30 May 2022

Enemies Within and Without

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7).

“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself” (Philippians 3:20-21).

INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND

Texas Elementary School Shooting: 19 children and two teachers are dead. Controversy and conflicting reports surround the delayed response of local law enforcement, and investigations will be done. When local police sent out the call Tuesday about the shooting, Border Patrol agents were among the first to respond. The Border Patrol agent credited with killing the 18-year-old Latino gunman was part of an elite unit that utilizes military special operations training (BORTAC). A report says that initially, the Bortac agents couldn’t get into the classroom because of a steel door and cinder block construction. Many BP agents in Uvalde have kids at the school. The gunman first shot and wounded his grandmother and posted his intentions to shoot up an elementary school on social media.

A Series of Critical Failures Led to The Uvalde Tragedy. No one was armed inside the school. Uvalde is a high threat environment, as we see from all the lockdowns. It is criminally negligent not to prepare to meet the threats. But Texas law allows local school districts to declare themselves “Gun-Free Zones,” thereby becoming the favorite target of mentally disturbed mass murderers. Details remain unclear, but the shooter in Uvalde drove to the school and then crashed his vehicle. An eyewitness reports that he fired on nearby people as he left the truck. It was twelve minutes before he entered the school. It’s unclear why either the police or the school did not get the message that he was headed to the school. Had that message been passed on, the school could have locked down, preventing his entry. This isn’t new since Uvalde schools get locked down almost every week due to violence related to illegal immigration.

DAYS OF NOAH AND LOT RETURNED

“Professing to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22)

Students create ‘Tribe for Death’ group to harass pro-life peers. A group of pro-choice students at a Virginia university (College of Willam and Mary) has dedicated time to harassing and bullying their peers. The group “Tribe for Death” appears to exist primarily on Instagram. The group is “Pro-abortion” and “Anti pregnancy” according to the bio. Tribe for Death’s content includes posts mocking preborn babies and pro-life tactics such as educating people about fetal development. “One particularly disturbing video shows a preborn child as being represented by a spoonful of red jam and then being made into a sandwich for consumption.”

The National Science Teaching Association guide, “Gender-Inclusive Biology: A framework in action,” calls for “gender-inclusive biology,” which includes abandonment of terms like “parent,” “men,” “women,” “mother,” and “father.” Under the guide, mothers are now referred to as “persons with ovaries” in reference to reproduction cycles while fathers are now “persons with testes.” Teachers are encouraged to drop terms like “male” in favor of “XY individuals.” The NSTA suggests that this can be a fun exercise like having students come up with an entirely new name for the word “parents,” such as “gene-givers” or “biological life transmitters.”

Mattel Announces Barbie Doll to Celebrate Transgender Actor Laverne Cox (a biological male who claims to be female).

More Disney’s Progressive Agenda Exposed. In a meeting, Disney executives promise that at least half of the characters in its productions will be LGBTQIA2+ by the end of this year.

State Farm abandons support for LGBTQ book program targeting kids after whistleblower email release. The insurance company has now announced the end of the collaboration with the organization behind the program, GenderCool Project. The GenderCool Project describes itself as a “youth-led movement” designed to highlight “transgender and non-binary youth who are thriving.”

Government-run drag queen dance party for high school kids has set off outrage among parents in an affluent seacoast New England community.

Maine Department of Education removes kindergarten LGBT lesson from website following backlash.

Psychotherapist Who Conducts Transgender “Therapy” Encourages Teens to Distrust Their “Bigoted, Misinformed Parents” – Especially if They’re “Religious” (VIDEO). Rachel Simon tells minor teens to disobey their Christian parents and turn away from God’s ways. During a transgender conference, Simon said, “I use she/her pronouns. I am a psychotherapist, educator, consultant and… I’m the author of “Every Body” book which is an LGBTQ inclusive sex-ed resource for 7–12-year-olds.”

‘Woke Army’ Considers Letting Soldiers Change Base or State if They Don’t Like Local Laws on Gender, Racism, or Abortion. It was just last year that the US Army released a recruitment ad for gays and kids of gays. This is the same US Army that just lost a war to 10th Century barbarians and left them $80 billion in US weapons. Maybe they need to refocus their priorities!”

Radical leftist group unveils $30 million strategy to push LGBT agenda and stop GOP midterm landslide. The alt-left public policy activist group MoveOn has unveiled a massive $30 million push to defeat Republican candidates across the nation in this year’s midterm elections as a means to protect abortion “rights,” advance even more outlandish “LGBTQIA+” ideology into law, and further undermine election integrity measures.

People hired by U.S. Census include felony sex-with-a-child offenders. The disturbing practice of employees with criminal histories continues.

UK healthcare system removes the word ‘woman’ from webpages about womb and ovarian cancer. This is the latest example of the ongoing colonization of British healthcare by the transgender movement.

And in more insane news: In today’s craziest PR stunt, Feminine care brand Intimina just launched a ‘Uterus-Shaped’ Cereal To ‘Normalize’ Period Talk at the Breakfast Table. Intimina says that those interested can simply contact the company to receive their free box.

APOSTASY; DOCTRINES OF DEMONS

Klaus Schwab’s lead advisor, Yuval Noah Harari, said, “God Is Dead; It Just Takes Awhile to Get Rid of the Body.” As most know by now, Klaus Schwab is the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), author of COVID-19: The Great Reset.

Enemies Within the Churches. Marxists have successfully infiltrated the churches and are deliberately destroying true Christianity. In Matthew 10:16, Jesus warns: “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep amid wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” The devil is the father of lies (John 8:44) who disguises himself as an angel of light, and his minions disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness (2 Corinthians 11:13-15).

Vatican official at Davos says the Catholic Church is implementing the World Economic Forum agenda. A Vatican cleric attending the 2022 Davos Summit, hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) which advances a punishing “green” agenda, open borders, and “future pandemic” management, has said that the Catholic Church is “committed to the various issues considered at the forum.” Speaking with Vatican News, Fr. Leonir Chiarello, Superior General of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles (Scalabrinians), said that the Catholic Church leads the way in implementing many of the WEF’s globalist ideals.

PLAGUE/PESTILENCE

As of May 23, the latest outbreak of monkeypox has reached 17 countries with 110 confirmed cases and a further 205 suspected cases. Dr. David Heymann (formerly headed WHO’s emergencies department) said the leading theory to explain the disease’s spread was sexual transmission at raves in Spain and Belgium. “Monkeypox can spread when there’s close contact with lesions of someone who’s infected, and it looks like sexual contact has now amplified that transmission,” said Heymann. That’s a significant departure from the disease’s typical pattern of spread in Africa, where people are mainly infected by animals like wild rodents and primates, and outbreaks have not spilled across borders. Health officials say most known cases in Europe have been among men who have sex with men, but anyone can be infected through close contact with a sick person, their clothing, or bedsheets. Scientists say it will be difficult to disentangle whether the spread is being driven by sex or merely close contact.

FOOD INSECURITY

Breaking Russian Blockade of Ukraine’s Ports Would Feed Starving Millions, But Kremlin Wants Sanctions Eased. More than 44 million people in 38 countries facing a hunger crisis have been prevented from receiving lifesaving shipments of Ukrainian grain by a Russian naval blockade, and now they’ve become a bargaining chip in an unprovoked war that’s contributed to food insecurity worldwide. Some of the countries most affected—Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen—are already experiencing widespread food insecurity. According to the WFP, if ports stay blocked for key suppliers to the global wheat market, prices will push up even higher, “worsening hunger for the most vulnerable people around the world.”

Davos: Warnings of ‘Famines Around the World’ as Globalist WEF Talk Global Food Crisis. Davos attendees have been discussing the global food crisis at the annual World Economic Forum, with the head of the World Food Programme warning of ‘famines around the world.’

No doubt the world is heading closer to Revelation 6:5-6 prophesied for the Tribulation.

HATRED OF JEWS AND ISRAEL

Jew Attacked by Muslim Mob at Speakers Corner in London. Speakers Corner is known to be a place for debate, not violence. Joseph Cohen of the Israel Advocacy Movement visits speakers corner a lot to debate with the Muslims there. This is the first time that the mob acted violently toward him.

Iraq passes law making contact with Israel punishable by life imprisonment or death. Iraqi lawmakers passed a bill criminalizing the normalization of ties and any relations, including business ties, with Israel. The legislation says that violation of the law is punishable with the death sentence or life imprisonment. Hundreds of supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr celebrated the legislation by chanting anti-Israel slogans.

LAST DAYS TRAITORS

Davos elites warn nations not to resist ‘painful global transition.” Echoing Biden’s comments, two European leaders at the World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland described record-high gas prices as part of a “painful” period of “transition” to alternative energy that should not be resisted. What a convenient coincidence!

“Build Blackouts Better”: Half of America Faces Power Blackouts This Summer, Regulator Warns. NERC warned power supplies in the Western US could be strained this summer as a historic drought reduces hydroelectric power generation due to falling reservoir levels and what’s expected to be an unseasonably hot summer. Compound the hellacious weather backdrop with grids decommissioning fossil fuel power plants to fight [their claimed human and cow-caused] climate change and their inability to bring on new green power generation, such as solar, wind, and batteries, in time, is a perfect storm waiting to happen that will produce electricity deficits that may force power companies into rolling blackouts for stability purposes.

NERC’s report is an eye-opener for those living in the Western US. Many households face out-of-control inflation, soaring fuel prices, and food shortages ahead of what could be a summer of unrest as the Biden administration is bracing for a wave of violence upon the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe V. Wade. America is slipping into the abyss as households get a taste of what it’s like to live in Venezuela. It’s not that far off from what people are experiencing today: soaring inflation, shortages, a ruling regime which so many claim was not elected by the majority, and soon, rolling blackouts.

ORWELLIAN SOCIETY AND GLOBAL (ONE-WORLD) GOVERNMENT RISING

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, who made millions pushing COVID vaccines, spoke at Davos, pushing for a pill with a chip that sends signals to authorities that the pill has been ingested. Pfizer’s defenders suggested this could be used in conditions such as “schizophrenia and cancers” to ensure compliance. What could possibly go wrong with a pill like this? These people are frightening monsters.

Dr. McCullough: ‘Medical crisis’ is being exploited to push global government. The world-renowned physician has spoken prolifically about how to treat and how not to treat COVID. Now, he’s cutting to the heart of what he believes is behind harmful protocols. Dr. Peter McCullough sketched what he believes is the true purpose of an induced COVID “medical crisis”: global world government. He said, “What we’re seeing now is the utilization of vaccines as an inroad to global human compliance. Subjugation of the entire world’s population at the same time via the same method. Having our rights linked to the end of a hypodermic needle.”

America to Hand over Sovereignty to the World Health Organization. (Video). The nations of the world are currently voting on whether to give the WHO control over their healthcare decisions, and the US Biden regime fully intends to do so (although there are claims on the other side that the WHO won’t have total control). The globalist goblins will make sure the world agrees to this evil agenda.

Globalist “stakeholders” explain holding nations hostage to WEF salvation. Listening to the founder of the World Economic Forum should send chills up any normal person’s spine. The language of Klaus Schwab in his welcome address sounds, if anything, like an updated version of a speech given by the founder of the Third Reich. More than one speaker has clarified the WEF’s position to force nations to abandon the reliability of oil, gas, coal, and nuclear-based power generation. They, including Financier Kjersten Braathen, reminded the peasants that they (meaning we) must suffer pain, poverty and famine to usher in the Davos vision of a perfect world where unaffordable, inefficient, unreliable and unsustainable wind and solar power is necessary to change, or “reset,” the social order. The WEF has already engaged in global economic terror, the proof of which is inciting conflict, restricting energy, constraining trade, redefining health, stifling food production, and cutting access to funds and banks.

All this brings us ever closer to the evil global government prophesied in the Bible that will be ruled by the Antichrist, assisted by the False Prophet (Revelation 13). We true Christians need to point people to the Scriptures to warn them what’s ahead for them if they reject Christ and are left behind.

OCCULT

WATCH: US Army releases mysterious PSYOPS recruitment video. An eerie recruitment video by Fort Bragg’s 4th Psychological (PSYOPS) Operations Group-Airborne titled “Ghosts in the Machine” grows increasingly disturbing. “Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings?” the video asks. “You’ll find us in the shadows…. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.” A number of articles are debating its intent, including one headlined: “Occult History of U.S. Military’s PSYOPS and its Highly Symbolic Recruitment Video.” Viewers are debating everything from its sinister music to the haunting images. Some have resorted to Bible quotes, while others are questioning who Americans should be most afraid of: foreign powers or their own government.

WEATHER EVENTS

At least 9 killed as fast-moving severe thunderstorms hit the most populated part of Canada. The derecho swept over southern Ontario and Quebec on May 21, leaving 1,000 km (620 miles) of damage.

Tropical Storm Agatha Forms South of Mexico. It could arrive at the coast by Monday, possibly as a hurricane.

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

Ezekiel 38-39 Gog-Magog News: Israel ramping up gas output, looks to help supply Europe. Israel is boosting offshore natural gas output and aims to reach a supply agreement with Europe in the coming months as the continent looks to replace the Russian supply. The country is on track in the next few years to double production as it expands current projects and brings new fields online. This will surely anger the Russian Gog.

“After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, To take a spoil, and to take a prey…” (Ezekiel 38:8-12).

Nasrallah: ‘Attack’ on Jerusalem would lead to ‘unimaginable consequences.’ Hezbollah Sec-Gen Nasrallah warned of serious responses against Israel from upcoming Jerusalem Day events may lead to a “major explosion” in the region. Clashes broke out between Israel’s IDF and rioters along the Lebanese border Wednesday, who threw stones and Molotov cocktails. Sources from so-called “Palestinian factions” told Lebanese TV they wouldn’t remain silent over [Israel’s] (they say “the occupation’s”) provocations and attempts to impose new facts in Jerusalem” and would “not allow settlers to go roaming in Jerusalem.” Sources warned response will be from all fronts, including Gaza, adding “all options are on the table, including military. They demanded that Israel return the situation on the Temple Mount to how it was before 2000.

When the Lord judges the nations at Armageddon (Joel 3), the first names mentioned (Joel 3:4) represent Hezbollah (Tyre and Sidon are cities in Lebanon) and Hamas (Gaza was a major Philistine city). God will pay them back for all the harm they’ve done to Israel throughout history, including the present.

30 May 2022

Please, One Pandemic at a Time

The COVID-19 pandemic will soon be in its third year. The Spanish Flu pandemic ran for two years and two months. The vast majority of the deaths occurred in 1918. COVID-19 is set to last longer because it comes in wave after wave. The Spanish Flu mostly had just one wave that killed 6.2 million people. The current pandemic has only seen 1.2 million deaths.

The latest variant of COVID-19 is very contagious, but it is far less deadly than the first two variants. Here are some stats to compare this year to last year:

COVID CASES USA 7-DAY AVG
107,787 MAY 24 2022
24,769 MAY 24 2021

DEATHS 7-DAY AVG
335 MAY 24 2022
568 MAY 24 2021

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy warned of burnout among the nation’s health care staff. Murthy issued a new report sounding the alarm over a projected shortage of 3 million “essential low-wage health workers” in the next five years, and nearly 140,000 doctors by 2033.

“People are really struggling,” Murthy said. “After two years of COVID-19 and more than 1 million precious lives lost, the people we all turn to to keep us safe, to comfort us and help us heal, they have been pushed to their limits.”

We have spent over $7 trillion on COVID-19, and the Biden administration is back asking for more money to fight the virus. The White House says it is planning for “dire” contingencies that could include rationing supplies of vaccines and treatments this fall if Congress doesn’t approve more funds for fighting COVID-19.

In March of 2021, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan that was dedicated directly to COVID-19 response. The price tag for that bill was $1.9 trillion, so Biden will likely be asking for a similar amount of money.

In public comments and private meetings on Capitol Hill, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus coordinator, has painted a dark picture in which the U.S. could be forced to surrender many of the advances made against the coronavirus, and even the most vulnerable could face supply shortages.

“We have the resources,” Jha told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz. “One of the reasons I’ve been talking a lot about the need for Congress to step up and fund this effort is if they don’t, Martha, we will go into the fall and winter without that next generation of vaccines, without treatments and diagnostics. That’s going to make it much, much harder for us to take care of and protect Americans.”

While we are still fighting COVID-19, a new virus has appeared and may trigger a second pandemic. Monkeypox is a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, part of the same family as smallpox, though typically less severe. Despite its name, it is most commonly associated with rodents. It was first identified in 1958, but there’s never been a global Monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa until now.

As of last Wednesday, a total of 118 monkeypox cases had been reported across 12 countries in the European Union and the European Economic Area, according to the European Centre for Disease and Prevention Control. The virus can only spread through close physical contact.

Because deadly diseases are part of the birth pang signs, I’ve been watching for them for many decades. I remember in the 1990s, we had one false alarm after another, most with Ebola. This virus would pop up in Africa, kill a few people and then quickly disappear.

After following the same pattern for many years, I noticed things drastically changed with the 2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa. It was the most widespread outbreak of Ebola in history. It caused major loss of life (11,323 Deaths) and socioeconomic disruption in the region, mainly in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

I have no doubt why we are locked into this constant state of pandemic. Because the rapture is very near, the world is reflecting what Bible prophecy proclaimed as a major warning sign.

“I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth” (Rev. 6:8, NIV).

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places” (Matt. 24:7, KJV).

–Todd


 Discerning the Midnight Hour

Authors note: The commentary today is taken in part from my conclusion to DISCERNERS: Analyzing Converging Prophetic Signs for the End of Days.

Our weekly column on the raptureready.com website is called “Nearing Midnight” because we discern that planet earth has almost reached the midnight hour of the Church Age, or Age of Grace.

Whereas the geopolitical humanist powers that be frame their view of human history’s closing minutes within their Doomsday Clock,” we  observe these fleeting times before Christ’s call to the Church by placing the template of Bible prophecy over the converging of prophetic stage-setting.

The political scientists and other scientists can only guess at what will happen to the human race. Most all believe that humankind will meet its end from nuclear holocaust or by climate-change disasters.

We who give total credence to what God’s Word has to say about the consummation of the age can know for certain, through a  detailed preview by God, Himself, how the end of all things will unfold. We don’t know precisely when the end will come. We can know, however, the general time when it will begin to manifest.

We can know for certain when the “midnight hour” of God’s prophetic timeline is approaching.

The Lord Jesus gave His family (born-again believers) explicit instruction about how and when to discern the nearing midnight hour.

And when you see all these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your head, for your redemption draws near. (Luke 21: 28)

Note that Jesus didn’t say to watch for when these things “come to pass.” He said “when these things begin to come to pass,” we are to “look up and lift up our heads, for our redemption is drawing near.” At that time, He will be on His way to rescue His Bride –the Church—from the carnage that is about to take place on earth.

The blackness of the midnight hour will descend following that rescue of the Church. At seven years into the Tribulation, complete evil will have engulfed the planet with satanic darkness. The first bright gleaming that pierces that most horrendous time of all of human history will then burst through the billowing storm clouds of Armageddon. Brilliant light will part the heavens, and Christ and His army will appear.

So, discerning the times in which we find ourselves is all-important to the believer. If it was not possible to discern the times, Jesus wouldn’t have told us: “What I say unto one, I say unto all. Watch” (Mark 13:37).  

He promises in Revelation 3:10 that we are not appointed to God’s wrath, and will be kept out of the very hour of that wrath.  

So, what are the things the Lord forewarned would be taking place–the things beginning to come to pass—that we see happening at this very moment? Exactly what are the things for which we are to look?

Remember, the whole Bible is the Word of God. And, Jesus is that Word (John 1: 1).

Every prophecy, whether it’s already accomplished or yet to come, is attributable to Him. God, the Holy Spirit, inspired the Old and New Testament prophets to give the prophecies. So, we don’t have to consider just what the Lord Jesus, Himself, said by way of prophecy to discern the times in which we live. We can and must consider every prophecy yet to be fulfilled, presented in the Bible by all Bible prophets, as part of our discernment process.

I am of the camp that believes we are seeing the stage being set for fulfillment of prophecy yet future rather than fulfillment itself. The one caveat concerns the nation Israel. My view is that Israel again being a nation after millennia of dispersion into all the world is fulfilled prophecy.

That said, however, everything we see happening around us at this very hour has prophetic significance. Some things are profoundly significant—for example, the coalition of nations forming to Israel’s north.

Russia (land of Magog), Iran (much of ancient Persia), and Turkey (the land of Togarmah) coming together in a coalescing alliance is a spectacular example of God’s foreknowledge of things to come. These, of course, are exactly the central actors prophetically scheduled to come against God’s chosen nation, Israel, according to Ezekiel 38 and 39.

It must be agreed that much of the stage-setting itself is likened to fulfilled prophecy in some ways. For example, the apostle Paul’s “perilous timeswords, presented in 2 Timothy 3, offer a vivid snapshot of these spiritually darkening days. While prophecy yet future, for the most part, seems reserved for the Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week), developments in our nation and world today are becoming ever more like those given in God’s Word for that last seven years immediately preceding Christ’s Second Advent.

Luciferic darkening has so infected this generation in America and throughout the world that we who “watch” in order to discern the times are brought face to face with end-times insanity born of greatly increased rebellion against God. Other than the fact that Israel itself is what most discerners view as the most dramatic sign of where this generation stands on God’s prophetic timeline, there runs a deadly septicemia throughout humankind that marks this as a generation at the very end of its prophetic rope. The infection proves we are in the terminal stage of rebellion.

Paul explains very clearly that infection, satanically injected into humanity’s collective bloodstream.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Romans 1:18-32)

God condemns those who are caught in this evil, destructive quagmire of depravity. But Jesus gives us the way out of that soul-destroying quicksand:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24)

—Terry