America Has Fallen

America cannot fall—because she has already fallen!  This goes for Britain, too.  She cannot go into slavery—because her people are fettered at the moment in the chains of self-forged, self-chosen moral anarchy.  Here are millions, diseased morally, with no longing for healing.  Here are men paying for shadows at the price of their immortal souls, men who not only reject the Substance, but who openly sneer at and caricature it.

An unprecedented tidal wave of commandment-breaking, God-defying, soul-destroying iniquity sweeps the ocean of human affairs.  Never before have men in the masses sold their souls to the devil at such bargain prices.  “There is none . . . that stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee” (Isa.64:7).  What hell-born mesmerism holds them?  How does the spell bind?  Who brainwashed them?  Why don’t they wake and stir themselves?

Directed by the devil, the world has given a new injection to the flesh.  One of the signs of “the last days” is that “men are lovers of pleasures.”  (Note that it is in the plural.)  And where is hell’s broth stewed? In the breweries of the world. . .  Breweries are maternity clinics that breed men-slayers operating with guns, and men driving on the highways while drunken. . . 

The mad merry-go-round of sensuality is filled with millions awaiting their turn for initiation into iniquity.  When wrong is so sweet a morsel, the sin-soaked, sex-slain youth could not care less about doing right.  One crowded hour of glorious “life”—so they argue—is worth a gamble on the speculation of the theologians’ so-called “eternity.

Leonard Ravenhill,  Why Revival Tarries (1959), pg.93-94