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RELIGION/The Charlotte Post
November 7, 1996
The Prophet’s Column
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God told Noah that He was
going to destroy man from off
the face of the earth in 120
years. Why 120 years? I don’t
know and the Bible doesn't tell
us. But God is sovereign, which
every sinner learns long before
God saves him, and can and
does as He pleases.
You learn under Holy Spirit
Conviction (John 16:7-11) that
you don’t dictate to God. But
this period of 120 years was a
time of grace. What will man
do with it? The Lord sent His
warning through His servant
Noah. Keep in mind John 8:47;
"He that is of God heareth
God's words: ye therefore hear
them not, because you are not
of God.” There is the line of
Churches
rally to
end fires
Continued from 11A
He ticked off issues such as
real estate agents and banks
“redlining” blacks out of white
neighborhoods, new court rul
ings on minority voting rights,
and different sentences for
drug use that leaves many
blacks facing stricter punish
ment.
“This will be a march just like
the Million Man March,
because people are that
angiy,”he said.
Gray and Mackey said South
Carolina leads the nation in
burned churches with 32; state
officials say they have counted
17 black church burnings since
1991.
More than 100 black church
es nationwide, mainly in the
South, have been bunded since
Jq[nuary 1995. Federal Taw
eiAbreeffient dffibials’alsc/ have
investigated a nmnber of suspi
cious fires that consiuned other
houses of worship and church
es with majority white congre
gations during the same peri
od.
Altogether, more than 250
fires have been investigated.
Law enforcement officials
have concluded that only about
20 percent of the black church
arsons now solved appeared to
bp racially motivated.
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demarcation! You will either
hear God’s Word, or not hear
His Word. To hear God’s word
means to obey it. Now, here is
the generation of Noah’s day; it
is almost 2,000 years since God
made Adam and placed him
here in Eden. How can we
rightly describe man at this
point in the world’s history?
Genesis 6:11-12 says: “The
earth also was corrupt before
God, and the earth was filled
with violence. And God looked
upon the earth, and, behold, it
was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the
earth.”
Now that is God’s description
of mankind at this point in the
world's history. That is also an
accurate description of this
wicked generation we live in
today! This lets us know the
Second Coming of the Lord is
very near, much nearer than
we think. God is a merciful
God. He gave this wicked gen
eration 120 years. The He gave
them another period of grace;
“For yet seven days, and I will
cause it to rain upon the earth
forty days and forty nights;
and every living substance that
I have made will I destroy from
off the face of the earth.”
Genesis 7:4. Wasn’t that grace?
Behold the goodness of God!
But in the face of the goodness
and mercy of God, Noah’s gen
eration went about their busi
ness; “eating, drinking, marry
ing, giving in marriage (wife
swapping), until the day that
Noah entered into the ark, and
the flood came, and destroyed
them all.” Read this account in
Genesis 7:11-24. Millions of
souls were destroyed in this
watery judgment and were
swept into Hell. This was
Hell’s first harvest. All those
souls who refused God's warn
ing from the lips of His ser
vant, Noah, perished: in the
flood. What a judgment! Can
you conceive of millions of
souls beating on that ark cry
ing to get in after the waters
started? It’s an awfiil thing to
sin against God. Sin is a damn
ing thing. God hates sin.
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A new report from the
National Center on Addiction
Euid Substance Abuse says reh-
gion CEUi keep kids from using
illegal drugs and alcohol.
Two Brigham Young
University professors say they
have 20 years of research to
back up such a claim.
“Something inherent to reli
gious behef makes it effective in
channeling youth away from
cigarettes, alcohol and drugs,”
and other delinquent activity,
says Bruce A. Chadwick, a soci
ologist and director of the uni
versity’s Center for Studies of
the Family in Provo, Utah, now
assisted by Brent L. Top of the
school’s rehgion faculty. The two
researchers have delved further
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drug connection than perhaps
any other American team.
And data compiled since the
mid 1970s says there is a defi
nite connection. But there’s also
a catch. Pubhc rehgious behav
iors alone, like simple church
attendance, caution Chadwick
and Top, do not correlate with
lower delinquency rates. Says
Chadwick, “Most of the research
on what I call The hellfire and
damnation hypothesis’ - you go
to church and have it pounded
in, so automatically you don’t do
delinquent things - that just
doesn’t hold; it’s been rejected
by the research over and over.
TTiis is where kids go to church
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kids go to church, they sit
through the meetings, they do
the motions but it is not a reh
gious experience.”
“These pubhc activities,” adds
Top, “do not coimteract the peer
pressures facing youth today.
Instead, it’s the “personal inter-
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