We Won’t Get Fooled Again -The Who- |
Most dictators are a depraved parity, a divine pretender, or a despotic potentate. We see this on the past pages of history and on the stage at this present moment. They are liars, sometimes lunatics, and all too often they are lethal. They are frauds and fakes who fabricate falsehoods and fortify our fears. History’s past reminds us of humanity’s nemeses. Names such as Hitler, Stalin, Hirohito, Pol Pot, Mao, and Castro come to our minds. Today in this present hour we recognize the names of Xi, Putin, Kim Jong Un, a.k.a. Rocketman. Biblical Prophecy speaks to our future where we shall realize a singular man who is anti-man and more specifically anti-Christ. (I John 2:18, 4:3; 2 Thess. 2:3-5; Rev. 11;7, 13:1-10) He will promise peace. He will provide protection. But in the end, he will deliver death. He will have dreams of divinity as he seeks to control humanity. And humanity will exchange its liberty for security and eliminate its freedom for serfdom. It will be worship that is idolatry. In the past as in the present people have looked for a spiritual solution, a hope of heaven in a western catholic Pontiff or an eastern orthodox Patriarch or even a local parish Priest. But there is no temporal or eternal hope in these men. The only eternal hope is in the Savior of mankind, the Son of God, who gave His life a ransom to provide reconciliation and redemption so that we could be justified, our sin propitiated, and be declared no longer guilty, no longer condemned, and no longer shamed. We are declared - Saints Alive… Free and Clear! Political dictators and our societal moral degeneration in all its perverted varieties and categories are simply acts of rebellion against the one and only Holy God. (Romans 1) The world leaders of today would do well to remember a former day and a former political leader, King Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4), and the lesson he needed to learn -- that God is God and He will have No Rivals. We all need to realize what Isaiah reminds us of in Isaiah 43:10-13: “You are My witnesses,” declares the Lord, “And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me. “I, even I, am the Lord, And there is no savior besides Me. “It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, And there was no strange god among you; So you are My witnesses,” declares the Lord, “And I am God. “Even from eternity I am He; And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?” Moses reminds us of the same truth in Deuteronomy 32:39: ‘See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal; And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.’ Political leaders come and go. But our God reigns. (Psalm 73:1-18) As for our society bent on perversion of every kind imaginable and unimaginable - we would do well to remember Sodom and Gomorrah. Serving Him with you until He comes for us, Fred |