Saturday, 16 September 2023

THE EARTH WAS ' FILLED WITH VIOLENCE

 

THE EARTH WAS ' FILLED WITH VIOLENCE

THE EARTH WAS ' FILLED WITH VIOLENCE ' !!!
As if ,  to underline the lesson of Noah . . .  The ' very same day ' we post our ' Noah ' article ,  reports of yet another mass shooting in the endless cycle of gun violence in the United States.  This time ,  4 dead  &  16 injured  as a gunman goes on a murderous rampage.  The shooting took place at Fort Hood Military base ,  the ' very same site ' of a similar massacre in 2009 when 13 people were gunned down.  Surely , we can see the unmistakable parallel with Noah's day , when mankind's ways were so corrupt ,  their minds were continually focused on evil  &  violence toward their fellow man.   Today , violence pervades every society  &  corner of the globe , whether  sectarian violence in the Middle East ,   genocides in Africa ,  oppression & brutality in North Korea  or  mass-shootings & urban violence in " civilised " Western nations . . . violence ,  brutality  &  corruption are rampant.  It is  ' a warning '  of the nearness of the coming of  ' THE DAY '  of the LORD  &  judgment on all mankind.

Ezek 7v10-12  -  Behold THE DAY , behold ,  it is come :  the morning is gone forth . . . Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness :  none of them shall remain , nor of their multitude , nor of any of theirs :  neither shall there be wailing for them.  The time is come ,  THE DAY draweth near :  let not the buyer rejoice , nor the seller mourn :  for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.