With the obscene spectacle of the opening of the Olympic Games—its mocking Jesus’ Last Supper and its rearing up the Golden Calf that Israel worshiped in the wilderness—a new low has ingratiated itself into western civilization. Now is laid in plain view where the narcissistic woke trend that has infected formerly Christian nations is leading people—straight down to Hell.
Isaiah saw that our day resembled the days of Sodom: “They flaunt their sin like Sodom; they cannot hide it. Woe to their souls; they have brought disaster upon themselves!” (Isaiah 3:9); “And Babylon, the most splendid of kingdoms, the glory and pride of Chaldeans, shall be [thrown down] as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah” (Isaiah 13:19); “And they shall go out and look upon the corpses of the people who transgressed against me, whose worms do not die and whose fire shall not be extinguished. They shall be a horror to all flesh” (Isaiah 66:24).
We also see how evil ultimately follows the same course—transgression, idolatry, self-adulation, cultism, de-creation, and damnation. Whether in politics or religion, the pattern is the same. In the accounts of many on media platforms, survivors of near death experiences tell of being shown regions of Hell where people’s spirits suffer torment according to the nature of these sins.
Meanwhile, what of the end-time counterparts of Abraham’s nephew Lot, who was “vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked. For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds” (2 Peter 2:7–8)? In his day, “they did eat, they drank, they bought, they 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. Even so shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:28–30).
Living in a world descending into spiritual anarchy—with evils encroaching on almost every part of life—where should a people turn but to their God: “Turn to me and save yourselves, all you ends of the earth; I am God, there is none other” (Isaiah 45:22). Through the very act of believing in him, and believing him—that in him is deliverance—peace and safety are assured.
Says Isaiah, “A grim vision has been revealed to me: the traitor in the act of treachery, the destroyer laying waste. . . . .All the sighing [Babylon] has caused I will bring to an end” (Isaiah 21:2). And Nephi, “When the day cometh that the wrath of God is poured out upon the mother of harlots, which is the great and abominable church of all the earth, whose founder is the devil, then, at that day, the work of the Father shall commence, in preparing the way for the fulfilling of his covenants, which he hath made to his people who are of the house of Israel” (1 Nephi 14:17).
Let’s take note that God saved Lot from Sodom for Abraham’s sake but saved Lot’s daughters for Lot’s sake (Genesis 19:29–30). Within which category of saviors will we operate in the day God destroys the Harlot Babylon as he did Sodom and Gomorrah? Will we be surety for our own families as Lot was, or will we be surety for others on a higher spiritual level as was Abraham?
