The Era of Reprobate Minds

There are so many passages of Scripture describing the last days which seem to be exact descriptions of our culture today that it's hard not to wonder if we are the last generation before Christ's return. The passage quoted below from Romans 1:28-32 is especially apt. 

28 "And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them." (Romans 1:28-32)

What stands out to me lately is the "debased" (ESV) or "reprobate" (KJV) mind in verse 28. The original Greek word translated as "reprobate" here is ἀδόκιμος, which is also translated as "not approved, rejected, unfit, not as it ought to be." 

Only a debased, unfit mind celebrates the violent murder and dismemberment of innocent unborn children in the name of "women's rights". Only an unfit mind will spend millions to save a tree and ~4 million a year through Medicaid in the USA alone to kill healthy children in the womb.

Only a mind completely set apart from the God of righteousness celebrates all forms of sexual immorality, including pedophilia, despite the consequences of such lifestyles recorded throughout history. 

Only a defunct brain will deny fundamental scientific truth found in every cell of the human body to bully people into believing that gender is a construct of the mind. Only a greedy and depraved mind will systematically abuse children through medical organizations (AMA, APA, AAP) by insisting children should be chemically and surgically mutilated to match whatever gender their underdeveloped minds like best on any given day, even when appropriate counseling and the natural maturation process almost always correct any mismatches between the mind and the body (except when such minds are continually manipulated by others to deliberately make them continue perceiving themselves wrongly). 

Only a reprobate mind exalts tolerance of evil over the most common sense universal moral laws which have sustained and preserved cultures throughout history. 

Only a corrupted mind is so consumed with self while denying the sanctity of human life enough to commit a mass shooting. 

Only an unfit mind gets offended by what is true, holy, and just and insists others must not speak of, much less hold, Judeo-Christian values all in the name of "tolerance".

Our culture's epic level of insanity should come as no surprise. God foretold all of this 2000 years ago.

The Fourth Beast in Daniel's Vision

Source:  www.neverthirsty.org

World history makes it easy to see to see which kingdoms the first 3 beasts were referencing in . Daniel's prophetic vision of the 4 beasts (Daniel 7). The first beast, which was like a lion with eagle's wings, was Babylon. The second beast, which was like a bear, was Persia. The third beast, which was like leopard except it had four heads, was Greece. The fourth refers to the Roman Empire, and most theologians agree that it also refers to the end time civilization (modern times). Interestingly, this fourth beast is not described by natural, animal forms. It's entirely different. The Hebrew word used to describe it is shainah, which means "changed, altered, different". (Source:  Book of Mysteries, Day 114, by Jonathan Cahn). It has iron teeth and bronze claws. That description sounds like a machine, so it always made me think of the industrial revolution, the technology boom, and nuclear weapons which have characterized modern times and the march toward the last days. But Jonathan Cahn describes it in broader terms. 

"End-time civilization will be based on the natural, not the unnatural. It will exists against nature. It will be of an altered or transmuted nature, a civilization at war with creation, with nature and with the order of God......those who live in the end times must resist a civilization that wars against the order of creation and uphold the Word of the Eternal."

This emphasis on changing the natural into the unnatural makes me think of GMOs, environmental toxins, synthetic hormones, the use of chemotherapy type drugs to treat cancer instead of the plants God made which have the capacity to kill the actual cancer stem cells (which chemo and radiation cannot do) while boosting the immune system instead of attacking it, possibly the vaccine industry's overreach, and big pharma companies that tend to create something unnatural that attempts to mimic what is natural (because they can't patent nature...the big money is only available by patenting what is unnatural even though our bodies are only designed to process what is natural...so the side effects are always worse with manmade drugs).

But what about the whole LGBTQ movement? Is that a highly organized war against God's natural order with the goal of normalizing the unnatural, even exalting it over what is natural?

What do you think of Cahn's interpretation?