The World Has Gone Mad Over the Slaying of Cecil the Lion

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The World Has Gone Mad Over the Slaying of Cecil the Lion

The hunt is on for Cecil the Lion’s cold-blooded killer. With all the outrageous things going on, this is what outrages people?

A few weeks ago, the people of the Western world were focused on the Supreme Court’s same-sex “marriage” ruling. Next, their attention was monopolized by a white woman who identifies as black. Then it was a male Olympic champion who sees himself as a woman. Focus then shifted to transgender rights—women’s rights—minority rights—immigrant rights—prisoner rights.

Now they are fixated on Cecil the lion and the man who killed him. This was no regular lion. He was popular! And much of the world is outraged.

Death threats have been sent to the American dentist who killed Cecil. Protesters dressed as “dentist hunters” have assembled outside his office and house. Celebrities are using their fame to draw attention to the killing and to blast the dentist. One American late-night talk show host actually started crying on live television over the loss of Cecil. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta) said on its Twitter account that Palmer should be “extradited, charged and, preferably, hanged.”

How can this be the story drawing such outrage? How can this be what is dominating the headlines?!

Over the last two weeks, there have been several videos released showing Planned Parenthood officials, personnel and doctors discussing the harvesting of aborted baby parts.

It simply cannot get anymore sick than this—finding creative ways to kill unborn children so that their body parts might be sold on the black market.

There have been no protests.

No international outcry.

No one’s been shamed into resigning—not that I know of.

Some in Congress proposed legislation yesterday to defund Planned Parenthood—but that won’t get off the ground because the president has promised to veto it.

So we shrug this off and arrange for a protest over a dead lion?

When that Islamist murdered five U.S. servicemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a couple weeks ago, it didn’t get half the publicity Cecil the lion got on July 29.

On July 1, an illegal immigrant named Francisco Sanchez—stoned on drugs—went staggering along Pier 14 in San Francisco. He said he was out to shoot sea lions. He shot Kate Steinle instead. He murdered a woman!

We are living in a world gone mad.

Jews are fleeing Europe. Christians are being slaughtered in the Middle East and North Africa. Women and girls are being made sex slaves daily in Syria and Iraq. Muslim girls are being mutilated by the tens of thousands in Britain of all places!

The Russian empire is on the march! China is building a navy to take down the United States. Iran is building the bomb—and America is helping it! The United States is being overrun by illegal aliens. The eurocrisis has many in Europe calling for a United States of Europe!

And yet, look at the stories that generate the most interest in our world. Look at the stories that arouse a passionate reaction. Look at what people are outraged by. Look at how selective the outrage is. Look at what people show up to protest. Look at what they turn a blind eye to.

It says a lot about your world, doesn’t it?

Without an understanding of Bible prophecy, it would beeasy to get frustrated by the slumbering spirit that has drugged America and Britain.

Look at how oblivious our people are to the terrifying dangers just ahead of us. Here we are at a time when Bible prophecies are being fulfilled almost by the week, and our peoples are soundly asleep!

We’ve been trumpeting these prophecies for over two decades, following in the footsteps of Herbert W. Armstrong who prophesied before us for more than 50 years. And now that many of these very prophecies are being fulfilled, one would think our mail bins would be buried under piles of requests; that our phone lines would light up like Las Vegas; that our Web traffic would crash the servers.

Instead, it’s more like a steady trickle of interest—one from a city, two from a family, as the Prophet Jeremiah said. God’s work is still getting done. His warning message of love is still going out to this world.

2 Timothy 3:1-4 say: “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.”

As the Apostle Paul said, in these “last days,” men would love themselves and pleasure-seeking more than God. This doesn’t apply to every single individual, of course, but it certainly describes our society in general.

Amid all the Bible prophecies being fulfilled before our eyes, the fact that most people have blindfolded themselves to what is really happening in this world is, in itself, a prophetic sign that we are nearing the return of Jesus Christ!

Notice what Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5:2: “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”

This means that Jesus Christ will intervene in the affairs of men at a time when most people least expect it!

Phillips translates part of verse 3 as saying, “Catastrophe will sweep down upon them as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman.” All this happens when most people are lulled to sleep by illusions of peace and security.

Verse 7 says, “For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.”

But to the rare individual who sees the great evil of this sin-drenched world—drunk on the pagan customs and perverse traditions of men—and who is willing to forsake the ways of man and to turn to God in repentance, faith and obedience to His laws, summarized by the Ten Commandments, God offers a superabundant supply of love and mercy, life-changing revelation and truth, and the only sure hope there is! That is true for any individual—as well as for this dying world!

Knowing the times we are living in, as Paul beseeched the brethren in Rome, “now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed” (Romans 13:11).

Now is the time to pour our hearts and energies into the study of God’s Word, to fervently seek God and His direction in our daily prayers, and to faithfully abide by His commandments in our day-to-day living.

Look at this world! Look at the obsessive interest and boundless energy it has in pursuing the ways of sin.

Can’t we put some time-consuming, energetic devotion into our love and service to God and His great work?