The Scourge Of Racism
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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?”
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