The Great Falling Away And Our Great Hope (2)

 

The great falling away and our great hope (2)

 

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” (Matthew 5:9).

 

“But the wisdom from above [which is Jesus, Col. 2:2-3; 1 Cor. 1:30 -31] is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace” (James 3:17 – 18).

 

It is an evil thing when political movements and governments adopt the language of the Bible to propagate their agendas. It is from the abyss of the pit when they ensnare the souls of men in this language, when they deceive those who should know better, when they turn the hearts of those who profess to follow Jesus into their own messengers of hate and destruction. And what can we say when those who are charged with pastoring Christ’s sheep, instead lead them into the darkness of this present evil age?

 

Those who follow the Lamb are not called to kill; they are called to die. We are called, just as the Lamb, to overcome through laying down our lives for others, through offering ourselves to God for the life of others on the altar of the Cross, always the Cross.

 

When we violate this holy Nature which has been placed within us in our relationship with Jesus Christ, we repudiate Him, we reject our Great High Priest, we trample the Cross and our calling, we reject the Way of the Father (which is Jesus Christ) for the poisonous ways of the pit, we exchange the air of the heavenly for the noxious fumes of hell.

 

I suppose there are no words for all this, it is too incredible, but there are the images of Revelation, the images of the unthinkable, the indescribable – these images from hell ought to be worth thousands of warnings. Yet, when we lose our ear to hear the Spirit, we also lose our sight, our center of gravity in Christ, and we can no longer think or see clearly.

 

And no wonder, for not having “received the love of the truth…God sends upon us a deluding influence so that we will believe what is false, so that we may be judged who do not believe the truth but take pleasure in wickedness” (2 Thess. 2:10 – 12).

 

“You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons” (1 Cor. 10:21).

 

We think we can, otherwise we would not see the wholesale adoption and endorsement of political, social, national, and military evil by much of the professing church that we see.

 

We, who are called to be transformed into the image of Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29; 12:1 – 2), are now being transformed into the image of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

 

How ironic that the image of gold of Daniel 3 has reappeared in our own time. At least in Daniel 3 there were those who were found faithful. What about today?

 

What about me?

 

What about you?