Unfortunately, I know my history. Because after periods of peace there is all too often corruption. Society rots. We are called soft, and correctly. It is very pleasant to live in a society which is dissipating: but it as good for your health as supersizing every meal.

I am afraid Vox is correct, that war is coming.

We in the West are the softest generation in human history. As a result of the merciless brutality of our forebears, we have enjoyed 60 years of peace, technological advancement, and wealth, and we are now at risk of losing 2,000 years of civilization due to the ideologies that have arisen as a result of that softness.

The humane thing would have been to keep the invaders out and help them in their own lands. Now, thanks to the European multiculturalists and the rich liberal Democrats who are the only ones who support settling Muslim refugees in America it is going to be war, the brutal sort of war that not only slaughters women and children, but targets them.

You can argue about the fairness and the theology of it all you like. History doesn’t care. That is exactly what is going to happen. And if you wish to be a martyr for multiculturalism, well and good, but don’t think that you will be rewarded in Heaven for it. We live in a fallen and evil world, and events will take their predictable course.

But there is a theology of violence. Of the destruction of nations. Of consequences to the neglect of the LORD. And the first warning sign of this is that the elite begin to oppress the people.

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction.
She does not trust in the LORD; she does not draw near to her God.

Her officials within her are roaring lions;
her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.
The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice;
every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.

“I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction.
Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.’
But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.

“Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD, “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey.
For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms,
to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger;
for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.

“For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech,
that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.
From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.

“On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;
for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones,
and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.
But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly.
They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD, those who are left in Israel;
they shall do no injustice and speak no lies,
nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue.
For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”

(Zephaniah 3:1-13 ESV)

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ So the last will be first, and the first last.”

(Matthew 20:1-16 ESV)

In the second passage here we see the logic of the three-year-old, or our modern leftists. If you gave him this, give me more. That one cannot be generous, everything must be regulated: everything must be fair.

But life is not fair. Anyone who can read this has internet access: this is not farely distributed. There is not true poverty of material things in the developed world: no parent needs to let his children go to bed hungry. The war against poverty has been won: not by the government making a welfare class, but by us becoming rich.

And soft-headed.

But this will not remain. God has an agenda, and it has little to do with our bank balances, and more about purging corruption.

For history tells us that if we do not listen to the prophets and the gospel. we will be forced to listen. By pain, by depression, by economic destruction, famine and war. It is far better to turn to God now, and seek reformation of our nation.

May that be. I fear that it is too late: in Europe, darkness again approaches.