Sign#18 Drunkenness and Gluttony
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"(For
many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now
tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies
of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction,
whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in
their shame, who mind earthly things.) " Philippians
3:18-19 |
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Prophecy: "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot;
they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted,
they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it
rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed."
Luke 17:28-30
"Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,
fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in
her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor
and needy." Ezekiel 16:49.
"It's a bitter truth to swallow: About every fourth person
on Earth is too fat. Obesity is fast becoming one of the world's
leading reasons why people die...We're even seeing obesity in
adolescents in India now. It's universal. It has become a fully
global epidemic - indeed, a pandemic."*
*EMMA ROSS and JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA Associate Press May 8, 2004
Recent Statistics:
United States: two out of every three Americans
are overweight.
Britain: 75% of adults
are overweight or obese, a 400% increase in 25 years.
Mexico:
40% live in poverty yet 67% are overweight.
(There are dozens of other countries who have similar statistics.
May 2004)
The same sins of gluttony and drunkenness that benumbed the
moral sensibilities of the inhabitants of Sodom are prevalent
today. As a society we, like the dwellers of those wicked cities
of the plain, have lost a sense of the exceeding sinfulness
of the crime and immorality that is so pervasive today. Christ
thus warns the world: "Likewise also as it was in the days
of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they
planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of
Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed
them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man
is revealed." Luke 17:28-30 |
