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It will be a land of rampant consumerism, where the pursuit of pleasure leads ever increasing
numbers of people to choose to forego having a family and raising children.

It is not coincidental that the murder of babies in the womb, and the removal of homosexuality as
a mental disorder from the American Psychiatric Association’s publications, occurred in the same
year, 1973. Both actions spring from the same root, which is selfishness. Both share a disregard
for the life, health, and welfare of others. Both have led to tremendous societal ills in the last
generation.

For those who care to ponder it, these same trends can be observed in the church. A church that is
increasingly focused on comfort, ease, and pleasure, will make few converts. A church that
rejects the cost of discipleship, suffering, and self-sacrifice will prove unable to bring forth
children. The church is becoming a barren playground, focused on entertainment, always
planning the next food-fest. Bible classes are being replaced with Starbucks. Truth is being cast
away in favor of attractive deceptions.

Like Sodom, America’s days are numbered.

“They were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting,
they were building; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone
from heaven and destroyed them all.”