Today's website reading's are heavy. The Old Testament reading at Morning Tea/Terce is about the Capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon. All the elite of Israel, 10,000 people carried off into slavery and only the poorest people left behind. At Supper/Compline instead of an Epistle reading today is Psalm 79, a communal lament written about the Babylonian Destruction. It is I believe written by someone who witnessed the massacre, destruction and exile as a child. A descendent of one of the poorest of the poor Jews, the remnant left behind. Because the author had clearly witnessed the event and it's aftermath in Jerusalem....to witness the aftermath, the author must have remained behind in Jerusalem. They were young enough to remember the trauma of what happened but been too young to do anything about it (Like bury the bodies)....But they have mourned the loss of their people and the destruction of the Temple, and asked God to not hold against them the sins of their parents. Because God allowed the Destruction due to the how sinful the people had actually become.

The key to the whole situation is one verse in our Old Testament reading:

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father had done. - 2 Kings 24:9

They are talking about generation after generation of Kings who lead the people into EVIL - not merely corruption and abuses of authority here and there, bad enough as that is for monarch's who have absolute power, but EVIL. So what did they do that was so bad it was labeled 'EVIL' in God's sight?

Not only did they refuse to follow God's commandments, they went so far as to destroy and burn scripture. They deliberately changed the state religion, hunting and killing God's prophets and instead leading Judah into the worship of pagan Gods, including historically Molech and Baal, which meant they were promoting and condoning the human sacrifice and severe abuse of children and babies. They showed complete disrespect for prophetic warnings and divine instructions. Ruthless and Tyrannical they shed innocent blood and committed or condoned the torture and abuse of their own people.

Human nature hasn't evolved that much. The IRGC in Iran have demanded everyone follow their version of religion and have arrested, assaulted, raped and murdered. They have massacred over 40,000 of their own people! God has NOT forgotten the innocent blood shed.

Sadly I have to report that the U.K., for so long the bastion and leader of western civilization is also sliding down that slippery slope of spiritual decline with support for the traditional Christian Church and Christian values waning and the Government condoning abuse of their own people on a massive scale. Over 250,000 young British woman and girls have been groomed, abused and raped by grooming gangs of mostly Muslim, Pakistani or Middle Eastern men. The first cases go as far back as the 1950's but it has reached epidemic proportions and the U.K. government is turning a blind eye and condoning this as "normal cultural behavior" among these people groups and migrants, and taken the attitude, "we mustn't appear to be racist, must we!" The acts committed against these young girls are brutal and barbaric and for there to be so many, many victims obviously the Police are deliberately looking the other way and NOT doing their job. Too busy arresting people who express the wrong opinions on social media. I am calling it what it is - EVIL and the U.K. government is condoning this by their inaction! But God is not looking away and the sleepy British lion is finally stirring, its people starting to wake up to the truth and call for change!