Walk in the darkness and find the Light in Christ!
At what point does murder solve the problems of life?
Pick up a newspaper or view a news flash that one more law enforcement officer has been shot. All around the country, and on any continent, the respect for law and order has become a target for insane thinking from far too many immature people who are devils in human dress.
The presence of anarchy in our streets has gotten out of hand where the rights of some have become a battle cry against the rules of governments that were put in place for justice. This justice has the definition of freedom that is now confused with the theme of “My wants and self-reliance are number one.” To hell with these words written over 200 years ago that satisfied an ancient belief and left me on my own. Just look at the cry from the millions of unsatisfied citizens marching against the police, and seeking a new law of everything for me alone.
We need to look into the Book of Revelation and decipher the very words of the risen Christ to John concerning the influx of evil in the streets of tyranny from governments’ unjustified control. Benjamin Franklin said, “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God .” Thomas Jefferson eventually appropriated that motto for his own seal. No one with any sense of a person’s rights would put down their right to speak out against the passion of unjust governments.
The words from Revelation: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. She has become the haunt for demons. She is a cage for every unclean spirit, a cage for every unclean bird, (a cage for every
Unclean and disgusting beast). For all the nations have drunk the wine of her licentious passion. The kings of the earth had intercourse with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury.” (Rv 18: 2 - 3). Here we can view the very tyrannical result of the governments of the world succumbing to the will of Satanic influence that is around the corner of time in history.
However, our current problems are now coming to fruition as the outcry of humanity is raising the flag of ill-contempt against what is about to unfold in our streets. Are the actions of so many anarchists correct? Recently the crowds of millions are marching in favor of what Iran was attempting to do by attacking Israel. Iran is the most adherent nation that is promoting the elimination of the Jewish nation from the earth. The United States, once an avid ally to Israel, may in fact fall under the very compromise of the world's nations to destroy everything God-fearing people have for thousands of years fought for the freedoms of its peoples.
Out of all this uprising of tyranny and anarchy and the sense of what is right has become the confusion facing all of God’s people fighting for the freedoms of righteousness on a scale of unknown results. It can become confusing when we confront the truth of the will of the people or the will of governments. Neither tyranny or anarchy can have the ultimate authority if either one is after their own premise of leadership at the expense of their citizens.
From all of this blindness to become the only controlling entity on earth or any individual has already set itself up as the Babylon of modern history. We have seen the adverse desire to eliminate persons who we disagree with, steal from whoever we don’t agree with, and the murders by teenagers as a way to advance their prowess as uneducated children living in an adult world without any semblance between right and wrong. The future of our nation and the premise of a viable world with hatred as a prime factor has become a plunging of humanity into hell without the presence of Almighty God and his Spirit to counsel the bad direction we are inheriting.
Evil has become the ultimate word in a world gone mad because of greed, pride, and no longer calling on God to keep us from plummeting towards hell satisfying the yielding from grace to the tenets of Satan.
What is missing in the minds of our children, many who are beyond puberty and following the attractions of a world that has erased any thought of God, heaven or hell in their uninformed minds. The teaching from the Book of Revelation is on our doorsteps and too many are rejecting the warnings. If belief in and the truth of Jesus Christ that is ours to accept are not grasped by us, the end will be a no way out of the perdition that awaits unbelievers.
Ralph B. Hathaway