The Increase of Wickedness

The police sketch of a dismembered child found in a Chicago lagoon

Chicago's Garfield Park has certainly seen better times. Named after James Garfield, America's 20th president, the park sits in the midst of Chicago's deteriorating Near West Side. It still retains its charm and beauty that's provided folks an oasis from Chicago's dust and stink for nearly a century and a half.

Certainly, when the park opened in 1869, you didn't find the empty muscatel bottles and the discarded needles used by drug addicts and the used condoms that contaminate its landscape today. While the Chicago Park District does its best to hide the symptoms of the relentless moral rot that's killing Chicago and America slowly, it can't erase them.

And tragically, the beautiful lagoon that sits in the middle of the park couldn't hide something hideous that someone tried to hide beneath its sparkling waters recently. Someone dumped the body parts from a dismembered child into the lagoon in the hopes that the child and his memory would vanish forever. When someone spotted the child's foot floating in the water, they became hysterical.

The police arrived and sent divers into the water to search for more parts. They found the child's other foot and both hands before they decided to drain the lagoon in hopes of finding the rest of the child. 

Forensic experts said the body was likely that of an African-American boy between 8 months and 4 years of age. But they cautioned that a “mixed race heritage” and the possibility the body is that of a girl cannot be ruled out. And the age could be closer to between two and three years old.

That child was an innocent human being created in God's image. He--or she--was at the complete mercy of someone who decided to destroy the child's life and then dispose of the body like garbage. Of course, the politicians wagged their fingers before the cameras and the clergy clowns dressed in their finest Armani pontificated about poverty and despair and violence, and the media trotted out the big-time psychologists to analyze why someone would do such a horrible thing to a young child. 

Why? Here's why. Because the world's turned away from God and has forgotten His laws. Whoever murdered and dismembered that child has no fear of God and no concern for what eternity brings to those who commit such heinous acts. Nearly 3,000 years ago, Solomon wrote this: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and understanding." (Proverbs 1:7)

While many people are still focused on the nightmare of the Garfield Park lagoon, they've conveniently forgotten about Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion butcher who proudly displayed the dismembered parts from aborted babies in jars that sat on his clinic's shelves. Or, those Planned Parenthood officials caught on film calmly discussing selling organs from aborted babies like street vendors selling vegetables from a produce truck.

And so, what's worse; the tragic murder and dismemberment of a young child? Or, abortion industry executives and doctors who treat aborted babies like merchandise? They're all wicked.

When a society no longer fears God, it defecates on His laws. As such, human life is considered no more sacred than the life of a worm or an ant. A world that treats human beings--young, old, infirm or handicapped--as disposable goods, is a world that's deserving of God's judgment. And that judgment's coming. In fact, it's already happening in many places.

The world's descent into evil and depravity isn't an anachronism; it's prophetic. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ said this concerning the end times: "Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved." (Matthew 24:12-13)

The apostle Paul issued this prophetic caveat concerning the last days, and decide for yourself whether this sounds like the time we're currently living in: "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, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people." (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

Paul warned of a frightening end time world. If the murder and dismemberment of a young child doesn't bother you, then reread 2 Timothy 3:1-5. Because that describes you and your ilk.