This carries two important features not widely discussed by
experts, but vital to our understanding of what goes on around us as we speak. First, the social collapse does
not primarily originate with politics, economics, government, etc. Failure in
these areas arises merely as a symptom of the real problem. Social collapse
begins with a failure of ethics. Jesus says it pertains to “everyone
who hears these words of mine and does not do them.” Ethics first, then
politics. Secondly, while social collapse can indeed come suddenly and from
unexpected or unforeseen triggers, it does not come randomly, nor do we have to
live constantly on the “edge of chaos,” as Ferguson suggests, in constant fear
of some minute “trigger” of social catastrophe. Rather, as Christ says, the collapse comes due to a
recognizable event—a storm, a flood—and only happens because the seeds of
collapse existed from day one of the structure. Collapse loomed inevitable
because of a faulty foundation in sand. A society established by ignoring God’s
commandments will inevitably and predictably collapse at some point. It will
happen; it is a law of the universe, of the Word of God…………
It took some time, but that
society that collapsed had the seeds of its own collapse within it from day
one: false religion, fear, lust, envy, war, fraud. It was a society built on
sand. What Christ had talked about in Matthew 7, grew directly out of his exposition
of the second table of the law in Matthew 5: don’t murder,
don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie, and don’t covet. Social collapse stems from
breaking these simple commandments. Social strength and freedom appear only in
keeping them. Those who wish to save our civilization need to start here. All
else will fall, and great will be the fall of it.
