This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014II Tim. 3:1<\/i><\/p>\n
711<\/b> 200 Years As Average Civilization<\/b><\/p>\n
What is past is prologue. History repeats itself as time marches on. A study of history shows that the great civilizations of the world have averaged about 200 years. The people of the world have followed this timetable. <\/p>\n
The people go:<\/p>\n
From slavery to spiritual faith<\/p>\n
From spiritual faith to courage<\/p>\n
From courage to liberty<\/p>\n
From liberty to abundance<\/p>\n
From abundance to selfishness<\/p>\n
From selfishness to apathy<\/p>\n
From apathy to dependence <\/p>\n
From dependence back to slavery. <\/p>\n
\u2014The Bible Friend<\/i><\/p>\n
712<\/b> Toynbee Still Insisting<\/b><\/p>\n
Arnold Toynbee, the great British historian, was asked if he had changed his mind about Western civilization. Toynbee had written, \u201cOut of 21 civilizations preceding this one, 19 of them have been destroyed by a mixture of atheism, materialism, socialism, and alcoholism.\u201d<\/p>\n
In answer to the inquiry he replied: \u201cOnly this, that it looks now as if the number one enemy of the American way of life is drunkenness. If your people continue the present increase of drunkenness, nothing can save you from destruction. History is altogether against you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
713<\/b> Why Rome Fell<\/b><\/p>\n
In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire<\/i>, completed in 1787, Edward Gibbon lists the following reasons for that fall:<\/p>\n
1. The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society. <\/p>\n
2. Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public money for free bread and circuses for the populace. <\/p>\n
3. The mad craze for pleasure; sports becoming every year more exciting and more brutal. <\/p>\n
4. The building of gigantic armaments when the real enemy was within: the decadence of the people. <\/p>\n
5. The decay of religion\u2014faith fading into mere form\u2014losing touch with life and becoming impotent to guide the people. <\/p>\n
Do these five reasons for the fall of Rome tell us anything about our present national situation? <\/p>\n
\u2014Baptist Message<\/p>\n
714<\/b> \u201cWonders\u201d Of Twentieth Century<\/b><\/p>\n
Some interesting \u201cwonders\u201d were placed in a \u201ctime capsule\u201d and buried at the 1964\u201365 World\u2019s Fair: a bikini bathing suit, credit cards, an electric toothbrush, tranquilizing pills, detergent, a guide to the English language, a recording by the Beatles, and many other products of twentieth-century culture. <\/p>\n
715<\/b> Western Collapse? <\/b><\/p>\n
According to Malcolm W. Browne of The New York Times\u2019<\/i> Moscow bureau, \u201cThere is cautious but growing optimism among Soviet and East European leaders that the long unfulfilled Marxist prediction of the spontaneous collapse of Western capitalism may finally be at hand. <\/p>\n
\u201cCommunist predictions during past economic crises that the collapse of the West was imminent have proved unfounded, so the language currently in use is fairly restrained. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut leading economists and political theorists in the Soviet bloc leave no doubt that they believe the current economic crisis in the West is qualitatively different from earlier ones, and that it will be vastly more destructive to Western economic and political traditions than any of its predecessors.\u201d<\/p>\n
716<\/b> Epigram On Civilization<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 History repeats itself. <\/p>\n
\u2014English Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cHistory teaches us that man learns nothing from history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Hegel<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cThose who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014George Santayana<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Luke 21:25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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