Nancy
Well-Known Member
And this is what it’s all about.....in Eden, when humans abandoned God, he allowed the “god” they chose to rule over then without his intervention. (Luke 4:5-8) God wanted the humans to experience first hand what a world without Him would become....and here we are at the end of this exercise, and for the majority, none the wiser, still looking to man under satan’s Influence to guide them....”the blind leading the blind”.
They are just “like their father the devil”....thoroughly corrupted by their power and vainly kidding themselves about their ability to create and maintain peace on this earth by their own rulership. It was always done with violence.....and it was doomed from the start, because God already knew how it would end, but the record of human history is now there for all to see....there is no nation on earth who serves the interests of the Creator....all are thieves and corruptly looking out only for themselves. They have never really cared about the people they were supposed to serve, but reversed that and had the people serve them......such is the corrupting influence of power over others. It’s the one thing God never gave humankind.....He was to be their King, law giver, and arbiter of all things because he is incorruptible.
Jesus taught us to pray for God’s “kingdom to come” and his “will to be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven”....humans have been mindlessly repeating this prayer for centuries without comprehending what it is that they are actually praying for. This is the prayer for the re-establishment of God’s rulership over mankind....the perfect rule of God that the first humans threw away at the lying suggestions of the first rebel. All this time we have been showing ourselves how pathetic we are at governing ourselves with sin as the driver and the devil and his henchmen as rulers.
The end of the lesson is approaching and those vainly clinging to man’s rulership will go down with it.
Those clinging to false worship will go down with it.
And those putting faith in their wealth or position will go down with it. All these systems will crumble under God’s incoming Kingdom. (Daniel 2:44)
Where will we find ourselves? Will we be on the receiving end of Jesus’ utter rejection of those who thought that they could combine true worship with any of the above?
Complete separation from the world as Jesus said, would mean ostracism and hatred from those who want to keep supporting it. (Matthew 7:21-23; John 15:18-21) God’s kingdom is the only rulership we can support. There is no dual citizenship. (John 18:36)
Time is running out and the devil is no longer subtle in his approach.....if we fail to see things for what they really are....and people for who they really are, we will not survive the greatest tribulation in the history of mankind that is fast approaching. (Matthew 24:21)
We must choose our path wisely. (Matthew 7:13-14)
Agreed, and well put.
"And this is what it’s all about.....in Eden, when humans abandoned God, he allowed the “god” they chose to rule over then without his intervention. (Luke 4:5-8) God wanted the humans to experience first hand what a world without Him would become....and here we are at the end of this exercise, and for the majority, none the wiser, still looking to man under satan’s Influence to guide them....”the blind leading the blind”.
Yes indeed, they chose the wrong "god"...and it is palpable anymore, satan's wiles. Everywhere I look something from scripture comes to mind and reveals.
"Trust no man"