History Is The History Of The Church

John Ball writes:
There are people who claim that history is all about class, or money, or armies, or sex or power, but, in reality, history is the history of the Church.
The greatest history book is the Old Testament. When God's people turn their back on him, and chase after false idols, disaster ensues. And so it continues to be, to this day.
In the Old Testament, the greatest history book of all, we witness the history of the world. We see God creating the world, mankind's fall from grace, the break with human sacrifice with Abraham, the debt servitude of the Egyptian people accomplished by Joseph, the rebellion of the assimilated Hebrews under Moses, the giving of the Law, the obedience to God replacing the tyranny of the kings, and later on, God's people rejecting the kingship of God, and creating a state under Saul.
The same disasters occur over and over again, right to the present day.
Sure enough, when man loses his faith in God, and puts his faith in great armies, great crimes occur. By the early twentieth century the Church had largely turned its back on the mysteries of salvation, replacing the Lamb of God with a moral teacher of man, a teacher whose purpose was not God, but man.
The Church turned its back on holy poverty and sought worldly power. She took on board the utilitarian doctrines of the atheists.
And today, as we enter another dark age of tyranny, mankind seeks to build ever more Towers of Babel, the Church sells herself to the idols of Democracy, Equality, Prosperity, Ecology, the idols of Power.
God's righteousness has been traded for fairness, the ideology of grievance and self pity. Serious trouble is just a step away.