We are coming up on the tragic one-year anniversary of the George Floyd killing. Since that dark day we have seen a wicked mob mentality sweep through the streets of America. In 2020 several U.S. cities erupted with lawless rioters taking to the streets burning businesses, tearing down monuments and attacking police. Minneapolis, the epicenter of riots, has seen over $500 million in property damage. Portland had over 100 consecutive days of rioting. For a month, six city blocks of Seattle were completely given over to rioters who occupied the Seattle PD and named their dystopia, CHAZ! In Chicago, IL 70 people were shot, 10 fatally, over the course of one weekend last July. Cries to “Defund the Police” have increased the hatred for authority in this country. Even my hometown of Asheville, NC got in on the action when anarchists delivered a casket full of manure to the front steps of the city’s PD. Much of this madness culminated on January 6, 2021 when extremists stormed the US Capitol and took over right as the electoral college votes to confirm President Joe Biden’s questionable victory were being tallied. Oh and just in case you thought BLM was about peaceful protests for racial justice, A BLM spokesperson, Shaun King tweeted out last year, “All murals and stained-glass windows of white Jesus and his European mother and their white friends should come down.”[1]
Behind much of this rage is a Marxist agenda that seeks to dismantle the ideals of America. In his most recent book, We Will Not Be Silenced, Dr. Erwin Lutzer points out, “The destruction we’ve seen in our streets is part of a larger attempt to destroy what it means to be an American. It’s an attempt to remove not just racism, the family and gender distinctions, but to discredit all that was done by those who created our nation’s founding documents. In the minds of many people, America is so terrible that it cannot be fixed; it must be destroyed and rebuilt according to a radical socialist agenda that will be free of racism and capitalism.”[2]
What we are seeing is one of the unmistakable signs that the Bible predicted would coincide with the last days. In Jesus’ Olivet Discourse He gave several end-times harbingers, one of which describes our days perfectly, “lawlessness will be increased, and the love of many will grow cold” (Matt. 24:12). Jesus also said that the society on the earth during the last days would revert back to the violent and barbaric days of Noah (Matt. 24:37). The savage pre-Flood people were desensitized by murder, slavery, sexual immorality and child sacrifice. “5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them” (Gen. 6:5, 11, 13). In 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul spoke not only of the coming world dictator – the Antichrist – as “the man of lawlessness,” but he also referred to “the mystery of lawlessness” already being at work in the world (2 Thess. 2:3, 7). I believe that mysterious force of evil is at work both visibly and behind the scenes right now setting the stage for the final act of God’s divine drama. As evil metastasizes, expect increased persecution against the church and hostility towards the Gospel and “traditional” morality.
Friends,
our world is not moving towards utopia. Instead, as we draw closer to the
return of Christ we will witness the opposite – chaos, cruelty, calamity and cold-blooded
killing. I don’t like it anymore than you do, but at the same time I am filled
with hope. God’s prophetic Word is true, and the signs of the times point towards
the soon and sure return of Christ. Stay faithful and walk in holiness. Cling
to the precious promise Jesus gave the church at Sardis, “4 Yet you have still
a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will
walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 5 The one who conquers will be
clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book
of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels” (Rev.
3:4-5). -DM
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