...no escaping sin and evil...

“1 WHEN MEN BEGAN to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. 5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.” Genesis 6:1-5.

This passage speaks only about the impact of sin on the world. It’s about the institutionalism of oppression, corrupt rulers and their power to corrupt. 

And “the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually” (v.5). If rulers and leaders are oppressive or corrupt, there is either a double standard (by which the population is held accountable to a level of behavior from which the rulers are exempt) or the moral fiber of the population erodes away following the example of its leaders. This phenomenon is observable at every level of behavior, whether violence breeds violence, corruption (e.g., bribes or extortion) breeds corruption, racism breeds racism, sexual misconduct breeds sexual misconduct, or lies breed lies. but one thing is very clear: this is about the erosion of moral fiber, on the personal level and on the level of regimes.

Why does God allow it? This is a question that has kept many from belief in a good and powerful God. We are but flesh, and our mortality holds inevitably the bleak prospect of death. In and of ourselves, we cannot rob the grave of its due. Death is, in fact, Satan’s great weapon and also God’s great weapon: it is holy and unholy; our supreme disgrace and our only hope; the thing Christ came to conquer and the means by which he conquered. What follows next is God’s answer to evil and sin.

Today and tomorrow we will have to pray in front of the mirror!

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.