THE WORLD LOVES
DEATH
By Janice M.
Wilson
“All who hate me
love death.”
(Proverbs 8:36b)
To most people,
the sadistic
massacre of
innocent
children at the
Sandy Hook
school is still
probably the
most recent
unsettling
example of
unequivocal
evil. There has
been a lot of
bad news since
then, including
a shooting at a
Texas college,
rioting in Egypt
(again), several
death sentences
were given for
Christians for
converting from
Islam, the first
graduating class
of
three-thousand
jihad-bound
Hamas students
in the Gaza
strip are
commemorated by
the crowds, the
anniversary of
Roe vs. Wade
sparked a
renewed
emotional debate
on both sides,
and quite a few
other things
that reflect a
dark and
disturbing life
here on earth.
But the
shootings of
children and
protective
teachers still
haunt our dreams
and make us wary
of letting our
kids out of our
sight.
Everywhere we
look, live and
breathe -- death
by murder and
choice is
prevalent,
leaving a wake
of victims and
their families
in heartache.
Death has become
popular and even
celebrated and
enjoyed.
The Death of
Innocence
A few years ago,
a study in
picture
recognition was
done on children
with startling
results in a
pop-culture
movie merely to
show the
popularity of a
fast-food chain,
but it uncovered
a much deeper
problem in the
process. The
face of the
iconic Ronald
McDonald was
easily
recognized by
every child who
saw it: but when
the conductor of
the experiment
held up a flash
card with the
most famously
portrayed face
of Jesus Christ,
most of the
children didn't
know who the
Savior is. Why?
Because most
never heard of
Him: but they
hear and see
plenty of every
trademark figure
on every other
commercial or
show.
It starts at
home. Sad thing
is, most parents
these days
neither know nor
say anything
about the Lord
Jesus to their
children, much
less a message
about the saving
grace of Jesus
Christ. These
children grow-up
without any
knowledge of
grace,
accountability
to a Higher
Power, eternal
peace, or a
higher sense of
self-respect or
respect of
others, purity,
generosity,
contentment,
etc., or even
salvation.
Unfortunately,
we see the
results of this
everywhere. Most
children of this
upcoming
generation grow
up not knowing
or enjoying
anything else
but a culture of
death by how
they are
entertained and
by how their
beliefs are
honed.
I once read a
wise man’s
observation that
one can visit a
different
country and
learn about
their culture
and family life
by what is sold
in toy stores or
by what they
read or view.
Are they good
team builders,
like games:
sports
equipment;
nurturing
encouragement:
dolls;
mechanical and
technical
provoking: toy
trucks or
computers? Or do
they learn to
use toy weapons
to stalk,
threaten, fight,
shoot, rape,
bully,
humiliate, gore,
burn or kill
each other with
swords, knives,
guns bombs,
promises of
justice by death
or the
after-life
rewards of
jihad?
Regardless of
the instruments
sold, HOW are we
teaching our
kids to play?
That could
entail a whole
book written on
that topic, but
we’ll only touch
on a few things
listed here how
we have become
so desensitized
to things dark
and dead.
Remember the
days of riding
your bike on a
nice day and
seeing many more
kids your age
also playing
outside? Where
are the kids of
this generation?
They are
playing video
games and
watching
television,
usually. In
general, there’s
nothing wrong
with that -- in
moderation.
Some families
still gather
around the
television to
watch a good
family show or
movie, but far
and few between.
But turn on the
television any
night of the
week and try to
find some family
entertainment
that doesn’t
have cursing,
slutty women
fighting,
dysfunctional
families, messy
divorce wars,
swapping
spouses,
homosexual
“families,”
drama-filled
soap operas,
movie stars
joining weird
cults,
cut-throat
competitive
reality shows,
gangs and their
initiation
crimes, and the
dangerous life
inside the
prisons or
mental wards
that they go to.
Next, are the
“true” crime
documentaries
about psychotic
moms killing
their children,
or spouses
killing each
other and news
coverage of true
crimes blares
from our flat
screens 24/7.
Then there’s the
ever-popular
gore, vampires,
wolves, zombies,
and paranormal
reality shows.
And the latest
shameful example
of selfishness
and greed would
be the mobs of
people fighting
each other
(sometimes
fatally) over
sales items
during Black
Friday shopping.
The rest of us
have to tune
into reruns of
old shows that
don’t have these
bloody or
shocking things
listed above,
and only if we
are fortunate
enough to have
cable channels
that run those
old shows, or we
have to buy the
shows on
expensive DVD
sets.
The music people
listen to is
another area of
assault to the
extent that many
bands have
warning labels
on their CDs as
well as movies,
and graphic song
lyrics outright
worshipping the
Devil, their own
bodies or their
sex lives for
our kids to envy
and want.
Many video games
that allow the
player to have a
role in these
same kinds of
situations that
they watch on
your TV. Delving
even deeper are
the not-so-new
games of ouija
boards, tarot
cards to conjure
up and
communicate with
the spirits of
dead people,
real witchcraft
books and
paraphernalia
for casting
spells with help
from spirits,
and role playing
games with dark
characters. And
there are
classes popping
up everywhere
for transcending
meditation,
channeling,
spiritual
wellness, Reiki,
etc. The best
way to teach
someone the
powers of
darkness would
be to help them
become it or use
it.
With all of that
and some more
dangerous ideals
listed below,
the end result
is a big helping
of chaotic,
confusing and a
false view of
how life can be.
We've forgotten
how it all had
been at some
point, how God
had intended it
to be. Most
families don't
know anything
but dysfunction.
They have no
rest, peace or
natural
affections. As a
whole, the death
of holy, godly
families has
poisoned our
nation.
SUPERSIZE MY
POPCORN
One of the ways
we've become so
excitable while
viewing movies
are the
super-sized
helpings of
gore, blood and
death in
entertainment.
You can spend a
sizeable fortune
at the movie
theatre or home
to watch
Hollywood
studios compete
to see who can
make the most
realistic
graphic diaries
of many people
dying painfully
by some
incurable
disease, being
shot in the
head, CIA or
mafia power
struggles and
their victims,
vengeful cops
seeking body
parts being
sliced off in
battle or blown
to pieces for
paybacks,
bizarre
radiation and
pandemics
turning people
into zombies,
the victims
being eaten by
these zombies,
bizarre suicide
plots, turning
into a vampire
or werewolf or
having sex with
them (all made
very cool), or
fighting the
power hungry
aliens.
The latest
favorites are
phenomenal
special affects
mega-hits
illustrating the
demise of our
planet and
everybody on it
by means of
natural
disasters,
asteroids,
aliens, and
pandemics.
Anything dead
is considered
cool, and
Hollywood knows
it, by their
ticket and
merchandise
sales.
The main theme
of death and
fear today isn't
getting your
neck bit by
Edward or Billy,
nor even stabbed
to death by
Michael Myers,
or shot, raped
and robbed by a
gang member. The
entertainment
industry and the
ones who pull
those strings
had to take it
further. It's
more profitable
now to have
films of people
turning into
dark creatures,
and how cool it
appears to be
part of the
rampaging
bullies, a dead
thing wanting to
mate with human
females, and the
popularity
gained by being
part of a
recognized gang
of “creatures.”
And the crowds
anticipate and
pay for─more!
If I want to see
death and gore,
I can just put
on the daily
news or take a
walk through a
really rough
neighborhood and
experience it
myself. Why do
I have to pay
for it if it's
all, free on my
TV screen or
right outside my
own door, scenes
from around the
world showing
absolute hatred
in someone's
eyes, or the
dead body of
their victims.
And why is it
“entertaining”
to see a dead
body and hear
the details of
how the person
died?
Or is it funny
to think of your
daughter or wife
trading her soul
to be hell-bound
and half dead or
your grandchild
as some
half-creature
who only comes
out after dark?
Of course this
is all supposed
to be
make-believe,
but there are
growing cults of
wannabes
sprouting up all
over the world.
Everything above
always leads to
brainwashing the
viewers to view
death or
incarceration by
way of revenge,
greed, having
the last word,
power, calling
up the
other-world,
dead things
wooing the
ladies, or the
world falling
apart as normal
or maybe even,
cool. From the
idea: the making
of, the money
spent making,
and bought by
the consumers,
all of these
feed on the
seven deadly
sins. And most
of us are
adrenalized
enough to laugh
at it, laugh
with it, and
definitely enjoy
it enough to
tune in again
for the next
episode or movie
sequel. Many of
us actually buy
the series or
movie on DVD to
watch and enjoy
the same
violence,
repetitiously.
Our Own Little
Vampires,
Werewolves and
Zombies
Remember the
song, “The
Monster Mash,”
that cute little
jingle that
would play at
costume parties
and sometimes on
the radio with
gyrating little
Draculas and
witches laughing
around the punch
bowls? It is a
seasonal
fun-time song
that can elicit
a slight smile
from even a
staunch
anti-Halloween
petitioner.
We love these
dead characters
so much that
many even want
to look like
them. Halloween
or (All Hallow’s
Eve) has become
a multi-billion
dollar industry,
beating out all
other holidays
except
Christmas, and
it’s quickly
catching up to
that as well.
There are
seasonal retail
stores opening
in late summer
that focus on
just this
particular day,
with regular
department
stores and even
super-pharmacy
retailers
competing in the
game. Gone are
the days of
digging up old
clothes and
sheets to make a
costume, and
using mom's
makeup, just to
have some fun
with friends to
get some candy
or go to a
dance.
“But the
cowardly, the
unbelieving, the
vile, the
murderers, the
sexually
immoral, those
who practice
magic arts, the
idolaters and
all liars
- their place
will be in the
fiery lake of
burning
sulfur. This is
the second
death”
(Revelation
21:8).
Halloween is a
celebration of
death. Witches
believe the dead
can come back to
communicate with
the living with
much more ease
on this night.
Satanists
believe it is a
night to do
unmentionable
things to
appease their
angry gods. I
don't need to
nor have the
room to list all
the beliefs that
seven billion
people have
about this
night. That
list also
includes the
regular everyday
folks with kids
who just want
candy and have a
party, and take
pictures of
their kids in
costumes, who
don't even
participate in
the dark side.
The acts of the
sinful nature
are obvious:
Sexual
immorality,
impurity and
debauchery;
idolatry and
witchcraft;
hatred, discord,
jealousy, fits
of rage, selfish
ambition,
dissensions,
factions, and
envy;
drunkenness,
orgies and the
like.
I warn you as I
did before, that
those who live
like this will
not inherit the
kingdom of God”
(Galatians
5:19-21)
Call it whatever
you like. But
keep in mind -
what you take
into your mind
and heart in a
consistent
frequency, you
become like it.
It stays in your
mind a lot
longer than what
you keep away
from. Members
of aboriginal
tribes who have
visited our
country and
experienced
Halloween have
attested to the
fact that many
of our costumes
look just like
the tormenting
spirits that
they were
haunted by and
trying to escape
from, or fight
an on-going and
no-win battle
against. While
their
experiences are
utterly
frightening, we
think it's all
cute and fun.
Marked for Death
Tattoos - now
I'm not saying
this is the most
disgusting thing
as far as a
simple nice
design, but
there are many
out there who
tote dark and
spooky permanent
pictures on
their own skin
and flaunt it
proudly what
they believe in,
like rubbing
their noses at
God, using their
own bodies. Even
young kids are
catching onto
the phenomena.
Others take it
further with
cutting,
gauging,
piercing,
stretching,
scarring and
branding, using
their bodies as
experimental
labs and
billboards of
what they want
to be known for
(their own god),
and distorting
the natural
bodies that God
made in His
likeness - to
purposely be
anything but
like Him.
They also expose
themselves to
diseases from
filthy ink
needles.
God specifically
said “Ye shall
not make any
cuttings in your
flesh for the
dead, nor print
any marks upon
you: I am the
LORD” (Leviticus
19:27-29). In
Revelation, God
says those who
take the mark of
the beast will
not be able to
buy or sell
(Revelation
13:16-17).
Of course not
all tattoos are
“the mark” but
because of lack
of discernment
or from even
reading the Word
at all, society
does this
anyway; this
will make it
very easy for
the coming evil
world leader to
accept his mark,
too.
Vogue and Vulgar
Promiscuity -
The above topics
tie into this in
a heavy way.
Try and find
any popular
media promoting
virtue anywhere
- I dare you!
Even some
labels in the
Christian
industry have
sold out. The
blockbuster
book, Fifty
Shades of Gray
is replacing the
Holy Bible in
some hotel
chains around
the world. It's
already to the
point that a
girl who dresses
modestly is
weird and
different in the
world, instead
of the girls who
were once
outcastes for
dressing sleazy
and using heavy
make-up. No one
can go to the
grocery store or
pharmacy,
doctor's office
or buy a
newspaper
without a flashy
magazine
displayed at eye
level with
scantly clad
women in sexy
poses, beckoning
the weak to read
and follow the
instructions
inside on how to
be the perfect
gold-digging,
manipulating,
mouthy, tough,
spoiled slut.
And many young
women develop
self-esteem
issues and
serious eating
disorders (like
anorexia nervosa
or bulimia
nervosa),
sometimes to
their deaths
because they
don't look like
the super bony,
photo-shopped,
finished
versions of the
women displayed
in these
magazines. The
consequences of
regular viewing
and reading
these filthy
magazines are
lifelong and too
oftentimes life
threatening.
Pornography
doesn't help
matters either,
representing
every female as
an object of
pleasure instead
of a functioning
intelligent
human being that
God made her to
be. Viewing
these
photographs
promotes a
distorted and
cheapened
viewpoint about
sex, and feeds
on desires,
leading many to
lose
self-control and
often times get
pregnant or
contract a
horrible deadly
disease (the STD
rates around the
world are
staggering even
for teens). All
these girls and
women itemized
as useless
victims─and many
times become
corpses─are
still someone's
wife, daughter,
or sister. And
many would have
been daughters
to the King. All
those involved
in making this
filth─men and
woman, are
destined for
judgment and
damnation (1Corinthians
6:9-10).
Respectful
protection,
manners toward
and even
self-respect of
women (and men
too!) are a
thing of the
past. The sad
slow death of
chivalry, and
it’s unfortunate
that many women
have helped to
let it happen to
them.
Addictions
Despite our
economy and
frightening
number of DUI
(of anything,
not just liquor)
deaths every
year, the money
spent on opium,
heroin, cocaine,
meth, pot,
lavish expensive
liquors,
cigarettes and
cigars, forced
slavery of
several kinds,
pornography and
prostitution
bring in
billions of
import/export
dollars for many
countries,
including our
own, yet we are
ready to go over
a financial
cliff. Where’s
all that money?
Most of us
don’t see it.
These dangerous
substances make
the body rot as
fast as a time
machine, only
with quick,
painful and
certain
ramifications,
including
financial, but
touches on every
realm of our
lives. Many
times one of
these addictions
can feed
another, leading
to more
heartache,
stress, bondage
to them,
eventual
commitment of
crimes to
support the
habit, and a
trail of
victims. They
all lead to
physical,
emotional,
financial and
spiritual death.
Wars and Rumors
of War
The world’s
people reflect
unrest,
hopelessness,
hatred, greed,
selfishness and
anger in the
manner of gang
wars, raping,
rioting,
looting,
genocidal mass
murder, starving
the masses,
beatings, men
yearning for and
boasting about
jihad and honor
killings,
jailing
sentences of
martyrs, animal
fighting for
profit, and
torture and
sacrifice to the
god of power and
money every
single day now.
What we human
beings do to
each other
(even our
unborn,
vegetation, and
the animal
kingdom) all
made by One in
likeness of Him
surely grieves
and angers God.
This is shown on
our televisions
constantly, and
we see movies
made out of
these horrors to
entertain and
reprogram us how
we should think.
The most
insidious and
unfortunately
effective war
going on right
now is for the
death of our
souls, stripping
away our natural
moral code, our
natural
affections, and
our love and
compassion
towards each
other in the
spiritual realm.
The end of
everything pure
and holy is the
strategy and we
are the pawns.
The Most Unsafe
Place
The sacredness
of life itself
has become an
inconvenience to
many - another
mouth to feed,
educate, care
for, respect or
even love. In
the US alone, 55
million people
have been killed
before birth
since the late
70's, and now
it's estimated
that one murder
in the womb
happens every 94
seconds (and
people vote for
and march for
that right to do
this). That's
two generations
of young,
strong,
energetic and
maybe even
brilliant
individuals that
were terminated.
Natural
affections are
dead in many as
well, as we see
the number of
abused children
and women rise
yearly.
Aborting our
young before
birth, having
same-sex
marriages
destroying
procreation,
euthanizing our
elderly or
stashing them
away in nursing
homes doesn’t
help to generate
a next
generation to
take over the
tasks of
working, paying
taxes, creating
jobs and
companies,
broadening our
defenses,
manufacturing
goods,
exploration,
finding cures or
taking
leadership of
all these
things. This
leads to entire
civilizations
dying off with
no replacements.
Profits of the
Death Industry
Our country
alone has a
growing debt
that even our
great grandkids
won't be able to
pay back. Yet
we continue to
spend gobs of
our hard-earned
cash (or plastic
loans with
interest) to buy
cheap junk to
look like the
dead things we
allow to
entertain us.
But we celebrate
it by flaunting
the most
realistic gory,
scary and
immoral costumes
that games and
DVDs money can
buy. And we
spend a lot!
All the above
are extremely
profitable
industries,
especially the
drug and
entertainment
industries. By
viewing, voting
for and paying
for all the
above, some
executives and
movie stars get
nice mansions,
vacation homes,
collections of
vehicles and
hefty fat bank
accounts from
the courtesy of
our souls.
The tax payers
support all
these
industries,
whether
abortion,
leftist
organizations,
gaming, drug
dealers and
cartels,
cigarette/cigar
companies,
liquor stores
and brewers,
publishing
houses, cable
companies, box
office and their
movie producers,
stunt staff,
artists,
writers, and the
manufacturers
who make it
(mostly abroad
at the expense
of our US jobs),
shipping it all
back, to the
retail stores
that make it all
readily
available for
all ages. The
more we buy or
view, the more
they make, and
the more we are
hooked.
And as bad as
that sounds, the
money is the
least important
issue.
The viewers get
a good constant
distraction and
noise,
separating them
from God and
things that are
so much better
and eternal than
an anemic wallet
with bad credit.
What the very
enemy of God
gets from this
is a short lived
laugh, a fiery
future, and the
lost souls
trapped in the
invisible chains
of enticement
along with him.
Don't be one of
them.
Shades of
Darkness
“And this is the
condemnation,
that light is
come into the
world, and men
loved darkness
rather than
light, because
their deeds were
evil. For every
one that doeth
evil hateth the
light, neither
cometh to the
light, lest his
deeds should be
reproved” (John
3:19-20).
Obviously, most
people choose
the dark to hide
their sins, if
they even bother
to recognize
what their sins
are, whether by
addictions,
enjoyment of
violent
entertainment,
sex or pure
delight in
someone else's
suffering, way
too many enjoy
the industry of
death. Don't
believe me?
Watch what will
happen if you
take any of
their addictions
away, stop the
shows, or take
the gore and
lust out of the
movies. Or just
by choosing to
deny that there
is a God or
introduce their
children to God,
they are
choosing the
world and
walking the same
wide path to the
same destruction
as everybody
else. Misery
loves company
and there's no
lack of it.
By the
descriptions
listed above,
I'd say we are
at midnight, and
the moon is new,
and it's almost
as dark as it
gets. The world
is fighting
against
everything that
is good, turning
it upside down
and trying to
bury it all by
buying into
everything the
wind blows to
us. Things will
get worse as we
draw closer to
the time of
Tribulation, the
roots having
been planted
deep, and they
rapidly grow.
This is just the
practice phase.
But as children
of the King─ the
Light─we can
choose not to be
part of the
debauchery. It
will get tough
for us (and the
Jews) as that
Light is often
too bright,
blaring, and
unaccepted by
the sinful
bunches, but we
were already
warned about it
and told to
overcome in His
peace. Those of
us with the
indwelling Holy
Spirit know this
and yearn to be
with our Lord.
God's Perfect
Plan in His
Light and Love
Even those who
don't jump in
and enjoy
whatever is
spooky, bloody,
and chaotic,
many of the
innocents become
victims of those
who do. Today,
people are
spoon-fed a
violent
lifestyle
idealism right
from birth and
often to an
early grave. God
didn't promise
an easy life for
anyone,
including
Christians.
What we see now
is just the
beginning of
sorrows, chosen
by the world’s
people who push
aside a
forgiving and
loving
God. Death is
opposite of
life, and the
life that God
gives freely
through His Son,
Jesus the
Christ, the only
One who EVER
overcame death,
and will give
the same to
those who are
adopted sons and
daughters of
God.
If you feel
overwhelmed by
the darkness
around you, if
you see the
crumbling pacts
of peace
prevailing into
war-zones after
weekly riots,
nature's mayhem
with death in
the wake, the
mass
unexplainable
deaths of our
animals and
marine life,
genetically
modified food,
waterways drying
up and becoming
undrinkable, or
see your family
turning into a
typical reality
show right under
your roof, you
can turn to
Christ and
repent now
before it's too
late. Reading
God's Word
regularly will
help you sort
out the trash
from the eternal
blessings and
gifts of the
Holy Spirit;
most of these
things cannot be
changed by you,
but you can rest
in Him and have
His peace as our
time to go home
draws closer.
Be steady, and
get ready.
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