When Noah and Lot Meet — E.A. Johnston

America’s Moral Decline Since the 1950s

I grew up in the 1950s, where we prayed each day in public school, and there was still a fear of God in the land and a sense of shame in society. Women's dresses came to their ankles, and only sailors and circus freaks had tattoos.

It was a time when marriage was between a man and a woman, and a man was a man and not a woman, and vice versa. Then the 1960s came along, and the Supreme Court declared prayer in public school was unconstitutional.

Removing God and Authority from Public Life

It was an offense to have the Ten Commandments publicly displayed. So little by little, the country of America legislated God right out of the land. And the 1960s was hijacked by a generation of rebels who refused to submit to authority of government or even God himself.

Violence and Rebellion in the 1960s

And all hell busted loose. It was a decade of turmoil and rebellion. Police cars were overturned in riots and burned. The president was assassinated. His brother, running for president, was assassinated.

Malcolm X was assassinated. Martin Luther King was assassinated. And mass murder emerged through a cult in California controlled by Charles Manson. Suddenly, no one felt safe in their homes anymore, and there was no longer any moral standards in the land.

The Anything-Goes Society and the Church’s Compromise

It became an anything-goes society. And that's where we are today, friends, living in a godless society where the wheels have come off, where our children are raised in a culture of sexual perversion, pornography, and atheism.

Our young people today are going to hell in droves, and nobody seems to care, not even the church. The church has caved in a long time ago to the demands of society and quit preaching against sin, stopped warning folks about hell, and went to sleep on the pillows of conformity and compromise.

Sin’s Normalization and the Warning from Job

And you can't even go out in public today in this country without running the risk of being gunned down by a madman for mass murder is at an all-time high, not only is this generation desensitized to sin, it's a sin-loving society that can't get enough of sin, as described in the book of Job.

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? That means he can't get enough of sin. He drinks it like water. That's why hellish Hollywood produces filthy programs, because Americans love nudity, sex, and violence.

Noah and Lot as Signs of Coming Judgment

But the church is getting ready to come down to her knees because the curtain is getting ready to come down and the rug is close to being pulled out from under us because two Bible characters are appearing on the streets of our land and they're walking hand in hand.

If you look real close, you can see old Noah and old Lot walking down the street together. Jesus spoke of this very time in Luke's Gospel in chapter 17, beginning in verse 26. And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. Let me ask you, friend, what were the days of Noah like?

The Violence of Noah’s Generation

In Genesis we read that the time of Noah was marked by society filled with violence. Genesis 6, 11 reads, the earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence. Then Jesus points to the days of Lot, likewise also as in the days of Lot.

They did eat, they drank, they bought and sold, they planted, they builded, but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. America used to have laws against the act of sodomy, now it promotes it, legalizes it, and all other nations have lined up with that philosophy as well, like dominoes in the wind and a strong wind is coming.

Revival and Repentance Before Judgment

Only a heaven-sent revival can turn this wicked society back to the God of the Bible. Great God, have mercy upon us all before it's too late.