Recently the new governor of Arkansas referred to the bizarre things going on today in our American society as crazy. That’s a good term but not far enough. Evil is the word. We are living in the last days before the Lord’s return to collect his believers and before the beginning of the Tribulation. The devil and his legions are running amuck. He knows his days are numbered. They end for a time at the end of that Tribulation when he is seized and locked in a pit for a thousand years, then permanently at the end of the thousand years when he is thrown into the Lake of Fire, the eternal hell.
Evil. So many people just don’t understand that term. Oh, they know bad, but real evil? The reason they don’t understand is that they don’t know Jesus, they aren’t born again and filled with the Spirit, they aren’t guided by the Holy Spirit in all truth, they don’t have the gift of discernment. Most people on earth are in that group that doesn’t understand.
God has given to his people, the believers, tools to use in fighting evil, in protecting themselves. I write about this often. If you want to, go back and read our newsletter God’s Protection for You in Dangerous Times (April 2020).
In addition we have the guidance to take all thoughts captive to make them obedient to Christ. In other words, we can deal with tempting evil thoughts from the devil or his demons by taking them captive and submitting them to the authority of Jesus (2 Corinthians 10:5). And that’s that. They aren’t your thoughts. Refuse to accept them.
Unbelievers, and many who attend church weekly but don’t truly know the Lord or have any understanding of what it is to be in the Kingdom of God, do not have the ability to fight off temptations of the evil one or his demons. We know from the Bible that the devil can appear as an angel of light. In other words, he can surely appear in an acceptable way to all these people. By appear, I don’t necessarily mean physically appear. I just mean in tempting thoughts and ideas his demons might whisper in some unbeliever’s mind or ear, or in some situation those demons might create that lead this person astray.
The evil today is in a vast array over all sorts of people. Look at the far left government leaders and media and woke and cancel culture people and others who truly are destroying the traditional America right now while the mass of traditional Americans remain scared to speak out.
For even more direct and blatant evil look at the random and wild murderers and violent felons in our society. Just this week another bizarre shooting incident occurred at a university killing some and injuring some. Almost never do we get to hear these killers speak. But we did recently when a woman who killed her children and tried to kill herself said a voice told her to do that. Guess what voice that is? Only one guess allowed. Obviously the evil side, the devil or one of his demons. And why would she accept such a voice and actually act on it? Because she had no internal way to resist, none of God’s tools, no ability to order the evil spirits away, to take the thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ. She was just a tool for the devil.
Evil. It is real. It is not something to be played with. Every day of our lives, Cathy and I put on the armor God has for us as described by Paul in Ephesians 6, we thank him for the angels he has sent to serve us (and that service surely includes protection), and we in Jesus’ name order away from us all evil spirits and other harmful things as well such as harmful germs, bacteria, viruses, allergens, fungus, pests. We do that first thing in the morning and before we go to sleep. And when we come away from meeting others or being in a store or hospital, we surely do that again!
This is a difficult time we are in. You as time goes on may encounter more and more truly guided by the evil one. Look at those espousing transgender treatments and teachings for very young children in the schools, not telling the parents. Or the endless pushing of the homosexual lifestyle considered an abomination by God, or the steady destruction of the economy of the nation and the destruction of its makeup and culture, and so on.
This evil carries over into the religious world where so many refuse to teach and preach the full power gospel and do not teach or operate in the Holy Spirit and his gifts or do not teach at all the imminent return of Jesus. That is all just wrong. I suppose you could say that maybe that is not evil in this instance so much as ignorance on the part of the pastors and churches. Maybe. In any event, teachers are held to a higher standard, the Bible tells us. Lots of people surely are going to be held to that statement.
Maybe worse, although I am not sure of that, are some people who claim to be prophets and act like that, giving out all sorts of false predictions of future events. The Holy Spirit indeed does tell God’s believers of things to come, that is true. He has told me many things I have shared with you all. But there are surely charlatans out there leading people astray with false prophesy. You must always test any prophetic words you hear against God’s words in the Bible.
I say to you what Jesus said about today: Watch that you are not deceived. And I say what he warned about a few words later: Watch out for false prophets.
Evil is in its heyday. We know how far afield and extraordinary this evil can become when we remember the horrors of the Nazis in WWII and the behavior of the SS and the concentration camps. Or the behavior of Stalin in Russia or the killing fields of Cambodia. Evil dominating the minds of unbelievers is terrifying. But we do have the protection written about above. Don’t be caught napping and unprotected.
You are the light of the world. You have the gifts of God if you will use them. And you are the Lord’s representatives to a dark world In all you do ask the Holy Spirit to guide your days and arrange all encounters he would have you have. Acknowledge the Lord every opportunity you get, and help the Father in his leading people to Christ by sharing the gospel as possible and as you are guided.
Remember, Jesus is never going to lose you. The Lord will indeed rescue you from every evil deed and bring you safely into his heavenly kingdom (2 Timothy 4:18).
February 2023
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