What we are looking at in the contemporary Western world is precisely what he himself foretold. We have heard him. For almost two millennia we have heard him, as already noted. But we have chosen to not do what he said. He warned that this would make us “like a silly man who built his house on a sand foundation. The rain poured down, and the rivers and winds beat upon that house, and it collapsed into a total disaster” (Matt. 7:26–27). We today stand in the midst of precisely the disaster he foretold, “flying upside down” but satisfied to be stoutly preaching against “works” righteousness
