BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!

Many people are nostalgically looking back to 1985, and the popular movie that came out back then called Back To The Future 2. This picture is a shot of the time machine control panel where today's date was programed. It is quite interesting to look back and see what we thought life would look like in 2015 from 1985 minds. There are many aspects of 2015 portrayed in the movie that have not come to pass. There are many things that have come to pass here in 2015, that are not represented in the movie.

This is a period of only 30 years, and the producers got so many things wrong. Where are the flying cars?! My main point here is that man cannot predict the future. Man can make educated guesses, but when you look out a thousand years, there is no way man can accurately guess the outcome of any specific things.

Man can't, but God did. God predicted 2500 years in advance in the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel, that Israel would be re-established as a nation after being scattered all over the world. God also predicted in the book of Daniel that the empire that would be in power when the Messiah would come (Rome), would break into pieces and then in the last days reform into a weak union. The European Union fulfilled this prophecy. God predicted in the book of Zechariah that Israel would be the center of conflict in the world, and that every nation around her would want to destroy her. God predicted that the Gospel would be preached throughout the entire world, and that many would believe, but in the last days there would be a great falling away from the faith. We are seeing that great falling away happening right before our eyes.

There are literally hundreds and hundreds of detailed prophecies in the Bible that have been fulfilled. This proves to us that man did not write the Bible, but God wrote it through the prophets and Apostles who penned the books of the Old and New Testaments.

God created time, and is outside of it. He has decreed all that would come to pass, and all comes to pass for His purpose and His glory. He, by His grace is calling His people to come unto Him, and He has given us every reason to believe.

GUNS DON'T KILL...
HATRED OF GOD DOES

So almost weekly it seems that we hear about some sort mass shooting at a school, a movie theater, a mall, etc... After every one of these shootings the politicians get on their soap box and lecture us about how we need more gun restrictions. They continually try to convince the law abiding public that if we restrict those who abide by the law, then these shootings won't happen as often.

I wonder how they come to this conclusion, especially when the city of Chicago has more gun restrictions than any other city in America, yet is among the worst in gun violence. It seems to me that more gun laws give criminals the freedom to kill more people. It seems to me if more people had the freedom to carry wherever, that if someone did decide to start shooting people, they would not get very far.

The problem really has nothing to do with how many laws we have or don't have that restrict guns. If we travel back in time to the 1940's and 1950's, there were no mass shootings happening. Yes, we had more freedom to carry weapons back then, but that really was not the reason shootings didn't occur like they do today. The reason shootings didn't occur back then like they do today, is because our culture maintained reverence for the God of the Bible. The morality of the one true living God, was what our nation professed to live by back then. I know we fell way short of that standard, but the hatred and irreverence for God we see today certainly was held no prominence back then.

Our culture has become a culture of sex and death. We have murdered 60 million babies since 1973, we have re-defined marriage to include homosexual unions. We have taught our children that they evolved from apes. We have outlawed religious speech and expression in many ways. We have preached tolerance for everything except for Biblical Christianity. We allow our kids to watch violence on TV, and play video games that de-sensitize them to death and violence. We as a culture have become Biblically illiterate, yet we are quick to ridicule and look down upon those who do hold to the Bible as being the word of God.

All of these things and much more has caused our culture to embrace the depravity that dwells within us that up until a few decades ago, was suppressed by the influence the Bible had over our culture. If there is no real purpose in life, if there is no moral authority, and no consequence for evil, then the it is not surprising that we see so much evil running rampant.

If we really want to reverse the curse our nation is under, we need to repent and look beyond ourselves to the God of righteousness, and cry out for His mercy. He is in control of every one of these shootings, and can stop them, but He chooses not to, because we have chosen to turn away from Him.