How Did We Get Here?
by Dick York

Who, a generation ago, would have imagined that the most pressing issue would have been the preservation of the right to murder your own children with the blessing of government and at public expense?
In the appointment of a Supreme Court justice, the major issue almost the singular issue is whether or not he will rule in favor of Roe v. Wade. We have become quite comfortable with the idea of abortion, but when it is allowed up until the moment of birth, it becomes, obviously, murder. This is the constitutional right; for which a very large and powerful minority in our country demands protection. Those who oppose this heinous abuse are labeled extremists far right-wing extremists. No protection for the lives of the children is upheld, only for the legal right of their abusers to kill them. How did we get to this place in a formerly civilized society?

Actually it is a long story that began a long time ago before the American Revolution or the socialization of Europe, even before the founding of Egypt. Six thousand years ago, shortly after the creation of man, the rebellion began. What we are seeing today is the predictable, even prophesied, result.

There are people who lose interest in understanding a matter if we trace it back to the beginning or creation. They become bored with the religious; point of view. But, in fact, this is not religion; it is reality, just as the present result is not religion. It, too, is a very troubling reality.
Present day conventional wisdom asserts that the historic account of creation is a collection of myths invented by ignorant and superstitious savages to explain what they could not understand. But now, to them, science has produced an enlightened; explanation of the origin of life. It has eliminated the superstitious belief in a creator or in a supreme authority. In thereby reducing mankind to mere animal status, there is no need to restrict him by law or by peer pressure from doing whatever animals find acceptable to do to satisfy their carnal instincts.
In fact there is a God to whom man, created in His image and for His purpose, is responsible. No denial, no matter how convincing, can reduce man's accountability.

The first man was created as a mature person, enlightened and directed by God, with access to all wisdom and knowledge as he walked in communion and in dependency upon his creator. In so doing, he was to visibly manifest the character and will of the invisible God.

It was God's plan to bring many sons into glory. He would do this, not by creating by himself many distinct humans, but by ordaining the one man he had created to reproduce after his own kind, thereby becoming a worker together with God in filling the earth with a people for God's name. This is not religious speculation, but historic fact. The norm, then, was God and man in harmonious relationship. God is not the creation of man's superstitious imagination, but man was the creation of God's proclamation, and the world's population is the result of man's procreation. This was God's purpose. Sex, obviously, was the necessary means of producing this miraculous; result.

So how, then, did this holy, God-given instinct become the increasingly destructive ingredient in our deteriorating social fabric that it is today? It fuels the illicit flesh markets of the world the multi-billion dollar pornography industry, the worldwide traffic of kidnapped children for purposes of prostitution and worse. It is the base material for our entertainment industry. It is the hook in most of our commercial advertising. It has become an important part in our increasingly perverted education system. It inspires murder, deception, theft and treachery. What's going on?

It didn't start out that way. It wasn't even a factor of the fall of man into his sinful state. But because of the important even critical part it played in the accomplishing of God's program, it soon became strategic in Lucifer's plan to usurp God's authority over the creation. There is no sex scene in the account of Adam's fall. There is one underlying factor an act of disobedience, which was a declaration of independence from God's authority. At the instigation of Satan, man declared himself to be like God. And here is where it all began.

Man, in the beginning, was placed in authority over the earthly creation. He was the masterpiece of all created things, but he was not divine, nor was he made to be a master independent of God's authority. In other words, he was not an initiator, but a servant, an underling subservient to God's direction. Of necessity he was given a free will in order that he might be capable of two responses most important to the relationship that God desired to have with him: love and obedience; neither of which can be dictated.

Once introduced to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life by Satan's subtle direction to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Adam's ability to decide became the exit from his holy relationship with God, and his entrance into the dark realm of Satan's newly acquired authority which was the result of Adam's defection. Now began Satan's gleeful perversion of all that represented God's perfect plan and the willing enslavement of mankind.

God is truth; Satan is a liar and the father of lies. God is the author of life; Satan is a murderer. God is light; Satan is the ruler of darkness. Because man was made to function under authority and is helpless to do so independently, he became a pawn in Satan's wicked agenda.
Satan is the angel Lucifer, whose name means light.; He is a deceiver. Through deception he presents darkness as light, evil as good, and generally turns everything upside down. This, no doubt, is why the scriptures say, There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.; Prov. 14:12. People fail to understand this because Satan, the god of this world, has blinded their eyes. 2 Cor. 4:4.

The most primeval instinct of man is to reproduce. Under God's authority, this God-given instinct would have produced a godly seed and filled the earth with humanity in the image of God. Under the perverted authority of Satan it degenerated into an orgy of self-gratification. From procreational, sex outside of God's context became recreational. Many of the children it produced were unwanted, resulting in a horror of grief, misery and brutality that children have suffered throughout the annals of history.

The children that should have been the Lord's soon became sacrifices offered to such gods as Ashteroth and Chemosh. Man's rebellion against God was expressed by the hijacking of the most sacred of human relationships and turning it into a vile perversion. It is Satan's clenched fist in the face of the Almighty.

Because sex is the most basic of our instincts, it is the most easily perverted of the lusts of fallen humanity. In any case, whether legitimate or adulterous, sex produces children often unwanted by those who produce them, but not unwanted by God. They become another means of demonstrating contempt for God. As a sacrifice to the god of convenience, self-will or lust, millions of children have been murdered by abortion just as millions in old-time were sacrificed to the aforementioned gods of the heathen nations.

For many generations, the influence of Christianity in modern western nations made adultery, fornication and sexual perversion officially unacceptable. Laws were made to discourage their practice. Of course no law can prevent sin, which flourishes despite all legal attempts to stifle it, but at least such social mores announce that some behaviors are unacceptable, and a certain restraint is produced.

But law cannot produce righteousness. In many subtle and not so subtle ways resistance to restrictive laws mounted in this nation. Entertainment based on sexual innuendo normalized what had once been considered taboo. Ridicule of family values encouraged rebellion against established norms and against old-fashioned; parental guidance. Sex education in schools began to arouse children's interest at an increasingly early age until it seemed quaint; to imagine that anything sexual should be dealt with discreetly. Innocence was destroyed, virginity ridiculed and sex outed; as a normal form of recreation in which all are expected to participate. To think otherwise is to be religious.;

From there, any teaching of righteousness or moral behavior was classified as religion,; and anything bearing that label violated the disingenuous interpretation or the separation of Church and State; clause. In Satan's rebellious authority, God must be silenced. Because it was God who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery; and it is one of the Ten Commandments found in the Bible, it must be expunged.

This dishonest, artful position is a strategy born of Satan's rebellion against God in our society and his way to further demoralize a reeling nation. Immoral sex is a foundation stone in Satan's purpose to usurp God's plan. Abortion is the child sacrifice that Satan demands. This is a spiritual battle. It is unlikely that those who insist on making abortion the single issue on which to reject or confirm a Supreme Court appointee realize who or what is behind their insanity; but whether they realize it or not they are pawns in a spiritual battle being waged in the heavenlies.