Matthew 5:44-48 But *I* say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who insult you and persecute you, that ye may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust. For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same? And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same? Be *ye* therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
What is the result of God’s blessing of the unjust/wicked/anti-Christians?
God Says plainly that even if mercy is shown to the wicked, that mercy in no way teaches the wicked righteousness.
1Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;
Isaiah 26:10 If favour be shewn to the wicked, he doth not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he dealeth unjustly, and beholdeth not the majesty of Jehovah.
But God shows favor to the unjust anyway. What then is the reaction of the unjust, one in whom only the spirit of anti-Christ dwells and thus is totally deceived there is only non-creating speech in total reality? It is to seek to catch God in His Own supposed ‘use” –of non-creating speech as if God were not His Word but were merely “smarter” by the tiniest margin in the use of that non-creating speech than themselves. ( the dogma of all free willers and Rome in particular is that “God has to use human lanugage in order to communicate with man” as making anti-Christ the de facto Word of their false religons…. the unforgivible sin as it compares God to anti-Christ as if they were the same…)
Two examples; one from the Holy Scriptures, the other from history.
The first is Cain: After having murdered his brother, God pronounces judgement on him and he says, with the speech he has as it says it through him: Genesis 4:13-14 And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is too great to be borne. Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a wanderer and fugitive on the earth; and it will come to pass, that every one who finds me will slay me.
God then has mercy on the unjust by Saying:
Genesis 4:15 And Jehovah said to him, Therefore, whoever slayeth Cain, it shall be revenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.
What then is Cain’s reaction to that mercy? Is it at all to do as God Says –from then on? No. He immediately goes and builds a city, when God told him to be a fugitive and a wanderer from that day forth. What then does Cain learn from having mercy shown to him? He wrongly learns that he was rewarded for having become a murderer –that he now has divine protection expressly BECAUSE he killed his brother. That is the “reasoning” of all human sacrifice –to include abortion. More murder supposedly equals more ‘freedom’ in the lie of free will. ( communism is a prime example of murdering to expand the lie of free will in the guise of expanidng the “public”/”state”/”collective” free will)
How do we know that in Cain’s eye’s he is being rewarded for evil in a good way? The words of his grandson after murdering another man:
Genesis 4:23,24 And Lemech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, Ye wives of Lemech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for my wound, and a youth for my bruise. If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold.
Cain now has a mark. In his eyes it makes him literally invulnerable to death at the hands of any man because he has supposedly tricked God into protecting him. Before all men Cain Says “You can’t touch me! No matter what I do!” Why then must he be a fugitive? In his mind/mind that is anti-Christ, he is now absolute ruler who cannot be touched. He goes and builds a city and rules the city and all those in it. The actions of his grandson and the speech of his grandson indicate that by the time his grandson is born, the lies of “Can’t touch me!” have raised Cain in other men’s eyes to such a status that his grandson claims divine protection for murder proudly. He now doesn’t have one wife –he’s got two. He kills over any pretense, and esp. the “pretense” he can’t do anything he wants and get away with it because of a “familial”/”lineal” protection from God supposedly geninely given to Cain exclusively on the whole earth. Plainly the supposed divine protection of Cain is the lie behind the thrones of all false “god kings”. They only progressed as anti-Christ did it through them from “God is protecting me for murder” to “I’m protecting myself because God is my father and that makes me a god as well.” The anti-Christ was and is the “counselor” that set the whole thing up: Belial.
Nahum 1:9-11 What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time. Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely. Out of thee is gone forth one that imagineth evil against Jehovah, a wicked counsellor. ( “a wicked counsellor” is literally “counsellor of Belial” or “counsellor of Beliar”..)
The second example from history is more broad based:
1. God blesses His children with medicines and cures for diseases which those of anti-Christ/Belial then seek to make out is their common “right” to possess and be blessed by. The truth that human bodies are the same but that new creatures in Jesus Christ are not the same as fallen man is obscured in a “common medicine” that blesses all. But on some occassions God holds cures for the human bodies of His children expressly to them while excluding unbeleivers/children of Belail –and says so. Only for believers are miracles given by Jesus Christ as a pre-cursor to His sending His Word to the nations:
Matthew 15:21-28 And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon; and lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those borders, cried to him saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon. But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to him and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us. But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel’s house. But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me. But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs. But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters. Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith is great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was healed from *that* hour.
A common medicine is not the only blessing on unjust people that God gives. Common just government is a benefit on all under it –just and unjust. Common/collective “charity” is another for which the wicked are not thankful at all but use it to cloak the distinction between just and unjust.
God specifically Says that those who seek to cloak the distinction between just and unjust and good and evil are under His wrath:
Isaiah 5:18-23 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes! who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we may see it ; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem! Woe unto them that are mighty for drinking wine, and men valiant to mix strong drink; who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn away the righteousness of the righteous from them!
God as well pronounces blessing on those through whom He makes the distinction of true believer in Him and liar/pretender plain:
Jeremiah 15:19-21 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: If thou return, then will I bring thee again, thou shalt stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. Let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. And I will make thee unto this people a strong brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee, to save thee and to deliver thee, saith Jehovah; yea, I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
Malachi 3:13-18 Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee? Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts? And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape. Then they that feared Jehovah spoke often one to another; and Jehovah observed it , and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be unto me a peculiar treasure, saith Jehovah of hosts, in the day that I prepare; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Even a common version of non-creating speech is a blessing of God as simple commonality of that speech is the foundation for the best peace free willers/children of Belial can know. Yet these benefits do not at all teach the unjust truth or righteousness. Indeed, they see not that these things are gifts of God, but something they are supposedly “owed” and have supposedly self-wrought simply because they exist as “common” human beings as if they were not fallen at all but held, “in common” ( not actually so, but in their eyes must be given the other blessings God bestows on them in common with Christians) with real Christians, the distinction of being the same creatures as real, literal new creatures in Jesus Christ and thus had a right to sit at any table with real Christians; they pretend continually that there is no such thing as new creatures in Jesus Christ, either in the lie that new birth will be later perfromed by God “in heaven” and that new birth is not accomplished by God as Word on this earth in this present flesh right now or that there will never be any such thing except through their “use” of the supposed singularity of Knowledge that they control to “ascend” in a very bad mimick of actual new birth in Jesus Christ. That they can never “ascend” higher than their master Lucifer and non-creating speech/anti-Christ and what Satan and anti-Christ’s and all those who follow them’s end will be always escapes them.
God specfically says non-beleivers do NOT have that right to all things He bestows on Christians and are not considered to be a singularity with real Christians in that regard:
Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle;
Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou hast anointed my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Indeed, there is in certain instances, prohibitions by God against mixing unbelievers with true Christains as receiving blessings:
Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and turning round rend you.
The result of lies by non-beleivers is to obscure as best they may, as anti-Christ does it through them, any distinction between themselves and real Christians both by building a false Christianity and pretending to have attained the “knowledge of Christ” as if it were a mere subset of their supposed singularity of Total Knowledge in non-creating speech and in claiming, as anti-Christ did through Cain, divine protection –for being wicked –as if God had made promises to them through Cain.
So intense is the hatred against Chritians that the wicked are driven day and night by anti-Christ to both equate Christians with mere religionists/doers-of-ceremony-and-non-creating-speech so as to make it appear their non-creating speech and witchcraft is the same Word that is Jesus Christ ( that equating being the unforgivible sin) but to do so as if they were authorities higher than God and Christians in a fishbowl concerning which they have made complete and conclusive studies. This is done continually by anti-Christ, his lie based on God’s true blessing of the just and unjust and sometimes with the same blessings on both, in the guise of the supposed monoploy of a single Knowledge which all supposedly cannot avoid running into at some point in “life’s journey” and that in that supposed singularity of Knowledge (which is in truth non-existent, they have only been deceived by anti-Christ that only non-creating speech exists in total reality and they know not Jesus Christ at all) they are Masters who must tolerate ( and by supposedly doing so validate in their own eyes the lie that is the pop emotional etiquette they have been taught and teach others is “really” God; at the least their supposed “proof of godliness” as a common emotional “value system”..) the mere tantrums (by which they intend to portray a mere “wrong use” of the pop emotional manipulation they perform continuously ) of “dangerous children” called Christians ( and we as Christians, to continue to seem to have encapsulated us in their lie of Total Knowledge..) not yet as “ascended”/”smart” in that supposed Knowledge as themselves. They do this as anti-Christ does it through them continually in “schools” they set up and in schools they infiltrate for the specfic purpose of so doing and spreading as if “Christian doctrine” ( specifcally as to spread the lie that the common “use” of emotion ( within the lie of free will and in the implication of no-new-birth-Jesus-Christ and thus no new heart as a result of that new birth and thus Christians and they have “common hearts”) in “common ways” is “what makes us a nation and holds us together..”) and as directions on “how to use the free will to ascend” and specifically to be “as ascended” as themselves –i.e. to carry on the lie of commonality/singularity as one path all souls must inevitably travel. Thus the lie of pluralism and “many faiths”/polythiesm and the lie of the “interfaith” movement.
Quite literally, they have sought to make common/collective every aspect of life specifically to cover over any distinctions between good and evil, Christians and non-Christian. Marketplaces and the mere act of selling and buying is taken as supposed ( but lying) “proof” of a heart in common with all those who buy and sell under the premise that a collective of merchandise proves common traits with souls rather than bodies and fallen hearts. You go into a market and the food or merchandise is already there as many units of the same stuff –the concept of selling at all: other people, a collective of buyers/needers seek the same things and are by ( lying) implication common in all aspects of being simply because their bodies need food and clothing. If everyone’s body needed that person specific items exclusive to others then there would be no selling and buying as no one would know what the others needed and could not in any case make tens, hundred or thousands of the same items/units-of-merchandise. Because souls and spirits are indeed individuals and what is needed for each is exclusive to them other than God and what He provides to each in His total purpose and plans, no merchandise is possible for the soul and spirit or even flesh and heart of new creatures in Jesus Christ. Even the wicked are individuals amongst themselves as a grace of God and as a wrath of God are deceived they are merely one part of a super-collective “proved” by buying and selling.
All items for sale ( to include intelligence reports) are scrubbed of any hint of spiritual truth so as to make it seem the buyer has actually entered a zone/”existential” devoid of any distinction between others. Everything from clothing to food to news is presented FROM and TO a supposed collective of like beings in a supposed speech common to total reality –non-creating speech. All things of truth are presented as if in a fishbowl “jounalists” have “investigated” and proved unworthy of sale. In the lie of free will, to prove something unworthy of buying (aka “choosing it”) functionaly equates it to simply not existing at all as truth BECAUSE it “should not” be “chosen.” That particu;ar “interfaith” lie is very evident in “God’s Warriors”, a tool of anti-Christ as “knowledge merchandise” that seeks to portray a collective of liars who are supposedly proved liars and a common collective as such because of violence against a simultaneously sinful, anti-Christian and homogenizing system.
The whole lie of a “objective”/ “existential” journalism outside the common language of the marketplace yet preparing identical units of “knowledge merchandise” per televison set is very plain. Even amongst themselves, anti-Christ recently stated through them on Cspan that the Main Stream Media is “transitionsing” from a thing that is a supposed “gatekeeper” of “knowledge and how it is learned” to a “helper” in the learning process. (Yet they have presented themselves publically all along as explicitly that friendly helper and not as supposed dictator/gatekeeper of knowledge. Even amongst themselves they admit they are twisters of truth –as a supposed duty that specifically protects not truth, but the concept of a marketplace of “knowledge merchandise” that is a mere servant to the overall lie of free will to keep alive the lie of actual “choice”.)
The holy grail of Satan is to make all creatures everywhere feel exactly the same thing ( the common etiquette of the supposed common heart ) given the same stimulus on que. That’s his definition of “peace” between “distinct individuals”. “Journalism” has become merely one tool in his arsenal to supposedly prove that elsewhere, really “smart” people are already doing that and that those people are the definition of “civilization”. He presents it as if already happening and it is supposedly proved to be already happening by his having (supposedly) succesfully made all things common and not-in-Jesus-Christ as a marketplace and the mere presence of multiple units of the same merchandise he supposedly allows others to “choose” as their only experience all their lives as surrounding them with such merhants/canaanites/speakers of non-creating speech/children of Belail.
Minus the lie of free will they have no hold on the people whatsoever as those free from the lie of free will do not need any examples or how-to seminars / “news”/ “knowledge merchandise” of how to “use” what does not exist and true Christains get what is needed from God to be and stay individuals forever(only God as Creating Speech/Word of God/Jesus Christ can and does create what is individually distinct and unique from both what is known to Man and all creatures past, present and future in total reality and maintains us all in our individuality forever and yet one with Him in Jesus Christ excepting the reprobate); minus the lie of free will they have no cloak to cover themselves at all and are seen in their nakedness. The whole lie of free will and there supposedly being only one speech in total reality is, in the eyes of those deceived in it, a perfect circle that cannot be penetrated by any “Knowledge” or “Being” alien to that lie and the speech that speaks it. It is a self-validating lie that is both its own prison (that they regard as life itself and their own identity and “collective individuality” in particular, and the emotional how-to aspect of it is the guards beyond which they cannot pass as the lie itself incites them to rage when the truth is presented to them. Jesus Christ has been taught to them to be the lie against which they ought to forever be on guard against and recogniztion of the truth is simply whatever makes them angry as merely supposedly calling them stupid for having chosen “incorrectly” in their own lie of “free will”/”choice”. They never perceive that the present is the result and product in God’s providence of many centuries of outright warfare between the true Church/Israel and Satan but the present is present-ed to them as if they were in a zone free of any warfare or constraints or any lies that was there simply to “make them happy”..) They have never understood that they must be outright new creatures in Jesus Christ to escape and they have no wish to escape at all excepting escaping what they always perceive to be temporary emotional set-backs for which they themselves bear “responsibility” and that those set-backs happen because of their supposed lack of the “education” in the singularity of the Knowledge that IS in reality anti-Christ in his aspect of pop emotion via lying-spirits-as-non-creating speech in the fallen human heart as if that heart were not fallen at all and anti-Christ the mere figment of the Christian mind, the study of which was already complete so as to have succesfully refuted it ( and he merely getting on with a “better existence devoid of any Christain “influence”( by which he intends knowledge “choice/products” to be considered for sale/chocie at all, “and” other than the mere worst..) as if a thing long ago settled and acknowledged as such by all “educated people”.)
They always forget that God Says of us who are new creatures in Jesus Christ, regarding the true warfare He fights through us that slays the wicked forever as knowing full and well that the wicked will attack us relentlessly in their ignorance/vanity and pride:
Proverbs 24:15,16 Lay not wait, O wicked man , against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place. For the righteous falleth seven times, and riseth up again; but the wicked stumble into disaster.
That is, having given Cain divine protection to seven fold, God through us slays Cain seven times and raises us up each time to do it again as granting us eternal life in the grace of God and Spirit, Word, Life, Redemption and Love that is God.
Proverbs 21:12 One that is righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked: he overthroweth the wicked to their ruin.
It is then not only part of what God does through us, but a grace He bestows on the world to do away with the wicked even though it is indeed costly to us as having to go through the wrath of God as both the curse of war and personal consequences because of His promises to Cain.
Psalm 99:6-9 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name: they called unto Jehovah, and *he* answered them. He spoke unto them in the pillar of cloud: they kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them. Jehovah, our God, *thou* answeredst them: a forgiving *God wast thou unto them, though thou tookest vengeance of their doings. Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at the hill of his holiness; for holy is Jehovah our God.
as well not all military losses can be attributed to the actions of those involved or even things in their past within their own lifetimes:
God told Israel to go against the tribe of Benjamin because of sodomy in Benjamin. Yet it took three very costly battles before Israel overtly “won” the battle. In the end, all the women and all but six hundred of Benjamin were killed.
Jdg 20:17-48 And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war. And the children of Israel arose and went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah first. And the children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah. And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah. And the children of Benjamin went forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty-two thousand men. And the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and set the battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day. And the children of Israel went up and wept before Jehovah until even, and inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And Jehovah said, Go up against him. And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and again destroyed to the ground of the children of Israel eighteen thousand men: all these drew the sword. Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up and came to Bethel, and wept, and abode there before Jehovah, and fasted that day until even, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah. And the children of Israel inquired of Jehovah (and the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And Jehovah said, Go up; for to-morrow I will give them into thy hand. And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah, round about. And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at the other times. And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city, and began to smite of the people, slaying as at the former times, in the highways, of which one leads to Bethel and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. And the children oIsrael said, Let us flee, that we may draw them from the city to the highways. And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-Tamar; and the ambush of Israel rushed forth out of their place, out of the meadows of Geba. And there came from opposite Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they knew not that disaster was coming upon them. And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjaminites that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword. And the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten. –And the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the ambush that they had set against Gibeah. And the ambush hasted, and fell upon Gibeah; and the ambush drew along, and smote the whole city with the edge of the sword. Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambush, that they should make a thick column of smoke rise up out of the city. And when the men of Israel turned back in the battle, Benjamin began to smite, slaying of the men of Israel about thirty men; for they said, Surely they are quite routed before us as in the first battle. And when the burning began to rise up out of the city as a pillar of smoke, Benjamin looked behind, and behold, the whole city ascended in smoke to the heavens. Then the men of Israel turned back, and the men of Benjamin were amazed, for they saw that disaster was come upon them. And they turned before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in their midst. They encompassed the Benjaminites, chased them, trode them down at the resting-place over against Gibeah toward the sun-rising. And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men: all these, men of valour. And they turned and fled towards the wilderness to the cliff of Rimmon, and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them to Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them. So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword: all these, men of valour. And six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness to the cliff of Rimmon, and abode at the cliff of Rimmon four months. And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city as the cattle, and all that was found; even all the cities that were found did they set on fire.
War is costly to Christains as nations and individuals and not always because of some sin they had commited. God has made promises He always fulfills. God has blessed the seed of many and that seed has become over time corrupt. Yet the blessing of God is without repentance on all whom He blesses. A few losses or even years of losses in no way automatically equates to God’s displeasure at the war or that He will end it merely to avoid emotional suffering of either the fallen heart of man or the new heart in the new creature in Jesus Christ.
Ecc 9:11,12 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Ecc 7:13-15 Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked? In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing of what shall be after him. All this have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his days by his wickedness.
Psalm 44:8-26 In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. Selah. But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies; Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves; Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations; Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price; Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us; Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger. All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant: Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path; Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange *god, Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter. Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth. Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness’ sake.
We will not be joined in a common destruction or a common abode in a common death with the wicked no matter what happens to us.
Psalm 55:15-19 Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst. As for me, unto God will I call; and Jehovah will save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice. He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle against me: for there were many about me. *God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of old, (Selah) …because there is no change in them, and they fear not God.
Psalm 91:1-16 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I say of Jehovah, My refuge and my fortress; my God, I will confide in him. Surely *he* shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the destructive pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou find refuge: his truth is a shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, for the arrow that flieth by day, For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the reward of the wicked. Because *thou* hast made Jehovah, my refuge, the Most High, thy dwelling-place, There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent. For he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee in all thy ways: They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under foot. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honour him. With length of days will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
God plainly says that the death He deals out through us does not harm us:
Isaiah 27:6-9 In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit. Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him? In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken her away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind. By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces, –the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand.
Isaiah 54:13-17 And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah, and great shall be the peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near thee. Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever gathereth together against thee shall fall because of thee.
Behold, it is I who have created the smith that bloweth in the fire of coal, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the destroyer to ravage. No weapon that is prepared against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah; and their righteousness is of me, saith Jehovah.
Quite frankly, as a righteous person and new creature in Jesus Christ, made rightous by the Word and blood of that Word of God, Jesus Christ, and as a new creature in Jesus Christ by the Word of God, I can think of a lot of things I would rather do than wake up again from the last time God killed wicked persons through me as a nation just to do it again. But there is no free will. God is Holy.
Psalm 22:1-31 To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My *God, my *God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning? My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me: And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel. Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying:
Commit it to Jehovah–let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him!
But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my *God from my mother’s belly. Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan’s strong ones have beset me round. They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death. For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me; They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But thou, Jehovah, be not far from me ; O my strength, haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog; Save me from the lion’s mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me. I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere him, all ye the seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him: but when he cried unto him, he heard. My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee: For the kingdom is Jehovah’s, and he ruleth among the nations. All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it .
Thus there is in war those Psalm 88 aspects of our lives:
Psalm 88:1-18 A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite. 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.
Those whom God sends ahead always resent those God sends after: “Nice of you to join me out here in the fight, eh?” Yet those whom God uses to do away with the lies that were the original set-up to slay those, who even if victorious on the physical battlefield would have been killed by the lies they accepted as truth as they went, as they fought and when they got home are in their own way blessed and individuals in Christ Jesus. Some are used to keep others from trespassing and to wash them of former trespasses before God even as those in need of new birth, de-toxing and de-programming vainly claim credit for themselves of all that God has done and is doing before them and through them.
1Samuel 17:26-30 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that smites this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? And the people told him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that smites him. And Eliab, his eldest brother, heard while he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle. And David said, What have I now done? Was it not laid upon me? And he turned from him to another, and spoke after the same manner; and the people answered him again after the former manner.
God honors His Word –even to the wicked –even to Cain –even at our expense.
Psalm 138:2 I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness, and celebrate thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Psalm 15:1-5 A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in the hill of thy holiness? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth from his heart. He that slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour; In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
We cannot be injured by the second death–the lake of fire:
Revelation 2:11 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He that overcomes shall in no wise be injured of the second death.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy he who has part in the first resurrection: over these the second death has no power; but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
But Cain endures the second death –the permanent death –and those who trust in his lies:
Revelation 20:14,15 and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire. And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8 But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners , and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
So if real Christians seem a bit sleepy because we just woke up from God dealing with the wicked through us as a nation last time? And anti-Christ says through his latest crop of deceived souls: “Can’t touch me! I’ve got the mark!” and seeks to portray that all real Christians have to be pacifists in order that God’s Word to Cain be true and that God as Word intended the same? All God is going to say through us is ..nothing. Who speaks to those who have proved they cannot hear God and are therefore deaf? You can always tell it is the same anti-Christ/non-creating speech: each round he gets more and more desperate to deceive Christians in particular that in order to be “let into heaven later” they have to be pacifists now and the more intense is his attempt to homogenize everything and blur all distinctions between Christians and the rest of the world. He always seeks to portray that it is he who has given all the common blessings and thus has a rightful place at the table of the children of God in Jesus Christ.
In the lie of “other faiths” he seeks to portray that there is a common morality outisde of new birth in Jesus Christ and being washed in God’s blood and that “all religions” are supposedly “trying to instill” that common morality/total Knowledge …and that if successful, a “paradise” would insue on earth. Thus his lie of “many paths to the same place/thing/morality” so that he may obscure that there is only one Way: Jesus Christ.
Matthew 7:13,14 Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it. For narrow the gate and straitened the way that leads to life, and they are few who find it.
John 14:6 Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father unless by me.
God through the attacks of anti-Christ has made and makes our new hearts skinny enough to fit through Him as that narrow gate and our souls fit for the battle as journey.
John 10:7-9 Jesus therefore said again to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: if any one enter in by me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and shall find pasture.
Merely contending with the wicked and the victory over them will not satisfy as being with Jesus Christ. All the payback in total reality will not satisfy at all nor truly build a kingdom any more than merely plowing a field is the same as planting seed in a prepared seed-bed. To merely kill Satan for a few murders, or a few wrecked lives we may personally know of in no way equals the whole of what he has done to the billions of souls we do not know, of all that he did that to us is secret. But God will do what God will do.
Anti-Christ through Bram Stoker sought to portray a Christian warrior as a blood-sucking vampire. The lore of that vampirism has taken on its own life so that now anti-Christ seeks to portray vampires as regaining life and powers via soaking in vats of human blood in pop stories and movies.
Yet we were washed in the blood of Jesus Christ, of God himself. Being in and coming up out of His blood has an effect on us anti-Christ cannot even hope to mimic even as he tries at the expense of his followers lives and the physical bodies of new creatures in Jesus Christ if he can as seeking to profit and gain miraculous powers from the blood of the saints. Anti-Chirst and Satan have fallen for their own lies of commonality.
Isaiah 14:16-22 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that dismissed not his prisoners homewards? –All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house; but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, covered with the slain–those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase trodden under foot. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever. Prepare ye slaughter for his children, because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise up and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities. For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and scion and descendant, saith Jehovah.
After God is done with the wicked as casting them into the lake of fire, He will remove even the mention of them by doing away with anti-Christ/non-creating speech as their speech. To us who have known them and it and some intracies of them, what loss is it to forget them and to have them anew as a mystery? God raised us up over and over to remember them and will do so until they are gone forever. If it is necessary to remember them, God will not forget for us and in our stead. When they are gone, what need have we of remembering them except to praise God in His Love, Power, Word and Justice as Himself as Righteousness for being Himself and revealing Himself to us?
We are not here to build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. The lie that Christian involvment in governance and military action supposed proves attempts at “kingdom building” is a lie. Only Christ will do that in Person in the flesh on His return. But neither are we here to just look on while false Christians perscribe evil for their neighbors on the lie that “persecution makes Christianity grow” or that we are always and perpetually in the “end times” and it is “God’s will” that billions of human souls lie in chains of wickedness and oppression while we do nothing –in “free will” and as supposed proof that we are Christians while the enemy lies as to what the gospel is and pretends “it just doesn’t work” on certain sets of minds.
Ecc 8:8 There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Proverbs 24:10-12 If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter. If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, will not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that preserveth thy soul, he knoweth it; and he rendereth to man according to his work.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen