Isaiah 5:8-9 and 20-23 -- Woe to those who call good evil...

"Woe:   Ruinous trouble, calamity, affliction, sorrow."

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"Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, until there is no more room, so that you have to live alone in the midst of the land! In my ears the Lord of hosts has sworn, "Surely, many houses shall become desolate, even great and fine ones, without occupants." 

Isaiah 5:8-9

With rising foreclosures and an abundance of over-sized, overpriced homes sitting vacant, Isaiah 5:8-9 seemed particularly fitting to our day.  

Endtime prophecy can be found in almost every book of the Bible, in both the old and the new testaments.  It's amazing to me how often the signs of the endtimes seem to be blaring from words written more than 2,000 years ago.  The Bible has an incredible ability to apply to our daily life today, just as it has for hundreds of generations before us.

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight! Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant men in mixing strong drink, who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!" 

Isaiah 5:20-23

We are definitely already in the age when good is called evil and evil good.  When you see liberals vehemently defend abortion and homosexuality, keep in mind, most of those same people think public prayer is wrong and the Ten Commandments are offensive.  In mainstream elitist America today, morality itself is under constant attack and ridicule, along with anyone who believes in God (Jesus Christ specifically), the sanctity of marriage, the right to bear arms, or the immorality of abortion.  

Organizations like ACORN and MoveOn corrupt our election process.  Justice is meted out to the tune of Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson.  Gun rights are under constant threat of regulation.  Christmas has been discriminated against in our public schools.  Second graders are taught the book "Heather has two mommies."  The same kids who have "Catcher in the Rye" on their school reading list are told it is illegal to bring their Bibles to school for study hall.  

Times are not looking very promising for us from a biblical perspective.