Signs of the Last Days: A Growing Pattern of Increasing Wickedness. We Need Preachers with Backbones...

HNewsWire: wickedness and lawlessness dominating our society today that throughout history was found in civilizations in the process of decline…

It is a pattern evident in nations that rejected God’s Word as the ultimate authority in their lives and is a pattern prevailing in many Americans today…

Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. – Matthew 24:12

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important (Bill Gates).

19-year-old Trevor Bickford, from Wells, Maine, is the kid who injured three NYPD officers with a machete in an unprovoked attack in Times Square. He was on the FBI' watchlist' after being radicalized.

UK's Daily Mail wrote, "the FBI in Boston do have an open case on him," and "he is on a 'guardian list' because of his radicalization."

Sources told NYPost that Bickford traveled via Amtrak train to NYC with "camping gear, a diary and a last will and testament" before he pulled off the machete attack.

"Published reports reveal that Bickford appeared to be a typical American teenager before he allegedly became radicalized in the years after sources said his father died of an overdose in 2018," NYPost continued.

Daily Mail published pictures of Bickford via his mother's Facebook.

 

Here's a picture of the young man after the NYPD shot him. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, along with the two cops he injured -- all three are expected to survive.

News Center Maine's Jack Molmud reported the FBI arrived at the suspect's family home this afternoon.

It seems like the case every time...

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Chaos erupted in Times Square on New Year's Eve when a machete-wielding man injured three New York Police Department (NYPD) officers.

New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters early Sunday that a 19-year-old man attempted to strike the first officer in the head with a machete, unprovoked. Sewell said the man hit two other officers on the head with the machete.

Sewell said one officer received a laceration to the head while the other received a skull fracture and a large laceration. Another officer discharged his firearm, striking the suspect in the shoulder.

The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. ET at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue. One police source told NYPost that an investigation had been opened to see whether the suspect is a radical Islamic extremist.

"We are working with our federal partners for this investigation, and it is ongoing," Commissioner Sewell said. 

NYPD Crime Stoppers released a picture of the machete.

Mike Driscoll, assistant director in charge of the New York FBI Field Office, who is also investigating, told local news NBC New York that the knife attack appears to be the work of a "sole individual at this time, there's nothing to suggest otherwise." The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is also investigating.

Nearby onlookers were startled by the attack and gunfire -- many revelers fled amid the chaos.

"No backpacks or umbrellas in Times Square. They forgot to mention machetes," a police source told The Post.

I believe America’s rejection of Christ’s lordship is the reason behind all the bloodshed, violence, racial hatred, moral decay, drug abuse and the outbreak of deadly sexual diseases in our society. Lawmakers, educators, and the media have made God an unspeakable subject. Even in prisons, there is a ban on religious mottos, including the ten commandments. Even worse, many of our churches no longer exalt Christ as Lord and king.

Christless Christianity is a watered-down version of Christianity that is quickly replacing doctrinal purity while professing itself to be biblical. Christless Christianity presents the Bible as if it were a collection of Aesop’s fables—a bunch of unrelated stories with a nice moral at the end of each. Such an approach ignores the grand theme of Scripture—God’s redemption of sinful mankind—and the centrality of Christ in Scripture. Rather than creating self-denying disciples (Matthew 28:19), the message of Christless Christianity creates adherents who are “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power,” as 2 Timothy 3:4–5 days.