Civilization will break down
A savage age of techno-barbarians - makes great movies but you wouldn’t want to live there.

Graffiti said: “Society is deteriorating. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer respect their parents and everyone thinks they have a book or story to tell. It is clear that the collapse or end of the world is at hand.”

That's on an Assyrian tablet dated 3000 BC!!

Or: “Our teenagers love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for their parents, they mock them at home and tyranize their teachers at school.” Says who? Plato, 2400 years ago!

So can we laugh because it couldn’t happen now? No - because both those writers were describing collapsing civilizations. Both Greece and Assyria once ruled the world - but cultures crumble. Couldn’t ours?
Arnold Toynbee's ten-volume Study of History details 21 civilizations that went down the gurgler. He says that the symptoms of a dying society include:
  • war becomes an obsession;
  • technical skill outpaces moral and spiritual growth;
  • real creativity is replaced with ‘moral abandon’, lack of self-control;
  • sexual 'freedom' wrecks families (kids lack care & relationship education);
  • people believe the world is ruled by chance, so nothing they do matters;
  • religion is watered down.
Sound familiar? Hmmmm.
God will take over

Admittedly, plenty of fruit-loops have said this.
But most of the world’s religions teach it.

And Jesus told His disciples, ‘Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God. Trust in me... After I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you with me so we can be together.’ (John 14:1-3)

Fanatics mis-quote the Bible on this (so make sure you check it out for yourself!), but Christ’s return is mentioned heaps - in a whopping 14% of verses in the New Testament. Sound important?

The Bible says Jesus comes back and takes over BEFORE we manage to wipe ourselves out. Phew.

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