Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
More and more voices are raised in alarm at what thoughtful people see can be a steady erosion of liberties guaranteed in the American Constitution: the sanctioning of torture, the withdrawal of habeas corpus for even legal aliens, the denial to detainees of basic human rights that were won from King John on the battlefield of Runnymede in 1215. Luke reports Jesus as saying that the time will come when “men’s hearts [are] failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven will be shaken” (Luke 21:26). He is speaking of today.
What we call the Enlightenment has characterized the history of the last two centuries of European and American culture. The Protestant Reformation had made the American Constitution become a reality, where civil and religious liberty has been guaranteed. These last two centuries have also seen the opening of the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation.
Millions around the world see the United States figuring prominently in last-days history as the second political power depicted in Revelation 13:11-17. According to this scenario, the most cruel and unjust persecutions will come not from non-Christian sources but from a post-Christian culture. The Jews were once the true people of God, and the Jerusalem Temple was said by Jesus to have been His “Father’s house.” But the harshest cruelties were not inflicted by pagans but by the apostate “Israelites” who initiated the crucifixion of the divine Savior of the world. The Bible has told us of what to expect in a world where “Babylon is fallen” (Rev. 14:8). Apostate Christianity is tragic; that’s the message of the prophet Daniel.
But it all adds up to Good News of unprecedented glory. Christian colleges and universities will no longer advertise that their graduates get the best paying jobs—they will unabashedly train youth to proclaim the message that “lightens the earth with glory” (18:1-4). Proclaiming “Christ and Him crucified” will lead to self crucified with Christ; and that will be at-one-ment with Him; and that will make possible the ending of the great conflict of the ages.
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