Drunkeness and the End of the Age
Social drinking is not the solution to the problem of
alcoholism. Rather the social glass is the starting
point of the majority of alcoholics.
If legal age barriers are eliminated in the sale of alcoholic
beverages, and boys and girls are encouraged to drink in the
homes, in society, and at church sponsored functions, what would
be the result ?
There would be increased slaughter on our highways due to drunken
driving including that of teenage drivers.
The national crime bill, already the highest on record, will be
greatly increased.
As strong drink destroys the mind and body and removes all moral
inhibitions, the nation would be
further weakened to subversive forces boring from within.
The rich owners of huge liquor monopolies and big investors will
become richer still as families are
reduced to abject poverty, and youth winds up in a gutter.
Increased drunkenness is one of the given signs of the last days:
"But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should
overtake you as a thief...Therefore let us not sleep, as do
others, but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep
in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
But let us, who are of the day be sober... For God hath not
appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus
Christ" (1Thess.5:4-9).
Those who are drunken in the night are not the children of light.
Only the children of light are appointed to obtain salvation.
Those who are of the night and darkness including drunkards, are
appointed to wrath.
What will drunkards do, when in the last great war of this age,
the vintage is cut off, and there is no more wine?
They will awake and weep and howl as forecast by the prophets.
(Joel 1:5; Is.24:1)
In view of His sudden return, Jesus specifically warned
Christians, saying "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any
time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkeness,
and cares ot this life, and so that day come upon you
unawares" (Luke21:34). But sad to say, many do not heed this
warning.
Likewise there are ministers today, who, like the householder in
Jesus' parable, have said in their hearts, "My Lord delayeth
His coming," and are now engaged in smitting their
fellowservants and eating and drinking with the drunken. Upon
such, the Lord will come in an hour when they think not, and
shall appoint their portion with the hypocrites where
"...there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth
(Matt.24.51)
~The Flaming Torch.