Many years ago there was a big financial man in the city, who overreached himself. He ran his own bank, and the evening came when he was going to be arrested. They had discovered that to try and cover his debts and to continue pay his staff, half as transactions had been crooked. But the very afternoon of his arrest, he had bought five of the most expensive racehorses. The things people will do on the verge of their collapse! The confidence they can have and the security they can feel! We see this often in life. When things are about to fall to pieces, people refuse to see it coming. Sometimes it has been obvious that in a certain region of the world, the conduct of the colonial power has been horrifically overbearing, and the reaction has been building up, and you would have to be blind not to see it. This is going to explode one day; there is going to be a tremendous reaction against this, and the colonial power is going to lose out, or there is going to be fighting and war and resistance, and yet right to the last moment, the ruling authorities carry on behaving in a way that is going to provoke a terrible reaction. That is human nature; it’s amazing! It's the same with so many people, even who have heard the gospel and been affected by it sometime, but have resisted it or rejected it. Now they are old, and they are nearing their last breath, and it’s obvious to everyone. Now they are sick; perhaps this is their terminal, their last illness, and they are still not concerned about eternity. So we are not terribly surprised to see a mighty empire on its last legs with a powerful enemy at the door, still behaving as though there is nothing to be concerned about, nothing to worry about.