Ron F. Hale

“Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence…” (Isaiah 64:1 NKJV) “America has fallen,” cry some. And although we are in a very difficult crisis at the moment, I still believe in the God who revives dead things. With Him on the throne, there is always hope. For this reason, I am rereleasing a few points from my book, Oh God, Rend the Heavens. 1.

One reason focusing on social issues can become tricky is because our cultural views on social issues change frequently — and often radically — and yet Scripture does not change. Truth does not change. Just fifty years ago, for example, our culture was firm in the belief that God is real and should be worshiped, that homosexuality is a sinful practice that should be avoided, and that gender always has been and always will be confined to a simple binary of male and female.

Even as a young child living through the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76), I noticed that some people naturally had more privileges and were treated better than others. For instance, if a husband became violent toward his wife, his neighbor could report him. Likely he would be publicly shamed and punished.