A couple of nights ago, as I was following the latest on the L.A. fires, I ran across a satellite picture of the tragedy. I could see the vastness of the conflagration, not closeups, not here and there a burning house or car, but the hugeness of this catastrophe. It looked like a monster had just taken a bite out of America. It brought me to tears.
I realized that a big chunk of American culture was being destroyed. So much of what was burning was symbolic of our civilization — the motion picture industry, Sunset Boulevard, the Zane Grey and Will Rogers estates, to say nothing of the thousands of anonymous homes and scenarios we’ve all absorbed as scenes in movies and television shows — the 1920s glamour, the Spanish tiled stucco houses, the swaying palm trees, the surfers on the beach. Los Angeles is a big piece of Americana. It’s where dreams came to either blossom or die. Note the past tense. I pray that isn’t over.
I have long maintained that Jesus Christ, as the second person of the Trinity, controls history. I can hear the skeptics shouting –What kind of a god would let something like this happen?!?! I’ll tell you — a righteous God, a God that deals with us individually and corporately. A God who demands justice. A God who wants California to survive, to once again be a safe, fair, prosperous place to live.
California, L.A. especially, has been the epicenter of much that is culturally amiss in our society and has been so for decades. Right now, the nexus is P. Diddy and the horrors that surround his, and his friends’ behaviors, but he and his were preceded by Weinstein and Cosby — behaviors that would have been right at home in Sodom and Gomorrah or in the harem of some sheik. Why would a righteous God tolerate American debauchery any more than ancient Middle Eastern nastiness?
Not only were so many of the big names in Hollywood guilty of shocking practices in their private lives, but Hollywood has promoted all kinds of sexual immorality and has done so for decades. Remember when The Graduate (1967) was shocking? Fast forward to Brokeback Mountain (2005) and this last year to a flick titled Queer. Societies that accept and applaud sexual deviation and general immorality suffer accordingly.
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