Deception: The Broken Rod of Measurement

This article talks about:

• Moral Decay
• Relativism and Lawlessness
• Consequences of Ignoring God’s Laws

-By Elhanan ben-Avraham-

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” – Isaiah 5:20-21

When all standards of measurement are eroded and destroyed, everything becomes possible, even probable.  When lawlessness prevails, values become relative only to the eye of the beholder, and lies can be held as truths without any existing argument.  Absolutes become anachronisms to be scoffed and their purveyors scorned. Art becomes whatever one defines it to be, and music becomes noise—a cacophony without rhyme or reason.  And all distinctions become blurred, be it male and female, right and wrong, good and evil, order becomes chaos, and dialogue is replaced with violence. And thus, with creeping deception comes the end of the age and of viable civilization.

Will the Free World recognize that it has drifted far from its foundation of the Judeo-Christian worldview of morality and ethics and truth?  Will especially Americans remember and come to appreciate their great freedom “endowed by their Creator” while they still have it?  Or will they continue to abuse that freedom without the responsibility that comes with it, continuing to indoctrinate their children from kindergarten to college with ideas that are antithetical to those endowed by the Creator, creating a generation not unlike that described in the days of Noah, and the similar consequences following? 

We cannot break the inviolable laws of the Creator with impunity.

“Observe and obey these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of YHVH your God.” – Deuteronomy 12:28

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elhanan ben-Avraham, born in 1945, is a professional artist, poet, writer, father of two, and grandfather of four, and he has been living in Israel since 1979. He has served in the IDF, taught the Bible internationally, published five illustrated books of poetry, painted two large Biblical murals in public buildings in Jerusalem, and most recently produced THE JERUSALEM ILLUSTRATED BIBLE, among many other works. He and his wife live in a quiet village in the Mountains of Judah.