So far in our series on America in Biblical Prophecy, we have covered the first of six woes found in the book of Isaiah:
It’s not an attractive list. Can you think of a nation more dedicated to covetousness–a form of idol worship–than the United States?
Care to see what a huge market alcohol is for our nation? Watch this year’s Super Bowl and count the ratio of beer and alcohol commercials compared to the rest of the advertisements.
Is there a nation more prideful than ours about the levels of depravity to which we can sink? Between our gay-pride parades and the endless iterations of movies like “Saw” and “Hostel” not to mention the volumes of pornography that are easily available, we pride ourselves–as a nation–on everything God abhors!
The fourth woe we will look at today:
The Six Woes of Isaiah: Woe #4 – Perverting Moral Distinction
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! –Isaiah 5:20.
An obvious sequel to the flaunting of sin, or possibly the reason there can be the flaunting of sin, is that somewhere along the line, there has been a perversion of moral distinction or what is right and wrong. What we are experiencing in our nation is moral relativism.
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
The term ‘moral relativism’ is understood in a variety of ways. Most often it is associated with an empirical thesis that there are deep and widespread moral disagreements and a metaethical thesis that the truth or justification of moral judgments is not absolute, but relative to some group of persons. Sometimes ‘moral relativism’ is connected with a normative position about how we ought to think about or act towards those with whom we morally disagree, most commonly that we should tolerate them. (Emphasis mine.)
At it’s most basic form, moral relativism holds that there are no absolutes when it comes to morality and that whatever you believe is truth to you. In other words, “you have your truths, and I have mine.” What’s the natural outflow of that? You do whatever feels right to you! Taken to the extreme, you are your own god!
These are lies.
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord. –Proverbs 17:15.
Jesus also had something to say about this. Jesus talked about the root issue:
“The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” –Matthew 6:22-23.
Friend there are absolutes in this world and they are found in the Bible, the Word of God. The thinking behind this perversion of good and evil, light and darkness, sweet and bitter are from the devil, the father of lies. From the beginning he was behind this type of thinking!
In the Garden of Eden, God gave moral absolutes to Adam and Eve. God told them that the day that ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would die. So what happened?
The serpent said to the woman, “You surely shall not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” –Genesis 3:4.
Satan lied to Eve. He directly opposed God’s commandment! And so it is with America today: homosexuality is “out of closet” and has become a government-protected relationship. Gay marriage is no longer shocking and is slowly gaining support and acceptance. Those that would oppose it are called hate-mongers and prejudiced.
God and prayer are outlawed in schools! You cannot start the day with prayer in the public school because of “separation of church and state.” Revisionist history pervades our classrooms. There are loud voices who would deny that America was founded upon Christian beliefs and values.
Thomas Jefferson said:
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
Jefferson must be turning over in his grave right about now if he could see what has become of the country he helped to found. I believe he would be shocked at how we have perverted the foundation that he and his fellow Founding Fathers established.
The solution is for America to repent! We must all repent of the sin in our lives and give our lives to Christ!
What’s next?
Next time we will look at the fifth woe of Isaiah: the conceited.
May He Increase!
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