The Wicked Plots Against the Righteous

“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;

    fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,

    over the man who carries out evil devices!

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!

    Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

For the evildoers shall be cut off,

    but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

“In just a little while, the wicked will be no more;

    though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.

But the meek shall inherit the land

    and delight themselves in abundant peace.

The wicked plots against the righteous

    and gnashes his teeth at him,

but the Lord laughs at the wicked,

    for he sees that his day is coming.” (Psalms 37:7-13 ESV)

If we who are followers of Jesus Christ are going to be wise and discerning people, we need to not be naïve and gullible people who just believe whatever we hear from the government, or a particular political party, or a particular media source, or a specific preacher and teacher of the Scriptures. Wolves in sheep’s clothing exist everywhere you look these days. Lies and liars and manipulations of truth are all over the place. And if we are not careful and prayerful with regard to who we believe, we may believe the lies.

Twenty-two years ago, at the age of 52, I went back to college to take business classes. I will never forget what my marketing teacher told us then. He told us that our government has technology at least 20 years ahead of where we are which they have not released to the public because they feel as though we could not handle the truth. Since then I have come more to the thinking that they are not letting us see where they are because they don’t want us to know what they are up to in their secret projects.

Twenty years ago, at the age of 54, the Lord Jesus began opening my eyes to some of the things which our government has kept hidden from the American people. And the Lord had me (a slow reader) begin reading science articles and history articles and all kinds of articles which were available on the internet at that time, which filled me in on all sorts of information that I was completely ignorant about, and which I would not have ever even looked at if it was not the Lord who was leading me in that direction.

Simply put, what I came to realize is that my government is not who they claim to be. I realized that political right and left do not really exist, but they are two sides of the same whole working for the same people, a group of elites who are the de facto government of the USA who are the ones leading the entire world into a one world order (the order of the Beast). Our government is not fighting terrorists in order to save us, but they are the world’s worst terrorists, the harlot who rides the beast, in essence.

So, when strange things begin happening in our world, and in the USA (for those of us who live in the USA), we need to begin asking questions, and we need to pray and ask the Lord to guide us to the truth, and to keep us from believing the lies. And if someone tells us to believe only them and to ignore all other (outside) sources of information, we should take that as a red flag that something is not right and they don’t want us to know what that is, and so they want to convince us that they are the only source of truth.

Now, on a Spiritual level, the Word of God is truth that we can trust, but even there the translations come from varied sources, so we need to pray and seek the Lord regarding what translation is best, if we have a choice at all (not everyone does). And then we need to study the Scriptures in their appropriate context and not interpret them out of context, which is what many people are doing today in order to deceive and to lead people to what is false and away from what is truth. And this is happening everywhere.

What I am saying is that deception is everywhere, and the goal of deception, whether coming from the government and politicians, or from the news media, or from Big Pharma, or “the church,” in general, etc., is to lead us away from the truth to follow after the lies. So the point of what I am saying here is that we should not put on blinders and just believe someone because he is someone respected or a particular preacher or politician or newscaster or whatever. We need to pray the Lord would show us truth vs lies.

So, I am not asking that you believe me just because I said it, but that you should believe the Bible, and the Bible warns us much against lies and liars and deceivers and false teachers and shepherds and doctrines, etc. The Bible directs us that we should test everything we read or hear or see (or think we see) in prayer, and against the Scriptures, and via being led of the Holy Spirit in what to read and to believe, and in what to reject, which cannot be something that is against what the Scriptures teach us.

And we need to face the reality of the times in which we live, and so we must realize what the Scriptures teach with regard to these last days before the return of Christ. And they warn much against liars and deceivers and manipulators of truth who are out to deceive the people. So, especially if someone is telling you to believe them and to reject what anyone else says, then please check out what they are saying in prayer and please ask the Lord to guide you into all truth so that you don’t fall prey to deception.

But as our eyes begin to be opened to the truth, and as we begin to see that those we once trusted are not to be trusted, and those we once thought were on our side are really our enemies out to destroy us, and we realize that we had believed so many lies, and so our foundation we were brought up under is suddenly shaken, we are not to let that undo us. We are not to fret over it, and we are not to get angry and to want to get even. But we are to trust the Lord and just continue to obey him in everything.

For our God is completely sovereign over all that he has made. He knows the end from the beginning, and he allowed everything to happen as it is or it could not happen. And all of this was prophesied in the Old and New Testaments thousands of years ago. A beast is forming his kingdom, and his rule will be allowed by God for a period of time, as God’s judgment, not only on the “unsaved”, but also on those giving lip service to the Lord but who have not died to sin and who are not obeying his commands, in practice.

And the book of Revelation does talk about people coming to faith in Jesus Christ during that time of tribulation, and many of those will be those who now profess faith in Jesus Christ but whose commitment to God is lip service only. And so this ultimately is for our good, for the salvation of human lives from eternity in hell who would not follow the Lord if they had not been put under the fire, so to speak. And one day Jesus will return, and his faithful ones will go to be with him for eternity, and all suffering will be over. Amen!

Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-39; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 6:22-23; Lu 21:12-17; Jn 15:18-21; Jn 17:14; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13

For Our Nation  

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

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