For two-hundred-thirty-four years the American people had largely been living in a bubble of sanity in a world that is terminally insane. Those that are still sane in America tend to think the world should want the Christian ethics and morality that America was founded on. The foundational truths of Christianity made America the most sane and prosperous nation on earth. But, even in the history of America we see times when the sanity bubble collapsed and insanity reigned in those living according to the flesh. It now looks like we have entered the terminal period of insanity for our nation, all world empires do, when they no longer fear God and people are allowed to prey on the innocent.

Most Americans have moved outside the Christian morality sanity bubble and have now chosen to dwell in the insanity of the world system. We see this in our educational system and the insanity that they teach. We see this in our growing criminal population and the counter reaction that always ends in government tyranny. That cycle is predictable. We see that this insanity prevails in our culture of “anything goes”. People want to be free to do whatever is right in their own eyes but the collective nation cannot even judge correctly between choosing good and evil.

The sanity in America largely came from her Christian foundations but now that the foundation has crumbed the whole house will soon collapse. Christians in America should not be surprised at what they see happening. When churches removed the Bible as the foundation for Christianity and inserted worldly doctrines of men the results became predictable for the nation. American Christianity is now much like the church at Laodicea. What did Jesus say to that church in the book of Revelation?

Rev 3:14   And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

The Laodicean Church became wealthy and worldly. They lived in false security because they were rich by the standards of the world but Jesus said they were poor spiritually. They were living in the flesh instead of walking in the spirit.  The letter to Laodicea could have been written to most Christians in America today.

It really should not surprise any Christian that the world is terminally insane. The Bible makes it quite clear that sin has brought insanity into the world and that there is no natural remedy. Man in the flesh is corrupted, is without God, and is condemned. The natural man will only lead the world on the path to destruction. That is why God sent Jesus. To provide the only way given by God that man can escape the corruption caused by sin, the flesh, and the Devil.

Even the non Christian world should see that the world is terminally insane. The history of the world should make that clear enough to anyone. The people in the world have continually been demonstrating their depravity and insanity throughout time. No peace on the earth ever lasts for long, there is always more murder, another war, another rebellion, another revolution, and another counter-revolution. Nothing has changed over thousands of years except now man has the means to destroy the whole planet through man-made weapons of mass destruction (WND).

With the world’s insane history what sane person could even think that man will suddenly become peaceful instead of actually using WMD in anger one day? Just, look at world conditions today. After the war to end all wars (WWI), after WWII, after the age of Aquarius peace movement, and after countless wars and rumors of wars since, do you actually see any indication that the world is progressing toward peace? The world used the Acronym MAD  in the cold war era because what the mutually assured destruction they were contemplating was mad but that concept is not over just because the Soviet Union went broke and collapsed.

Even if all nations give up their nuclear weapons today what makes anyone think that man will not just create even deadlier weapons to use against each other in the future?  Besides nuclear weapons, countries are now actively developing laser weapons, plasma weapons, biological weapons and non nuclear explosives that bring as much destruction as nuclear bombs.

So, knowing that man is insane why do some Christians think that we are going to make a utopia on earth before Jesus returns and cuts off evil from the earth? Why do some Christians in America expect to bring Christian morality back to a nation that chose to abandon it?

All Christians can really do is be the salt and light to the world. The salt and the light is not given to the world so people can live fat and happy lives in their still corrupted flesh. The salt gives the cure for people to escape corruption of their flesh and the light removes the darkness that keeps them from seeing, believing and being born of the Spirit. We Christians should know that people of flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. They must be born of the Spirit, they must all be changed (1 Co 15:50).

The world is a terminally insane place. Christians should not have unrealistic expectations that they are somehow going to cure man by putting band-aids on his flesh. We are now seeing the conditions that the Bible describes as those occurring in the last days. As Christians we can try to influence things for the better in the world but we should know the end will come as written in spite of our human efforts.

In other words, if you really believe we are in the end times why do you think that Christians will actually restore America to biblical morality by just electing new leaders? Corrupted leaders that left the foundation of truth to believe lies just reflect that the people of the nation did the same.