We have fallen

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” (Rom. 1:28-32).

I’ve been listening to an audio book called, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. It is about how the movie industry came to be monopolized by Jews. The book seems to be well researched and thought out. It is exquisitely written, although it tends to glamorize the life of the rich and famous.

Apparently, Hungary was an impoverished nation in the late 1800’s. One possible cause for this could be the same as that of France a century previous—that nations subjugated by Catholicism have always found the court intrigues and monetary requirements of the church to drain the nation and its citizens, leaving the masses desolate economically as well as spiritually. Jews, being the lowest class in the unforgiving, unconverted, and mean Christendom, suffered more than their gentile compatriots.

But to add to the state of destitution and their drive to escape poverty, the future movie moguls grew up in families whose fathers had no sense of responsibility. These fathers could not hold a job, and their families often moved from one rented apartment to another in the slums. The boys who later escaped all of this determined to never repeat it again.

So when they fled to the burgeoning life in America, their energy and determination had an intensity that nothing could curtail. These Jewish youth attempted one business venture after another, most beginning in fur processing and fashion. Their sense of reading the tastes of the latest desires of people for self-aggrandizement prepared them to throw their wealth from furs into the new invention of filming vaudeville acts.

As they jockeyed for power and wealth, they analyzed human nature and fed off of the basest animal passions in the masses. They had a captive society with its pervasive love of entertainment. Men, women, and children in Protestant America had left the service of God and of seeking after His righteousness. Now God had to let them go and serve under the cruel but initially pleasant tyrants of self and Satan.

“How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim? Mine heart is turned within Me, My repentings are kindled together.” (Hos. 11:8). God has often given up His children to His sworn enemy because they loved the devil’s covenant and promises rather than their Creator’s. But it has never been an easy decision. And throughout eternity the Father will agonize over the great loss, but be satisfied that His surviving children are forever safe from this world of sin.

Beside the lack of loving fathers, the boys found Judaism to be an unacceptable stricture. Rituals and doctrine made no sense to them. Their religion was simply another loveless source of misery. If these young men had been loved and could have sensed the love of God, they never would have turned out to be degrading, violent, and greedy for money and power.

With love and affection from their fathers, they would have grown content with righteousness. They and their offspring would have spent their lives in happiness. And the world would be a much better place without the entertainment industry they created.

Protestantism offered no protection against the corrupting influences moving into its country. The world has moved along in an accelerating pace, hastening to the second advent of Jesus and the Day of Judgment. This Investigative Judgment period in heaven that has preceded the execution of judgment at Christ’s coming has done its purposed work of softening the resolution of the nations and setting apart those who want to know God and need His acceptance. Separating the sheep from the goats, the souls loyal to heaven have stood out amidst the corrupting influences surrounding them, while the rest of the world, which by far have been the majority, have been entranced by the glamour and promises of wealth and prestige.

And the saga continues and will crescendo in the days nearing us when all who have sold their soul to this world and this life will join together under Satan’s master delusion to wipe holiness from existence. The craving for self-indulgence, as it did to the movie moguls, will gnaw at their beings so powerfully that they will detest and find none worthy of life who persist in following hard after the ancient Law of God and His love.