Technologically, we live in amazing of times, but notoriously choose the unimportant, and neglect the things which are a matter of life and death.
People wink and eye at Trump’s bullying while brushing off a deal which gives billions of dollar to a nation which finances global terrorism, Iran, and which will come to bite those who winked at it.
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POLL: 42% of Millennials say they’re ‘socialist’…but only 16% know what it means. This is what happens when we stop teaching real history.
Those who want socialism still want the money to buy their next smartphone, ignorant that socialism will bankrupt them and the system which allows for their next smartphone purchase.
American millenials want the ideology of socialism while remaining closet capitalists.
College kids petition that free speech in college campuses be limited, ignorant that theirs will one day be limited too, if what they want becomes reality.
9.6 percent of college grads (and 13.1 percent of everyone) selected Judith Sheindlin — better known as Judge Judy. The Daily Caller
Almost 6 percent of America’s college grads said Secretary of State John Kerry is a Supreme Court justice. The Daily Caller
Meanwhile, 21.7 percent selected Lawrence Warren Pierce, a retired, 91-year-old Second Circuit judge. The Daily Caller
Rand Paul is the best POTUS candidate for the USA because he places responsibly for government on one’s own hands rather than on a group of people who do not have the best intention the country and want to tyrannize it. Yet America has rejected him.
Jesus Christ stands head and shoulder as the one and most vital thing fact of human history since He not only offers eternity to humanity, but provides the only way for it to happen. Most ignore Him as unimportant.
So what is cooking?
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
The word mystery speaks about something secretive or unknown.
Everything which God does through Jesus Christ, He executes it through the vehicle of mysteries.
God’s hides His secrets, plans and counsels in mysteries so that they cannot not be abused or tampered with by people who do not love Him.
Because a mystery is hidden, it must be revealed or uncovered progressively until it is known. The uncovering of a mystery is called wisdom.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
Amongst the mysteries which God possesses is one called a mystery of iniquity.
The word iniquity is the Greek word “anomos, which is defined as lawlessness or without the law.
God operates by spiritual laws.
Our success in this life and our security of eternal salvation are commensurate on how closely we obey the laws of God.
Society has laws that need to be obeyed as well. “Anomos” is a disregard, rebellion, mockery and contempt for the laws of God and for the godly laws that govern society.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
The words in verse seven “doth already work” is the Greek word energy or energize.
This mystery works by, and as a secret energy throughout our planet is progressively manifested until it attains to a full maturity at the day of the Antichrist.
This energy works proportionally to our disobedience to God.
The greater our defiance to God and His laws the greater is the energy of this mystery in our lives, and just the converse is true.
An obedient life to the Lord Jesus shields us from the energy of this ever increasing mystery.
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Ephesians 2:2 tells us that the prince of the power of the earth, Satan, is presently energizing in those people who are defiant, blinded, stubborn to God.
This is an automatic global process set in place by God which can only be avoided by salvation in Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Verse ten describes this mystery a bit further.
Unrighteous living, or living which is not according to God brings deception into our lives.
This deception comes because the person does not welcome the Word of God which is able to save the person.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Verse eleven is the clincher and describes to us the magnitude of the seriousness of not following Jesus Christ and falling prey to the energy of the mystery of lawlessness which is traversing the earth, even as we speak.
The phrase ‘a strong delusion” in the Greek is an “energy of error”.
The energy of the mystery of lawlessness is an energy which promotes error. The word error comes from the word planet.
A planet in Greek mythology is one who wanders, because planets wander around the sun.
A person who is in error is a person who lives in the aimlessness of life, wandering without God,
His love, and without a God given destiny, enjoying the futilities of sinful living without God for a few years, and then dying with the acute danger of ending up in hell and separated from God forever.
The mystery of lawlessness has within it an energy that is injected in the thoughts of people and causes them to wander in error, never coming to the truth about God in Jesus Christ, because they have rejected salvation through Jesus Christ.
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Verse twelve tells us in the Greek. “That they all me judged who believed not in what is truthful and accurate about God but took pleasure in disobeying God or in being lawless.
This is the culmination of the energy of error upon the minds of those who have rejected Jesus Christ and His wonderful promise of salvation and eternal life.
- This can turn one of two ways, as people chose the unimportant while rejecting the important.
- There are two global energies at work.
- One promote truth, while the other error.
- By a person’s choice he will be swept up by one or by the other.
- The results are that in the plight of darkness people will cry out to God.
- Other times the darkness so overwhelms that people continue in it into their own destruction.
- Sometimes we can only wait for the person to bang his head against the wall.
- I can only do my best to preach and present the Person of Jesus Christ.
- Watchman New says that a drowning man can only be saved when he loses consciousness and begins to drown.
- Which way will the world go in this crisis of choosing the unimportant while rejecting the important?
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