The Rainbow Cult of Death (Genesis 9, Jeff Kliewer)

This is the on-time crowd. I thank you guys for being here right at 1045. Well done, yes. Many people show up during the singing or shortly thereafter. So the on-time crowd has made it. So hey, Mike, O 'Neal, raise your hand.

Hey, everybody, this is Mike O 'Neal. I have been in a, it's not a random thing here. There's a reason I'm pointing out Mike O 'Neal. Mike O 'Neal is the coach of track and field at King's Christian School.

And he doesn't just like play on his phone while the kids have to run. He is very involved with the kids. He teaches them, he prays for them, he loves them. And he's one of the greatest coaches you could imagine.

Well, this guy has a special opportunity for us to help support the King's Christian track and field team. Where are you guys eating dinner on Tuesday night? Panera bread. Panera bread, all right. If you don't have plans yet for where you're gonna eat your dinner on Tuesday night, the Panera bread in Marlton on Route 73, right?

Between 4 p .m. and 8 p .m., listen, on that day only, this Tuesday, 20 of all the proceeds goes to Mike's program. All right, so we wanna be a support of that. So if you can, if you don't already have plans for this Tuesday night, go to Panera bread between 4 and 8 p .m.

And you gotta put in the code and make sure it's registering. They'll show you how to do that there. Are you gonna be there, Mike? All right, you'll get to hang out with Mike.

Yeah.

All right, teenagers, if you're 13 to 18 years old, there's going to be a new Sunday school class for you on the Case for Christ. Kevin Lindaberry is going to be teaching that during first service, beginning on May 26th.

So two weeks from now, we're starting Case for Christ for teenagers ages 13 to 18 during first service.

At 9 a .m.

So you gotta get up real early to come study the Case for Christ. Next, we have a baptism service. Maybe you've never been to one of these before, but it's usually in June. We have a baptism service on June 9th out in the field here.

It is so much fun. We have a water slide for the little kids. No adults on the water slide, please. Kids only in the bathing suits. So for the kids who have a water slide, we'll have a cookout that day, plenty of food.

It's gonna be a lot of fun, a picnic on June 9th. If you've never been baptized, it's not too late for you to sign up for that, but we do wanna work with you. Pastor John has been teaching a baptism preparation class, and we can get you in on that.

All right, now for the highlight of the morning. This is our recognition of mothers for Mother's Day. I would like to ask all the children in the room to please come line up right over here, just be in a big group.

Come on up, come on up. I'm gonna have you guys be my runners to bring a flower to each of the moms. We won't make you give a speech or anything. All right, come on up, kids, come on. You're a kid if you're 18 or under.

If you're on crutches, you don't have to do it. No, make her do it? All right, your dad says you have to. Okay, I'm gonna read three quotes about motherhood, and then we are gonna say a prayer, and then we're gonna ask the kids to bring flowers to the moms.

We'll have them stand up in just a minute. Leviticus 19 .3, every one of you shall revere his mother. It's in the Bible, revere your mother. And adults as well. See if you can guess who said this quote.

Last name Washington, but you don't know which one. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. Booker T. Washington. My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.

All I am, I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her. All of his accomplishments he attributes to his mother, George Washington.

Wonderful quotes. All right, so at this time, I'm gonna ask the moms to stand. All moms, young and old, to stand. And we're gonna give you flowers, but first we wanna pray for all the moms as you're standing and pray a special blessing.

Guys, remember also that Mother's Day can be a particularly difficult day for many people. Those who have lost their mother or whose mom is sick like mine in Florida, or perhaps a woman who desired to be a mom, but the Lord never gave that gift.

It can be a painful day. Let's pray for a special comfort on all women as well. Let's pray. Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for this Mother's Day and we desire to honor and revere the mothers in this congregation.

And so Lord, we wanna pray blessing upon them and ask that you would strengthen them to do the work you've called them to do. Their job does not end when the kids leave the home or when they turn 18. Being a mom lasts a lifetime, and I pray that you would strengthen these dear women for the work you've called them to do.

Give them perseverance, give them patience, give them love, give them the full fruit of the Spirit in their lives, and bless them. Help them to be filled with a godly sense of pride. As Paul says, he takes pride in the churches in the same way that they would delight in their children and recognize that this is your gift, God, that you have used them in their children's lives in such a positive way.

So we pray also, Father, for those who are hurting on this day, for those who have lost their mothers, and we do thank you for our moms. Each one of us in this room has a mom, Lord, and we thank you for them.

Even those that have gone to be with the Lord, we thank you, Lord, for their race, that they have run well. And Lord, we give you all the praise for what you've done through our moms in our lives. Thank you for our moms, Lord.

We give you all the praise and glory, and we pray now, Lord, that the moms would be blessed by this token of a carnation, reminding them that they are revered and honored. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, with that, children, all the moms that are standing deserve a flower.

If you wanna bring one to your own mom first, that's great. And you are free to go. And kids, after that, you can return to Children's Church. Did you get one, Viv?

You can give two to her.

We have extra.

All right, if you're a mom and you didn't get one yet,.

Just yell, hey, what about me? No, all right, everybody's got one.

All right, with that,.

We do have one other special moment today. Today is just special all around. We are going to call on Gary Kamlin to come and bring us an update from his recent mission trip to Portugal.

Hi, good morning to all of you. I am Gary Kamlin. A lot of you are getting to know me, but I realize that we're still relatively more recent here. We have been back for almost two years. We ministered in Portugal on-site for 26 years.

Now we're back semi-retired, but sometimes it feels like I'm as busy as before, if not more. I still do teaching online, and we still do a lot of things just to promote missions. And I don't know, is that, we can put the map up there just to show people.

I like to always start by showing people where Portugal is because a lot of people ask me, how's the weather down there? It's not down there, it's over there. So, and by the way, the weather is very nice.

Go over, visit, have a great time. So we went, now this is kind of a first missions moment. We haven't done them for a little while, but we're hoping to do them more often now with other updates about other missionaries that our church is supporting.

But your church, this church has supported us for many years and we're so grateful for that and prayed for our ministry. And trips back to Portugal are relatively easy because there's direct flights from Philly to Lisbon.

So we're making actually three trips back this year and our first trip was in March. And the Lord blessed us tremendously. We had a great time and we were able to see new leadership in action at both the Bible school and also the church that we were a part of in Portugal.

Young people taking over the reins of leadership and doing a great job. While we were there, I just wanna highlight two things that took place during our time there. We can go to the next slide, which is a group of students and staff gathered for just an informal time.

While I was there, all of our teaching at this point is online. It went online during the pandemic. We decided to stay online because we were attracting students from outside of Lisbon. And in fact, I still teach one subject per semester.

I'm online here from the States. We live in Hainesport now. And so I can teach online. And in my class at this point, I have, for instance, a couple, a Brazilian couple that lives in Switzerland, but being Brazilian, they speak Portuguese.

I have a student that logs on from Angola. So our reach is much broader at this point. But while I was there, we had a week of hybrid classes, which means we had students physically present, but we also had students joining us online at the same time.

And with the technology nowadays, we can do that. And it went very well. And this was taken during that week. We had great times in class, great times of fellowship during the evening after the classes were done.

Just really good to be there. I also wanna show you another slide. We can go to the next slide that is a picture taken during a small group meeting. Another couple that you support here at Cornerstone is Israel and Sarah Quintani that are involved in church planting in Portugal.

And what they're trying to do at this point is plant an international church in the area where they live, where there are many internationals. It will be services in English to appeal to the international community.

But as it happens, there are a lot of Portuguese people who speak fluent English that also enjoy being part of an international church. So there at the very beginning stages, this was taken on Easter Sunday afternoon.

And they invited Terry and I to come and share with them from the word of God. This is the core group that they're forming. It's not yet the church, it's the core group. And they're hoping to build from here to attract other people to share the gospel.

And we hope that an international church gets on its feet. The next step, because their living room, this is in their living room, Israel and Sarah. And it's small. This is about all that we can fit at this point.

And we're hoping as it builds, their next step would be to rent a facility. He'll raise money to be able to rent a facility for at least a year and get that international church started. But we saw God work in so many different ways as we met with other people and neighbors and just seeing his hand at work as we've returned to the States was just so encouraging for us.

We returned really pumped, really encouraged by the ministry. Just two more slides, we'll be going back again. But before that, during the year, the school is celebrating 50 years of ministry. And we're having celebrations in various parts of Portugal.

But one of our celebrations will actually be here in the United States in Lancaster, not very far away, because one of the original directors of the school is now living at Calvary Homes in Lancaster.

And he can no longer make the trips back to Portugal to celebrate there. So we're bringing one of the celebrations to the location of Calvary Homes. And as it happens, the school has had five directors over the course of its existence.

And all five of us will be there on site and we'll get to take a picture of the five directors that have led the school over the years. So that's a real blessing. But then the final slide that I wanna show you is that in July will be our next trip back to Portugal, beginning of July, and we are helping lead a team from Emmanuel Baptist Church here locally, Mapleshade.

They have been there two times already. They're going back for a third visit. They will be ministering with a work project on the campus, helping with a vacation Bible school in one of the local churches.

So you can pray for us as we go back once again, just a short visit this time, two weeks, we go back with this team, that their ministry would be fruitful and that God would protect us during this time.

But thank you very much for your interest and for those of you who did remember to pray for us.

Gary, I have to say, I am jealous of your baritone voice. Man, you should be on the radio. Hey, let's pray for this Portuguese mission and then we'll go into worship. Gracious Heavenly Father, we wanna lift up the Portuguese Bible Institute and we pray that you would strengthen the students, build them up in the knowledge of the faith and raise up leaders that will take Portugal for Christ.

Lord, we pray for Israel and Sarah Quintani with their new church plant of multinational people coming together. Lord God, we pray that your Holy Spirit would fill Israel to lead that and his wife, Lord, and that that would actually take root in a powerful way this year.

We pray they would have a rented facility, Lord, and even if maybe we would have some hand in that in helping support this mission. Lord God, we pray that the church would be established in Portugal. We pray in Jesus' name.

And now, Father, we pray for our worship service that we now would come in spirit and in truth to bring our best offering in song, in prayers, how we listen to your word. God, I pray that we would bring an offering that you find acceptable in Jesus' name, amen.

Let's stand.

Amen.

Let's stand and as we get the song rolling, I wanna invite you, if there's a mom near you, wish her a happy Mother's Day. If there's a friend or just a brother or sister in Christ, just, we'll take a couple seconds while we get this song off the ground.

Just be back in time for the chorus. Lord God, you are so good to our battles for us, amen. If you've come in here this morning and your heart is heavy, you're weighed down with the burdens and the cares of this world, Lord, I just wanna encourage you that we have a God who can meet you where you are.

Lift your eyes. He will be the lifter of your head, amen.

And I'm fighting to die. You've already won.

No matter.

He said, that's in the blood. Future grace, let's face tomorrow. The sea is raging. You'll fix my eyes on Jesus Christ. You'll say that.

Check your cell phone before you sit down. Make sure it's muted.

Amen. He is worthy of every song that we could ever sing. He's worthy of that worship and so much more. Let's go to him now in prayer and the rest of the service will be spent here in the word and in a final song.

Let's focus in and allow the word of God to speak to our hearts. So Father, we wanna thank you for the covenant that you made with Noah, that when you make a promise, you keep it and you keep on keeping it.

You are a faithful God. Great and precious promises you have given unto us. Lord, and you keep your word. Help us to trust in you more for having heard your word today. Help us to have hearts filled with gratitude and put a fire in our hearts to go tell the world what we have heard in Jesus name, amen.

Amen.

In the winter of 1941, extreme cold weather stopped the German army's advance to Moscow. If it hadn't been for the freezing of their guns and cannons, it may have been that Hitler would have overrun Moscow.

But because God in his sovereignty, in his providence caused that winter to be so cold, the German army failed. 30 years later, in July of 1971, Stephen Schneider, who was a climate researcher for NASA from the Goddard Space Flight Center, wrote an article in the New York Times that had this nation panicked.

Schneider wrote, there is coming a cooling to the earth that could trigger an ice age, in his words. The fear in 1971 was not global warming, but global cooling that could trigger an ice age. In 1975, the panic reached a fever pitch when Newsweek wrote, there are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically.

They warned of drastic decline in food production because of the cold temperatures. This was on the heels of three decades of global cooling. And the speculation amongst these climate scientists, like Stephen Schneider, the climate researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center, the common orthodoxy of the scientific community was that we are emitting too many aerosols into the atmosphere, which is having a cooling effect on the climate.

And it could trigger an ice age and lack of food that we're all gonna die. Well, over the last 10 years, the scientific orthodoxy is exactly opposite. NOAA, N-O-A-A dot gov, reports that all 10 of the hottest years in recorded history, which began in 1880, all 10 of them have happened in the last 14 years.

And nine of them have been the last 10 years. So you include 2010. And they say that we have never seen climate increase like it has over the past decade. Global warming. Well, they call it climate change because they're aware that these ideas have fluctuated over time.

But here's the interesting thing. In 2012, they measured the ice in the Arctic. And the Arctic ice caps are measured at what is called the September minimum. After the summer, ice is melted off and it reaches a low point in September every year.

In 2012, there were 3 .4 million square kilometers of ice left in the Arctic. 3 .4 million square kilometers, according to government data. As of 2024, that amount of ice has increased to 4 .87 million square kilometers.

A 44 increase in the level of ice at the September minimum in the Arctic. So it's interesting that the 10 hottest years in the history of the world have resulted in a net 44 increase in Arctic sea ice.

Can you tell I'm a little skeptical? They say that 76 .343 of statistics are made up on the spot. Well, whether you acknowledge that the data to be correct or not is in my mind immaterial. I'm not a climate scientist and I don't have a dog in that fight.

Not too concerned about it either way. In my view, my Christian worldview, God caused the climate to be drastically cold in 1941 because in his providence, he was stopping Adolf Hitler from overrunning Moscow.

Similarly, if the climate has been raising over the last 10 years so drastically, then my God has a good and gracious plan to sustain the world. Could it be that with the explosion of world population, there needs to be higher temperatures because cold is the greater threat, not heat?

And heat actually produces more evaporation from the oceans and the lakes, which means more precipitation, more water for more people. If there's been a raise in temperatures and there is a God, then I trust him with whatever he does with his climate.

That's the Christian worldview. Now, there were Christian countries scattered across Europe and the United States was once regarded as a Christian nation, at least in terms of the general worldview of the population.

But that Christian worldview has been exchanged for a worldview that excludes God. It's called secular humanism and it's dominant not only in America, but especially in Europe. And with the exchange of the Christian worldview for a secular humanist worldview, God is eliminated and the result is this paralyzing fear.

Without a God who controls such things as climate, a spirit of fear has overtaken the hearts of men. Second Timothy 1 .7 says, God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power and love and self-control.

Climate change, fear and anxiety is a symptom of departing from a God-centered biblical worldview. Christians need to be aware of what time it is. And by that, I mean more than the climate circumstances and what that implies, but what time we're living in.

As in the days of Noah, so it will be before the coming of the son of man. There's something in Genesis 1 to 11, which corresponds to the last days in which we live. And climate change is a perfect example of a larger problem.

Church, there is a cult of death that attempts to snatch the symbol of God's covenant mercy from the hands of Christians. That symbol is the rainbow. And not only the symbol, but the worldview behind it is being exchanged as Romans 1 speaks of the exchange of God and his worldview for a lie.

We, church, need to constantly encourage people to return to the Bible, because what we have in Genesis 9, God's covenant with Noah with the symbol of the rainbow is actually a glorious promise of mercy from God and the promise of life, not only in this world, but in the world to come.

Without this, the world is paralyzed in fear and has nothing but death to expect. If you believe in devastating climate catastrophe to come, then the solution, of course, is to minimize the number of humans that are born, population control.

And this is the agenda of the worldwide globalist elite in fear of climate change, or perhaps utilizing climate change as a manipulative tool. You have the drive to reduce population, to stop people from having babies.

And if a baby is born, to turn them away from what produces more life, that is to make them homosexual. Or preferably, in their worldview, to limit population growth by killing the baby before that child sees the light of day through abortion.

This is a clashing of kingdoms, the biblical worldview, which holds to the covenant of Noah, which then leads us to the new covenant, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, versus a cult of death, which is trying to steal the symbol of the rainbow.

Turn with me to Genesis chapter nine. We've been studying Genesis one to 11, and we have just a few more weeks. Because Genesis one to 11 explains what is happening in our day, things are returning to the days of Noah.

Genesis one says, God created the heavens and the earth. The secular humanist worldview says there is no God. Everything simply evolved from mere chance and matter, where that matter came from, they don't propose, but they claim there is no God.

Genesis two says God made them male and female. And this distinction is good, it is a binary, but the world says there is no male and female any longer. Genesis three says sin came into the world by disobedience, transgressing the law.

The world now says there is no sin, only mistakes.

Bad judgment.

Genesis four says Cain killed Abel, devaluing the life in the blood, and Lamech did likewise. But God says this is the case, and the world rejects that and minimizes the value of life. The image of God in an unborn child, discarded as worthless.

Genesis five is about family, the nuclear family, the line of Seth. And the world now tries to replace the nuclear family, which was in the very founding documents of the BLM movement. Marxism, the intentional destruction of the nuclear family.

Genesis six is about angels, fallen angels, seeing that the daughters of men are beautiful, and the result of this was the Nephilim, the giants and the mighty men of old. The world says there are no angels or demons.

There is no devil. There are no spirits. There is only the materialism of what you can see. Genesis seven is about judgment. God floods the world in judgment. But the secular humanist worldview says there is no judgment.

Everything is a judgment-free zone. Genesis eight promises mercy. As the waters of the flood recede, God has mercy on the world. But there can be no mercy where there is no judgment. And so Genesis nine, we have the absolute exchange of the beautiful promise of God in the Noahic covenant for a counterfeit, even co-opting the very symbol of the promise, the covenant of life for the sign of the rainbow representing a cult of death.

Let's read, beginning actually in chapter eight, verse 21 and 22. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, this is the aroma of a sacrifice. Why is it that when the world has so few animals left on it that God would require the death of some?

We cannot understand that unless you know that every sacrifice in the Old Testament is pointing to the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, the lamb who was slain. God is pleased by the sacrifice because God can look at a world that is sinful and be merciful on account of his son.

The son of God is the righteous one. And so the world does not get the wrath that we deserve because God mercifully sees us who believe in him in the son. So it's by a sacrifice that God is pleased. Notice in verse 21, I will never again curse the ground because of man, not because man is fundamentally good, but the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.

This is mercy, not what we deserve. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature.

As I have done.

Now to the climate change alarmist, the word of God offers you something so much better than the lie of the world. Secular humanism would have you terrified. In fact, 30 some percent, I think it's 31 of adolescents ages 13 to 18 have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.

If that's how many are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, how many are struggling with anxiety? I don't believe it's a disorder so much as logic. If a young person is logical and is being told that this world has five years left, Greta Thunberg, 2018, it's logical to be fearful of the future.

It's a worldview issue. Al Gore in 2006 made a documentary claiming that all of the ice on Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa would be fully melted within the decade. That was 2006. In 2024, the ice on Kilimanjaro is still prolific.

It's robust. But the climate alarmist in 2006 was telling young people, we only have 10 years left.

It's heating up. We're all doomed.

The Christian has this to say to the world, mark this because you have a promise from God that the world does not have. That's why they're so terrified all the time. You have life. You have something good.

And it says in Genesis 8, 22, while the earth remains, hear the word of the Lord, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease. Covenants are established by blood.

God sacrificed an animal in Genesis 3 and promising the Messiah. This is the Noahic covenant, a promise mediated through Noah, but it's with the earth. And God will be merciful to this earth. So we need not fear the climate alarmism.

Did you guys know that this weekend there was a major solar storm on the sun, the biggest in 19 years? It sent supercharged particles to the earth. The Aurora Borealis, the Northern lights were visible from New Jersey.

That's how supercharged this solar flare really was. Now, Tim and I went outside in the middle of the night and looked for it, but we didn't see it because there's too much light pollution in our area.

But if you got into a dark enough place, you could have seen the Northern lights from New Jersey. I have a question for you. What keeps a solar flare from happening 100 days in a row and incinerating this earth?

God.

But if you don't have God, there is nothing in the naturalistic world that keeps this world so perfectly ordered. And so all you have is fear of a climate disaster. You church have Genesis 8 .22, an answer to the great fear and the great terror of our day.

They tried to terrify the world with a pandemic manufactured or at least released from a lab in Wuhan. We were supposed to cede our rights to a globalist elite on account of this fear, but it didn't fully work.

The next one seems to be climate alarmism. Give power to those who purchase climate credits and we'll solve the problem for us. But the Christian ought to have nothing to do. Sadly, I saw even at SEBTS, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a preacher named Jonathan Mu, stand up and trumpet the very line of the secular humanist worldview that we need to be buying carbon credits.

If you fly in a plane, at least buy carbon credits to offset the trip that you took. And Christian, you need to understand that this worldview, the secular humanist worldview is offering nothing but fear.

They're peddling fear. They're trying to terrorize and Christians must stand against that nonsense, not give an inch. The climate alarmism is part of secular humanism and it's a straight up denial of Genesis 8, 22.

Next, the value of life. I was questioning whether I would do the carnations for the moms this morning. We don't do it every year. But when I saw what I titled my sermon and thought about it, I realized I should probably do the carnations for Mother's Day.

My sermon is entitled The Rainbow Cult of Death. I don't know that that can stand on its own for a Mother's Day. But it's in opposition to the rainbow covenant of life. The good news is that God values life and proliferates life.

And we're fighting a worldview, fighting a battle against the culture of death. Notice the parallels to the days of Noah. Genesis 9, one to seven. And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, listen, be fruitful and multiply.

Not just add, multiply. Have as many kids as you can and let them have as many as they can and fill the earth. Verse two, the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens.

Upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. So are you allowed to eat meat?

You sure?

And all God's people said, amen. You don't have to eat meat, but you're free to. Verse three says, every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

But notice verse four. It's not to be a gratuitous or a torturing of animals. This is why he says, but you shall not eat flesh with its life. That is its blood. Let the animal that needs to be eaten be killed quickly.

And the life drained from that animal, life in the blood, in order that it not suffer unduly. If you're to eat meat, you are to still value lives. The brute beasts do not have a moral compass, but they still feel pain.

And God cares about animals. Look how he protects them in that command. It's not to be torturous ever. We are to protect animals. That's what stewardship means. To have dominion doesn't mean to dominate and harm.

It means to care for. Verse five. And for your life blood, I will require a reckoning. Can you be for capital punishment and be pro-life? Yes, you better be. Because if you value life, you must allow government to keep life sacred, to protect life with capital punishment.

This is the point that God makes in this covenant, which still stands to this day. Look what it says in verse five. I will require it and from man, from his fellow man, I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

Capital punishment here, here. For the intentional killing, not manslaughter. But this is when someone raises their hand murderously. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed. This is not vigilante justice.

By man is the institution here of human government. The New Testament will give us more light on this in Romans 13, one to seven and second Peter 2, 14. In Romans 13, four, it says that the governor does not bear the sword in vain.

He's the punisher of those who do wrong. And he praises those who do well. So the sword of justice is put in the hands of a human governor. God has established government here. For God made man in his own image.

And now a repetition in verse seven of what was really begun with Adam. The creation mandate, Genesis 1, 26 to 28, to fill the earth. He repeats it now here through Noah. Notice what happened when Adam and Eve were given the command, they fell.

Something was prohibitive of them to eat. In that case, it was the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now blood is prohibited because God so values the sacrifice of Christ and that blood points to Christ.

Similarly, after the fall, Cain murders Abel. And so here in this redo, as God is restarting the world, it's as if Noah is the new Adam and the same command is given that Adam received in Genesis 1, 26 to 28.

Verse seven, and you be fruitful and multiply. Notice how God values life. It's a culture of life. He wants to see more and more procreation. He says, increase, not just increase, but what? Increase greatly.

This is a culture of life on the earth and multiply in it. There has been an abject attack on the sanctity of human life made in the image of God. It's called abortion. And I do have hope for this country because of the fall of Roe versus Wade.

God may yet be merciful to America because after 50 years of fighting against that travesty, now it has come down and has been trampled underneath the feet of Christians who have advocated for life for 50 years.

But there are individual states now that make their own laws. We live in one that has no regard for life because secular humanism dominates New Jersey. The Christian worldview is very much a minority and a persecuted minority.