Before you read this study understand that we do not teach, we share and then ask all who read the following take it to God and verify it with Him. We believe a lot of the world is misled by the church of the world and religion vs the one true church. And to know the truth can only come from knowing, not just knowing of God, John 14:26, I John 2:27, Rev 3:19-22.
Many are called but few are chosen because many are misled by false teachers Matthew 7:13-15 so we help all who wants to know the truth how to find and know the truth of and by God and not of and by man.



Is Evil Growing
or Do We Just See More?


Pastor J. R. Wilhite, author   Close Window

Is it that due to television we see more or is it that evil is growing? Before we get into this question, let's define the word evil.

Strong's Ref. # 7451

Romanized ra`

Pronounced rah

from HSN7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral):

KJV--adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil([-favouredness], man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + Mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. [Including feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.].

Strong's Ref. # 4190

Romanized poneros

Pronounced pon-ay-ros'

from a derivative of GSN4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from GSN2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from GSN4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners:

KJV--bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness). See also GSN4191.

Above are two different (but similar) definitions,. The first is the Old Testament version of the word evil. The second is from the New Testament.

So many do not realize how much evil there is in our lives. We no longer realize what is and is not evil. Of course in scripture it is anything that cuts us off from God. Evil today has grown so wide and deep that more and more are accepting evil in their home and their lives today.

My father died in 1968, but if he came back today and saw just what we allow in our homes via television he would be shocked. In the 50's even into the very early 60's television did not have sex. They would show people who were married on television with 2 beds to sleep in. Language that is used on TV has become crude, rude, and would have been socially unacceptable 30 years ago.

Think about it, if Jesus came to visit is there anything you do, say or have in your life that that you would not want Him to see. How about the music you listen to or the television you view? If you take a few minutes and think about it, you should see what I am talking about.

The point is that God has not changed but we have. In the past 30-50 years we have allowed separation of church and state to mean to penalize the church, where before 1950 the church was protected from the state. Now it is the state being protected.

Let's just look at what is on television:

  1. Woman in Texas kills 5 children 6 months old to 7 years old.
  2. In San Francisco a couple's dog kills a woman, and owners do not even seem to remorse for the woman's death, just that the dog must be destroyed.
  3. Over the past 10 years, in about 6 different parts of the country teens kill teens in schools.
  4. A 10 year old in Chicago drops a 7 year old out a window.
  5. As of 2002 more than 30 million babies have been aborted
  6. A 7 year old girl was taken from her home after being put to bed, raped, murdered, and then burnt. The man that is suspected to have done this had all kinds of child porno in his home.
  7. A teen goes over seas to learn more about being a Muslim and is found in Afghanistan as an American Taliban. Parents had supported the teen to do as he had done.
  8. In Israel 5-25 a week are being killed over disputed land.

These are just a few selected at random, there is so much more. Even our comercials are just down right disgusting.

In on of the "X-Files" (a very popular show) last shows stated that a space ship had scripture on it, leading people to believe there is no God. The scripture being on the ship shows what we believe is word of God is from an alien race and that there is no God.

Musicians today, like Madonna, Ice T, Cher, and so many more are showing more than they should, or is even legal in some places.

How did this happen? How did we get so evil in such a short time? How this happens is that people can be desensitized, and in time it appears that the masses will accept anything. When the one person who should set the example to all is having sex in the oval office with a woman he is not married to, it has nowhere to go but down hill.

So the slower it is insinuated into society, the more the morality can be reduced with out a popular outcry. Satan definitely knows what he is doing.

There are those who try hard to prove their point (which is to listen to man, not God).
The real shame is these people, as do so many, have doubts and can not move on until they get others to see they are right, or their doubts will grow. They have to be right no matter what the truth is.


Thoughts only come from one of two places. They are either forced by Satan (most never realize they are accepting Satan's thoughts), or the other is from God's thoughts.
The latter is the harder of the two since Satan is like a thief and a rapist forcing himself on people, and God is a gentleman and has to be sought.
2 Corinthians 10
5. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

I share all of this for two reasons.
In Romans 8:16 we are told God will call us His children. I can say that when anyone hears (actually hears His voice) this, all doubt about Him and the truth disappear. We know, and what we do not, He teaches and explains.

The bottom line is if you really want to be blessed, stop talking to God so much and start listening. He has not stopped talking to us, we stopped listening to Him.

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