A little child has little sense of change, for it does not have experience to compare the past with the present and little awareness of the future. As adults, we have the unchanging revelation of God whereby we may know God’s mind and compare all to it. In it we may see the present in light of the past and the future. By it every generation is instructed, warned, provided for, guided and encouraged. By the Word we can see that we are living in the last days of the period of time often called “the day of grace.” The moral darkness and evil that, in the beginning, was “without” has now come in and pervaded the great house of profession called Christendom. We are part of that house and God has given us ample warning and provision and encouragement not to give up, but to continue on, keeping His Word and not denying His name. We are told that we must earnestly contend for the foundations of “the faith”against the efforts of the enemy that crept in and now desires without shame to take over the house. The same grace of God that saved us, and in which we stand, is working for us and in us to the intent that we be kept from the rising tide of doctrinal and moral evil. Brethren, “keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life” (Jude 21).