What is askew, above, and what is upright? As a Christian I know that Christ is always upright. Yes, even on the cross, Jesus Christ was completely and perfectly upright and righteous. Even when it appears otherwise, Jesus Christ is always upright, so when something must be askew, be it Christ or the world, Christ is upright. Therefore, it is the world that is askew, and not Christ—or those who walk with Him—because Christ is always upright.
Therefore,
if we were to level our sight with that of Christ—that
is, with that of God—we
would see things as they really and truly are.
It
is the world that is askew, that is slanting and tilting toward sin.
In the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien he tells the story of a
once-righteous world that was tilting more and more toward sin, and
when it had gone too far—when
it had leaned too far—that
world fell into the abyss and was destroyed.
Numenor
is not just fiction. It relates to the Biblical
story of the flood, of
a world that was tilting and
pining toward sin. When it had gone too far God destroyed that world
along with—save
the truly faithful—everyone
in it.
Our
world, too, is tilting—and
tilting too far.
As
ever, the wicked think they are the righteous and God the
wicked; and if you seek to stand with God—meaning
the one true and living God rather than the god of their
imaginations—then the evil will call you
evil, thinking themselves to be righteous.
Even
these
words here they will call self-serving
and false. But calling the Bible—and
therefore, its adherents—wicked
and evil, is the declaration of
a liar.
It is the declaration of one who seeks to justify
their own twisted and filthy life. The one who works to have that
which the Word of God calls depravity, rebellion, and abomination
good, and righteous and honorable is working against God. They are,
in fact, the enemy of God, and not His friend—and
therefore, not yours.
Be
on your guard with them. Live God-honoring
and fruitful lives in their sight that they may see the true
blessings of God and turn away from their depravity and to the Light
of Life that is only
found in Jesus Christ. As
it is indelibly written,
The
darkness cannot exist without the Light, for without
Light what is darkness? It is an ephemeral thing
that cannot be seen, for it is the Light that enables us to
see. Without the Light to see what is there for us to be? We cannot
exist without the Light.
“By
Him were all things made, and without Him nothing has been
made that has been made.” 22
We are not eternal. Therefore we are made. We are, therefore, made by
Him. We cannot exist without the Light.
It
is a sure sign of just how twisted and depraved the world has become
that they seek to wipe out
the existence of the One by whom they are made—without whom they
cannot
exist. He
has made us, and maintains us,
untwists
us, and saves us. In seeking to destroy
Him, we destroy ourselves.
We
cannot exist without the Light.
In
their self-destructive fervor they believe
every
lie spouted by the Beast, for they have taken his mark upon
themselves and within themselves.
They have taken the mark of the Beast.
Witness
their lives and see that I do not lie.
Look at what they do, and at what the Light
Himself has said. “It
deceives the inhabitants of
the earth by the signs it makes before the beast,
telling them to make an image of the beast… it causes all, the
small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the
slave to be marked
in
their right hand and in their forehead
so that not one be able to go to market
or trade if not taking the mark of the beast.” 33
What
of those bakers who have refused the
wicked agenda, who
have remained faithful to
Christ in their declarations and in their lives?
What is the purpose of fining a mom and pop bakery $135,000
for refusing to make a cake in
celebration of a perversion, of a wicked and evil deception, of
marriage, if not to bar them from the marketplace?
And
it is not just one isolated incident, for
throughout the land people are being dragged before
magistrates for choosing the Light rather
than the mark. States are
being threatened with
a deprivation of federal funds for demanding
that their inhabitants behave themselves, and
state
after state is rising up in rebellion against
the
tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood
who
would bring such threats against them as,
once
again, our nation rushes headlong into civil war in
order to determine whether or not to remain
under the thumb of this satanic little puppet of the beast that
reigns in the hearts of wicked men.
You
have a choice, therefore, presented and
lain out before you. It is a choice between the Sonrise and the
night. It is a choice between the darkness and the Light.
We
cannot exist without the Light.
1John
1:5
2John
1:3
3Revelation
13:14-17
