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³⁶ “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. ³⁷ But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. ³⁸ For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

There are so many signs around us today that this prophecy is coming to pass.  The article and commentary below are both good examples of how we are seeing this occur, if we take the time to step back and look.

Grant Phillips uses a great analogy, in his commentary “Worse and Worse“, of the Fog of Death from the Ten Commandments movie.  You know the one we watched as kids with Charles Heston?  Which in and of itself shows how far we have come; do you think that would ever be produced today by Hollywood?

The Days of Noah was a horrible time, it was described as humankind at its worse of the worst.  Sin, immorality, and hate had completely consumed man (the flesh).

¹² So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.  ¹³ And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

ALL flesh had been corrupted and violence was the norm.  I would say hatred and apathy were also prevalent knowing what usually leads to violence.  Life was not valued at all, it was disposable, pleasure was more important.

What does Paul have to say corrupts our flesh and the church?

Immorality Defiles the Church

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! ² And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. ³ For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. ⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷ Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. ⁸ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Immorality Must Be Judged

⁹ I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰ Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

¹² For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? ¹³ But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”

Does that sound like our current world?

I couldn’t help but think of that when I saw the article below on reactions to Andrew Breibart’s death last night.

Lord come quickly, to remove us from this world!

If you haven’t come to Christ yet, come to him now, time is short.  Read Romans 10:9, profess your belief in him, and ask Him into your heart.

Romans 10:9 – (NIV)

If you confess with your mouth “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead you will be saved.

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‘Burn in HELL!’: Shocking Tweets Celebrate Andrew Breitbart’s Death

When an individual passes away, regardless of his of her ideological positions, one would expect he or she would receive respect. In the case of new media mogul Andrew Breitbart, who died early in the morning on Thursday, there has been a surge of vile commentary spewing across the Twitterverse. From comparisons to Hitler to individuals tweeting that they are content the pundit has passed, the messages are disturbing at best.

Below, The Blaze has assembled some of the most disturbing messages we’ve seen on Twitter over the past few hours:

@darrenfiorello: Andrew Breitbart died? Is it wrong that I’m happier about that than when they got bin Laden and Saddam?

@readjunk: I wonder if the state of Douchery will lower it’s flags at half mast? #AndrewBreitbart

@johnkapp: Andrew Breitbart was a racist, sexist, homophobe. Good riddance.

@towndrinker: good riddance to bad rubbish. no reason to mourn someone who made it their business to make this world a less pleasant place. #breitbart

@Sttbs73: It is very hard to have sympathy for an evil person like Andrew Breitbart! I am done being NICE.

@jeffglasse: Andrew Breitbart now enjoying afternoon tea with Hitler #goodriddanceyouhack

@darrenfiorello: People don’t die at 43 of natural causes. But if you’re going to live a lie, you may as well die one. #tcot #p2

@AlmightyBob: @AndrewBreitbart haha youre dead and in hell being a gay with hitler

@Chico Delainky: I wonder how #AndrewBreitbart died? If he was found with some type of foreign object in his butt., that would be really funny.

@neuteronomy: You know, I don’t often speak ill of the dead, but #AndrewBreitbart was a detestable waste of air.

@PaulyPeligroso: Andrew Breitbart died doing what he loved. Not having a heart.

@TheSocialest: Good riddance Breitbart. Hopefully they put James O’Keefe in your casket.

@gabriel0923: Andrew #Breitbart has died having been finally consumed by his revolting hatred! The world is better off without him!

@dufus: Did we cry when Hitler died? No.. #Breitbart see you in hell asshole

@dac2527: Satan calls Andrew Breitbart home… Good riddance!

@TheLibertyLamp: Andrew Breitbart destroyed lives based on LIES, I will not be some phony liberal and pretend condolences. ROT IN HELL ANDREW U BASTARD!

@dollada06: Andrew Brietbart is dead, its no Rush Limbaugh but i’ll take it! #GOP #DFL

@ChickGoneBad: They say Andrew Breitbart died of natural causes. Sure, that having that much evil inside you will almost naturally kill you.

@JerryWaxman2: His kind of journalism, and the “gotcha” out of context videos deserve an early death. http://huff.to/wJlRNS via @HuffingtonPost

@GOP_Hates_You: @AndrewBreitbart Burn in HELL

Some critics have noted that Breitbart, too, tweeted messages critical of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. But does that mean common decency should be abandoned in the wake of Breitbart’s passing?

Some tweets assembled by the Washington Examiner. This story will be updated.

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Worse and Worse

By Grant Phillips

If you ever watched the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston, you might recall the night the Death Angel came. What an eerie scene as he crept quietly down the streets in a heavy fog. This particular scene reminds me of what is taking place today before our very eyes, and most don’t even see it.

As the Apostle Paul told his protégé Timothy, sin’s advance in the last days will get worse and worse, and so it has. It is moving forward like a large army of foot soldiers, or a swarm of locusts, destroying everything in sight. Satan’s army has certainly made great strides in advancing his agenda with mankind, just as prophesied.

Sin has always been prevalent on the earth, but since Madalyn Murray O’Hair won her suit in the Supreme Court to remove official Bible reading from the schools in 1963, evil has picked up its pace in deceiving mankind.  In rapid fashion sin has taken over the personal lives of millions of people. By kicking God out of the schools, each generation has gotten worse in its love of sin.

The music industry has gone from music that was rich and pure to the vilest garbage that could enter the eyes and ears of a human being. We have gone from the astounding beauty of the classics to obscene noise that vomits out the putrid thoughts of evil minds. This unholy garbage is displayed in acts of nudity and decadence spawned from the depths of hell.

Politics, which has always been corrupt, has enacted laws that are more and more anti-God and produces politicians who are evil to the core. Most of our “leaders” are replicas of the ancient past who worshipped themselves and their evil desires, having nothing but the lowest form of animalistic behavior.

The home, the most important institution from God, except the Church, has been ripped to shreds and is hardly recognizable. Male and female parents married to each other, has been replaced with couples living in adultery, swapping partners, male/male and female/female “mom and dads.” Personal character is a thing of the past, and little demons are being bred and raised with respect for no one.

Businesses have become dishonest and greedy, bringing much harm to millions that just want to make a living and provide for their families. The time of employees giving their best in the work place and employers considering the welfare of their employees is a thing of the past. Now greed abounds, even at the expense of destroying the economical lives of others. (1Timothy 6:10)

Satan has taken avenues that could be used for good, and used them to bring individuals to a new low. He has pushed his wares by television, radio, movies and even sports, and infiltrated and corrupted the minds of many.

I am now noticing that even in our local small town newspapers, profanity seems to be the norm by those who write their weekly articles. These are not individuals who are syndicated either, but local people, who work for the paper as writers, and use curse words to express themselves. Now, I am not one to be shocked by hearing profanity, but what has become of us when it is now commonly used in the local newspaper? Even the publisher, who is a local resident and well-known “church- member” has not abstained from using filthy examples, in the newspaper, to clarify his point of interest. There is no way I can repeat what he wrote, but I will say that one female writer has used the adjective “damn” in her last two articles, and another male writer has used “damn” and “hell” (as profanity) in his last two articles. So the vileness of man marches on.

The Lord said through the Apostle Paul,

“But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” (2 Timothy 3:13 NKJV)

“They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity.” (Ephesians 4:19 NLT)

“Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons. These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead.” (1Timothy 4:1-2 NLT)

When I was growing up (now I sound like my Dad) I never heard adults curse, and seldom my peers. A man would never ever use profanity in front of a woman or children. To do so, would be cause for a fight. Today, it not only comes from men, but the women may be even better at it, and even small children are quite adapt at tossing around offensive words.

I like the way the King James Version (KJV) states the last part of 1Timothy 4:2, “having their conscience seared with a hot iron.” Titus 1:15 says, “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.” The mind and conscience of man in the 21^st century has turned to mush. There is nothing but evil on his mind all the day. Sin is growing like a cancer upon the soul of man.

One wonders how much worse this world will get, before the Lord says “that’s enough.” Nothing is taboo anymore. Any vile subject the gutter mind can come up with has been approached and pushed upon society. Nothing is sacred.

My heart goes out to today’s youth, because they have never known and will not know the world I was raised in. It was not perfect of course, but we never even spoke of things that today are openly discussed and practiced by a world gone mad. If the verses above that I have shown are not relevant to today, then we all need to stop studying prophecy and just crawl off somewhere and hide. The fact is, they are very relevant, and there are many more verses just like them that tell us that mankind will sink lower than the animals just prior to Christ’s return.

Homosexually is another area that our world today is obsessed with cramming down the throats of decent people, and practicing their sinful debauchery wherever they please. This sin has never failed yet to bring down every empire of those who practiced it. If it were just this one sin alone, and it isn’t, there is absolutely no doubt that God is going to bring down His fist in judgment.

Do we, generally speaking, even have a conscience today? Have we actually reached the point that it has been seared with a hot iron? Look around you. I have not gone into this subject with any depth at all, but with just the minor picking of the scab that I have presented, is proof enough. God help us. Judgment is coming, but praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ, He will remove His own before He brings down the hammer of justice on a fallen world. Come to Him now. John 3:16.

Grant Phillips

grantphillips@windstream.net

My articles are posted at “Pre-Rapture Commentary” http://grant-phillips.blogspot.com and many are also posted at “Rapture Ready” http://www.raptureready.com/featured/phillips/phillips.html

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