| In the last few years we have witnessed a | | | | ancient Sodom but in Ezekiel's rebuke, the |
| woman who drowned her children just to keep | | | | root cause for Sodom's sin is revealed. In |
| her rich boyfriend. An ice skating competitor | | | | Ezekiel's rebuke there is a warning for us to |
| who had the legs of her top rival broken so | | | | recognize the same cause festering in our |
| she could win. We have seen a mother hire a | | | | land today. Behold, this was the iniquity of |
| hit man to eliminate her daughter's | | | | thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, |
| competition in baton twirling championships. | | | | and abundance of idleness was in her and in |
| Another man destroyed his pregnant wife to be | | | | her daughters, neither did she strengthen the |
| able to play the field, and live the life of | | | | hand of the poor and needy. Eze.16:49 |
| a playboy. | | | | |
| | | | Ezekiel's rebuke comes to my mind every time |
| Perhaps the most unbelievable of all was a | | | | I hear some one refuse to give a few dollars |
| woman who killed a pregnant woman then cut | | | | to a children's organization because they |
| her open and stole her unborn baby. I take | | | | think the child won't get all the money. But |
| exception with those who take exception with | | | | no one seems to even notice, much less demand |
| me for saying, that we have a nation of | | | | a tax refund when a four hundred million |
| potential criminals and crackpots in our own | | | | dollar Jupiter probes go haywire and becomes |
| children. | | | | useless. Movies are made that cost hundreds |
| | | | of millions of dollars to produce, whose |
| We have created this dangerous potential by | | | | messages and images would he better left in a |
| giving our children anything and everything | | | | garbage can. Tax money is spent on everything |
| they want or call for. When they enter the | | | | from the study of the flow of ketchup to the |
| real world, the work a day world where they | | | | nocturnal habits of lesbians. Concupiscence |
| must fend for themselves suddenly the silver | | | | and waste are rampant in every level of |
| platter is withdrawn and the reality is too | | | | society and government, while personal |
| much to handle for some. We have forgotten | | | | responsibility and prudent stewardship has |
| the days of our austerity when as pioneers, | | | | become an ethical relic of sorts. Where does |
| plainsmen, and immigrants we were thankful to | | | | it end? |
| have our most basic needs met. We have | | | | |
| elevated our wants and desires to the level | | | | I have no doubt that the chastisements of |
| of the sacred. | | | | America will be the sudden and complete |
| | | | removal of nearly all essential goods and |
| We imitate and borrow from the language of | | | | personal wealth. Something on the order of |
| the greedy with our preoccupation with the | | | | the dust bowl and the stock market crash |
| prosperity gospel of today's preachers. You | | | | combined, but multiplied many times over will |
| will be just as likely to find today's | | | | soon befall this country. How this will come |
| churches teaching us how to invest our money | | | | about is not certain but that is not my |
| as how to get saved. Being born again is | | | | concern at this moment. I would prefer to see |
| mocked and set aside in favor of instruction | | | | millions of Americans coming to their senses |
| in the stock market, retirement funds and get | | | | and turning back to God in humility and |
| rich schemes. Add to this, that modern | | | | thereby avoiding this great portent, but I am |
| psychology, sociology and other behavioral | | | | sure that this is not what they are going to |
| and environmental scientists have repeatedly | | | | do. A few years ago I was singing and |
| warned us that poverty leads to crime and | | | | playing guitar in some folk music venues. I |
| social upheaval of every kind. You can only | | | | produced three albums of Irish, folk, |
| imagine what America would look like if | | | | bluegrass and gospel songs before I published |
| virtually every extra and almost all | | | | a compilation of my original songs. Among |
| essentials were at a premium, if they could | | | | them is one I named An American Lament, I |
| be found at all. It does not paint a very | | | | tried to present it as a Christian song but |
| good picture. | | | | in the most subdued fashion. I wanted a |
| | | | message without the mush. I think I was able |
| The ancient city of Sodom was rebuked by the | | | | to accomplish that and that is why I present |
| prophet Ezekiel. Everyone knows the sins of | | | | it here to appendage this section. |