“Even before I learnt that the main target of the Paris massacre was a theater until recently owned by Jews, I had been wondering whether we Westerners were reaping the consequences of ‘dancing with the devil’. ... London Mayor Boris Johnson referred to the perpetrators--Islamic State terrorists--as a ‘death cult’, which it certainly is. But what commentators seem deliberately to have missed--along with the Bataclan concert hall’s Jewish connection--was the link between such evil extremism and the dark nature of the concert that claimed most of the lives lost last Friday night. The Eagles of Death Metal band had apparently just started a song called Kiss the Devil when the gunmen opened fire and the auditorium morphed into the devil’s domain. Fantasy became reality, with one witness describing it as ‘hell’. ... Hardly anyone in the media talks of biblical prophecy. Yet that would shed an awful lot of light on this dark subject! Just one example of this is that the world would be full of violence--as in the days of Noah--in the time immediately preceding the return of Jesus to set up his kingdom of peace. Politicians have referred to the Paris massacre as an ‘attack on civilization’. But my response is: what civilization? We seem obsessed with dark and lurid fantasy, and with images of violence in our living rooms. We congratulate ourselves on our culture of ‘freedom’, bought at a great price in two world wars and, before that, with the blood of Christian martyrs who went to the stake for the cause of publishing God’s Word, now discarded and thrown to the winds, only to be replaced by moral relativism where there are virtually no rules for living; where we promote death (through abortion and euthanasia, for example) and set about ‘redefining’ marriage, family and society as a whole. Homophobia and Islamaphobia are among the many politically-correct don’ts to have replaced the Ten Commandments. ... Tragically, however, our moral defenses are down, our walls have been breached, and the foundations of our Judeo-Christian civilization have been undermined. That is why we are wobbling as a society in grave danger of collapse. I can’t speak for France and the rest of Europe, but as far as Britain is concerned, time is running out. ... We were once a great nation sending missionaries around the world to share the life-changing (indeed, nation-changing) good news about Jesus. But now we have thrown out what was once most precious to us. Jesus told us to build on the rock. But we have built on sand.” “Dancing with the Devil” by Charles Gardner, Israel Today, Nov. 19, 2015 Comments are closed.
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