Navel Pondering

Go ye therefore, preaching the rapture and thou shall be saved!

Omphaloskepisis in Rome

I sometimes wonder at the approach some church leaders use in studying the bible.  Where is the practical application?  What is being accomplished?  Are people really being equipped to reach a lost and dying world or is it nothing more than navel pondering?  Is there any power being imparted, any real insight into the kingdom of God or is it simply a study of scholarly gnat swallowing?  In order to dissect a frog it has to be dead, and when one dissects every word of a simple letter an apostle was writing to a church it too can end up like that frog.

The Humbling of an Entertainment Society

Our society has become one driven by entertainment.  As apostle Paul wrote we have become lovers of self and lovers pleasures rather than lovers of God.  Our children worship their sports heroes and Hollywood stars and cannot even look up from their fancy phones.  Therefore human trafficking has become biblical.  "Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no strength in your hand.  (Deu. 28:32)

Our borders have disappeared and we have been invaded by foreigners, “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower." (Deu. 28:43)

“The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me."(Deu. 28:20)

“Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.  And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.  Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything" (Deu. 28:45-47)

Then suddenly Coronavirus/Covid 19 shows up.  Entertainment comes to a screeching halt.  Hollywood and Nashville heroes find themselves on Youtube giving pathetic home shows thus exposing the raw fallacy of their talent.  Churches that had become platforms for liberal shows of prosperity hype are forced to close their doors.  

There is even something for those who worship the outdoors.  Both hunting and fishing have been outlawed.