A Not So Glorious Ending

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of Good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, havinng a form of Godliness but denying its power.  And from such people turn away!  For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 3: 1-7 NKJV

Each generation has had those who have forseen the downfall of society as we know it.  Yet, so  far it hasn't come about.  Howver, I have definately seen a decline in the moral values and conduct of our nation in my lifetime.  I may get more than a few arguments, but I see our current state of decline as coming to a head in the tumultuous decade of the 1960's.   From the war in Vietnam to a generation born into civil disobedience and protest, the United States was rocked to it's social core.  Add to that the assasinations of John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King and it's a wonder how our society was kept from the tipping point.  It's no wonder that our senior citizens today have such fond memories of the "way things used to be" and such disdain for the way things are now.  I know that reality TV has turned everyday life into entertainment, but imagine life in the 1960's and 70's when television brought the brutal images from the Vietnam war into American homes.  Before there was any thought of a "Duck Dynasty" series, a man by the name of Abraham Zapruder stood by a roadside in Dallas, Texas to film the motorcade of President John Kennedy passing by.   Before the day was through, Zapruders film would become the infamous witness to John Kennedys assasination.  Not to be outdone, a few days later the nation would witness the live assasination of the man accused of Kennedys murder, Lee Harvey Oswald by Dallas club owner Jack Ruby.  Perhaps this whirlwind series of events set in motion the events of the social upheaval to come.  I'm sure there were people who imagined that life as we knew it was changing, they were right.
Growing up in the 1970's, I recall playing in our home in Virginia, Minnesota and hearing of something called "Watergate" on our television.   When I asked my mom what Watergate was, she simply said "It's a hotel."  Simple and to the point.  At that age, I couldn't  understand the changes that were happening around me.  However, as the years went on, I realized the world was changing.  Could we have predicted the downfall of our society?  We didn't have to, scripture took care of that for us.  Still, each generation feels that their world is ending.  Although that is true, only God knows the timing of these events.  One thing that is sure, these things MUST happen to fulfill what God has set in place.  For now, those of us who are in Christ can be assured that we can anticipate something better to come.

~Scott~