(There is a special message at the end of this article for those who might happen to read this and do not have Jesus in their life and are looking for peace and a way to better understand the present-day insanity and confusion.)

There are two types of “gloom” relative to this discussion.

We will need to differentiate between them in order for it to make sense.

• There is the apparent gloom (if not studied) of the end times prophecies that are enumerated in the Word of God.
• There is the gloom (and doom) that is present and ever-growing in the secular, unbelieving world in which we are currently residing.

In the first case, a comparison can be made with believers grieving for the loss of a loved one who we know is now in the presence of the Lord because they had received Jesus as Lord and Savior during their living years.

“Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope” (1 Thessalonians 4:13). Emphasis added by me.

In the case of the believer, any “gloom” that is experienced (however temporary it may be) lacks the “doom” that is associated with the second case.

Believers in Christ in this world are often accused of espousing a “gloom and doom” view of the future, but the Truth is exactly the opposite.

In the first case, we do not have to resign ourselves to doom because we do, in fact, possess Hope. The Hope that is in Jesus Christ, the Blessed Hope.

“as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).

So, as the True Church, do we really spread a message of gloom and doom?

Or do we convey a message of Hope to a world that is in an ever-downward spiraling state of despair and hopelessness and is becoming aware of it?

Perhaps the world could have prevented the conditions that have manifested themselves today, for a period of time, by following the directives of laws – when they were broken in the past by evil men – by bringing criminals to justice when there was some semblance of ethical conduct.

But the failure to do these things has resulted in a steady degradation of society and living conditions that have festered like a wound that was never treated and so continues to grow.

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

Even those who have lived their lives willfully ignoring God and His warnings against living apart from His laws and Precepts are now becoming acutely aware that the world system is broken, and it is not repairable by any measure of “reform.”

The lawless simply ignore the rules and the law. They even publicly announce that they will ignore the law and that justice is not going to be applied to those whose crimes they choose to excuse. Many of these lawless are part of the judiciary.

They openly and publicly defy and mock the living God.

Most politicians create the appearance of involving the citizens in what was once the workings of a representative republic, but then, in actuality, they simply do whatever they want without regard to repercussions. They do not fear the “voters,” and their “oath of office” is just a meaningless nuisance that they must repeat out loud in order to get it “out of the way,” and then it is “on to bigger and better things,” but for who?

They have morphed into a self-identified ruling class, a sort of “royal court” that has placed itself above the serfs and common folk that they pretend to represent.

While there are a small number of politicians who are making an honest effort to uphold the laws of the land, they are now hopelessly outnumbered by the lawless. And whether legitimately or not, the lawless control the reins of power.

Earthly power, that is.

How is that? we ask ourselves. Like children who are threatened but never punished, the lawless have learned over time that they can do as they please, so they do.

When caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they simply smile, switch hands, and take another cookie.

Simple, really, and terrible in its reality.

Like mice, they foul their own nest.

The current state of everyday conduct makes all these conditions obvious, and so the hopelessness of the world system apart from God becomes even more hopeless.

Each and every day, it grows worse as the system that will be used to subjugate the people of the world is being forced toward its inevitable climax.

The Word of God has warned for millennia to an unbelieving world that this would occur.

So, the Christian message is one of Hope for those who have ears to hear it and eyes to see the reality of the world, its course of self-inflicted destruction, and a heart and mind to seek after real Truth.

God has promised:

“And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).

As well, Jesus declared:

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20).

In both cases, action is required of those who will take it.

To “seek” in the first case and to “hear and open” in the second. These are not “works,” as some might say.

They are responses to the calling of the Holy Spirit to the human soul.

As Jesus has promised:

“All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out” (John 6:37).

As time progresses, the dividing line between those who will seek the Truth and those who reject it and the calling of God will sadly widen.

This is, to me, the real gloomy sadness of the times in which we live – that so many will not receive the gift of eternal life promised in God’s Word by the Living Way, the Truth, and the Life.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life” (John 5:24).

I am in hopes that the times are driving an awakening that we can’t fully see because the sources of this kind of news are so few, but God will continue to grow His forever family in spite of any obstacles the world may try to put in His way.

“‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me,’ Says the LORD.”

And who are these servants of the Lord?

Are they special people who are inherently good? No.

They are just those who have humbled themselves, admitted they are sinners, and received Jesus Christ as the One and Only Savior of ANYONE who will come to Him in Truth.

If you have a Bible, open it to the Book of Isaiah. If you do not, acquire one while you still can and open it to the Book of Isaiah.

“Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon” (Isaiah 55:6).

The only thing stopping you is you.

The special message I promised you:

For anyone who may read this article and has not trusted in Jesus Christ and therefore has no hope or peace in your life.

You can have hope. You can have the peace that Jesus has promised to all who have made Him their Lord and Savior. The peace that passes understanding.

It requires that you come before God on His terms.

And, what are His terms according to His Word?

• Genuine repentance (turning to God instead of continuing to reject or ignore Him).
• Confession of sins (that you are a sinner and acknowledge that to God).
• That you understand that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
• To acknowledge to God that you are unable to pay that debt.
• Belief that Jesus Christ paid your death sentence for you on the cross.
• To believe that Jesus is the Way, the only Way, that God has established by which humans may be saved from the consequences of their sin and rebellion.

God has made it absolutely clear that there is no one who comes before Him, under His terms, that will be refused.

• No one: no race, no color, no country of origin, regardless of any previous belief system: no one.
• No matter what your past sins have been, God can and WILL forgive you because He says He will.
• Salvation is available to everyone without any exceptions.

If you put all your trust for salvation in Jesus, and Him only, you can follow that prayer up by simply saying, “Thank you, Father God, for hearing my prayer and saving me,” because we can trust Him to keep His Word. He always has. He always will.

“Truly, Truly, I say to you that he who hears My words and believes the One who sent Me has eternal life and will not be condemned. He has crossed from death to life” (John 5:24).

There are no answers and there is no hope in the world by governments, organizations, politics or politicians. There are only lies and deception. But you can have the Truth and the peace you seek.

The answers are in the Word of God—The Bible. If you ask God, with all your heart, He will hear you.

“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).

Pro Salvator Vigilans

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In Part 1, we looked at how man has taken what belongs to God and canceled God out of the whole matter. The self-deceived in the world dismiss God and His creation and wallow in their own intelligence and wisdom that God calls foolishness. We live in days now where all that is godly is being set aside incredibly rapidly, and man’s wickedness is dictating policies and evil behavior.

These are the last days of the Church age before the Lord takes His people away in the Rapture, and the growing wickedness of the human race will enter the Tribulation. It is a shame that some Christians do not believe that, but the blessed hope of the Lord’s coming for His Church most certainly will happen.

It is astounding how rapidly wickedness is progressing right through governments, the judiciary, and the police force. Even people’s interactions with each other are now not to be trusted as they once were.

We will continue this series begun in PART 1. THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS IRONY. However, I think some people don’t understand irony. Don’t get it muddled. The statement of the Bible from Genesis each time is followed by a direct contradiction. The contradiction will always be in inverted commas along with [[ ]] and represents what is said in opposition.

Remember, there is quite a lot of irony here. Please understand it like that. Britain and Australians use irony. I am not sure about the USA. I think Indians (India) use irony well, but that is part of the British legacy.

THE THIRD MATTER

Genesis 1:3-4 “Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good.” [[“NO, not correct! But light is not good. We don’t want people examining us and following what we are doing, spying on us. We want our own secrecy.”]]

Sinners don’t want light. We all go about our own lives walking in darkness if one is not a Christian and love that darkness, for we are covered from exposure. “Light is just relative. What might be light for you is not for me. In other words, ‘We all have our own light,” say the walkers in darkness. “It is all just subjective! Live and let live.”

That is the way the natural man behaves. He thinks and does what is natural to him. He does what his nature tells him to do and walks in darkness, but he thinks it is the light. The Bible is very precise about the nature of man, that it is fallen and corrupt and very devious, seeking always to depart further and further from God. God terms it this way – Ephesians 2:3 “Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.”

If I give a person a bucket of clothes pegs all the same color (say white) and ask him to separate them into red and green, he will be at a loss to do what is asked. However, if the bucket contained an equal number of red and green pegs and I asked a person with red-green color blindness to separate the pegs into red and green pegs, he would be unable to do so.

People with “sin color blindness” would find it difficult/impossible to divide light and darkness. O, yes, he could do so in the physical sense but not in the spiritual sense. To put it scripturally –

John 1:4-5 “In Him [Jesus Christ] was life, and THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” John 1:9-10 “There was THE TRUE LIGHT which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.”

Jesus is the true light that makes the light of God known so we can see where to walk. God said, “Let there be light,” and in the fullness of time, the Light came into the world. However, men will deny the light and try all the harder to extinguish it. They are cockroaches who love the dark, and when you shine a light, they all scamper away. Those living in darkness will even try to extinguish those who are walking in the Light. Isaiah put it well when he wrote – Isaiah 5:20-21 “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight!”

It was the Apostle John who dealt with light more than any other New Testament writer. The light is good, for God decreed it to be so. Just a couple of passages I will cite from John’s writings.

(a). John 1:4-5 “In Him was life, and the life was THE LIGHT OF MEN. The light shines in the darkness, and the DARKNESS DID NOT COMPREHEND IT.” The word translated “comprehend” in the NASB means to catch hold of it, to capture it for oneself, or to appropriate it, meaning to apply it to oneself for the better. The exact opposite is what the enemies of truth and light will do. They want to extinguish it, to mutilate it, to crucify truth and light. We see that everywhere in the world today.

(b). 1 John 1:5-7 “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that GOD IS LIGHT, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth, but if we WALK IN THE LIGHT as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” The second application is for Christians. We must walk in the light, or our profession is empty. However, look at the words of verse 5. “God is light,” and it was that Light that said, “Let there be light.” And, of course, the light was good because it represented God. The wicked people of the world have twisted and opposed and distorted the truth of the light to make it represent darkness and have substituted darkness in its place.

THE FOURTH MATTER

Genesis 1:20: “Then God said, ‘Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, AND LET BIRDS FLY above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.” [[“Hang on for a minute! That surely must be wrong. What happened to the reptiles? Our master and god, Charles Darwin, said the reptiles came before the birds as some mutant slimy thing crawled from the sea and started everything on land. The fish struggled ashore and became reptiles. THEN the birds. Don’t dare contradict Charles Darwin! Our master taught him well.”]]

Tell me, is God the Creator of order or disorder? There is no order in evolution, and its basis is anti-Christian chaos and random selection because the basis of evolution is “survival of the fittest.” There is nothing MORE SELFISH than the “dog eats dog” philosophy of Darwin. God has commanded we defend the weak and poor and support them, not walk all over them and crush them beneath the soil that we might rise up over them.

Nothing more satanic and soul-destroying has come upon the human race than evolution. It is straight from hell, degrading and demonic, reducing and destroying the dignity of man. So-called theistic evolution is an absolute disgrace, but it still holds sway in a number of churches. Charles Darwin could only produce his book, On The Origin of Species, under demonic influence. People who fell under his evil influence, among others, were Sigmund Freud, Francis Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Huxley, and John Dewey (education), and they were all humanists and/or atheists.

Evolution has its basis in full humanism, and as such, it has influenced all aspects of thinking and behavior in the world. It gives approval to violence and, most of all, to the concept that there is no God and some people are elite and can walk over others. No true Christian can possibly accept evolution, and to do so is to downgrade God to an unfeeling and casual observer. Don’t you think it is of note that every dictator, every socialist, every academic wise in his own deceits, is a strong supporter of evolution and dismisses all notions of God and of a God of creation? Some years ago, I wrote a long poem against evolution, and here I will quote just one stanza.

To every living thing it was outlined,
To reproduce according to its kind.
In constant reproduction, we can see,
This principle ordained and orderly.
Then, faithfully, all species keep their dress.
There’s not an intermingled mutant mess.
Primordial slime did not begin life;
Nor did complexity arise from strife.

Now think about this for an observation – you know the world rushes after things in a frenzy to embrace them. Once embraced, they are usually held fast, particularly so if they are evil concepts. Tell me one thing that is Christian, which the world has rushed after to embrace and hold dear. I know of none, but I see the opposite – what is Christian is abused and scoffed at and fought against. Often, that is the indicator that it is good. What is anti-Christian is loved and honored and embraced. The world hates goodness but rushes after what is evil. It will not serve God but serves the god of this world. Evolution has destroyed students at university and young minds that are bombarded with flashy books and movies idolizing evolution. It is one of the devil’s master cards.

THE FIFTH MATTER

Genesis 1:24 “Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures AFTER THEIR KIND: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth AFTER THEIR KIND.” [[“Not true. We know evolution is built on the mutation of species. Over millions of years, there are species changes. The Bible was written for simple-minded people who cannot understand proper science. We know that to be wrong because creeping things – reptiles – came before cattle.”]]

Human wisdom counts for naught with God. Man is wise in his own conjectures, and his mind is not open to God but is open to the other side, and Satan will certainly take advantage of that. The devil is the mastermind behind all that refutes God and negates what God has done. That is why the first few chapters of Genesis are so much under attack. Christian ministers must defend these chapters to their congregations, especially for the young people, because the godless humanists are tearing down the faith of our young people.

“AFTER THEIR KIND,” said God, but not Darwin. Well, of course, Darwin could not agree with the Creator because there is no Creator in any case! Darwin knew that. Intelligent Darwin worked that out!]]

Yet Darwin might be kind to you in the matter of “kind” in a not in a too kind way. Generally speaking, in the short term, Darwin might agree with you, “but silly Christians,” evolutionists would say, “don’t understand the meaning of millions of years.” We are expected to see all these changes over hundreds of millions of years. The millions of minute implementations gradually create the new species. Funny thing that is, that God did not think of that! Strange why He did not adopt “the survival of the fittest.” That must not be in the nature of God! God created in perfection, and what was not, then suddenly was!

Wait a moment! This is not the first time God said something about “after their kind.” Genesis 1:11 “Then God said, ‘Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit AFTER THEIR KIND with seed in them, on the earth,’ and it was so.” The universe is set in exact design, and so too is all the creation relating to the earth. Specialized breeders may change the color of the rose or produce bigger blooms, BUT behold, they are still roses. They have not changed into pineapples.

I can’t say I am a dog lover, but I find it fascinating that all the different breeds of dogs have been developed over thousands of years from the original wolf-like dog. It is quite amazing actually. Now I think it is possible for a poodle to breed with a German shepherd, though one is much larger than the other. And guess what? What will be the result? A DOG! Yes, dogs produce dogs. Sorry, Darwin, it is a dog, not a dog starting to produce tusks or wings!

THERE’S MORE! Genesis 1:21: “God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves with which the waters swarmed AFTER THEIR KIND, and every winged bird AFTER ITS KIND, and God saw that it was good.”

Evolution would disagree, for it places the sea creatures before land creatures. God is the great Mastermind and works according to a set principle. He does not change all that around all the time. AFTER THEIR KIND is kept locked in place, for God works according to stability and order.

WAIT! THERE’S MORE! God knew in the latter days a God-denying Darwin would come along, so in His word, He emphasized all the “AFTER THEIR/ITS KIND” (through repetition) again – Genesis 1:25 “God made the beasts of the earth AFTER THEIR KIND, and the cattle AFTER THEIR KIND, and everything that creeps on the ground AFTER ITS KIND, and God saw that it was good.”

God’s creation is good. He saw it. He said so. Evolution is not good. Darwin knows that now, but it is too late. Darwin tried to separate God from His creation, but now Darwin is separated from God in hell. Just another stanza from my poem:

For those, whose God’s creation, won’t allow;
Who won’t before creation’s Maker bow,
Explain this universal fact to me,
Why all through starry space and earth and sea,
Are interlocked all comprehensive laws
That operate so smoothly without flaws.
Did scientific principles arise
Through chaos or disorderly surprise?

PART 3 will follow after this.

ronaldf@aapt.net.au