Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle Paul prophesied that the end times on earth directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ would become exceedingly wicked and violent. Here's what Paul wrote in his second letter to fellow apostle Timothy: "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--having a form of godliness but denying its power." (2Timothy 3:1-5)
Christ himself also talked of "the increase of wickedness" (Matthew 24:12) when he revealed what the last days on earth would look like and the ancient Hebrew prophet Daniel, who lived 2,600 years ago, also revealed that the people living on earth in the last days would become "completely wicked". (Daniel 8:23)
All signs indicate that we now are living in the times that Paul, Christ and Daniel warned of. Since the late 1940s, crime has exploded across the western world along with moral decadence. For example, in 1961, New York City had a population of nine million residents and recorded 100 homicides for that calendar year. Just 30 years later in 1991, with virtually the same population, New York City recorded 1,000 homicides. And nearly every major city throughout the United States and Europe recorded similar increases in major violent crimes during that time span.
What happened? What was the cause behind the explosion of violent crime and moral decadence during that period that began in the1940s? Two things: (1) The influence of Christianity waned throughout the western world and (2) the influence of Darwinism spread across the globe and permeated education, the media, the entertainment industry and even politics. Millions of school children were taught that life was an accident that occurred billions of years ago through natural chemical processes in some primordial mud pond. As such, if life really occurred that way then it wasn't created by an intelligent being. Rather than being created in the image of a Holy God, children were taught that they were the descendants of primates that were the descendants of lower forms of life.
Darwinism's influence throughout the world created chaos and anarchy by systemically breaking down moral order and authority. If no Holy God existed that held man morally accountable to his commandments and transcendent laws then there was no heaven, hell, sin or eternal judgment awaiting mankind at physical death. Thus, Darwin replaced God with man as the highest moral authority in the universe. Next up, how the failure of Christianity to contend for the faith (Jude 1:3) allowed Darwin's lie of evolution to metastasize like a deadly cancer across the world.
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