The death of the rule of God's law...
Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God He made man. (Genesis 9:6)
Over in Europe Christendom is dead. How can we tell?
Baptisms will mislead you--don't look there. Rituals pose no threat to paganism, so Rome's priests still get to do their thing. Rabbis too. How else are Europeans to make it clear they're not Muslim immigrants?
The real mark of Christendom's death is Europeans' zeal in throwing out God's Moral Law. Old person slaughter. Fornication. Bribes. Lies. Adultery. Sodomy. Bastardization. Covetousness. Theft by the state, and otherwise. Sloth. Child slaughter.
But here's another vivid example of Europe's rapid descent. It's a short news item. Would you please read it before clicking through to the next page...
You're horrified at Anders Behring Breivik's description of the slaughter of the young people, right? I am too. But I'm more horrified at this little phrase near the end of the article:Breivik could face a maximum 21-year prison sentence...
Twenty-one years? The Word of God tells us "even the compassion of the wicked is cruel" (Proverbs 12:10b). The repeal of capital punishment isn't mercy. It's barbarism!
Think of all the sisters and mothers, brothers and fathers of Breivik's victims in those eighteen courtrooms across Norway realizing it's likely they'll live to face the day of Breivik's release. It's amazing none of the victim's fathers have decided to restore the rule of law by executing Breivik themselves.
Here in these United States things aren't much different. Seminary professors work to repeal laws against sodomy while R2K men warn pastors that speaking to the civil magistrate the way John the Baptist spoke to Herod could make the culture wars even more heated. And who needs that? The PCA seminary's ethics prof publicly seeks the repeal of sodomy laws, the popes (John Paul II and Benedict XVI) publicly seek the repeal of the death penalty, and R2K men publicly seek the silence of church officers opposing the repeal of sodomy laws and the death penalty.
With such wickedness in high places, it's no wonder that in our nation it's a crime to smash the egg of an endangered bird but a constitutional right to puncture and smash the skulls of little babies in their mothers' wombs. At the rate of 1,350,000 little ones each year!
Who's responsible?
Yes, of course the mothers and the murderers they hire. Certainly the babies' grandmothers and fathers who pressure the mothers to do the despicable deed.
But more, those church officers who have refused to sound a clearnote on their bugle, instead choosing to desalinize their salt, hide their light, and deny the authority of Jesus Christ. "The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
What of their seminary profs and talking heads who make a living providing church officers the casuistry they use to justify their silence?
Run from them! Their only fruit is dogs who can't bark.
(TB: the lies of silence quote belongs to Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Actually even baptisms would tell you the same thing...
Shared this post on my blog- I believe people need to hear and heed what you have written here.
So how are Christians going to function, and effectively, in a culture or cultures which has thrown out whatever obedience it had to God's Law? To quote Francis Schaeffer quoting Ezekiel, "How shall we then live?"
CS Lewis once famously put it, "That is why I find myself at such odds with the modern world; I am a repentant pagan living amongst apostate puritans" (in /Surprised By Joy/).
European Christians really do need your prayers. In conversation yesterday with some brethren, it was quite clear that they had little or no idea that the Lord's people in the UK are under His judgement. If we can't see it (and therefore repent), there is precious little hope for the godless around us to ask for mercy.
#4 Andrew - in a UK context, what form is that judgement taking/will take?
Speaking of the New Zealand context, which I know better, what has happened in the last fifty years there, has been the steady winnowing-out of church life of a lot of people who weren't that committed to Christ, if they were Christians to begin with at all. Compared with, say, the USA, one of our evangelists called it a situation of, "fewer believers but more disciples".
If it were not bombastic enough that the maximum punishment is 21 years (I really hope that is a terrible error in the writing of the story)consider also the fact that, apparently, not a single person had the ability to defend themselves or anyone else around them. Of course Norway has anti self-defense laws that would make the Brady campaign proud, too bad the killer ignored the fact that he was not allowed to have the firearms he used. I guess he didn't get the memo. But, the sheep should not worry; "we will protect you". It took 90 minutes for the police to arrive on the scene. This may seem a little off course to the topic but it's not really. As a people move further and further from God, life in all it's stages becomes less and less important to the masses. Even being able to defend oneself is easily given over to the "professionals" . Eventually, from womb to grave is decided by a God hating government that then has an unarmed society easily in check. It's scary when you take a good look and see our own county so far down the same road. If we as a nation do not honor life as "the image of GOD" the misery that follows will be horrific and...deserved. GOD help us all.
Respective annual homicide rates, according to Wikipedia, reported as numbers per million population per year:
Sweden 10
Finland 21
Canada 16
UK 12
Norway 7 (before the Breivik tragedy)
USA 48
Why the variation between the USA and everyone else?
Ross, I can't tell you why ours is higher. If the implied concern is that high gun availabiltiy is the cause, I offer another correlation. America has a higher rate of of light truck ownership.
One person I read suggested that even if we discount all gun related murders, the US has a higher rate of murder than many of these countries. I understand also that we have a higher non-firearm murder rate. Read one person who claimed that this non-firearm murder rate itself is higher than some of these other countries. Mexicao has very strict gun controls and yet a higher murder rate, as do Estonia, Philippines, Brazil, Taiwan, and Northern Ireland.
http://porcupinenine.blogspot.com/2005/07/addressing-americas-murder-rate.html
National Review published a story back in the 1980s which indicated our homicide rate is similar to that of Europe if you limit yourself to Americans of European ancestry.
This is just another example in a long line of wicked depravity in dealing with mass murderers. Remember how the Pan Am 103 bomber was released on "compassionate" grounds by a thoroughly corrupt so-called "judge" in Scotland?
You better believe that when we have another 9/11, I will point directly at that so-called "judge" and proclaim "You did this. You are responsible. This is your fault."
Remember the wicked and corrupt non-punishment of Dominique Ntawukulilyayo?
Let's be brutally honest here. Lawlessness breeds lawlessness. When you can't get justice from those entrusted by God to bear the sword, where will you turn? You turn to rebellion against that authority through vigilantism. I predict Anders Breivik will be assassinated when he is released from prison.
#10 Scott - Megrahi was released by a politician called Kenny MacAskill, who was (still is) the Minister for Justice for Scotland. It was a bad decision for several reasons besides the one you mentioned.
#5 Ross
Thank you for your response...I look to Deuteronomy 28-30 (Doug Jones' Chapter in To You and Your Children is brilliant on it). I would also look at the salt losing its saltiness warning of the Lord Jesus...the word is trampled underfoot - what Christians have to say is often irrelevant in the UK (sometimes, they don't even need to persecute us, we just don't matter); I'd also look to the history of Israel and Judah in the Old Testament (eg in Jeremiah when the people think that, because they have the Temple of the Lord, they will be OK if they go on denying their sin...for church in UK read..."doctrine", "heritage", "preaching", "being Baptist" (for Baptists), "not being Baptists" (for non Baptists) for the Temple of the Lord. Also, more fundamentally, we are not desparate for the Lord, we are not desparate enough for repentance (compare our requests for forgiveness with, say, Ezra's in Ezra 9)...check out the use of the word "mistake" when we really should be saying "sin". Oh, and another sign is that people are not being saved, our churches are closing and we are excluded from the public square and many Christians are not that bothered (about the last one). I could go on, but tomorrow is the Lord's Day and I will rejoice because Jesus is Lord even of the UK.
#12, Andrew
Have a look at the parallel passage in Leviticus (ch 26, esp after v40). The Jews did end up in exile, of course, but in an odd sort of way that was their making; idolatry, which had so blighted the Jews beforehand, was not a problem thereafter. Look at Jeremiah 29 - in context, not just v11.
The situation we have got to in Britain - and the US is not that far behind - is that of "resident aliens". This requires a very different way of engaging with the culture, compared with the "Christendom" of a hundred years ago or even fifty years ago. I agree that there are lots of problems in the British case (I live in Scotland), but they're not insurmountable.
about 90 days per murder. insane.
Regarding our high murder rate here, I've seen strong correlations to marital status of the parents (if Daddy doesn't discipline his son, the son is more likely to be a criminal), subcultures that glorify crime (especially those without Dad), and even political affiliation--strongly Democratic areas have far higher crime rates than Republican areas.
All in all, I think it comes down to whether people learn--from Dad especially or otherwise--that there are limits to what behaviours will be accepted. Europeans have weathered the breakdown of their families pretty well because they have a sense of "Swissness" or "Swedishness" or "Germanness" that transcends religion. We don't have that as much....
Withholding the death sentence is cruel in another way when the murderer is married -- you have a wife who is bound to him for possibly decades who should have been made a widow and freed to remarry.
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