you and I know that it requires repentance toward God and receiving Christ who died for our sins into your life.
About Books:
Having done some critiquing of current Christian movies in the recent past, I will also begin critiquing nonfiction Christian books I’ve recently read. I don’t read fiction and just so you know, I read at night after the day’s activities, sometimes up until midnight and beyond, and have read hundreds of books over the years.
I picked up the book “Visions of Glory” by John Pontius (which sounds like a pseudonym to me) at my local library. Just as phony are the headlines on the front cover. This laughable tripe was an attempt to hoodwink the public with obvious propaganda, one aimed at converting gullible folks who haven’t read the Bible to the Mormon Church. Today they use the name the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to get into our good graces, knowing that Mormon sounds too shady. These are very clever people out to sell us on their version of the Holy Scriptures, which is called the Book of Mormon. Don’t even crack the pages of this devious book that only serves to “prove their view of world history” with no bearing on repentance and salvation.
My most recent reading was from a book by Michael Savage, “God Faith and Reason” which began quite well up until the later chapters where he goes into a rant that made no sense. Now don’t get me wrong, I love the man and was disappointed that he had done so; it appears that his ego was getting out of hand. This can happen when you acquire a large following like he has for his radio program. He usually hits the nail on the head with his observations, but like our president, he is not very diplomatic, and neither am I for that matter, but I’m trying to be without succumbing to political correctness. Furthermore, Michael Savage validates all I’ve been saying for the past several years, almost word for word.
In his book he also says that Buddhism is a valid religion as it subdues people into not taking life seriously and best of all (my thought) they don’t have to answer for their sins. But this manmade philosophy does not offer eternal life to anyone either, except that you might come back as a butterfly. You can’t have it both ways, Michael. Maybe we should talk.
I just acquired a book by another Jewish man, Rabbi Jonathan Cohn and have just read the first seventy pages. The title is “The Paradigm”. I am re-reading his book “The Book of Mysteries (the Bible)” and learning things you don’t learn about in Sunday school (like the meaning of many Jewish words.) In this latest book – although it is thought provoking – he tends to stretch things to make the pieces fit. He does, however, explain his reason for doing so in the preamble. I must agree that there are many parallels to Ahab and Jezebel in the Old Testament and the sordid lives of Bill and Hillary Clinton….I’ll let you know how it all turns out. I can’t wait to continue reading tonight, yum, yum. It’s like eating a steak dinner and savoring every morsel.
Let God be God, give Him credit for His immutable Word and let us give Him praise for Jesus Christ and for our beautiful and wonderous surroundings – all made just for us!
YBIC
Jim Towers jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com and www.thepropheciesbook and movie.
You can also watch Bible based sermons livestreaming on the internet at FBCN.org (First Baptist Church of Naples Florida) every Sunday at 9:30 EST. Pastor Hayes Wicker a veteran preacher for over forty years always gives an altar call after sharing the Gospel – with no speech affectations or theatrics.