America - The Spiritual Winds Of Change.

We all were taken back this week by the events in Parkland, Florida. Each time it happens everyone seems utterly befuddled as to the whys. Most often like Adam and Eves sin it becomes a blame game. But no one seems to stop and look at just what has changed in America in the last 45 or so years.

World war II had a much more profound effect on Americans future than most understand.

Prior to that the Biblical Family that pretty much had existed from Adam and Eves time did a major change.

Men went off to war for nearly 4 years, women went to the work place in a way they never had before. Rosie the Riviter. While husbands seemed to have a moral shift regarding fidelity, woman began to have a social shift in how they saw their role in the Godly family.

Following the war and until this day we have watched as the Family as God intended it became more and more fragmented with each new generation. Until we arrived at where we are today, where marriage is no longer considered necessary, sex is the norm when you begin to date, and many kids have no clue who their fathers are.

But the breakdown of the Biblical Family hasn’t once graced the conversations on the nightly news.

In Part I believe it is because of the place we stand in Gods timetable.

When I titled the message “ Understanding the Spiritual winds of change” it was because there is an understanding through scripture of the time in which were living and in fact the direction it will take from here.

First off there will be a conclusion to this present heaven and earth, and it is pretty clear from Scripture that it will not be an easy time for the believer.

The destruction of the Godly family has been perhaps the most diabolical things satan has ever pulled off, but just to put your heart at rest God, the Lord God, is still soverign, and still on the throne, and faith in the name of Jesus is still the only means by which one can be saved.

But where are we at: Lets look.

Perhaps one clue can be seen in what Jesus tells us regarding the last days.

MATTHEW 10: 21-23

21"Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 22You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 23When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Now I harken that back to a passage I had used a few months back - One where God explained that things would happen that obviously by implication would say the family would universally fractured or broken.

Malachi 4:6 6He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction."

Now that says a lot – No where in the history of all of creation has the family universally been so tattered.

Headship is made fun of, a submissive wife is looked upon as weak, many kids are clueless as to who their real fathers are, and gangs have replaced families. Boys and girls don’t even know their own gender inspite the obvioius.

That doesn’t seem so far from or else I will strike the land with total destruction.

I remember in 1990 when Promise Keepers came into existence, how excited I was. I thought finally common sense was going to return. Men were going to take responsibility for their homes and familes. And for a time it really did seem they would.

But with that time faded and so did that hope. – Now I cant say with any certainty that was Gods opportunity for the hearts of fathers to be turned back to the chidren but it sure seemed like it.

And now we are left over and over with a culture and society that is becoming increasingly anti- God, anti- Biblical family, and anti-Christian.

Perhaps as an example of that was seen recently when at first our Vice president said his policy was to not be alone with another woman without his wife being there. For that he was mocked and made fun of.

Then this week the Views Joy Beyhart went so far as to say that being a Christian may actually be a mental disease.

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Another example of the distain that is growing toward Christians was note in an article yesterday by Fox News Reporter Todd Sterns.