While reading your last comments, my hair stood on end.
If humans do not make sincere attempts to follow God's rules that He has very kindly revealed to us, then we do indeed create hell here on earth. A foretaste, a dress rehearsal. I have seen in big cities (I live from from any city now, but used to live in a city or two) people who look like emissaries from the lower dimensions. They look like that on purpose - ghastly white skin, blood red or black lips, eyes, leather collars with spikes, ornamented with spikes, chains, torture gear. You know the kind.
If people are fooled into thinking that their existence ends with the death of their bodies, and that no one sees what they do, and there is no reaction - no reward, no punishment - that all is meaningless and temporary, then they see no reason to follow moral or religious codes.
The more people really understand and are convinced of the truth that God sees and knows every action performed, every thought, every prayer uttered in the depth of the heart - and that every action will be with us later as punishable or due a reward, that the soul does indeed live after the death of the body, and where we will dwell is dependent on our relationship with God - the more such people will become serious about their short stay on earth.
I will check your link, thanks.
I remember some old song - Donovan? (this really dates me!) called something like "Life is a Circus" about how meaningless and frolicsome life is. I hated that song then, and now I know why. Not that there isn't joy and happiness in life (sometimes more, sometimes less), but to see the purpose of life as instant pleasure only is to live the life of an animal.
Real life and real happiness mean always keeping in mind the ultimate purpose of our human existence - to reunite with God in eternity. And using that understanding to guide our actions.
Even more evidence of the culture of death coming at us. It's virtually nonstop now. We have Soros and his pro-Euthanasia movement, and his followers who want to kill children for their organs. Take their organs before they are dead, from chronically ill children who are not brain-dead, that is. Also Soros was sponsoring a grisly project in New York last year which was painted to sound so nice. Put chronically ill children in hospices designed especially for them, with all nicely colored walls, family near them, etc. Everything but the life support they might need to get through the crisis they are in at the time. This way they die, you see.
We have this kind of thing on the one hand, and the sicko terrorists making beheading movies and now kidnapping children.
Then we have secularism, materialism, sex everywhere you look of course, and all the garden varieties of evil as well. Abortion, and dehydration deaths of the elderly becoming routine in our nursing homes here.
There is no doubt in my mind that this is a critical time, for some reason, for the evil one. Incredible activity levels. Lots of prayer is needed, and very badly. I hope we are up for it.
I am greatly encouraged that our church population has nearly doubled in the last year or so. May all church populations do the same or better.