Words cannot express in the English language how much I agree with everything you just wrote and not only what you wrote, but in the exact fashion you wrote it.  This is profound to me perhaps because this is the exact theme my friend and I have been discussing the last several months.  To the outside world and most of the church we say "the world is falling apart" and they agree, but are nonchalant about it.  I am just simply amazed at how very fast the deterioration of morals are right now.  It is heading toward lightning speed!  This must mean one thing, that the rapture is definitely at hand.  

My friend and I use to teach the rapture would occur and everything would fall apart afterwards.  That was definitely naive.  After 911, the war, the economy slowly crashing (or abruptly depending on how you look at it) something became a reality.  That reality was that things were instead going to go from bad to worse!  The way I came to this conclusion is because it appears that right here at the end the Lord has to separate the wise and foolish virgins.  Some people will only come back to the Lord in times of testing and trial, thus some will purchase extra oil for their lamps and others will choose instead not to. This is what is happening right now.  Even in our own household, things we use to tolerate on TV and in our lives daily we now completely abstain from it.  If we are watching a favorite TV show and it has even one episode defending the homosexual lifestyle, that show is is cut off and banned from our TV forever.  That is just one example.

You and I are definitely of one spirit on this issue.  Let us continue to purchase oil for our lamp because the bridegroom is on His way!

Josh List