Published by admin on 24 Sep 2008
The End of Crises or Just the Beginning?
What will it take to get our attention?
God is bombarding our nation with spiritual signs, but we let them pass us by.[1] Crisis after crisis comes, yet we continue unaffected. We fashion ourselves a favored nation; we end our political speeches with ‘God bless America.’ But is God showing us His favor?
Think about the plagues of the last 12 months alone. The energy crisis gives us $4 a gallon gasoline; wars in Iraq and Afghanistan linger at the cost of billions; floods, hurricanes, droughts, and fires ravage our lands. What will it be next?
And don’t think the financial crisis making headlines this week will go away anytime soon.
How foolish we are. Major financial institutions are failing not because of a lack of regulation, but because of the greed of our people, the greed of corporations to fatten the bottom line and the greed of me and you to have the biggest house and nicest car on the block. So, to ensure we don’t have to suffer for our evil and foolishness, we cover it up with billions of dollars of more borrowed money, much of which comes from foreign powers.[2]
You may be surprised to know that there is no book of antiquity that compares to the Bible in sheer numbers of ancient copies; the New Testament has more copies in the original language than any document from the ancient past. We have over 5,300 manuscript copies, some larger than others, of the New Testament.