Verses six through eight.

Since the time of the Prophet Isaiah there have been many "advances" in "civilization." As someone said, we now have "improved means to unimproved ends." There is a theory termed "evolution." However, there appears to be little evidence that man has evolved at all, except perhaps in wickedness, or that people actually are in a better situation now, more peaceful, more joyous, than in the days of Isaiah. You would think, however, from what the educators and politicians say, that we were living in a golden age of love and peace in which every day was more wonderful than the previous.

There have been great advances in medicine, such as antibiotics, that heal diseases that formerly claimed the lives of multitudes. We have healed people so they can be killed by drunken drivers, murder, war, and increasingly virulent diseases.

We have automobiles, airplanes, and personal computers. But countless millions of people are addicted to alcohol and drugs because they cannot bear the stress of life. This is the "forward" march of civilization.

We have wealthy, democratic governments in which the rights of people are emphasized. The United States of America is an example of these. The United States is seeking to export the philosophy of democracy to other governments of the world. Yet the large cities of America are in a state of anarchy. People are shot dead in the streets as target practice for roving gangs of criminals.

The authorities are afraid to use enough force to stop crime and violence because of the opinion of lawyers, politicians, educators, psychologists, and other people who do not know the Lord. The clear truth is, the democratic governments have lost the will to govern.

Is life really any better? Perhaps it seems so until your son becomes a homosexual and develops AIDS, or your teen-age daughter becomes pregnant while a freshman in high school and is demanding an abortion, or your wife is raped.

The citizens of the wealthy democracies are "happy" because they have "rights," because they are their own god. They are not able to perceive the destruction of their social institutions, the fraud and corruption in their government, the incompetence of their schools, their slavery to the wealthy who tempt them through skillful advertising to buy more and more things they do not need until their spiritual life is dead because of material goods.

In addition to their spiritual death, many are hopelessly in debt because of unneeded goods they have purchased.

The wicked have agendas that are hidden in the present hour. The world is moving toward the rule of evil people. Such people, being filled with Satan, despise the Jews and the Christians and will not rest until all Jews and all true Christians have be removed from the cities of the earth.

To be continued.