Welcome to the Land of Mass Confusion and Contradiction, where the final Outcome can only end in Chaos!
January 19, 2007
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I was in the Holy Land plotting Soviet AACS intercepts four years after Israel became a nation in 1948. I have made many excursions to Israel since that time, and was involved in the AWS and NSA until leaving the USAF-NSA Branch by retirement in 1971. I have monitored the Middle East Conflicts for a very long time, which at times have been filled with intrigue and surprise. But I can truthfully state that I have never seen such mass confusion and contradiction in diplomacy, policy, practice, and statements at all levels by all countries involved in the Middle East three-ring circus. Worldwide confusion and contradiction at the highest levels of government in all countries is
being produced by a generation spawned by a form of godliness
based on human desires and the sexual satisfaction of the flesh.
It runs through all levels from the bottom to the top, because the international leaders are directed by the same form of godliness.
It is a form of godliness based on man’s opinion as to what is right and what is wrong, with each individual deciding what he or she thinks is acceptable conduct,
without any regard to the Bible. They base their individual beliefs on emotions of what makes them feel good when attempting to worship or placate God according to their own concepts. Man has become his own God. It is the culmination of the path that many Israelites propagated in the days of the Judges.
Judges 17:6 – In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Man has build a vast civilization of “haves” and “have-nots,” with great scientific achievements and advancements beyond the wildest dreams of the peoples
of the earth living at the time of the Judges. But what about the state of society itself – what is mankind like now – how much has mankind been changed by great material advancement – what are the moral achievements and advancements in its basic moral character as a result of it’s ever increasing intellectual professionalism?
The basic character of mankind at every level is surely as God said it would be in the last days. That is why a true lasting peace cannot come to the Middle East until Messiah comes with all his saints at his Second Advent.
Luke 17:28-30 – Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; [29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
[30] Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
II Timothy 3:1-7 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
[6] For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, [7] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Romans 2:4,5 – Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? [5] But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Psalm 2:1-5 – Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? [2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. [4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
[5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Why is the world in such a state of spiritual confusion and contradiction in these last days?
Because the vast bulk of its six billion plus population has never come to Jesus Christ to remove the guilt of their heavy sin burden, and thereby give them an eternal life of rest in his salvation.
Matthew 11:28 – Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
John 5:40 – And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
II Thessalonians 1:7-10 – And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, [8] In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: [9] Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; [10] When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
I John 5:9-13 – If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. [10] He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
[11] And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. [12] He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
[13] These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Acts 4:12 – Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Romans 10:13 – For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.