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As a result of the ongoing, escalating rebellion of the world against God and His Anointed One, Jesus Christ, the ancient foundations of mortal human existence are breaking up like the ice sheets in earth’s Polar Regions. While in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and otherwise the Lord has led me to cite Psalm 2:1-3 as the key prophetic Scripture explaining what was clearly a forceful uptick in rebellion against Him in the 1960s, the rebellion itself, of course, began in Eden with Eve and Adam (Genesis 3:1-13; 1 Timothy 2:14). It continued reaching a crescendo in Noah’s day and again as human hands conspired together to put to death the Son of God (Genesis 6:5-8; Acts 4:23-28).
Unveiled prophetically by the Lord Jesus, the general sweep of history from His first to second comings to earth would be filled with conquest, war and tumult to include rank rebellion against God together with religious deception, persecution and violence against the saints and upheaval in the political, economic, social and natural spheres (Mark 13:3-13; Revelation 6:1-11). As revealed also by the apostle Paul to the church at Thessalonica, going forward from the 1st century lawlessness as a constant, but restrained drumbeat would continue until the man who fully personifies it comes to the world stage by the working of Satan in the permissive will of God (2 Thessalonians 2:3-10).
In the midst of all that is going on in the world at this hour, rebellion against God and His Anointed can be seen building to this next high point in the Antichrist whom the Lord will crush with his evil, mortal allies and spiritual enabler at His glorious return (Revelation 19:11-20:3)! So, what are the righteous to do as the hated targets of a world in such vigorous rebellion against God; when the ancient God ordained foundations of human life on earth--definitions of gender, related roles, authority, marriage, family, morality and truth--are crumbling (Isaiah 59:4-15)? Certainly, we do not forsake the Lord and change sides!
Like David who was inspired by the Holy Spirit to reflect on this important matter, we stand firm as aspiring strong men and great women of God in the image of Christ completely convinced that God is in control and put our trust in Him (Psalm 11:1-4a). Nothing, I repeat, nothing happening on this earth is occurring outside of the foreknowledge, perfect or permissive will of our God enthroned in Heaven! He is superintending unfolding events in accord with His will and prophetic Word recorded for our benefit, to confound His enemies to their faces and prove His superior standing as God Almighty (Deuteronomy 29:29; Isaiah 44:6-8; Matthew 24:23-25)!
God sees what those in rebellion against Him are plotting and doing (Psalm 11:4b). He is allowing them to display the true contents of their wicked, unrepentant hearts in fulfilling His purposes of judgment as they fill the cup of His wrath to the top with their deeds. The deeds of the wicked include the violent persecution of the righteous as God’s holy people because we--considered “strange” in their eyes--do not join in with their wickedness (1 Peter 2:9-10, 4:1-4, NKJV). Supposedly, we are not ashamed to be the peculiar people of God because we are no longer of the world in darkness, condemned and dying (Romans 13:11-14; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 1 John 2:15-17).
Instead, as those purchased out of the world soul and body with the price of Christ’s blood, we live as sons of the light and in so doing, manifestly expose the world’s “works of darkness,” (1 Corinthians 6:12-20; Ephesians 5:8-14; 1 Peter 2:11-12, NKJV). For this reason, the sons of disobedience hate and increasingly persecute Christians to the point of seeking to be rid of us as they also did our Lord (Luke 21:12-19; John 15:18-25). We must come to grips with the truth that the Lord in times of declension such as these also tests the hearts of those professing to be His. For the Lord is not ignorant of the fact men sign up for salvation in times of ease, but when persecution and suffering come they easily fall away (Psalms 11:5a; Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23).
Indeed, the falling away of many professing Christians from God’s Word now is due in major part to their being ashamed of it and Christ at the world’s ridicule. Among them are pastors that corrupt, defy and lower the standard of God’s Word in compromise because you fear men and women will not attend the church you lead. You help God’s ancient foundations crumble! You also make men and women in your image not Christ’s and ill-equip them to stand as the unashamed peculiar people of God to their salvation since the Lord will be ashamed of those ashamed of Him at His coming (Mark 8:34-39). Severe persecution quickly reveals who the Lord’s faithful, peculiar people are (Revelation 12:9-11)!
Seeing such days in ancient Israel as we have today, the prophet Micah mourns over the shrinking number of the faithful and warns about betraying opposition even from among one’s own family, friends and no shocker, church folk as does the Lord Jesus who cites his writing (Micah 7:1-6; Matthew 10:34-39, 24:10; Luke 21:12-17). Like David, Micah determines to put his trust in God and wait for His salvation as we are to also do (Micah 7:7). Too, he warns the wicked gloating in triumph over God’s peculiar people that it is temporary; our apparent defeat is only testing and merited chastening. In the end, however, God’s wrath will eternally destroy them as David affirms (Psalm 11:5b-7; Micah 7:8-10). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
As the Lord has led and arising from last week’s blog, I repost this edited 2012 blog to cause professing Christians to fully consider this business of accusing God of being unfair in these latter days. All of the world’s causes are not God’s causes no matter how right they may seem or emotionally appealing they may be to us (Proverbs 14:12; John 7:21-24). Standing with those as a professing Christian that are accusing God of being unfair is not the side you want to stand on in light of His ongoing judgment in the churches and fast approaching wrath.
Originally Posted May 20, 2012
I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to challenge the whole degenerate spectacle today of so many individuals and groups calling for fairness. It is not new to be sure. The ancient Israelites were so bold as to accuse God of being unfair to His face after He laid down His standard for judging the eternal destiny of souls (Ezekiel 18). Souls that sin, die. Righteous souls live. Righteous souls that backslide into sin and do not repent will die. Wicked souls that repent will live! Israel thought that this was unfair and apparently many professing Christians do today that also cannot bear the thought that God would condemn them for willfully sinning without repentance. But God stands His ground then and now (Ezekiel 18:25-32; Hebrews 10:26-39).
Save your rebuttal of protest on my citing Ezekiel 18 as a Scripture reference for Christians since it is from the Old Testament. I am fully aware that the righteousness spoken of at that time was of the law. However, to God righteousness is righteousness whether it is of the law or from faith. None of the Old Testament saints were declared righteous by keeping the law perfectly because they could not. All who have ever been declared righteous by God were--as the apostle Paul makes clear, declared so based on faith in His promises (Romans 3:9-4:25, 10:1-13). Nevertheless, the righteous of God by faith in all epochs obey His Word to include properly dealing with sin guilt or suffer the consequences. Those who do so in love find it easier to obey (Psalm 32:1-5; 1 John 1:8-2:2, 5:1-3).
Thus, living the way God expects is required of Israel in the Old Testament and Christians in the New. God is perfectly just as our Creator to demand that we live as He has commanded. We are His creatures for whom He has set down His will for our conduct presented in the Bible based on His own holy, just and righteous character (1 Peter 1:13-21)! Christians may not have to obey the letter of the law to be saved, but we have been given commandments that actually fulfill the law we are to obey in the power of the Holy Spirit who lives inside of us according to the New Covenant, to help us do that very thing (Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 13:34-35, 14:15-17; Romans 8:1-4; 2 Corinthians 3:1-6).1
Israel’s exile to Babylon for breaking His covenant and law proves God meant business then, and surely He also means it now for those of us ushered into the New Covenant by the blood of Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son (Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:14-22, 11:27-32)! In spite of this very clear warning though, among the rebels calling everything and everyone including God that stifles their desires unfair are professing Christians in no small numbers. But how can this be? Have they not read in the Bible or been taught God and the Son of God is perfectly and eternally just (Deuteronomy 32:4; Zechariah 9:9; Acts 3:14-15)? Do they not understand that they are blasphemously accusing the holy God of sin and will be condemned with the wicked without repentance because His just ones live by faith in Him (Habakkuk 2:4; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 11:6)?
Truly, what began a generation ago as the right thing to do in reversing hundreds of years of inequality and unfairness visited by whites (including a great number professing to be Christians) upon blacks and other racial minorities in our nation has now degenerated into a narcissistic feeding frenzy of souls from every walk of life clamoring for equality and fairness as they selfishly see it. Anything one does not personally agree with is childishly labeled unfair. This state of affairs has turned governments, institutions, churches and families into confused bowls of gelatin afraid to say or do anything lest someone be treated unfairly and trying desperately to be all things to all people.
As a black American, it is painful and deeply offensive to watch since racial discrimination continues as it always has and the just demand of my forefathers for its end is mocked and trampled upon by the present clamor for fairness from every quarter including some blacks with all other immoral sinners simply wanting their way. Talk about unfair; now, the very quest for the divinely displayed nobility of fairness has been hijacked by evil so that those in it are treated as and lumped together with all the other whiners that selfishly only want something for themselves. Alas, it would finally come to this in a world that has been unfair since man’s fall to sin and Satan.
Indeed, the world is not fair because we are sinners and its current ruler, Satan, is completely evil. Violently clamor, march, litigate and legislate all you want to; this fallen, sinful world will never of itself be entirely fair. In The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics as the Lord leads, I teach men how He expects us to live in an unfair world following His example (1 Peter 2:18-23). When there are egregious instances of injustice such as that suffered by my forefathers in slavery, Jim Crow segregation and the continuing “isms” that plainly violate God’s standards, we that love the Lord must rise up even at personal cost to peacefully take a stand to advocate for a righteous correction.
Nonetheless, every aspiring strong man and great woman of God in the image of Christ and peculiar to the world knows full well that the just world we seek will only arrive when the Just One comes in wrath to perfectly give the narcissistic agitators for fairness exactly what they demand, vanquish the present ruler and set up His own righteous Kingdom on this planet (Psalm 2:9, 72:1-4; Isaiah 42:1-4; Matthew 6:9-13; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:1-3). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
1 See the January 2014 posts, God’s New Covenant under the category, Holidays and Party Of The Second Part, Pt. 1 and 2 under the category, The Faith to learn
more about the New Covenant as the one and only covenant from God Christians have to be concerned about.
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