Can the World Escape God's Judgement?

The manner of God's patient dealing with the world today efforts a classic lesson to divine grace and mercy. Sodom had no such chance. It was a city steeped in moral corruption and abject depravity. From its first mention until now, Sodom invokes images of abominabale bestial practices; it was simply mankind at its worst. God's word saws that "the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly" (Genesis 13 v 13). The Sodomites went on in their sinful passions until their cup was full. Going deeper and deeper in their evil, it was a matter of time before God rained fire and brimstone on the city and hurled its inhabitants into the everlasting punishment in hell. They are there to this day. (Jude 7).

Sodom was abhorrently evil, no doubt; but it is certainly no match for this present world in the spread of evil, perversion and utter disregard for God's laws. With the happenings in the world today, mankind hangs precariously by a mere thread over the fiery furnace of God's mighty judgement. The current scope of iniquity is indescribable, nay, unimaginable. What with the wickedness, the waywardness, the celebration of evil, the glorification of self, the shameless display of nudity, the so-called beauty pageants and the fashion parades, the reality shows with the distorted values they promote, the insignificance of human life, the endless tales of political greed and corruption, the assassinations and, worse of all, the apostasy of the visible church?

Everywhere you look, the whole world tethers at a moral brink. Some nations have even tumbled over. Sodomy, the sinful act of mating with the same gender, used to be a shameful thing. Webster's Dictionary called it "a crime against nature"; but that was more than 200 years ago. Until very recently, to be termed "a sodomite" was regarded as a label hide. Today man's depravity stripped the term sodomy or homosexuality of its repulsion; a new set of "fashionable" synonyms has been invented: gay, lesbian or same-sex relationship. Now we hear of gay pride, gay rights and gay parades. The sin of Sodom has left the back alleys and street corners and is boldly, brazenly, marching on the highways of human civilization! The bible calls prostitutes whores but they have adopted the title of "commercial sex workers", an inglorious title nonetheless.

A country in Western Europe led the the way in the moral slide when, in 2001, she became the first nation to legalize homosexual marriages. Since then, several other countries have followed suit. Nations of the world are trying to outpace each other in tearing down their traditional values of moral decency and their spiritual foundations.

How can the world escape God's judgement? No way!