Sucker Punch

Sneak attack

After a sneak attack by the unseen enemy, people are left battered, bruised, assaulted, and insulted. When attempting to stand, lower limbs tremble with aftershock wobbling from repeated blows. That's how sucker punches work: the coward plots in private, colluding with others of the same ilk, and when they come out of their darkened mind cave to attack, it is from behind. 

Men with money

Mafia style, the perpetrators throw bags over the heads of their prey, and pummel with what they intend to be deadly blows. THAT, dear reader, is what the men with the money, stolen from unwitting lemur like humans, have done on a global scale. Rather sinister, wouldn't you agree?

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12).

While the battle for soul booty began in unseen and high places, the earthly realm is where we see blood and guts splattered and strewn. We have witnessed massive carnage, and the ripple affect will become more pronounced over time from the critical hits that landed soundly from the enemy. 

Battle

What occurred to me last night, is recovery and catching up. As I see it, there are three categories of players and stages in the recovery phase of this battle:

1. Harbingers: Those that saw through the plotting and planning, and sniffed out the violence awaiting the masses, sounding the shofar of warning: theirs was a loud and unheard voice, trumpeting danger, danger, look behind you, the enemy approaches

2. Caught up: Those that were unaware prior to the sneak attack, and once alerted, speak definitively and strongly against the devouring enemy that stops at nothing to destroy lives and kill when they have a clean shot at a target

3. Take action: Those that preserve good and restrain evil by mounting a counter attack, using legal and righteous means, godly ways to discomfit the enemy, lasso them, and bring them to the lawful of the land for trial, prosecution, and punishment when found guilty

Taking harbingers seriously, the caught up crowd now become the shofars, while the take action crew do the work of ensuring justice is restored to the land, and citizens are protected from villainous marauders. 

Why, you might ask?

Why, you might ask. Why is all this happening? It is all because of God dear one!!! There is a Heavenly God known as Jesus the Christ, and there is the god of this world that wants nothing more than to steal, kill and destroy:

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly  (John 10:10).

We see in two short lines of scripture, the dichotomy, the duality of the opposing forces of this world. They are not equal and opposite though dear reader. One is the Sovereign, the other is a sinister enslaving of souls snake that can only mimic and contort the glory of Gods creation, blinding the minds of those that have yet to meet their maker in this world but will without doubt, meet Him in the unseen spirit realm:

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God (2 Corinthians 4:4). 

Satan is a trickster:

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). 

Now you know

Dear one, we were sneak attacked by a blood thirsty enemy that engages the human mercenaries of this world, those that would forsake their souls for what this life on planet earth has to offer, at the expense of the human beings that share space and time with them. We know this, because we have been temporarily subjugated to the ploys and tactics of this now evident enemy. 

It behooves us at this point, if we haven't done so already, to educate ourselves on how this story ends. The enemy is well aware of what his future looks like. He knows God: Satan heard God pronounce judgment long ago; the devil doesn't need to read Revelation! Within his vicious nature, he cannot help but be true to himself: he will do his utmost best to take with him to hell, any and all that do his bidding, including denying the living God. This is what the book of Revelation says about the current state and next, the fate of the fraudulent wanna be king of the world, along with his charcoal black, broken winged angels:

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world-he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him (Revelation 12:9). 

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever (Revelation 20:10). 

Walk to a close

As we walk to a close, lets enjoy a note of confidence, a knowing that can only be gleaned when one such as you, such as me, realize Who is in charge: 

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand (Deuteronomy 32:39).  

The exciting Good News

Dear one, this is my driving point:

• It does not matter how the enemy plots and schemes
• It does not matter what he thinks he can get away with
• It does not matter if he believes he can still win this battle

God kills, makes alive, wounds, heals AND, those that belong to Him, cannot be delivered out of His hand!

Each life is precious to God

Conclusion

I have come to the glorious conclusion, in my simple minded way, that when someone dies, when someone lives, when someone is wounded, when someone heals, it is all because God determines what happens in each life... 

Praise God, He is truly truly Good

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows (Matthew 10:29-31).