MULTIPLICATION OF
LAWLESSNESS

READING THE NEWSPAPERS, one cannot but be impressed with the fulfilment of these words used by the Lord. (Matt. 24:12). No longer is lawlessness a thing that lurks in dark places. No longer is it a secret, hidden thing. It flaunts its perversity in all the media of public communication. It is splashed in bold headlines and pictured on the television screens and recorded on the radio. The cinema and theatre are swiftly becoming more and more decadent and lawless. Matters that would not be mentioned a few years ago are now openly discussed for all to hear and read. Even our lawmakers legalise lawlessness! To what a pass has the world come! This eon has always been a wicked one, even from the days of Noah. But possibly never in the history of humanity have lawlessness and evil been so openly accepted by mankind. There is restraint, for so long as the spirit of God is present in the persons of His saints, so long will there be a measure of control. But when we are taken, the flood of lawlessness will overwhelm the earth, leading quickly to the unveiling of the lawless one himself, who will be worshipped and revered as a god. (2 Thess. 2). We are seeing signs of the approach of these days. Thanks be to God that before the day of the Lord comes we shall be snatched out of the danger, and assembled to meet the Lord in the air.It seems an inevitable accompaniment of the multiplication of lawlessness that the love of the saints should be cooling. Hearts are made insensitive by the mounting wave of evil almost engulfing us. May the Lord preserve us!