Come On In!

Man alive, history truly does repeat itself: this truism is due to mankind's perpetual inclination toward spiritual stupidity regarding the consequences of gross sin - gross is defined here as obvious, and unacceptable, thoughts and resultant behaviours in the sight of God. 

In the book of Nehemiah, Tobiah the Ammonite, an enemy of God's people, was invited by the high priest, Eliashib, to reside within the temple. He was housed comfortably there, in the heart of God's Holy City, Jerusalem, whenever he happened desired a spot of entertainment, and afterward, a place to lay his wicked head down for rest.

The expression in bed with your enemy, comes to mind. God's people are a peculiar bunch, meaning set apart, different, not to be mixed and mingled with strangers that worship deaf and dumb demon deities. Sex, power, control, money, prestige, all play a role in the debauching of humanity. The high priest, Eliashib, had a penchant toward misusing blessings and his position of godly authority, in order to scratch his dirt encrusted itch: he favoured Tobiah as a companion, and told him, Come on in!. Eliashib violated the sanctity of the temple by giving this man living quarters, where Israelites were meant to worship the living God. Rather than chasing the rascal away and protecting God's people from a murderous menace, the high priest modelled irreverence and disregard for God's Sovereignty, putting God's people in jeopardy. 

If you happen to go to a church that invited a modern day Tobiah in, aka, co-VID, then your high priest, otherwise known as your pastor, priest, minister, bishop, whatever title he/she/it has given itself, is a traitor and a trader of souls. To be plain, your religious leader is Eliashib, and invited in the enemy of your spirit, when all the nonsensical protocols were implemented, what now seems like a lifetime ago. We see remnants of these orders from the devil in disguise: masks are still lovingly placed over paranoid faces, and the poor souls that sport them haven't a clue that they are slowly cooking themselves in their own poisoned juices. 

Listen. We all make judgment errors AND, we all have to learn to say these mountain moving words: I am sorry. If your religious leader is anything like Eliashib, and has yet to apologize for inviting Tobiah into your midst, and you KNOW that a hoax was perpetrated against you and all of mankind via CO-v-ID, then you are being subjected to demonic forces that thrive on sucking the life right out of humans: that is their only driving source of energy. They live to kill. 

Listen again, with all the wax sucked out of your ears so you can hear. There are modern day Ezra's and Nehemiah's. They warn us about snakes and scorpions, the kind that slither and sneak into holy places to sully and seduce us toward being sinful. Biblically, Nehemiah saw what was happening and he took hold of the situation and honoured God by removing Tobiah and kicking him out onto his butt, without hesitation or fear of reprisal from men, because he honoured the living God, and holy reverence moved him to action. If you love Jesus, you will do the same. You will look at your life, and with God's help, pin down the sin snakes and scorpions, and stomp on them or catch and cast them away, but you will NOT SUFFER THEM in your life! 

This is a test. Cov-ID was a test, and now we have our final examination. God is watching to see who will abide in him and resist the devil. Clearly we cannot do this on our own. Clearly we need the strength of the Saviour; and we are asked to: 

1. trust in God's providential care

2. maintain our temple - the soul that resides in the tent of our body - via reading his Word, praying, and living a holy life

3. refusing to collude with secular spirituality that waters down faith until it is tasteless and ultimately, nonexistent.

The Bible is a blessing, dear reader, because we don't have to guess at what comes next. We live history, with the theme of good vs evil prevailing, and evil currently rearing its ugly head in the most grotesquely arrogant of fashions. But what, I ask you, of the good? What good can you and I do in a world of people that like to roll around in pig pens and muddy their souls in the muck? 

I am asking you to be very aware, alarmed even, so that you can have your yay or nay say in what is happening in your own life. Each human has impact, and yours can be for the wholesome good of your neighbour. Modelling the love of Christ is the only answer, the only solution, and I ask you to decide now, to follow him. 

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7)

Message complete, I'm out, as they say. Have a good and godly day today dear one.