Jill,

Father Corapi says that if God doesn't do something soon, He's gonna have a lot of explaining to do to Sodom and Gomorrah.

*sad smile*

Is China experiencing an increase in rape or homosexuality because of these conditions? It's hard enough raising a daughter in this country let alone a culture where the males are wound tight and the females are rare.

"I swear the world has gone so mad the end must be near."

We've very close to that point. Great column Jill.

"I swear the world has gone so mad the end must be near."

We've very close to that point. Great column Jill.

Posted by: jasper at November 21, 2007 8:27 AM
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Gee, Jill and Jasper!

Did you know that your foil beanie will keep your turkey from over-browning in the oven?
Just smooth your beanie over the breast and legs of the turkey, and remove it for that last hour of roasting. Your holiday bird will be a delicious golden-brown!

Maybe if we provided good jobs that paid a living wage, provided health care, and allowed parents to afford day care, instead of rapidly as possible shipping those jobs to India a China, then people would have more kids.

Dear Noah,

What kind of ark should be built, since the world's end isn't coming by flood but by fire this time around. You answered that question by saying "save your souls" which is only the ark (of the covenant) that will save us now.

It seems as if the entire world and its interwoven systems are converging toward a collapse of some kind that I see being aggravated, like a massive fault line in the earth's mantle, in one gigantic event that triggers a rapid domino effect, collapsing the frame like a controlled demolition. Like a massive earthquake, the pressure builds, slowly but inexorably against the fault, without detection, until it simply cracks like the shell. And bam! All hell breaks loose.

At this point, if God still has mercy on America, a conservative will become president, and maybe we'll see a movement away from abortion and toward the sanctity of life in our laws for a short time, but given the strength of the Godless (liberals in their many faces), and the decay of moral outrage among the faithful, our time may well be up.

The only sure way home is as individuals, standing in reverence toward God, and teaching our children, one by one, right from wrong.

Leading young women and young men to understand that the Commandment, Thou Shalt Not Murder, applies to abortion, and that any complicity in taking the life of an unborn child results in the eternal loss of one's soul, and terrors beyond the grave. Abortion begins with a choice in the heart. It's carried to the turning point with careless sex and access to easy absolution through abortion mills sanctified by the state.

Will God act soon, or continue to wait?

That's why Jesus came here, to save us from the inevitability of what you envision in your column today, and much worse.

And as a Noah, you're Noah it's true.

Art, I totally agree with you, particularly your second paragraph. That's what I see happening. You put it very well.

Let's not also forget that the enormous gender imbalance in the aforementioned countries is abetting an already out of control market for the trafficking of women and girls who are then "sold" as wives or forced into sex trades.

Sexism is the most ancient ism, identified in Genesis 3 when God foresaw that physically bigger and stronger man would dominate smaller and weaker woman as one consequence of sin entering the world.

Interesting point...

I swear the world has gone so mad the end must be near.

I agree with the first part but not the second. Methinks things are going to get a whole lot worse—and that's going to take some time—before the curtain closes on this world.

I've been fearful of this for years but without knowledge of the other countries besides China.

It looks pretty grim.

Added to Mr. Farah's piece today on Israel, one might properly say YIKES!

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58795

I've been preaching this for years on end! My wife had a dream a few years ago about Oriental looking soldiers in green uniforms coming in great waves over the United States. The strange thing about them was they were wearing tennis shoes and it was like she saw them over the U.S.. I told her that the soldiers were from China and surrounding countries and that they were invading us, first economically, then second, militarily. The tennis shoes were an indication of the swiftness of their invasion which takes the host country by surprise - in this case the U.S.

It's interesting you bring this up because I also told her that the gender disparity between their male and female population gave the government a lot of expendable cannon fodder because of the larger male population which is expendable.

You can see how we're being set up. Look how the dollar is falling like a rock. There will another Reichstag pretty soon in order to perpetuate fear into Americans into accepting the next round of government control. I probably see the dollar devaluation crisis as the next pretext to scare Americans into the North American Union.

Next, there will be food riots pretty near in the future which will call for martial law or some sort of occupation followed by gun control.

At this point Americans will then be forced to make a choice for another 1776 or forever be under the chains of servitude. I've been warning people about this for a long time and it's been falling into place one step at a time.

In fact I was laughed at when I said a few years back the dollar will fall and inflation will kick in; (the bible talks about inflation) and at the same time drought will afflict the United States as well. People don't understand that cropland destruction can be the result of too much rain or too little.

When a nation rejects God, Sin then enters in and it always makes the fruitful land a desert. The vast desert area of the Middle East is testament to that.

I don't claim to be a prophet or anything like that just a small time preacher saved by grace that reads his Bible and looks around.

We have our souls in order and now we're praying what God would have us do for preservation before He Comes Back.

Laura.
When will you end your dispensing of Ivomec for b/c to women, such as Sally?
When the world ends?
Or when you stop sending old worn out horses to their slaughter in Mexico after they have given the last drop of pee for the manufacture of Premarin?
When the world ends Laura?
Why do you, Laura, justify your killing of such noble animals with your principle of what goes around comes around?
Poor horses, all from COMING around you Laura, and GOING to their death from Laura justifying killing as no more then a Merry Go Round Horse's life
Laura thinks Merry Go Round horses have a mind and talked to you when you were a kid, right Laura? It is not a shame Laura.
That one horse, the one with wild green eyes, whispered in your ear Laura when you were a young budding abortionist, and told you life is just like a merry go round, what goes around comes around.
Well, that's when the world ended for Laura, and from that day forward Laura has been frozen like that gnome in the Travelocity ads. Icepick anyone? Icepick?

As you mentioned Noah in your article, you probably know that Jesus said that in the latter days it would be as it had been in the days of Noah.

Since it is quite evident that this is the case, should not we as Christians be looking forward to the replacement of civilization by the Kingdom of God? Is not that the essence of the gospel?

Is a belief in the gospel crazy? No, it is this world, cosmos or age, or "civilization" that is crazy, and mercifully the Creator is going to put an end to it. The history of civilization is nothing more than the 6,000 year story of human misrule.

Can we realistically expect to reform or cure that which is essentially corrupt?

That is why Jesus instructed us to pray "Thy Kingdom Come" and "Deliver us from evil."

John, yes, in Genesis 3 God only cursed the serpent, not the man or the woman. To them He spelled out the devastating consequences on humans of sin entering into the world.

Eric, I do look forward to the end, when every tear shall be wiped away, when there will be perfect justice and peace, when every knee shall bow. I don't fear it. I am simply in great angst over the lost. I wish they would see. It’s so clear.

Jill, I do too.

The secular version of the "world ending" is Al Gore.
Laura and millions of other liberals hang on each and every word of the liberal version of those world ending events, are a comin'.
Today they are being led by the prophet Al Gore.
Difference is, the liberal version of doom is manmade and hence essentially mankind hating at its finest.
Sadly Democrats have been made into pro abortion robots, from losing their way from Roosevelt's life affirming answer, that simply replied to the analogy of having only so much pie to go around,concerning people poverty, and life, was to make the pie bigger.
Today shrinking the pie of life is the principle of Democrats and their religion demands a culture of death for them to eat their pie in peace.

I think it is a mistake to blend together 3 distinct things, FORCED abortions and population control, abortion used as a sex selection tool, and voluntary limitations on family size in the West. These things all have different causes and thus different issues to deal with. China's forced population control is obviously a human rights violation and it's toleration is a puzzlement to me. Asia's sex selection customs are cultural but also economic, since the dowry in those countries goes to the groom's family. Western smaller families are also economic as over the last 30 years we have gutted the middle class job market making it harder for families to keep up and even harder if you have to pay for day care for multiple children. Western societies need to come up with incentives to encourage more children and ease the economic burdens on the middle class in order to prevent the demographic problems Ms. Stanek speaks of in her article.

OH, pish posh. People have been on about the world ending ever since they had the cohesion to worry about it. It's not going to happen for thousands of years. Barring some kind of nuclear war, or course, but no one thus far is stupid enough to start that kind of thing. Sorry to nay-say your somewhat overbearing soothsaying. Seems as if we have a penchant for the dramatic this week, what with the overreactive teen protesters and yelling about the end of the world. Tis the season!

I think that the concern is for the end to the growth of a certain social ethic of the equality and value of all human life. With the Geneva convention, we saw the world come together for human rights even for enemies; human rights even for those who were actively seeking their opponents demise. Abortion is a trend in the opposite direction. A view that efficiency, productivity and quality are of greater value than humanity itself.

The expanding trend of killing the inconvenient and unwanted may not signal the end of the world but it is a reversal of the expansion of human rights.

Erin, exactly. I've read quotes from ancient Egyptians that match the hand-wringing and "sky-is-falling" talk we sometimes see today.

Doug

Doug,

I agree. Do you remember all those books from the 70's about how the world was in danger from overpopulation? That we would run out of food, etc? Since then, world population has nearly doubled and there is obesity even in the developing world.

Then there is the hand wringing over AIDS, depletion of oil reserves, and the sky is falling over climate change. It is alway something.

Hippie, don't know about the "running out of food," but it's certainly a huge problem for billions of people and getting more expensive all the time.

I think AIDS is nasty but it's not the end of the world. Neither is climate change, but that big changes are occurring isn't in doubt. In the end, I don't know how "bad" things will get there, but there's the potential for some really bad stuff.

Depletion of oil reserves - not the end of the world, either, but still a massive deal.

Doug

You are correct in feeling like Noah because many people will not listen, and they instead will be concerned with their 401k.

If Hillary and the liberals were to win big in 08, things would not go on the same as they have before because there would be devastating consequences for the United States and the world.

End time prophesies that have yet to be fulfilled would all of a sudden come to pass, and the return of Jesus would be imminent. The world would then go into the worst period of time in its history before Armageddon happens.

As of now, however, hope remains for the United States, but those who think that we can just ride out Hillary, and that another Ronald Reagan and another November 1994 will come along after her are sadly mistaken if her evil prevails in 08.

Great column! As Col. Moore said in the movie "We were Soldiers" when being over run by the enemy, "No boys we're going to win this one!" Though things look bleak, the Lord is still on His Throne. Be at peace, we're going to win this one.

Psalm 2

1 Why do the nations rage, And the peoples devise a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.

I just wanted to say thank you for your courageous fight against abortion. Probably more important, your bringing to light the terrible consequences of this aberration.

Please do not feel discouraged or alone. We are with you all the way, and I have faith God will provide an answer in a timely fashion.

I couldn't agree with you more!!

Prayer and God's providence for our children's sake is all there is to do.

I like to DO stuff to solve problems - nothing to do.

God is in control.

Noah indeed!

Not to worry.

AIDS and bird flu are here.

Between war and disease, the equilibrium will right itself.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

Collapse of civilization is near.

Amen.

You are so sane and right. Thanks, Jill, for your columns on life rights. You are a sane and normal person in an insane world. God and Christians like me love you. Keep the faith because God is not always going to be sneered at by the mockers. Peace, Love and Honor through Strength.

Noah (contemporary name: Jill), this is one of the most powerful articles I've ever read.

Just another reason why the U.S. and the world should not trust the U.N.

Your column is very good. You may be interested to know that a number of military and foreign affairs writers have consistently pointed out the military threat of a large army of frustrated males.

I wonder if there already exist "comfort women" programs within the Asian militaries of the closed, communist societies, a further degradation of women.

Umm...China is communist. North Korea is communist. Vietnam is communist. The rest of Asia isn't. So...I don't think you can say that Asia is communist. Especially considering places like Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea that are acting capitalist forces.

China is acting more and more capitalist all the time. They didn't mess with Hong Kong too much - they knew it was not in their interest to do so - when they took over in 1997.

There is that in human nature that means that communism and socialism result in enough less production that in the end they do not succeed.

Doug,

Erin, exactly. I've read quotes from ancient Egyptians that match the hand-wringing and "sky-is-falling" talk we sometimes see today.

And where are those ancient Egyptians now?

The UN elites think they will rule the global new
world order but I think they are kidding themselves.

Both the Chinese and the Moslem jihadists have very publicly expressed their contempt for the Geneva conventions. You're not likely to survive a street fight restricting yourself to Marquis of Queensbury rules, and the same goes in war.

China's recent history (Tibet, SE Asia, Taiwan), the aggressive way they're conducting international trade, and especially their imbalance of men insure they will not remain a peaceful, cooperative trading partner (if in fact they are that now).

The jihadists make no secret of their goal of the whole world under Islamic law. Only the Chinese and Moslems, unlike the West, have the population and will to dominate, so I think the struggle for world domination will be between the
jihadists and the Chinese.

The West has turned its back on God, by rejecting the Judeo-Christian ethics that brought us to this point, and China is so anti-religion they can't even tolerate the very
nonspecific, mildly theistic quasi-religion Falun
Gong, so I fear God will be on the side of Islam, the lesser of 3 evils with the best chance of returning to God's grace.

We seem to be emtering a new Dark Ages. Like Jill says, "Save your souls while there is time."

Erin,

I wonder if there already exist "comfort women" programs within the Asian militaries of the closed, communist societies, a further degradation of women.

.I don't think you can say that Asia is communist.

I don't think he did. As a matter of fact I think he was very careful to qualify his statement with:

within the Asian militaries of the closed, communist societies,

As in: the countries that exist within Asia which are closed and communist...

Whether it's the end of an era, end of an age or end of the world won't really matter to those of us that are here to suffer the repercussions of a world gone mad.

I'm sure the ancient Greeks didn't care that other civilizations would go on...when they were crashing it felt like the end of the world to them.

Even if we take your secular view, the one that says the world will right itself, I think we can agree that it won't right itself with a pencil eraser. Changes will come, because they always do.

Sure there are always doom sayers, but there is also always doom. And the people living through the radical changes don't really care if it's permanent or temporary.

"Erin, exactly. I've read quotes from ancient Egyptians that match the hand-wringing and "sky-is-falling" talk we sometimes see today."

And where are those ancient Egyptians now?

MK, they turned to dust, and the sky did not fall.

OH, pish posh. People have been on about the world ending ever since they had the cohesion to worry about it. It's not going to happen for thousands of years. Barring some kind of nuclear war, or course, but no one thus far is stupid enough to start that kind of thing. Sorry to nay-say your somewhat overbearing soothsaying. Seems as if we have a penchant for the dramatic this week, what with the overreactive teen protesters and yelling about the end of the world. Tis the season!

Posted by: Erin at November 21, 2007 11:22 AM
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Fortune telling is admonished as pagan practice/devil worship in the Bible while the Bible is full of just such doings. Hypocracy at it's worst.

Fortune telling is admonished as pagan practice/devil worship in the Bible while the Bible is full of just such doings. Hypocrisy at it's worst.

Sally, IMO there is always an audience for it, due to fear of the unknown if nothing else - and that fear can be a powerful motivation, with people eager to surrender freedom of thought for the dubious security "promised" by those who pretend to have knowledge of the future and/or of the unseen.

Doug

MK: Even if we take your secular view, the one that says the world will right itself, I think we can agree that it won't right itself with a pencil eraser. Changes will come, because they always do.

Sure there are always doom sayers, but there is also always doom. And the people living through the radical changes don't really care if it's permanent or temporary.

Yee-Haa! Girl, I know you're sleeping now, and I know you hate some of the things I say, but I sure like some of the things you say, and that was right on.

Doug

Look at the string of PL'ers/Christians here! Praise God! Keep coming back!!!! We need you more than ever!!!

Clay said,
"If Hillary and the liberals were to win big in 08, things would not go on the same as they have before because there would be devastating consequences for the United States and the world.

End time prophesies that have yet to be fulfilled would all of a sudden come to pass, and the return of Jesus would be imminent. The world would then go into the worst period of time in its history before Armageddon happens.

As of now, however, hope remains for the United States, but those who think that we can just ride out Hillary, and that another Ronald Reagan and another November 1994 will come along after her are sadly mistaken if her evil prevails in 08."
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I truly believe that we are in the end of days NOW. As a HUGE studier of the book of Revelations, Daniel & Ezekiel, I feel that America is not mentioned in the 7-year tribualtion period because it won't "be here". Not physically, but not of any importance. In the last days, wars, earthquakes, famines and pestilences will come stronger and stronger, less and less apart...birthpangs. (which we are seeing now). How does America, the strongest nation in the world lose so much? End of Days + US irrelevance = Hillary.
As much as I hate to say it, I believe Hillary will win in '08 because it is the end of days & in order for the US to "go down the tubes quickly", Hillary is a must!

I believe Hillary will win in '08 because it is the end of days

Laura, I formerly would have thought it impossible that Hillary would have won in 2008.

Very well could be, though, and on the "End of Days" stuff, I'd say don't hold your breath.

AB Laura, wow. You and I really are on the same page!