June 24, 2020 – Click here to listen
Humankind left to its own devices results in unimaginable sin. One of the descriptors for Satan in the Bible speaks to his lawlessness. The root of all lawlessness is rebellion. Satan, who personifies the ultimate rebellion against God, will one day empower the Antichrist, called “the lawless one,” whose rise to power “will be in accordance with how Satan works.” An example of this principle appears in II Thessalonians 2:9-12, where Paul warns of a future Man of Sin who deceives the spiritually weak.
I’m wondering more and more if that day is drawing nigh sooner rather than later. When we as a society ignore the law, chaos ensues. That is what is occurring today, and many government and even spiritual leaders seem to applaud it. It’s as though the entire world has gone mad.
The Bible speaks to a day of reckoning. Those who will perish do so because they refuse to receive the truth. They will cling to the delusions of the world and believe the lies of Satan and be condemned. I feel sorry for them but in reality, God is just giving them what they desire anyway. They prefer carnal delusion to spiritual reality, so God obliges them. The unrighteous, described in Romans 1, desired a worldview without a Creator so they could be sexually liberated among other things, but lately the hatred is turning more and more toward God.
The Bible is clear that we have a free will and make no mistake God will give them over to it and let them reap the awful consequences. Anyone who has read the Bible understands this concept as it is a recurring theme. The Israelites in the time of Amos did not value God’s truth, so He removed it, letting them experience how miserably they fared without it. And just like today all the while they thought of themselves as enlightened and progressive even as their blindness became more complete.
We have all seen or heard of the leftists and mobs tearing down statues and I knew it would only be a matter of time until churches became the object of their fanaticism. Leftist Shaun King issued a series of Twitter posts Monday calling for all images of “white European” Jesus to be torn down and destroyed as a symbol of “white supremacy.”
King’s inflammatory tweet supported taking down all imagery, including “murals and stained-glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends.”
Mark Twain once said that history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. This maxim seeks to harness life’s most profound truth – time only moves in one direction . . . forward. The past is gone forever. None of the minutes God gave us to live is ever returned or reused or lived again. We do see patterns however, such as throughout the Old Testament the Israelis over and over and over again turning away from God’s laws only to cry out to Him when He withheld His blessings. They would repent and as soon as times were good the process would repeat itself.
As we live through the chaos and lawlessness of today’s tumultuous times, we must remain true to the laws of God, (found in the Bible.) I find great comfort daily in studying the Bible and I know God is on the throne and one fine day Satan and his minions will be taken away and forever banned from deceiving and tormenting humankind.
I lived through the hippie revolution in the 60’s and it culminated with the Jesus Movement with untold numbers of formerly lawless and rebellious young people turning to God. It was a revival to behold. Let’s hope that history rhymes with that time and our country will turn from its wicked, lawless ways . . .
2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.