Should there be no doubt that these terrible acts are happening at an alarming rate?

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This perverted, violence-driven nation is creating monsters like this on a daily basis.

What a pitiful state of affairs this world is headed to.
It all seems to get worse and WORSE.
Stay in the Word, brethren. This world is NOT our home. Stay firm in the Lord. There are people out there that are literally POSSESSED by the devil. Watch your family brethren. Satan is out there.

Hey, Thanks.

czek, It's a total shame, isn't it?

helfling,.........it is written.

Ebony, You are SO right! The material you have here is VERY relavant and t true, albeit, sad. All except the reference to the year 1914.
But, thank you.

Answer 1

...No offense, but I'll protect my home with locks. Just in case.

Answer 2

You link to a report on a single incident, and you conclude that this indicates that the violent crime rate is rising?

Are you aware that this nation (USA) is more Xian than it has ever been? Shall I conclude that Xianity is causing this "perverted, violence-driven nation" to create "monsters like this on a daily basis?"

Or, shall I look up the actual statistics for violent crime? I'll probably find that the violent crime rate goes up & down but hasn't changed much over the last fifty years.

Reading your last statement, I can only conclude that you're a drunk preacher with delusions that need to be addressed by a mental health care professional.

Answer 3

Remind you of anyone? Our current administration maybe? Awful ain't it? Why doesn't someone DO something instead of sit on their hands? I'm sure someone somewhere had a clue that these kids were doing things they weren't supposed to...kinda like the American people who leave it to other people to raise their kids.

Answer 4

This is what the great united states produces... a byproduct of decadence and pride.

Answer 5

Well, that's what happens when you teach people that a sadistic, immoral, killer God who drowned, plagued, and slaughtered millions (more than Hitler); conspired to have his own kid brutally beaten and killed; and repeatedly COMMANDED his followers to kidnap, rape, hurt, and kill others is 'love'.

Answer 6

There shouldnt, and you sound like a preacher.

Answer 7

Most crimes are within the family.

Answer 8

fruitloop
How dare you trivialize their deaths by invoking satan.

Answer 9

VIOLENCE, IMMORALITY, DEGENERACY

Jesus also said there would be an "increasing of lawlessness." (Matt. 24:12) The apostle Paul foretold juvenile delinquency, violence, corruption and selfishness gone to seed: "In the last days . . . men will be lovers of themselves, . . . disobedient to parents, . . . without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, . . . lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, . . . wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse."-2 Tim. 3:1-5, 13.( But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.
But wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.)
The record of our time, verified in the daily news headlines, shouts out that these things are happening right now! Note this report: "Fighting that sometimes resembled guerrilla warfare raged in the streets of American cities . . . A wave of crime and rioting is sweeping across the United States . . . In many cities, women are afraid to go out after dark. And they have good reason. Rapes, assaults, sadistic outbursts of senseless violence are on the rise. Crimes often seem to be committed out of sheer savagery . . . Respect for law and order is declining."8

This is not confined to one country. Reports from all over the world are the same. From the Philippines: "No Filipino is safe in the streets today. . . . thrill killing, vandalism, and general mayhem is steadily increasing."9 South Korea: "We can't have even one day of peaceful life in Seoul because in the evenings the streets become streets of terror."10 Sweden: "These critical situations that are a worry to all are expected to become even more severe."11 England: "General lawlessness is greater-a breakdown of the sense of duty and of obligation and truthfulness."12 And the Communist countries? "Almost everywhere, including Soviet Russia, there appears to be an increase in crime, and particularly, alas, in juvenile crime."13

What is happening all over the world is just as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States said of his land: "Citizens of this country ought to be able to walk all the streets of our cities without being mugged, raped, or robbed. But we can't do that today. All through the country, almost without exception, this condition prevails."14

And immorality is sweeping the world like a forest fire. In the United States the number of children born out of wedlock has more than doubled since 1945. In Latin America the rates are many times higher. "For every 1,000 live births, 716 are illegitimate in Guatemala, 613 in El Salvador, 739 in Panama and 240 in Argentina."15 "Uruguay produced a figure of three abortions for every live birth."16

In Great Britain editor and author Malcolm Muggeridge said: "The position of this country . . . in my opinion, is absolutely ghastly." When asked about the rebellion of British youth against the old values, he replied: "I think it's sheer degeneracy. . . . They're just degenerate . . . the antics of an exhausted stock."17 Another source reported: "The collapse of private morality in Britain is becoming the talk of a wondering world."18

ANGUISH OF NATIONS

A dean of American education told a meeting of teachers that the human race today is "just about lost." He added: "All the things that happened since 1914 are things that 'just couldn't happen' and we will see a lot more of them."19

Hence, what has happened since the "last days" began in 1914 is just as Jesus foretold: "On the earth anguish of nations, not knowing the way out . . . men become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth." (Luke 21:25, 26) Of this very fear, columnist David Lawrence states: "The fact is that today the biggest single emotion which dominates our lives is fear."20

And little wonder, for aside from skyrocketing violence, crime, hunger, disease and immorality, mankind has another dread. The New York Times reported the United States Secretary of Defense as saying that "more than 120 million Americans would die in the event of a Soviet missile attack . . . If it were to include urban centers, . . . the death toll would be 149 million."21

There is no escaping it. All the lines of the "fingerprint" are there to show conclusively that we have been in the "last days" since 1914, over fifty-two years now! And calling attention to this is not calamity howling. The near end of this system of things and the establishment of God's kingdom are facts that God himself is having proclaimed throughout the world today, thus fulfilling another mark of the "last days," for Jesus said that this message "will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."-Matt. 24:14.

Hence, do not be deceived by this world's propaganda that promises a bright tomorrow for this system. God promises its end. Whom are you going to believe? For your everlasting happiness listen, learn and then do what God requires of you, for "the world is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the will of God remains forever."-1 John 2:17.

REFERENCES

1 Life, March 13, 1964, p. 45.

2 The World Book Encyclopedia, 1966, Vol. 20, p. 377.

3 London Evening Star, quoted in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 5, 1960.

4 Cleveland West Parker, January 20, 1966, p. 1.

5 U.S. News & World Report, September 13, 1965, p. 20.

6 The World Book Encyclopedia, 1966, Vol. 20, pp. 379, 380, 410.

7 Ibid., pp. 410, 411.

8 U.S. News & World Report, August 1, 1966, pp. 5, 46, 47.

9 Philippine Islands Weekly Graphic, May 13, 1964.

10 South Korea Chosun Daily, April 14, 1964.

11 Stockholm Becko-Journalen, May 14, 1964.

12 Look, September 24, 1963.

13 U.S. News & World Report, November 1, 1965, p. 80.

14 Ibid., September 19, 1966, p. 43.

15 Science News Letter, May 18, 1963, p. 309.

16 Look, July 14, 1964.

17 U.S. News & World Report, July 25, 1966, pp. 67, 69.

18 Intelligence Digest, September 1966, p. 4.

19 St. Paul Dispatch, January 19, 1963, p. 2.

20 U.S. News & World Report, October 11, 1965, p. 144.

21 The New York Times, February 19, 1965, p. 1.