forces of evil and sin and uncleanness and suggestiveness and foulness. The restraints of religion have gone, the restraint of the Holy Spirit is withdrawn and the evil forces are coming in as a flood, and our moral muddle is increasing from week to week. God has withheld his protection because men and women said they did not need it. But God even goes beyond that; he says, ‘I will lay it waste.’ He will make it a desolation. I interpret this as meaning that God will not allow people to succeed and