At the End of the Easy Material Way
The current world civilization is based on material science and technologies, driven by material desire of people. Although it has been mainly fostered in Christian society of Europe, Christianity seems to be losing its power nowadays.
Rather, it seems now that Satan controls the world, since most of people pursue material prosperity more than spiritual happiness, while the Lord Jesus Christ gave a warning that the rich could not enter into Heaven. Indeed, now 2,000 years after the first emergence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the human world, His teaching is not faithfully observed by most of the mankind.
Material civilization based on material science and technologies has produced various artificial products that have given many benefits to human life. When facing any serious troubles, pious men prayed to the God to solve them. To get help from the God, they should have pure faith in and love to the God. But, with power of science and technologies, any men without faith in and love to the God can solve such problems. So, material science and technologies have given easier ways out of troubles. People have come to rely on material science and technologies more than spiritual power to be obtained through pure faith in and love to the God. Indeed, people have chosen easier and wider ways rather than more difficult and narrower ways requesting pure faith and love.
Indeed, the Lord Jesus Christ gave a warning on acceptance of material civilization 2,000 years ago:
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7)
The material civilization is the wide gate and the broad way leading to destruction. But the spiritual civilization is the strait gate and the narrow way, leading to life.
As in the material civilization science and technologies provide various products that make life easy and comfortable, people have never ceased to develop material civilization. But, they have lost faith in and love to the God. They have come to think and believe that money with which they can buy any products of the material civilization is a god. So, money has become a global religion. People want money more than the God. But, the civilization not based on faith in the God should lose protection of the God. It should collapse sooner or later.
On the other hand, in the spiritual civilization the sick should rely on spiritual power to be healed. People should never use fossil energy as the power source of machine. Instead, they use spiritual energy to move any machines necessary for life. People should not rely on artificial intelligence based on computers in solving any problems. Instead, they should use spiritual power. There should be no environmental destruction. The God should continue to protect the mankind.
Anyway, the current material civilization developed in these 2,000 years has come to the final stage in this century with the coming WWIII and global natural catastrophe. If the mankind survives this century, they should start to build a new civilization based on spiritual ability. The faith in and love to the God should be reinforced. The mankind should advance to the Kingdom of the God.
We are really at the end of the easy material way.
Luke 2, King James Version
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and n earth peace, good will toward men.