How The West Was Lost

Detroit Michigan

According to biblical prophecy, the two most powerful nations that will exist on the earth in the last days will be located in the eastern world.

The ancient Hebrew prophet Daniel, who lived about 2,600 years ago, revealed that two nations he described as northern and southern kingdoms (Daniel 11) will vie for world supremacy and control over a one-world government in the last days.

Well, how can we possibly determine from that description that those two nations will exist in the eastern world rather than in the west? Because the Bible always places Israel at the center of its geographical map. Therefore, a northern kingdom would be located directly north of Israel, while a southern kingdom would be located south if Israel.

However, Daniel's revelation indicates that these two nations could be neighbors. What is the identity of the northern kingdom? That kingdom is very likely Russia while the southern kingdom likely is China that borders Russia on the south at two points, separated by Mongolia.

Daniel revealed that for a period of time these two nations will be allies. (Daniel 11:6) But this alliance will dissolve and the two nations will become bitter enemies and go to war. 

Certainly, Russia and China are on the rise politically, economically and militarily. Both nations are developing new sophisticated nuclear weapons and delivery systems that can reach almost any destination on earth. 

The Russians are also expanding their energy outreach into Western Europe and even South America by developing new oil wells. If the green energy industry that the west has committed to fails to deliver on its promise to rid the world of fossil energy, the Russians will be in a position to control the world's energy supply. And that will be a dangerous proposition. 

Meanwhile, the west is rapidly descending into a pagan, post-Christian moral cesspool. Evil and depravity abound everywhere from the holocaust of abortion to the embrace of sexual perversion to the explosion of crime and violence.

What's the common denominator that underlies the western world's collapse? It's the abandonment of its Judeo-Christian roots. Fewer people today see any need for Jesus Christ in their lives. A growing number of westerners see Christ as little more than an historical figure who has no relevance in the modern world.

And so, the historical biblical worldview that mandates fear of God, honesty, integrity, decency, holiness, purity and hard work has been replaced by laziness, apathy, narcissism, nihilism, hedonism and debauchery. 

And that permeates the entire culture from top to bottom. Political leaders are a direct reflection of the society and culture they come from. If they come from a morally perverse culture, they will be mendacious and corrupt. And that explains why a number of political leaders in the western world are so morally bankrupt. 

If the culture is corrupt, then its people will not only see nothing special or significant about their society, they will despise it. And they will refuse to support, defend and even die for it.

Take a close look at the western world. It's dying. Nearly 150 years of godless humanism has finally taken its toll. When the Christian church in the western world decided to stop contending for the faith as the apostle Jude encouraged the early church to do unceasingly nearly 2,000 years ago, (Jude 1:3) the western world began its descent into the moral and spiritual abyss. 

And now we see the shift in power from the western world to the eastern world. Just as the prophet Daniel prophesied would happen 2,600 years ago.