What is God’s economy for this time in history? I fear that many good ministers do not see this truth. Though their preaching is fundamentally sound, it has tended toward “generic” preaching. They simply prepare what they can, basically a “general” message. However, it must be acknowledged that they are not preaching the “mystery of the will of God” for this time, for this dispensation, or for the working of God in this generation. We have allowed the Dispensationalists to hurt the very term, limiting it to dispensations of conscience, law, and grace. Every age in history has its dispensation of God, His economy, His working for that generation, in the light of that generation. Although we speak about a lot of things that are taking place in the world today, are we preparing our people for these times and for the future? Do we discern how God is working now, rather than just how He worked fifty years ago? The Lord must make known the mystery of His will, His heart’s desire for this time in history, for me and for His people, and how He is working at this time in history.

Through the Word of God we must first see our age: both our world age and our church age. Through God’s Word we must find wisdom concerning how God wants us to live amidst our age. One of the great problems that tends to blind Christians from seeing their times is continued apathy toward what is happening in the world and in the Church. Transitions have been drastically made in recent years that have permanently set the course for the future; we cannot afford to not see these changes. We are now well into the world generation that has opened its doors wide for the devil to take control of their lives.

John Bunyan’s classic allegory The Holy War portrays a fortress (man’s soul) being besieged by strong malignant forces. These enemies cannot capture the fortress until its gates are opened from the inside. There is a discussion by the enemy concerning how the fortress would eventually be overrun. In the story Diabolus speaks to his cohorts and says, “We will cajole them [persuade by pleasant words, flattery and false promises], delude them, pretending things that will never be and promising things they shall never get. Lies, lies, lies. This is the only way to get Mansoul to let us in.”

The apostle Paul gives the following warning:

For the time [a season] will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables [myths] (2 Tim. 4:3, 4).

We are in the season of the myth- making by both politicians and religious church leaders. The world seems ready to accept these myths as Truth. Though they begin seemingly insignificant, once they are disseminated they are difficult to combat. When uncontested, the myths become a truth to that generation.

In George Orwell’s book 1984, we have a compelling description of how the so-called Ministry of Truth used “newspeak” to brainwash the people of Oceania. The party slogans were “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.” Through crafty manipulation, these lies were eventually believed.

Myths have their origin in the Gar-den of Eden. Here Satan convinced Eve that if she disobeyed the Word of God she could rule her own life; through disobedience she could be her own god, escaping thoughtless dependency on a Being who had no claim to her life in the first place. This dispute continues—“Will mankind be ruled by God, or is he capable of ruling himself.” Sir Julian Huxley, one of the founders of the American Humanists Association, gives the following definition of a modern-day humanist:

I use the word “humanist” to mean someone who believes that man is just as much a natural phenomenon as an animal or plant; that his body, mind and soul were not supernaturally created but are products of evolution, and that he is not under the control or guidance of any supernatural being or beings, but has to rely on himself and his own power.

The building blocks of today’s humanists are atheism, evolution, moral relativism, freedom of inquiry, and one-world government.

What are the changes that now pervade this global society? We are now well into a secular state with its arbitrary morality and devaluation of human life. The world philosophy is paving the way to get rid of those of whom they deem not viable for the coming global society. Just as Hitler redefined “personhood” to exclude all Jews from the protection of the law, so pre-born babies have been reclassified as nonpersons for the convenience of women. Similarly, the public school system is under the god of humanism. Note the humanist John Dunphy’s observation of it:

I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classrooms by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity . . . the classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new; the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism.

The myth now is that premarital sex, extramarital sex, and homosexuality are on the same moral level as chastity, monogamy, and heterosexuality. The intention of the secularists is to discredit the voice of Christianity so that America will tolerate only one religion, secular humanism. And we must acknowledge that in 1961 the Supreme Court declared that Humanism is a religion. The battle lines in all areas of life are now drawn between these two concepts—Christianity and secular humanism. In those countries where secularization is complete, the State has tried to exterminate all religion. Clearly two world views are on a collision course. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, humanism has now replaced Christianity in America! We are like a cut flower: although we still have the semblance of life, we have been cut off from the source of life, to eventually wither and die.

What myths have now taken over the world in its rejection of Truth? Evolutionary myth has now been forced into the academic world as fact and truth. Thus there is no distinction between right and wrong, no accountability to a Creator, and the moral behavior of man must be randomly accepted. We have gone from Darwinism to Neo-Darwinism (which believes that the radical changes in species are the result of variations that arose suddenly rather than gradually). There is also the myth that we can have morality without religion—that whatever is legal is moral. We are in a time of “Sociological Law,” the belief that there are no absolutes but rather a relative, evolutionary morality. Law is what the majority wants or what the judges say it is. There is no higher court of appeal; no longer can one challenge a ruling on the basis of absolutes derived from the Creator. Man, not God, is the source of laws.

Julian Huxley was once on a television program in which he responded to the question of why evolution was so readily accepted. He admitted, “The reason we accepted Darwinism even without proof, is because we didn’t want God to interfere with our sexual mores.” These words prove that the real reason modern man does not want to believe in God is that he wants no interference from the Creator. Francis Crick, who won the Nobel Prize for his work in unraveling the DNA code, made the following important observations:

You must realize that much of the political thinking of this country is very difficult to justify biologically. It was valid to say in the period of the American Revolution, when people were oppressed by priests and kings, that all men were created equal. But it doesn’t have biological validity. It may have some mystic validity in a religious context, but . . . it’s not only biologically not true, it’s also biologically undesirable . . . We all know, I think, or are beginning to realize, that the future is in our hands, that we can to some extent do what we want.

The belief that morality cannot be legislated is a myth, because liberal courts and politicians are regularly passing legislation to legitimize immorality in our country. Dr. Pierce of Harvard University, over twenty-five years ago, addressing some two thousand teachers in Denver made the following remarks:

Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government . . . patriotism, nationalism, sovereignty . . . all of that proves that children are sick, because the truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things and is what I would call the true international child of the future.

Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), a brilliant British independent scholar, also observed:

The new state will be universal and omni-competent. It will mold and guide the life of its citizens from the cradle to the grave. It will not tolerate any interference with its educational functions by any sectarian organization, even though the latter is based on religious convictions. And this is the more serious, since the introduction of psychology into education has made the schoolmaster a spiritual guide as well as a trainer of the mind. In fact it seems as though the school of the future must increasingly usurp the functions that the church exercised in the past, and that the teaching profession will take the place of the clergy as the spiritual power of the future.

We must remember that the secular state always pushes its values on society through the courts. No law is ever neutral! Every law imposes some form of morality on society.

Dear Reader, morality is being legislated upon us globally. We are being told that the roles of men and women are interchangeable. The public libraries have radically changed in recent years getting rid of books that declare the roles of fathers and mothers, husbands and wives. One of the major goals of the feminist movement is to destroy the concept of marriage as between a husband-wife, or man and woman. Thus lesbianism seeks affection without the domination of man. Biblical marriage is viewed as slavery for women, thus freedom for women must abolish the definition of marriage and man and woman. Karl Marx in his “Communist Manifesto” stressed that the family system is the result of capitalism, which divides society into classes. Women were to become equal in all aspects of production for the State and thus the State would rear the children. Friedrich Engels, who along with Marx, wrote the Communist Manifesto, made the following declaration:

The care and education of the children must become a public affair in order to liberate the woman. The state must take the responsibility for the rearing of the children, and this responsibility is so that the proper indoctrination of children would be assured.

Homosexuality has now gained powerful status in our country and around the world. It is now being taught in our public schools as an alternate sexual preference. The homosexuals are now in strategic positions in the American government through Bill Clinton and even more so through the Obamanation found in leadership today. Sodomites are knocking on the doors of the churches, schools, and our homes. On March 26, 1985, the Supreme Court affirmed an appellate court ruling that struck down an Oklahoma law permitting public school districts to fire teachers who openly advocated homosexuality. What this meant in practical terms is that homosexual teachers can flaunt their lifestyle in the classroom without any protest from parents or teachers.

We are seeing the rise of the powers of pornography that have destroyed men and homes, as well as the rise of violent immoral crimes. Our nation is drowning in a sea of sensuality. With explicit magazines, vulgar movies that are readily available, we are rotting from the inside. Though pornography vainly promises like a god, it pays like the devil. It gives the message that such a sin is for pleasure only and to be divorced from all responsibility. The eyes of such perversion must ever seek deeper in its hunger and lusts. It reminds us of Proverbs 27:20—“Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.” Pornography always leads to deeper and darker sins and desires, ultimately deadening the conscience.

The Bible predicted these changes would come. These changes in government against God are prophetically found in Psalm 2, when the kings of the earth and the rulers take counsel against the Lord and His anointed. The Hebrew language makes this very vivid:

Why did nations stir up riots against God, and the peoples devise futility? The riots are rising in various ways but predominately against morality appointed by God, as well as riots against the need of acceptance of Christ. But the people are devising philosophies and ideologies that are futile, without hope, yea for the destruction of mankind. The kings of the earth take a stand together, and the dignitaries counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed.

It is amazing how our national leaders are gathering forces in the passing of laws to destroy belief in God, His Word, His principles, and His authority over them. We see the breaking of the bands of morality, reverence, and fearing of God. But to what extreme are they taking counsel? Is it to have His liberty, to bring the people to dislike Him? As Matthew’s Gospel declared, “They took counsel to put Him to death!” They even took counsel against Lazarus to put him to death because of being identified with the Lord (John 12:10). We are in the time of the full powers of immorality of Romans 1 and the growing political powers of Revelation 13 against God’s saints.

How is God dealing with this dispensation? What is His economy? Romans 1:24–28 speaks of how God gives up men and women to uncleanness, to vile affections, and to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not proper. This is true of a community, a nation, and the whole world: God is giving us over to the fullness of what we have become. There is coming a man who will be the embodiment of this world against God and moral living. God is letting man do what he wants; it seems He is letting man get rid of Him, like He permitted them to kill Jesus. One nation after another is falling in line in their consent to put God to death in every aspect of life: from our origin, our living, our morals, our purpose, our existence, and ultimately our dying.

What is the mystery of God’s will in this season of history? This is not a boulema-decretal will of God. He is not going to force us to choose this way, to go this way, or to live this way. We must desire it; we must want it as a part of our very life. God is withdrawing from this generation; as in the days of Noah, God is withdrawing His Spirit in conviction and condemnation. I must see this. Very few are entering the Kingdom now; these are different days with humanity and different ways with God’s dealings. We are seeing very few backsliders coming back to God. What is this doing to the theological systems? These are not days of revival; nations are not seeing God’s call to revival; churches are falling away rather than coming to Christ!

As a Christian, I must know God’s will, the mystery of His will for this dispensation and this economy of His working. I must continue to endure, yea, endure all the way to the end, whether I feel God or not, whether I see others going on with God or not, whether I see prayers being answered or not, whether my family or my church is going on with God or not, whether the schools are changing and not coming back. I must know the mystery of His will for this dispensation of time! I must continue on with God; I dare not wait for encouragement! Whether I receive it or not, God’s Word must ever be my guide! Things are not going to get better; things are only going to get worse. There is no revival coming to America; God may not give us another president! (Oh, God help us and have mercy upon us this year!) But God’s will, His desire for my life, found in His Word must ever be my living. As Daniel of old, we must purpose in our hearts not to be defiled by this generation. When everything is morally and spiritually gone all around us, when nothing but the fiery furnace is present, when nothing but the lion’s den is present—WE MUST NOT CHANGE, but remain true and firm to the “mystery of His will,” no matter how God works in this generation.