BROKEN CISTERNS CAN'T HOLD WATER
"Has a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be very desolate, says the Lord. For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water" (Jeremiah 2:11-13).
Imagine yourself to be like the person in this photo: after "having fun" – several "partners": never settling down, getting married, buying a home, and having a family. Now you're 70 – no spouse, no kids, no grandkids, no property, still working. You thought all that was too much bother. Now it's hell on earth, returning to your rented apartment exhausted and nobody greets you, nobody calls you, nobody's a close friend. Fun?
Click on the above photo, and you'll see an article on demographic decline in The Atlantic. It lists several reasons including Covid-19 deaths and it tacitly approves of illegal immigration, but the most important reason it lists is this:
"Finally, yes, Americans are having fewer babies – like basically every other rich country in the world. Since 2011, annual births have declined by 400,000. Two years ago, I wrote that “the future of the city is childless,” and the pandemic seems to have accelerated that future. Just look at Los Angeles: L.A. County recorded 153,000 live births in 2001 but fewer than 100,000 in 2021. At this rate, sometime around 2030, L.A. births will have declined by 50 percent in the 21st century."
What's going on? Pursuing pleasure and possessions has the direct result of decreasing the population: luxury and licentiousness lower the birth rate. The morals in much of the world have been turned upside-down: "Archbishop of Canterbury Promises LGBT Activists to 'Root Out' Certain People From the Church of England." Who are those "certain people"? Members of the Anglican General Synod who oppose same-sex marriage, and Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, Stephen Kaziimba, who wrote "To those who are recruiting children into homosexuality, I want to sound a very strong warning to you. These are not my words, but the words of Jesus: 'If anyone causes one of these little ones…to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.'"
The homosexual practices of Roman Catholic priests and resulting charges of sexual abuse of minors has been so broadly reported over the years that I need not quote more articles. But many young Protestants have also suffered from this type of abuse: "1 in 10 Young Protestants Have Left a Church Over Abuse." The LGBTQ movement is even attempting to make inroads among Eastern Orthodox churches but it is being strongly resisted: "Sexuality and Gender: Response to "Orthodoxy in Dialogue" Open Letter."
If the birth rate stays below 1.6 babies per woman, that society will collapse within just a few generations. In the last decade, the birth rate in the U.S. has fallen to 1.5 babies per woman: see the second chart in "The Mystery of the Declining U.S. Birth Rate," but that article can't seem to explain why this is happening. I believe the main reason that we are witnessing this demographic disaster is explained above: young people are being indoctrinated in schools and in the media to reject traditional morality and instead to march in the LGBTQ parade.
We desperately need to pray for the younger generation and convince them that they will come face-to-face with the reality of demographic collapse – nobody left to take care of them when they grow old – unless they reject this indoctrination and return to Christ, the Living Word of God.
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