Gaza "Worse than Hell on Earth"
The Israeli response to the Hamas massacre of October 7th 2023 has included what the United Nations has condemned as the use of food as a weapon of warfare, the indiscriminate killing of women and children, and the widespread destruction of buildings by the Israeli Defence Force in their determination to destroy Hamas.
One Red Cross observer was reported as saying that "Gaza is worse than hell on earth."
The Atheist's Anthem: "Imagine there's no heaven!"
The Beatles' song, which became the atheists' anthem, has a superficial attraction for those who reject the traditional values of western democracies founded on Judaeo-Christian values of morality.
An Age of Rebellion Prelude to the Arrival of the Man of Lawlessness
The era of the '60s and '70s saw the rise of an age of rebellion, as the restrictions of the post-war years gave way to rock and roll, the free love movement and the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations by America's younger generation.
The problem with this lies in the corollary of such lawlessness, which is the lack of accountability, or justice, abandonment of the rule of law and the resulting hell on earth.
In 2 Thessalonians 2:2-12 Paul warns his readers about the coming of the "man of lawlessness," who will turn out to be the False Messiah, or Anti-Christ, prophesied in Revelation 13.
" Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day (the day of Christ's Second Coming) will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God."