A New Kind of Idol?

     Psalm 1 paints a picture of life on this earth. It compares the lifestyle of the godly and the ungodly during the six great Days allotted to mankind in God’s chronos agenda. It’s the path of the sinners and scornful versus the path of fruitful trees that bring forth life and whose leaf never withers.
     Psalm 2 paints the parallel picture of this scene from the perspective of God’s throne in Heaven. The nations plot vain plans to break their bondage of accountability to God the Creator. He simply laughs at their foolishness. For He has declared the beginning from the end, and His will shall come to pass, for His Word always accomplishes His purposes.
        The decree of righteous judgment has been written for all to see. They can pretend it doesn’t exist. They can pretend that it doesn’t apply to them because they are “enlightened” and “woke.” Yet, the Psalm ends with God giving them fair warning to “kiss the Son” and become part of His Bride. Otherwise, the just God will have no choice but to give them what they have chosen by aligning with evil—the wrath of that Day, God’s vengeance against evil.
         End-Time Lesson: A prominent evangelical teacher has written a book about how the wrathful God of Revelation presents a terrible picture that is undermining the spread of the Gospel. How sad that this man has fallen for the scoffers’ delusion and deception. Having cut the cord with the Truth, he fails to acknowledge that choices always have consequences. The sinners and scoffers make wrong choices, and then blame God for the consequences.
         We see this same mentality in the mystery of lawlessness that is running rampant in our time. The “enlightened” way of prosecutors to lighten sentences has removed the severity of the consequences of the lawbreaker’s choices, which only serves to encourage more lawlessness. And now we have preachers and teachers applying that same “logic” to God’s kingdom, denying the reality of Hell and judgment. They want to remake God according to their own image, even if they don’t bother to use wood or stone or some other earthly material.
          Here’s what God has already declared, and what shall take place shortly, whether the scoffers believe it or not. For He knows the horrible consequences of removing accountability. That is, there can then be no justice for anyone.
         “Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead” (Acts 17:29-31).
       Don’t be surprised when those in the world mock the resurrection and the rapture as they did when Paul preached it, standing amidst their man-made religious idols. They may laugh at us, but God shall have the last laugh, though it will grieve Him deeply. For He “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:4-5).