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[345]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - WICKEDNESS INCREASES IN THE LAST DAYS

( May 2026). This poem was written 5 years ago but conditions then were almost as bad as they are today. I think the difference is that they are more intense now and progress at a much greater rate.

It is the misled Christian who thinks evil in the world has remained static, or even worse, that the world is improving itself. Those who watch podcasts from around the world produced by Christians, are appalled at that is happening right now and what is simmering just under the surface. Conditions in the United States are so bad that if Trump was not President, the flood gates would open. It is very much the same in Europe.

In my own State the Premier rules that a baby near full term and is aborted in the devil’s killing machine, MUST BE ALLOWED to die in a dish unassisted. What sort of monsters do we have in control now? This has been brought to light by Joanna Howe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaMV2mgZLn8

That is answered by scripture – {{2 Timothy 3:13 “Evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”}}. World conditions in these last days feature in 2 Timothy 3:1-5.

The world is preparing for the coming Man of Sin, the Man of Wickedness who is Antichrist. This grossly evil man and his equal, the False prophet, will not suddenly make the world horribly evil when they appears after the Church is removed to heaven. Rather, they will step into the wickedness already here, because once the salt of the earth is removed, then the putrid nature of man’s sin will be overwhelming.

Some might point to very evil situations in the past and say, “Nothing has changed,” but what has changed is the intensity and the scope. Those who take the time to study such things know the huge evil reigning in Europe but that is not a surprise because the Revived Roman Empire of Daniel, which will be under the control of the Antichrist, is being formed.

The greatest evil the world has, in my opinion, (and I know about abortion, drugs, homosexuality, WOKE and children’s gender and sexual destruction), is the growing intense hatred against Israel. Australia imports huge numbers of militant Muslins (Palestinians that Egypt will not receive) into the nation to spite Israel because of its ongoing hate against the nation of Israel. Spain and Britain and France are hostile against the USA because of the current war with Iran. Those nations have turned anti-semitic over the past decade. Genesis 12:3.

We can go on all day about the ills of the world but that can be counter-productive and our message must be one of hope. We have a huge hope in the Lord.

{{Titus 2:13 looking for THE BLESSED HOPE and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Christ Jesus.”}}

{{Titus 3:5-7 “He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, that being justified by His grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”}}

The structure of this poem is that each second line has an internal rhyme eg. – “Our God has DECLARED, the world is ENSNARED,”. Additionally, each other line has the same rhyme eg. – ground, crowned, abound, around.

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WICKEDNESS INCREASES IN THE LAST DAYS

With darkening days, and pernicious ways,

This world is on tenuous ground.

More wicked men rise, but that’s no surprise,

For wickedness seeks to be crowned.

In the world’s dark nooks, where Satan there looks,

Gross decay and foulness abound.

The bible tells us, that immoral pus,

Will spread its putridness around.

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Our God has declared, the world is ensnared,

By Satan through mankind’s decline.

The last days will see, increased agony,

For men in evil beds recline;

On their beds they plan, chains that will bind man,

To force the nations into line.

Peoples they coerce, with badness immerse;

Act out as if they are divine.

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Dangerous times flow, from sewers of woe,

To engulf all peoples in sin -

Sins dark and debauched, from lives that are scorched,

Migrate from the darkness within.

Rejection of light, and blindness of sight,

Will cause the whole conscience to spin.

This now is our world, when evil’s unfurled,

Determined the conquest to win.

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The Lord has forewarned, such grossness has spawned,

For we are now in the last days.

The bad will get worse; our God, men will curse;

Each heart, the wicked one obeys.

Themselves they do love; wrapped as in a glove,

Impervious to others’ ways.

They think they have won; their race has been run!

But God will set the world ablaze.

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Jesus Christ will come; ev’ry tongue made dumb;

In power and glory appear.

He comes for His own; ones He did atone,

Who for their Lord remain sincere.

His own He will raise; His saints will all praise,

In righteousness when He draws near.

Come, Lord Jesus, please; in Rapture to seize,

Those Your voice of triumph will hear.

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9 September 2021 R E Ferguson Metre = 10-8 throughout (5 -5 -8) A-B-C-B-D-B-E-B

Also internal rhyme in every second line.

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