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Roth decision in 1957 was the key that opened the door
for the uncontrolled tide of obscenity.
In the year in which we now live, anything goes. The
courts have left it up to local communities to deal with
pornography. But the communities are now so corrupt
and intimidated by the wave of immodesty, nothing is
done. The few who still fight against this flood are ham-
pered by disinterested, backslidden judges. The onrush-
ing hordes of porno pushers are bold and militant.
And where are the Christians? Why can't they rise up
against these evildoers? I have the answer, and I am
sure of it: God has already set the day of judgment,
and His Spirit is restraining the righteous. Porno lovers
and pushers are blind, headed for the ditch, and God
has said, "Leave them alone to face their judgment."
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the
blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall
fall into the ditch.
(Hosea 4:17 KJV)
(Matthew 15:14 KJv)

3. Vendetta and Violence
God judges a nation or a people at the very point it
turns to violence. God hates violence, and every genera-
tion that has clothed itself with violence has been de-
stroyed. Judgment is "the vengeance of the Lord"
against man's violence. Israel reached the flash point of
judgment when they "polluted themselves with blood"
(Lamentations 4:14 KJV).
Violence that expresses itself in the shedding of inno-
cent blood is the final indignity against God.
Ezekiel prophesied against Jerusalem as "that bloody
city," a boiling pot covered over with scum. He said,
"For this cause God shall send on you His fury" (Ezek-
iel 24:6).
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