Bad Days Getting Even Badder

The scene of another shooting on a Chicago area expressway

Count them: There have already been 16 shootings on Chicago area expressways since the beginning of the year. Last year, the total was 40. In 2010, there were only six.

The latest shooting involved a young man and woman who were shot dead as they traveled in the northbound lanes of the Kennedy Expressway in the early morning hours of May 15.

Their vehicle, a silver Chevy Tahoe, was riddled with bullets, indicating that the shooting was likely gang-related. Police found a semi-automatic weapon on the floor of the SUV, which reveals the murder victims knew they were targets. 

It's gotten so bad these days on Chicago expressways that the Illinois State Police have dispatched special patrols to watch for shooters and road rage incidents. State Police Captain Tad Williams says that "people should not have to worry about their safety while driving on the expressways." 

But in fact, they are worried because things are getting much worse. Chicago is home to hundreds of violent, heavily armed gangs that have taken control of the streets and are terrorizing residents who are too old, infirm or poor to escape the city for safer venues. 

How bad has it gotten in the Windy City? 

Murders in the nation's third-largest city are up about 72 percent, while shootings have surged more than 88 percent in the first three months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, according to data released by the Chicago Police Department. The grim rise in violence comes after the Chicago Police Department reported 468 murders in 2015, a 12.5 percent increase from the year before. There were 2,900 shootings in 2015, 13 percent more than the year before, according to Police Department records. 

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's mini-me, typically blames the increasing violence on the availability of guns rather than on the obvious; a godless and immoral culture. Here's what mini-me said: 

We have a challenge right now, specifically but not limited to the South and West Sides. We have a level of shootings and gun violence that's unacceptable and must come to an end. It means we have to have a leadership and lead from the front and get not only our officers' morale level up but our violence level down.

That's political speech that means absolutely nothing. Getting rid of guns and increasing leadership won't get rid of violence. But instilling biblical Judeo-Christian values such as the fear of God and respect for authority will. Emanuel won't say that because he knows what would happen if he does. And so, he takes the easy way out by mouthing empty platitudes that are politically-correct bull-sheist.

Certainly, the increasing violence isn't limited to Chicago. It's increasing all over the United States and the world, which isn't an anomaly. It's the fulfillment of ancient biblical prophecy that warned of terrible times in the end times directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ. In fact, Christ said this: "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 also warned that the last days will be exceedingly wicked: 

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)

The increasing wickedness is directly related to the increasing godlessness that's spreading across the world like a deadly malignancy. Though many folks love to complicate things, it's really very simple: People can't live without God. When God's laws are impugned and mocked, people turn to evil. And yet tragically, most people can't figure that out.

What's equally tragic is the fact that where the epicenter of violence exists in Chicago's inner city neighborhoods, you can find dozens of churches from simple storefronts to ornate buildings. And yet very few of those churches have any impact on the streets. Most are surrounded by drug dealers, prostitutes, alcoholics, drug-addicts and gang-bangers. The inner city churches lost their influence over the culture a long time ago.

But don't worry. The government will ride to the rescue with draconian laws that will spy on everyone, seize their guns and smother their freedoms. That eventually leads to Martial Law which eventually leads to totalitarianism. And that eventually leads to an oppressive global government where we're headed toward, according to biblical prophecy. (Daniel 7:7, Revelation 13)

Why Evil Triumphs

The Nuremberg Trials

The Holocaust Remembrance Day was recently observed throughout much of the world. For many older folks--whether they're Jews or not--the Holocaust was one of the darkest periods in human history. Ten million people perished during that nightmare--six million of them Jews.

In Israel, where many Holocaust survivors eventually ended up, the day is known as Yom Hashoah V’Gevurah. And, as those survivors who are still around well understand, had Adolf Hitler not been stopped by the brutal Russian winter of 1941, there would be no Israel because the Jewish people would've likely been eliminated from the world. Completely.

However, for many younger people, the Holocaust is just ancient history that doesn't mean anything to them. They weren't around when it happened, so why should they care? It's completely irrelevant.

But it shouldn't be. Why? Because the Holocaust provides a us with a valuable lesson concerning what happens to people who completely reject God and embrace evil. They become vile and wicked. Let the apostle Paul explain it: 

"Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." (Romans 1:28-32) 

Paul's revelation helps us understand Hitler and his Third Reich that rejected God as a myth conjured in primitive minds. Oh sure, the fuhrer often referenced God and invoked the name of Jesus Christ in his hypnotic speeches.

But that was merely for propaganda purposes. Germany was a predominantly Lutheran and Roman Catholic nation in the 1930s. The fuhrer knew that in order to gain the confidence of the German people, he had to speak their language. He pretended to be a Christian in order to gain the votes necessary to become Germany's Chancellor in 1933. And once he accomplished that, the mask came off.

And when the mask came off, Hitler revealed his true persona. He was an atheist who believed that he had a responsibility to make the world a better place by cleansing it of undesirable groups such as Jews, Slavs, Poles, the mentally and physically handicapped, and homosexuals. He would then repopulate the earth with a master race of Aryans selectively bred from the finest human stock.

Though Hitler was considered a reactionary, he was in fact a leftist who embraced evolution. He saw human life as nothing more than the end product of millions of years of random evolutionary forces. To the fuhrer, human life was cheap and meaningless. It was no more significant than ant life or plant life.

Though Hitler is frequently invoked by the left as the epitome of evil, the left's worldview is identical to the fuhrer's worldview. The left supports eugenics, population control, totalitarian government and the eradication of "undesirables" such as Christians, Jews, conservatives, the elderly and the infirm. Those were Hitler's views.

One of the left's heroes is Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood who was an arch-racist who advocated for the elimination of blacks, Jews and eastern Europeans from the world. Concerning the mentally infirm, who she despised, she said this:

We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying...the dead weight of human waste...an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.

Sanger wanted to eliminate her undesirables through sterilization so they couldn't procreate. Those who managed to procreate would be "encouraged" to abort their unborn babies so they wouldn't contaminate the world. Hitler admired Sanger's ideas. But he believed that mass murder was quicker and more effective than sterilization.

I want you to look closely at the picture above. It contains many of the faces of Hitler's henchmen such as Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goring, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel who were charged with crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials.

They weren't haters. Rather, they sold their souls to evil. They bought into Hitler's delusion that their leader was commissioned by fate to lead the world into 1,000 years of peace and prosperity. And they went to their graves believing that.

How is that relevant today? We have the same belief system operating today. There's a group of international elites who possess the same worldview that Hitler possessed. They want to resurrect the fuhrer's Third Reich, and they'll eventually accomplish that. And then the world will be as one. Under the dreaded Antichrist and his tyrannical world government. 

When Lives Don't Matter

A victim of an abortion

During his three-year ministry in ancient Israel, this is one of the things that Jesus Christ said: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10)

Of course, Christ was referring to Satan who not only seeks to destroy human beings in the flesh, but who also seeks to murder their souls via false religions that deny the necessity of the cross in the redemption of mankind.

But make no mistake about it; Satan is all about murder and the destruction of human life. Murder is his most precious weapon because he uses it to prevent the salvation of human beings. Those who die outside of Christ are doomed eternally.

And so, even though the devil doesn't murder human beings directly, he motivates fallen human beings who are under his influence to do his bidding. While many folks in what passes for the modern civil rights movement are babbling about how black lives matter--as if no one else's life does--the lives of unborn babies and young infants apparently don't matter. At least not to a growing number of people.

Since 1973, when the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) legalized abortion, over 55 million babies have been murdered. And that's just in the U.S. Across the world where abortion has been flourishing in many nations much longer than it has in America, millions more unborn babies have been snuffed out by abortion executioners.

Last year (2014) the most abortions occurred in China where 7,930,000 unborn infants were terminated. Next came Russia with 2,287,300 followed by Viet Nam with 1,520,000; the U.S. (1,365,700) and the Ukraine (635,000). Though China led the way in sheer numbers, Russia actually had a higher abortion rate (68.4 abortions for every 1,000 births) compared to China (26 per 1,000 births). Russia's rate was much higher because of Russia's smaller population. 

If pre-birth abortion isn't bad enough, we now have folks who call themselves "medical ethicists" clamoring for post-birth abortions. That's right; you read that correctly. There are those who want to murder living, breathing babies because they don't believe their lives matter.

In 2012, the Journal of Medical Ethics published an article written by medical ethicists Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva who argued that newborns and infants aren't actually human beings with personalities. Thus, according to their reasoning that would've made Josef Mengele blush, these infants should be fair game for execution if their parents decide they're better off emotionally and economically without them.

Giubilini and Minerva actually said this: "Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are morally irrelevant, and ending their lives is no different to abortion. The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life of an individual." 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk  

Many folks will dismiss Giubilini and Minerva as kooks. They shouldn't because there are a lot of people in high places who agree with them. One of them is a radical named Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University. 

Singer has called for a massive reduction in the world's population in order to rescue the planet and save the environment. Like Giubilini and Minerva, Singer doesn't believe that a child achieves "full moral status" until age one or two, so their parents should be able to "abort" them legally.

Naturally, like most people who possess such a disdain for human life, Singer is an atheist. Since atheists don't believe in God, they embrace Darwinian evolution as the explanation for the existence of life. While the Bible reveals that human beings are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26) atheists believe that human beings are merely the end product of millions of years of random evolutionary forces.

And people who believe that see no value in human life. Nearly 2,000 years ago the apostle Paul wrote this concerning people who reject the truth of God for a lie: "For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles." (Romans 1:21-23)

When people reject God, human life becomes cheap and meaningless. And when human life no longer matters, then anarchy, chaos and mass destruction follow. How far the world has plunged morally in just the past 50 years! How much farther will it continue to fall? That's a terrifying question.