THE LONG MARCH PART III

Any honest observer would have to say that the long march through the institutions has been successful. The long march through the institutions has changed the practice and perceptions of people. For example, the march has changed the perception and practice of the foundational building blocks of society--marriage and family. The march has brought us to the point where the institutions of lower and higher education have churned out indoctrinated students who hate their own culture, their own history, and, consequently, their own country. This would have been and unbelievable accomplishment not long ago.

The institution of entertainment has been one which has produced a product where immorality becomes the normal morality; a product where language has degenerated to one obscenity after another; a product in which values, tradition, and the heroes of the past are maligned and denigrated until the mobs tear down their statues and pressure city fathers to rename buildings and streets. They attack businesses large and small.

HISTORY AND THE BIBLE SAY, "NO WAY"

So, what can stop the long march through the institutions? One historian is not optimistic; he does not believe that the institutions can ever be taken back now that those institutions have succumbed to the long march. (Sasser)

History has shown us that no single president or a mass movement can stop the long march. Ronald Reagan couldn't stop it. Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority couldn't stop it. The silent majority, as it was called, couldn't stop it. More recent figures trying to lead the charge aren't stopping it.

The march through the institutions has continued, stronger than ever. Once the march owns the cultural institutions, they’re impossible to regain, unless the hearts of the people are changed, The march has them.

We rely on the old bromide: "The truth will always win." But the history of fallen man doesn't show that and the Bible doesn't say that. A study of the history of Israel doesn't bear that out--the Messiah comes, performs miracle after miracle, even raising the dead, yet the nation shouts at Him, curses Him, and declares, "We have no king but Caesar!" Like the poet wrote: "Truth forever on the scaffold; Wrong forever on the throne."

Paul writes, "But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." The fallen human race in on a march into the Great Tribulation with a government led by the Anti-Christ. "Truth will win?" As of April of this year, 70% of the Russian people now approve of Stalin's mass murders and persecutions. 

The truth will one day win, but not because of a candidate, an election or a movement, but because of Second Advent of the King of Kings.