The cosmic battle between good
and evil has reached epic proportions in our day. What we see being played out in our world, in
our nation and throughout the planet, is but the local physical manifestation of
a gigantic struggle in the spiritual realm.
Good. And evil.
Our battle, the battle of those
in the good camp, is not really against flesh and blood but against all those
various hierarchies in the spiritual realm who are in the evil camp. In Pauls’ words in Ephesians 6:12…
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places. These
are all ranks and positions in the evil spiritual world. But of course the physical manifestation of
that battle is most assuredly physical as well.
Good. What is good? For our purposes, for our understanding, it
is all those who ascribe to the values and standards and commandments of God
himself. That is the good side. Evil therefore is obviously all those who do
not, knowingly or not.
Suddenly, shockingly in our day,
we are now confronting a large number, a great number we had not heretofore
recognized as so obviously in the evil camp.
For earlier decades in the lives of people living today, evil was
apparent in violent crimes, in the behavior of a certain few national
governments that were so antagonistic to a peaceful world, and on a more
personal basis in the more private inner struggle of individuals not to sin,
not to give in to impulses that obviously are wrong.
But we had not yet recognized the
mammoth scope of evil on earth. Now that
is apparent.
The evil side has always been led
by a cunning being who is sophisticated in his presentation. He uses deception above all else in his
leadership, and appears himself at times as an angel of light. He leads people astray, people who do not
know the truth, who do not have the rock solid foundation of God deep in their
hearts and souls. He is a murderer and
has been from the beginning.
Yes, we are frightened and
troubled by the highly violent without limit terrorist organizations in the
world. That is readily apparent evil.
But what I focus on here is the
giant evil movement that has now become public in America and in other
lands. It has captured a mass of the
population. Half? Who knows?
Maybe.
Of all the scriptures that fit
our time, the one in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that the
god of this world [the devil] has
blinded the minds of unbelievers is the most accurate and to the point.
In past years we could
conveniently ignore that many around us - including many who go to traditional
Sunday church services - really did not know the Bible and did not know Jesus,
did not know God. We as a nation went
forward under some general understandings of a set of civil values that enabled
at least on the surface a somewhat harmonious discourse and relationship among
the people.
That was always a false bubble of
course, but the nation continued on in it.
Now, in these last days, the
bubble is gone. We see that thousands,
hundreds of thousands, millions of people are so apparently deluded. Their minds do not work as ours. They do not see the truths in situations that
we believers see. They take stands and
espouse positions that to us are insane at the core and dangerous to the very
existence of our society and nation.
Yes, that is what is going on and
has happened dear believers. The devil
has blinded the minds of the unbelievers.
And there were always and are now a lot more unbelievers around than you
had thought. They make up the majority
of the nation and world.
These massive groups of people –
political groups, social groups, groups of young people, most of the media,
most of the entertainment world, large numbers of the religious world – that
are so irrationally vocal and virulent, that is the evil side. They cannot see the truth because they don’t
know nor recognize the truth. They don’t
know because they truly don’t know.
Right to our face, right from the
TV screen or the Internet or the newspaper or in public meetings or on university
campuses they say and shout things we know are a hundred percent wrong and
dangerous and harmful, evenly blindly stupid.
Yet they cannot see.
These are the physical manifestation
of the efforts of the evil one to move to that one-world government for which
he has labored for so long. In past
centuries he has at times gotten far in building this only to be turned back –
in the days of Rome, in nazi Germany in the last century, in the communist
Soviet Union under Stalin, in isolated pockets such as Cambodia in the last
century, in parts of the arab muslim terrorist world. But now with all the benefits of modern
electronics and communications he has reached much further – in Europe, in
America, and elsewhere. He is oh so
close, and he knows that. The serious
powerful human leaders of this movement that rarely if ever are public have
been pulling strings and developing organizations for this purpose for
centuries. They and their leader can
taste the prize. It is close.
But suddenly in just the last
couple years there was pushback, maybe a final pushback, from the remnant of
God’s people and their impact on those still not overcome by the evil one. In Britain, then the US, and perhaps
elsewhere, pushback. An effort to stop
the tide to this controlling worldwide bureaucratic, evil government. And that effort has infuriated and enraged
the evil one and all those millions in his camp. It has pushed them over the edge. No longer are they concerned with maintaining
the charade of civility and harmony. No
longer do they want to appear as part of a larger peaceful society. No. It
is full steam ahead no matter what.
Destroy any effort to the contrary, and any people in the way. They appear insane in their views and words
and actions. They are, evil and
apparently insane under the influence of the evil one. They are lost.
And that is happening and it is
going on. It is terrifying and it is in
front of our faces and it is rolling.
This last great push of the evil
side and its leader will result in some form of one-world government, whether
it ever really gets completely to that point or not. It will result in the maniacal leadership of
the anti-christ and his false prophet.
And they and it will be destroyed in short order.
One day the anti-christ will be
revealed, the Lord will collect his believers, the seven year Tribulation will
occur with God’s judgement on the world playing out and ending in the final
battle at Armageddon, the establishment of Kingdom rule from Jerusalem, and the
move into another era.
And what is our role? To clearly recognize the times we are living
in. To utilize the gifts God has given
us to discern the truth in every situation.
To keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, on Jesus. To represent the Lord and tell others about
the Lord every opportunity as the Holy Spirit guides. To watch, to be alert. And to realize that the days of this current
world and American society are numbered and dwindling rapidly, like sand
through an hourglass.
Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!
(May 2017)
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