Revelation 9: There's Still Hope

And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number. The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury. The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts. -Rev. 9:20-21 NIV

It's hard to believe that, even after witnessing a third of mankind being killed, that people will still not repent of their evil ways.  So, it should not be surprising to see any society, even one such as ours, conceived with mostly Godly intentions, pursuing a path of destruction.  God has always known the hearts of his creation.  From the moment that Satan fell from heaven, all of God's creation has been subject to his temptation, the temptation to believe that this life is all there is, that there is nothing else, and for many, that there is no redemption.  Some realize that there is redemption but refuse to pay the price of giving up the ability to live their life the way they choose.  Others, who for one reason or other, were not born at the right time, in the right place, or into the right circumstances, may not know that there is any other way.  These are the ones we should be pursuing as God pursued us.  They are the suicidal, the addicts, the self destroyers, the ones who see themselves without hope. Like all of us, who came to belief out of dire circumstances, they are the ones to whom the gospel offers hope even for this life.