Because of the "Increasing" Moral and Ethical decline in the World Society.
Through the signs that Jesus gave concerning the end of time, he ends them saying… these are the beginnings of sorrows.
The wars, rumor of wars, the earthquakes, the pestilence, and the famines, are just the "beginnings" of the events that is to come, (sorrows.)
For they are written, in the inevitable and inescapable pages of
time, in the Prophetic Design of God.
Now, what I would like to do is direct your attention to the original
use of the word sorrow. For I believe it will give great insight on
the events going on in and around us, in the world. Jesus said that all these thing are "the beginning of sorrows."
The original word for sorrow used here is "odin" pronounced as o-deen' and means "pang" or "throe" defining, a sudden, a sharp, a severe, spasm of pain, as experienced in childbirth.
These sorrows that Jesus is speaking of here, is what I refer to
as "Earth's" birth pangs.
That takes it's toll on the entire Earth, as a whole; the Just and
the Unjust, the Righteous and Unrighteous, seen, as Jesus said they would "in divers places." i.e. different or various locations. Earth birth pangs are pictured as a woman's increasing labor pains before childbirth.
The Bible in various places of scriptures uses words like travail or
travailing, for tribulations and agony, and is pictured as a woman's agony of labor pains!
Showing us, just, as a woman's labor pain intensifies, in frequency, and strength, with each contraction "earth's sorrows" being, more sharp, more severe, than the one before, until, finally, deliverance.
So to shall the troubles, the tribulations, the sorrows, of this
World be.
These "contractions" earth's birth pangs, is something we see daily on a worldwide scale through our Local news stations as well as worldwide broadcast stations like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and Headline News!
In Matthew 24:12, Jesus says; "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."
Now the original word for iniquity is "anomia" pronounced an-om-ee'ah and means illegality, ie violation of the law.
First, the word anomia in the original, stems from a condition
of "without" law. Be it ignorance of the law, because of violating
the law, or diminishing the law. This is speaking of Civil Law.
Second, anomia, implies "contempt" and "violation" of law, resulting in "iniquity" and "wickedness." This is speaking of the contempt and violations of the Laws of God.
Here, Jesus was warning us, about the spirit of "lawlessness."
Because, it carries the connotation of a "liberal theology" that
teaches that the laws of God are done away with.
What we are seeing taking place in this nation, and the world for
that matter, in the increasing moral decline, is, the results of what
happens when the laws of God are pushed aside or done away with.
Once this spirit and theology of anti-law takes roots, the love of
many turns cold.
Jesus said "because iniquity "lawlessness" and "wickedness" shall abound i.e. "increase, multiply, take deep roots" the love of many shall wax cold.
What is the connection in the spirit of anti-law or lawlessness, and love waxing or turning cold?
The connection of the two is seen in the physics of "cause"
and "effect." It's the cause and effect between lawlessness and God's Love.
The original word for love used here is "Agape."
Meaning "Unconditional" a Godly love. Agape love is the kind of love that comes from God. When someone begins to break the laws of God, in the spirit that Christ has in mind here, the love of God, and love of the truth will diminish in them.
Christ is warning His people throughout the ages not to fall prey to an anti-law attitude because, first of all, it is not what God
commands in the Scriptures, and second, it will lead to a gradual
breakdown of the true Godly love that can only come from Him.
For the agape love of God does not flourish in a disobedient and lawless people!
When God's laws are done away with, "by default" sin and lawlessness gradually takes deep roots into Society!
And a nation without God's Laws, is a nation, taken over by Satan, and the fruits or deeds of sin. i.e. Wickedness and Lawlessness. (Anarchy, Mob Rule, Wars.)
2006-12-09 17:31:23
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