The World is already under God’s control
short note on reading the history of the Oxford Group:
wikipedia article written by (?) which slants toward ( ?)..
Frank Buchman was among the first in recent history to say “God is a millionare” and give a push to get the prosperity lie up and running.
two quotes:
The secret is God control. The only sane people in an insane world are those controlled by God. God-controlled personalities make God-controlled nationalities. This is the aim of the Oxford Group. The true patriot gives his life to bring his nation under God’s control. Those people who oppose that control are public enemies…. World peace will only come through nations which have achieved God-control. And everybody can listen to God. You can. I can. Everybody can have a part.
There are those who feel that internationalism is not enough. Nationalism can unite a nation. Supernationalism can unite a world. God-controlled supernationalism seems to be the only sure foundation for world peace!”>
It is true that Christ Jesus shall reign until all His enemies are subdued.
1 Corinthians 15:24-28 Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him who is God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign until he put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that is annulled is death. For he has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he says that all things are put in subjection, it is evident that it is except him who put all things in subjection to him. But when all things shall have BEEN BROUGHT into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him WHO PUT ALL THINGS in subjection to him, that God may be all in all.)
It is also true that the subjugation of His enemies is an on-going affair and that we have a part in that as He does it through us. But it is very plainly a lie to pretend that God is not already in control. The world is the way it is because God wants it that way, despite the reaction to that in some hearts He made to react against understanding it in anger. People who say in non-creating speech and the common sense of it that God is not-yet in control of His Own creation are not wise and imply a dualism of God that does not exist. There is not a Good God and a Evil God battling it out for ultimate power and ruling rights. There is only one God who set in motion and maintains in motion all that is or will be.
God has finished all the works from the founding of the world.
1Corithians 2:7-9 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had PREDETERMINED BEFORE THE AGES for our glory: which none of the princes of THIS age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;) but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man’s heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,
Ephesians 2:8-10 For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God’s gift: not on the principle of works, that no one might boast For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has BEFORE prepared that we should walk in them.
Revelation 13:7,8 And there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation; and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb.
God gives the evil some power in order to work His will. “it was given to it” ( the beast) authority to work evil. God will give enough power to evil to work out their own pre-determined reprobation. Those who think God is not-yet in control would never have thought of creating a situation and a reality in which Jesus Christ had to die and be raised from the dead. They would never have created a world in which a multitude of emotional rubrics exist side by side and situations in which none of them attain their desires, yet cannot stop having those desires and blaming the lack of attainment of those desires on each other within a larger lie they all share in common called the Free Will of Man. They would have simply created a world in which everyone is blissfully happy and no sin would ever appear and no one would ever cross them.
That God would create a world in which it was necessary to demonstrate His power in overcoming His enemies, who were created to be overcome is strange to them.
Romans 9:21-24 Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour? And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction; and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory, us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst the Jews, but also from amongst the nations?
Yet God Says plainly He created all things and that He expressly intended for Christ to come and die for our sins AND that He was working both sides without being self-invalidating ( He wrought the wonders as Christ Jesus and caused those who were not the elect to hate Christ and to triumph over His flesh for a time):
Act 2:22-24 Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazaraean, a man borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders and signs, WHICH GOD WROUGHT by him in your midst, as yourselves know –him, given up BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD, ye, by the hand of lawless men , have crucified and slain. Whom GOD has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;
That is, God is already in control of all things even though some things have to be worked out for the portion of His will that concerns this present creation be fulfilled. God sets up evil so that we must fight the evil as He does it through us.
Romans 9:18-20 So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens. Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose? Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
The difference between thinking He isn’t in control yet and knowing that He is in control but that He is fighting a battle through us that He has already won is that in thinking to set God on His throne ( as if He needed help ) and to ’start His control over group X so we’ll all be blessed’ no end of tyranny is manufactured in the religious cause –which is not the righteous cause of God in Jesus Christ.
Such persons deceived they have to put God on His throne and have tunnel vision for their enemies to be destroyed never see that God is WORTHY to be God, having demonstrated all the attributes that men would never have thought of to even exist. Would men ever have created a world in which:
Psalm 18:25,26 With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright; With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
..is either necessary or could be understood? or
John 11:35 Jesus wept. ?
Men would have a one line Scripture revealed in an instant and certainly not over thousands of years and that scripture in non-creating speech: “Don’t worry. Be Happy.” and poor existence in it of mindless, zombie like smiles. There would be no drunkenness to avoid, and no fellowship with God in the necessary things to avoid it, only the soberness of an eternity devoid of the possibility of evil.
AFTER going through this Actual world with it as it actually is, we don’t have to ask God, like the character Will Smith plays in Men in Black asks his partner: “You didn’t use the flashy thing on me did you? Did you?” scared we missed the proof of God’s WORTHINESS. ( The flashy thing removed certain sections of memory and rendered the victim senseless but to believe whatever story was told them had just happened to them.. it was used to cover over UFO experiences in the movie.. there is also an argument in the movie whether to give the victim of the device ‘nice memories’ or not.. )
The Oxford Group, their spin-offs and others like them would simply like to BE the Flashy Thing for the whole world as a black box of ideologies for masses of people to stare-and-forget as if that would solve any problems at all and to continually set up nice feelings about the world if it were ruled in a totalitarian fashion under the banner of a ‘generic good’ religion.
If He used the flashy thing on you, you wouldn’t know He was WORTHY of being God and of opening the seals and of ruling on HIS throne and of pre-ordaining exactly all that has happened, will happen and will happen and the order in which it happens. Yet He demands that you know exactly that and never forget it and know He was and is in control of good AND evil. If He somehow used it, you would know He made you happy but you would always suspect something else happened you can’t quite remember and that maybe in that forgotten bliss He had hidden something that gave away some spot in His perfection that would disappoint your own hopes for perfect guiltlessness and perfect fellowship with Him as a friend rather than just as the Feared King. If He is perfect, then what you get from Him is perfect. If there is a loophole, then your own salvation is in jeopardy.
So, brothers and sisters in Christ, you will know it all before He is done with you. No flashy thingy –no hiding from the evil or the good or in that hiding trying to force God on a throne of your own making. The body of Christ will drink the whole cup it was handed: its all real and finished without your input other than to walk in works He has already prepared for you to walk in and perform.
Job 23:13-17 But he is in one mind , and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do. For he will perform what is appointed for me; and many such things are with him. Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him. For *God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me; Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.
You will have a Psalm 88 portion of your life if you are in Christ for real and God is not going to make the world a nicer place for you as if He had made mistakes in making as it is:
A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite. Psalm 88:1-18 Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee. Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol. I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength: Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps. Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee. Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah. Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee. Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted. Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought: They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together. Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.
This paragraph was written in such understanding and in the understanding that one victory was not enough and that victories in his whole lifetime did not and could not permanently take evil out of the world:
..”and now, give me leave to say how it comes to pass that this work is wrought. It was set upon some of our hearts, that a great thing should be done, not by power or might, but by the Spirit of God… It was His Spirit who gave your men courage, and took it away again; and gave the enemy courage and took it away again; and gave your men courage again and therewith this happy success. And therefore it is good that God alone have all the glory.”
Letter to Parliament from Cromwell on the victory in Ireland at Millmount against the Catholics who had massacred Protestants all across the country in the most cruel manners.
The Protector
J.H. Merle D’Aubigne 1847
Sprinkle Publications
p. 109
1John 3:5-10 And ye know that *he* has been manifested that he might take away our sins; and in him sin is not. Whoever abides in him, does not sin: whoever sins, has not seen him or known him. Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises righteousness is righteous, even as *he* is righteous. He that practises sin is of the devil; for from the beginning the devil sins. To this end the Son of God has been manifested, that he might undo the works of the devil. Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God. In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27