Our Changing Culture

“Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship Him as God or even give Him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.” (Romans 1:21-22 NLT)

As a nation, and as a world community, how did we lose our way? And don’t misunderstand, we didn’t make the proverbial wrong turn, we have become a world of people with a completely wrong agenda.

Recently I listened to a powerful and frightening message by Jonathan Cahn entitled “Sign of the Antichrist,” in which he makes reference to George Orwell’s book 1984. In his book Orwell speaks of a totalitarian government that changes the meanings of words into their opposite that was called “newspeak.” For example, As Cahn put it: “If the government’s agenda is oppression and hate, they call it love; if it’s war, they call it peace; if it’s propaganda and lies, they call it truth.”

In a pre-election speech Kamala Harris referred to abortion as a “fundamental freedom,” while in God’s eyes it is, as it’s always been, murder. Two young men shouted out in one of her rallies, “Jesus is Lord” and “Christ is King!” and she told them, “You’re in the wrong rally!” and they were forcibly removed.

Why is this a concern? Because her warped interpretation of the meaning of words we’ve understood in a certain way for decades, even centuries, is now being revealed to mean something entirely different, but that’s not the scary part. The terrifying issue here is that she’s merely a puppet shouting the acclamations of her “master,” the one who is really in control of this precisely designed shift in the way things are seen. His name is Satan. And he’s right on schedule.

Google the word “Newspeak” and this is what you’ll find. Newspeak is a propagandistic language characterized by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings¹². The term was coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four and was designed to diminish the range of thought¹. It was the language preferred by Big Brother’s enforcers¹. Newspeak eliminates or alters certain words, substitutes one word for another, and creates words for political purposes³. The idea behind Newspeak is that as language becomes less expressive, the mind is more easily controlled⁴.

Is that not terrifying to you? What are the implications? To me, the most startling is, the more confused we become, the more complacent we are to what’s happening, thus more easily controlled. When Ms. Harris asked the students to leave the most disturbing part to me were the faces of those in the crowd cheering with approval.

Carey Nieuwhof wrote: “The culture is changing and never bothered to ask your permission.” Culture changes at the whim of those willing to shout their demands the loudest. It’s not about right or wrong anymore, it’s about who’s willing to persist in pushing their agenda on every unsuspecting soul they can. They make it sound palatable by using familiar words, but with a very distinct and different meaning.

Killing babies becomes a woman’s “freedom,” child exploitation and mutilation become “love,” trafficking slavery of young boys and girls become “pleasure and entertainment,” and lies and propaganda are sold as “truth.” Our world is upside down and we let it happen with our apathy and unwillingness to be involved. Dear believer, did you even vote?

As believers we’ve been so reluctant, fearing we’d do the “wrong” thing, we’ve done nothing and we’ve let the extremists take over our countries. And the sad truth may be that it’s too late to change the course the world is now on. So many in our churches and even the many who profess to have a relationship with Jesus, but are not even a part of a church, have so twisted the Gospel of Christ that salvation has become license and those who oppose or seek to correct them are bigots and hypocrites.

Have we reached the point of no return?

Food for thought.

Blessings, Ed 😊