Ephesians
5:11
"And
have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove them."
We
are living in a day when even some of our politicians, and some of
our more belligerent elements of Christianity think that we can
literally turn the world around. They think we can just stop this
downhill slide into more and more wickedness, down into more and more
satanic power, of darkness and they try to give us the idea that we
can reverse this trend. But we can not. Nor does the Scriptures
say we will. But what are we to do? We are to be in constant
opposition to these forces. We are to stand like a dam in the river,
and hold it back, but we are not going to reverse the direction of
that river. We just simply can not find anything in Scripture that
indicates that we are admonished to reverse the trend, it just will
not happen. But we can stand in opposition, and reprove the works of
darkness, and that is all God expects from us. In Daniel 7 we are
given a glimpse into the darkness which is upon us but at the end of
this chapter Daniel was told to seal up the book until its appointed
end, I think that we are in this end. To back us up turn to 2Thessalonians chapter 2. We have used these Scriptures when we revealed the coming of the anti-Christ, and so forth. This is the
responsibility of every believer, in whatever time he has lived.
Whether it was in Paul’s day, or whether it was a thousand years
ago, or whether it is today. This has been the proclivity of the
truth believer.
2Thessalonians
2:6
"And
now ye know what withholdeth (holds back) that he*
might be revealed in his time."
*the
anti-Christ up there in verse 4. There is this power that is holding
back, the anti-Christ. The power of Life and Light in Truth and Grace
in the believer is the power of our God which restrains the forces of
evil, through reproof.
In
other words, not ahead of time, and not behind time but at the right time. So we become
then a force under the power of the Holy Spirit to hold back these
forces of iniquity that would literally prepare the world for the
anti-Christ before his time. God is not going to let that happen so
He uses the believers to reprove these works of darkness that are
coming in as a flood. We are not left alone or
to our own devices. But have the Holy Spirit and
the ontological essence of Christ within us and the full armor of God
in Christ upon us with which we resist the works of evil around us.
We stand strong in Truth and Light from which darkness flees.
2Thessalonians
2:7a
"For
the mystery of iniquity doeth already work:..."
We
mean, this isn’t something that started in the 1900’s, or in the
last thousand years, but rather this has been going on a very long time. We think,
especially since the Tower of Babel when Nimrod caused people to fall
into the trap of false gods, and satanically inspired mythology, and
all these things. So this is where we think Paul is referring back
to, although there was plenty of iniquity between Adam and the Tower
of Babel. Always remember that all religions that we are
up against today, and we don’t care what it is, whether it’s a
huge religion, or a cult, or some little off shoot of something else. They all have their roots right back to the Tower of Babel, and before, everyone
of them. They have been working against God now for the last 4000-5000
years, so it’s nothing new.
2Thessalonians
2:7
"For
the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth
(hinders) will let (hinder), until
he be taken out of the way."
We have
always felt that God here is referring to the work of the Holy
Spirit, working through the believer. We are the ones that are to
stand up and reprove, and hold back these forces of iniquity that
would cover the world and make the anti-Christ’s appearance
premature. We must slow the river of iniquity down, and this is all
we can do. Isaiah may say it best in:
Isaiah
59:19
“So
shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory
from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a
flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.”
To this hear what Jesus said:
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