The elections are finally over.
- Family life disintegrated.
- All ethical systems were discarded.
- The world of entertainment became immoral and corrupt.
- The cost of maintaining the empire’s military system became enormous.
- The empire’s economy collapsed.
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a history professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, had this to say about the fall of the Greek Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
- A democracy is always temporary in nature; it cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
- A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
- From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
- The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage.
We as God’s people would do well to remember that
our focus in life must be on morals, not money. The model for our morality must
be God’s will, not our whims. Jesus, our forgiving Savior and Servant Lord,
demonstrated that will. If a nation does not conform to that will, it will
crumble.
The mission of the church is not to invite people to sit, stand, say,
sing, and scatter. It is to inspire them to search, stoop, serve, sanctify, and
sweat—and seek the good of all on earth.
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