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We are a Christian Fellowship meeting in North London with a strong interest in teaching the Bible and understanding our time in
the light of Bible prophecy
Big Brother
Channel 4's 'Big Brother' series attracted an average audience of about
5,500,000 with many people showing more interest in voting to evict people
from the Big Brother house than voting to elect people to the House of
Parliament. The tabloid press carried pages of articles speculating on
whether the two chief participants would have sex together live on TV. They
were disappointed this time but the producers are now busy preparing the
next series of the programme, no doubt hoping that this time round live sex
will take place, or even better a homosexual affair.
The success of the programme gives a graphic insight into the abyss into
which our society is heading, led on by the depraved minds that now run the
TV media. The boundaries of what is permissible are being pushed further and
further to satisfy a public that demands more and more titillation. TV now
offers a regular diet of violence, sexual immorality, foul language and the
occult. Channel 4 in particular has shown programmes featuring incest, male
and female homosexuality and even sex with animals.
In Revelation 9.21 we read that at the time of the Great Tribulation when
severe judgements of God are striking the earth, 'The rest of mankind did
not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or
their thefts.' If you were to take murder, sorcery (the occult), sexual
immorality and crime out of popular entertainment today there would not be
much left. As society is being indoctrinated to accept the base standards
propagated by the media, so people are unable to see anything wrong with
this kind of behaviour.
On the subject of Big Brother it is interesting to look at the origin of the
title of this programme. It is taken from George Orwell's novel '1984', a
nightmare vision of a future totalitarian state controlled by Big Brother
and the Thought Police. Hoardings blare out the message that 'Big Brother is
Watching You' and every movement of the people is monitored by telescreens,
which follow them in their homes, watching and recording what they are doing
and saying. Orwell wrote '1984' in 1948 as a response to the fascist and
communist dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin and as a warning not to go down
this road in the future.
In '1984' the Party controls what people think and how they behave, imposing
a puritanical morality and making people attend rallies of the 'Anti-Sex
League.' What is fascinating about our situation today is that we live in a
society, which has increasing control of what people think and how they
behave. But it is moving in precisely the opposite direction to the one
envisaged by Orwell. Rather than a controlled society with a single ideology
and a puritanical life style, we have a society in which there is no guiding
ideology and anything goes. People think this means society has become
liberated, but in fact it means that people are being controlled by those
who are imposing selfish individualism and the absence of any moral
restraint. These are becoming the only values, which are tolerated in much
of the media.
People in the media protest that any attempt to restrict the portrayal of
sex or violence on TV is censorship. However there is already censorship on
our TV. You cannot say anything about God as Creator and present alternative
views to evolution. You cannot say homosexuality is wrong, you cannot really
give a reason to believe that Jesus is the one way of salvation,
increasingly you cannot promote wholesome family life or say much that is
positive about the past history of these islands. There is censorship by the
liberal left establishment who run the political system and who impose their
values through TV and the educational system. In fact there is a growing
totalitarianism which is quite different from the one George Orwell
envisaged in '1984', but is nevertheless extremely sinister and needs to be
exposed and resisted.
This lines up with the prophetic passages of the Bible. In Psalm 2, a
prophetic Psalm speaking about the second coming of the Messiah Jesus, we
read how the rulers of the earth 'take counsel together against the Lord and
against his Anointed (Messiah), saying, 'Let us break their bonds in pieces
and cast away their cords.' In other words they are saying let us cast away
any moral restraint, which comes from God and the Bible. In 2 Peter 2 we
read of false prophets and false teachers who will come in the last days,
who promise freedom, but are themselves slaves of corruption. Our permissive
society promises people freedom from restraint, but ends up bringing people
into bondage to destructive habits.
The growing moral anarchy of our time is leading to social disintegration as
we are seeing in riots and chaos in our cities. Ultimately this will lead to
the kind of dictatorship Orwell envisaged in '1984' as 'Big Brother'
Antichrist takes over the world system and imposes his rule on the nations
of the world by making it impossible to buy or sell without giving
allegiance to him (see Revelation 13). Fortunately his brief tyrannical rule
will be broken by the glorious return of the Messiah Jesus who will set up
his benevolent rule of the planet for the final 1000 years of its history
(Revelation 20).
