by By Terry James
In preparing to speak at conference, recently, my chosen topic, “As it was in the days of Lot,” led naturally into thoughts concerning the wickedness of the days Jesus intimated.
The Lord gave, as I believe and presented, only the “business as usual” aspect of the days of Lot prophecy as recorded in Luke 17:28–30. But His prophecy that judgment of complete destruction would fall the very day He is next “revealed,” as happened in the day Lot was removed — and knowing the Genesis chapter 19 story — leaves no doubt. Evil just beneath that “business as usual” façade had saturated the culture.
That wickedness had become so egregious, had so singed the nostrils of God, that the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were completely erased with fire and brimstone from Heaven. In thinking on our day in America at this time, we see exact parallels to Sodom and to Gomorrah.
We are now, I am convinced, because of all the things we see developing at that point of Sodom-like configuration Jesus pointed to in Luke 17:28–30. The evil and wickedness have, in the past few years, saturated our culture and society. Yet, on the surface, there is a business-as-usual civility with buying, selling, marrying, building, planting, etc., in this nation. Much more to the point, the evil we are witnessing is far more than just rampant. The wickedness is now at the point of being deliberately and without apology organized so that it has melded with the surface of everyday life.
Satan and his minions, both demonic and human, have implemented the hellish plan. Not only has the devil’s plan to ultimately bring all under his son of perdition’s rule been mainstreamed within the nation’s daily life, but it seems that the majority of Americans, even within many of the born-again, have been sedated to the point that they neither understand nor care how near we are to the time Jesus spoke of:
“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, nor shall ever be” (Matthew 24:21).
The evil becoming mainstreamed and highly organized can be understood by reports of the wickedness being ramped up, such as follows.
Los Angeles elementary schools with students as young as five will participate in a week-long celebration of “National Coming Out Day” starting Monday.
Suggested lesson plans for elementary students around LGBTQ+ topics. The document, which a teacher shared with City Journal, noted teachers can adapt the lesson plans to better suit the needs of their students.
The Los Angeles Unified School District is honoring “National Coming Out Day” with a week of action in its elementary schools…
The toolkit’s lesson plan suggests highlighting biographies of major LGBTQ+ advocates each day of the school week. Among those listed include transgender reality star Jazz Jennings, transgender actor Elliot Page, and Carl Nassib, the first openly gay NFL player. (“LA elementary schools to celebrate National Coming Out Day with a week of LGBTQ lessons,” Teny Sahakian, associate producer/writer for Fox News, October 5, 2023)
It should be crystal clear to those who are watching as the Lord instructed. We are rapidly approaching the time like it was in the days of Lot when God judged Sodom with complete destruction. We are now at the time of satanically organized evil. At the center of our society is a concerted effort to infect, through intensive inculcation, the very youngest among us with the anti-God, Sodomite purulence.
This evil that has invaded and changed America into an almost mirror image of ancient Sodom should alert us that Christ must be about to step onto the clouds of glory. You want to hear Him when He calls and the trumpet sounds. Here is how to go to Jesus when He shouts, “Come up here!”
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).
(Edited for length)