Unlike the wicked world around us, we must keep in mind the admonition recorded by the prophet Habakkuk: “The vision is yet for the appointed time, and it keeps panting on to the end, and it will not tell a lie.
وَبِصُورَةٍ مُمَاثِلَةٍ ،‏ قَبْلَ دَمَارِ سَدُومَ وَعَمُورَةَ « بَدَا [لُوطٌ] كَمَازِحٍ » فِي أَعْيُنِ صِهْرَيْهِ .‏ —‏ تكوين ١٩ :‏ ١٤‏ .‏