{"id":509,"date":"2013-08-20T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T03:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reformationministries.com.au\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T03:50:35","slug":"a-kruddy-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reformationministries.com.au\/blog\/2013\/08\/a-kruddy-doomsday\/","title":{"rendered":"A KRuddy Doomsday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1987 R.E.M. released a song with the refrain, \u201cIt\u2019s the end of the world as we know it.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n

In Al Gore\u2019s world of \u201cInconvenient truths\u201d, Global Warming, evaporating ice caps, and diminishing polar bears, cataclysmic statements and apocalyptic prophecies are nothing new. Add to this the prophetic intrigue of the Middle East and the \u201cSecond Coming at any moment\u201d brigade and, I admit, it becomes difficult to come up with an attention grabbing headline.<\/p>\n

Not being easily deterred, I thought we would have a dip anyway. So, here goes:<\/p>\n

World to End – 100 days after Rudd\u2019s re-election!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Gee, I wonder if we will now go viral.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the now. Like all sensational headlines, there is a snippet of truth involved. The embellishment helps to capture attention. With that attention grabbed, the true essence of the story unfolds.<\/p>\n

So, let us cut to the chase. No, the world will not end if Kevin Rudd and Labor are re-elected. This is the embellishment. The essence of truth is that, Australia well might<\/em>!<\/span> Kevin Rudd has now publicly proclaimed that, should Labor be re-elected, he will introduce legislation to legalise homosexual union in this nation within 100 days! Ready. Everybody sing together\u2013 It\u2019s the end of Australia as we know it<\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n

As we have noted elsewhere<\/a>, homosexuality and homosexual practice are, by God\u2019s standards, the epitome both of Man\u2019s rebellion against God and God\u2019s subsequent judgement upon Man. Over the last decades, we have been forced<\/em> to accept homosexuality more and more. With this acceptance, we have seen a correlative downturn in the moral standards of our nation. So, a very legitimate question is, \u201cWhat is our destiny, should homosexuals be given complete equality?\u201d<\/p>\n

The moral decline has reached the point where people over the age of 60 are often seen to be shaking their heads. They wonder what has happened to their country. They struggle to make sense of the happenings around them. It is equally true that people of all ages are bewildered at some of the goings-on within this nation. We are hearing, more and more, the aphorism, \u201cThat is un-Australian<\/a>!\u201d People realise we, as a nation, have a serious problem. They know this because they confront the reality of it<\/em> every time they step out their front door or turn on their televisions.<\/p>\n

The problem with our nation is that we have been turning further and further from God\u2019s revealed righteousness in Jesus Christ. God and Jesus are no longer, in the minds of most Australians, revered members of the Holy Trinity. Rather, They<\/strong> have become its<\/em>; the Personal<\/strong> has become impersonal<\/em>; the Absolute<\/strong> minimised<\/em>; the Real<\/strong> mythologised<\/em>; and that which should be reverenced by the lips of men is little more than adjectival descriptor of the worst order \u2013 \u201cOMG!\u201d and the like.<\/p>\n

What we have truly failed to grasp as a nation is that ideas have consequences. When our forefathers embraced Christianity, they did not simply embrace a couple of vague principles regarding Sunday. In embracing Christianity, our forefathers embraced a system of thought that made sense of the world. Christianity made the world interpretable. It spoke of right and wrong. It gave a moral directive. It gave hope. It spoke of a future.<\/p>\n

Not content with this view any longer, primarily because of God\u2019s strictures, the modern secular wisdom dictated that we jettison the notion of God. That seemed like a good idea to many. It meant freedom for the individual. No more of those stuffy rules that were supposedly designed to \u201ckeep the man down.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, by abandoning God as our organising principle and Absolute we have also turned our back on His wisdom and on those rules and morals that ensured much of our safety and prosperity<\/span>. When God ruled, we knew evil. We knew what it looked like and we punished it. Now, we are not so sure. We have no guidance and therefore, by necessary consequence, all is \u201cup for grabs\u201d.<\/p>\n

Having installed the new wisdom as \u2018the god\u2019, we are now beginning to see the fruit of this poisoned tree. Every man is encouraged to do what is right in his own eyes. Rebellious Man celebrates this new found freedom. Yes, it is wondrous, right up until another free-man uses his freedom to take your life, rape your daughter, steal your goods, demand the government give your wealth to another, plunders your nations economy, burdens you with foreign debt, cripples your prosperity, destroys your culture, revokes your freedom, destroys your peace, robs you of your security, turns princes to paupers, and extols the virtues of worthless men.[1]<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n

If you think things are bad now, then you need to have a serious rethink. Should Mr Rudd be re-elected, the destruction of this nation will, in principle, be complete when he pursues his doomsday clock of homosexual union. If this comes to fruition, our nation will only plunge deeper into depravity \u2013 we will live out the ugliest scenes from all those<\/em> apocalyptic films.<\/p>\n

Why is this chord struck? It is struck, for a number of reasons, chief of which is that this is God\u2019s revealed position. In Romans one, Paul speaks of three acts of judgement by God against Man\u2019s rebellion. First, Paul addresses the fact that man rebelled in regard to God\u2019s worship. Second, emphasis falls on Man\u2019s rebellion against God\u2019s design for sexuality in Family. Third, Paul looks at Man\u2019s rebellion against God\u2019s order for society.<\/p>\n

The flow of Paul\u2019s argument is very clear. There is an implicit downward spiral. Man\u2019s willing dysfunction in regard to God and His worship, leads to dysfunction in the Family and Society<\/span>. Obvious, also, is the fact that when Paul addresses the area of Family, homosexuality is decried as the acme of rebellion against God\u2019s design and purpose.<\/p>\n

Paul then moves on to look at the general tenor of society when gross rebellion takes hold and is fostered. He does so in these words:<\/p>\n

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice;<\/span> they are <\/em>gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Did Paul miss anything?<\/p>\n

Wickedness \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Greed \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Evil \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Envy \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Murder \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Deceit \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Malice \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Gossips, you bet! \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Slanderers \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

God haters \u221a\u221a\u221a\u221a\u221a\u221a\u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Insolent \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Arrogant \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Boastful \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Inventors of Evil \u221a\u221a\u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

Disobedient to Parents \u221a<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are honest, Christian or not, you must admit that Paul has \u201cnailed it!\u201d Every one of these things is prevalent in our society to a degree that we have never known before. People shake their heads in bewilderment precisely because these experiences are relatively new.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

What does this have to do with homosexuality? Everything! As we have noted, Paul is unequivocal in his stating that homosexuality is the acme of rebellion in the \u201cfamilial\u201d sphere. Therefore, if we see this nth degree rebellion of homosexuality embraced through Government legislation, we have every reason to believe that nth degree Societal rebellion will not lag far behind.<\/p>\n

We have already witnessed the correlation between moral declination and the rise in the (political) acceptance of homosexuality. We have witnessed this in Paul\u2019s Scriptural analysis and we have witnessed it first hand in our nation\u2019s history.\u00a0\u00a0Why then would we refuse to believe that the total acceptance of homosexuality would result in anything less than a total moral collapse within society<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevin Rudd, with a rabid hunger for power or in a trite and inane attempt to win votes, has promised to bring this nation to the brink and then plunge it into the abyss \u2013 all under the guise of Political Correctness and noble mindedness, of course. Kevin Rudd, masquerading as a Christian, has set this country on a collision course with the very God he claims to serve or to Whom he professes to pay heed.[3]<\/a> From this gross hypocrisy and blatant blasphemy there will be no turning back. God will not be mocked<\/span>.[4]<\/a> No nation can continually \u2018thumb their nose\u2019 at God and survive.<\/p>\n

To be fair, the other side are not offering a genuine solution either. In the most real sense, both major parties and most minor parties are bereft of any authentic answer, specifically because they all refuse to acknowledge God as the only secure foundation for this nation.<\/p>\n

Our nation does not need more empty political policy announcements. It does not need any more \u2018chest beating\u2019 by inept leaders. Enough of the \u201cWe will fix the economy!\u201d nonsense. Away with all the hollow, hackneyed rhetoric on \u201chealth and education.\u201d We do not need any more voices of rebellion. What we need to do is to heed and obey The One solitary voice:<\/span> \u201cRepent!<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord\u2026!<\/span>[5]<\/a><\/p>\n


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[1]<\/a> Proverbs 3:31-32: \u201cDo not envy a man of violence, And do not choose any of his ways. For the crooked man <\/em>is an abomination to the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[2]<\/a> Our land was never pristine, morally speaking. Thus, we are not so na\u00efve as to suggest that some things have not been seen before. However, it is also apparent that we have witnessed very new revelations of evil and on a scale not witnessed before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[3]<\/a> It is little wonder that Mr Rudd describes himself thusly: \u201cAnd like myself, this bloke is a bit of a god-botherer (aka Christian). Although a little unlike myself, he is more of a capital G God-Botherer\u201d. If this is truly how Mr Rudd views himself, then why not drop the epithet \u201cChristian\u201d altogether?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[4]<\/a> Galatians 6:7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[5]<\/a> Psalm 33:10-12.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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