When we see the massive mounds of
the Middle East, we are observing the remains of once-thriving cities. Tens of thousands of cities, in dozens of civilizations, flourished and disappeared. Similarly, we see among us ruins of the more immediate past. America’s cities are filled with decaying mansions, once-substantial middle-class homes, and growing areas of destruction that look like bombed-out cities of war-torn Europe.
When we see evidence of collapse, we wonder why. Lots of glib answers emerge; “Trade routes changed.”, “Foreign invaders destroyed the city.”, “They were destroyed because they abused the environment.”, “Climate change destroyed their food source.”
Such explanations are popular, and usually serve the political agenda of those who make them, but they ignore the fact that the people whose intelligence built the civilization simply lost the ability to solve problems. This paralysis is from God.
His retribution falls on all who have lost faith in Him and in His Church, the only thing on earth that can keep us both faithful and favored.
When we see the collapse of Christian countries all over the world, we are seeing the slow, inexorable decline that Luther’s apostasy, which led to birth control, abortion, and euthanasia, has brought upon our part of the world. No longer is His Church a rallying point for the faithful, but a target for those who seek to plunder the descendants of once-favored Caucasia. The sons of Jacob, from whom all of us are either spiritually or genetically descended, have had God do to us what we did to Him, turning His face from us as we turned ours from Him.
