Lord and against His anointed.” Looking back some 30 years ago, we can recall that historic conference which took place in Munich, Ger many. In attendance were Hitler and his puppet Mussolini. To that meet ing was added Premier Daladier of France and Sir Neville Chamberlain of England. In agony following in famy, the world vainly watched for some sign of hope and relief. Emerg ing from the conference, Chamber- lain managed a faint smile as he announced to the world, “Peace in our times.” How hollow and empty those words were! They were quick ly drowned out as the dread tanks of the Nazi Jaggernaut pushed through the Balkans and ultimately swept over both western and eastern Europe. Similarly has it always been: “kings of the earth setting them selves.” This statement actually represents the governmental potentates as well as the lawmakers. This is something quite significant when we consider the latter. Think of the jurists who seem to set themselves deliberately against the established order of life as it is morally delineated in the ten commandments! In the December 18, 1967 issue of U.S. News and World Report a pene trating article contains the rhetori cal question: “Are Judges Remaking America?” The answer is rather ob vious for the documented material points out several decisions of our Supreme Court in the last decade. As a result, these days our law offic ers not only have their hands tied, but also the courts are finding it difficult to protect the innocent while seeking to prosecute the guilty. In 1957 it was ordered that a per Love is the doorway through which man passes from selfishness to service.
vain promises. The cries of them who are spiritually impoverished have entered into the ears of the coming Christ. You have preferred worldly pleasures, and have greedily drunk from the bitter cup of licen tiousness. You have fattened your selves for the last judgment of an angry God. You have neglected a lost world while seeking to build a prosperous America. As a result, the nations now hate you and blaspheme you and your God.” Think of the tremendous advance ment man has made only in the last few years! As an example, 90% of all the scientists who have ever lived are living today. Think of the strides made in such fields as electronics and aerodynamics! Soon we will be able to conquer space. In the area of medicine, we marvel at the wonder drugs and cures for various dread maladies which have been discovered. We’re probably on the brink of find ing the cure for such physical foes as cancer and the common cold. Heart transplants have opened up new vistas of surgical possibilities in a number of areas. In Southern Cali fornia men with test tubes and high ly complex gadgets may some day reach the stage where they can con quer what ultimately may be an even bigger problem, namely, smog. In the light of so many dramatic achieve ments still God writes across the inventive genius of man in rebellion against spiritual restraint: “Vanity, empty and foolish!” Such a life can only come to naught. What can amaze us even more is the fact that not only do the rank and file as well as the rulers of nations imagine a vain thing, but more spe cifically and alarming even the lead ers, hold such views. It is tragic to see that those who are in places of prominence, power, and authority have no thought for the Almighty. Notice verse 2: “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the 4
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