Restraint, Derision, and Reprobate Minds
By Terry James
In looking at the surface of evil in the world taking place, the conclusion often reached is that this world is out of control. And one can’t be faulted for such a view of world conditions.
When we see such things as young children being considered legal/legitimate fodder for sexual predators (now called Minor Attracted Persons instead of by the pedophile designation), things look out of control – totally out of control.
When you see one of the two major political parties championing those who push agendas such as those like the MAP advocates embrace, what other conclusion can be drawn by those of sound mind other than that this world is going or has already gone insane?
Without meaning to get political, in the sense of promoting one political party over another, we remember a biblically pronounced end to such turning of the back on the God of Heaven.
We can recall during a convention of a decade or so ago when a person asked the Democrat Convention attendees whether God should be mentioned within the proceedings; the loud and definite answer by all in attendance was a resounding NO! There was left no doubt whatsoever that they wanted any mention of God left out of proceedings.
As mentioned numerous times in these commentaries, here again is what God says about those who turn their backs on Him. And the same results/judgment is true whether applied to groups or to individuals.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” (Romans 1:28).
Again, not intending to stray far into politics, the facts of what I observe through the prism of God’s Prophetic Word must be interjected here. Anyone truly being honest in reflecting upon what they observe as they watch this presidential administration surely has questions like those in my mind. How is it that we have reached such a place in this once soundly thinking nation that the top three people in the presidential administration are seemingly without the ability to demonstrate cognitive function in a normal fashion?
These — the president, the vice president, and the press spokesperson — have actually become almost a laughing stock to observers not in their political party, within their leftist ideology, or within the mainstream media – which, mentioning in the same breath, is perhaps being redundant. Their mental acuity is, it seems to me, inadequate to the challenge in addressing legitimate issues on the national and international scene.
These are avid adherents of the platform presented by the political party, which verbally shouted God out of their midst.
Of course, kicking God out of anything isn’t possible with the Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent God of Heaven. And to that end, He continues to have that anti-God party in derision, just as indicated He will do to anyone against Him in the following.
“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, ‘Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.’ He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalms 2:2-4).
A careful dissection of things going on over the past recent years shows time after time that the Lord has intervened to slow down the minions, both demonic and human, of Ephesians 6: 12 in their effort to hurry the bringing of Antichrist to the end-times world stage.
One of the signals that the Restrainer was involved in the American political process is illustrated, I believe, by the following observation by one prophetic writer.
Apparently, the evil forces behind these arenas of the falling away believe that as long as America stands, their cause will not climax in victory. Thus, we see a concentrated effort to bring America down to an entity without sovereignty.
One cannot deny the true meaning of that statement muttered by President Obama at the annual DC Correspondents’ Dinner on April 30, 2016: “The end of the Republic has never looked better!” He was so caught up with anticipation that Hillary Clinton would be the winner of the 2016 presidential election that he could not contain himself. Thus, the goal of destroying the United States from her perch at the top of the nations is Satan’s plan in his drive to pose as God in the place of the God of the universe.
Topple the United States, and the whole world will go down. Why? America is the only nation which allows its citizens the freedom of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as individual rights coming from God, not the state. That arrangement just cannot be allowed by those who envision a New World Order and a one-world government where no such freedom is planned-except for the elite. – Source: Is the Real Restrainer Now Restraining? By Gene Lawley, 6/11,2019
The Lord Intervened in that 2016 presidential election in ways that drove those thinking they had things that would “fundamentally transform America” insane and spewing forth every sort of vitriol against the candidate who won that election. And the insanity continues to this moment, as indeed, the anti-America as founded forces seem to be making significant headway in their drive to fundamentally change this nation.
Despite the growing wickedness that certainly must make this like the days of Lot in Sodom in the Holy Eyes of God, His Judgment and Wrath continue to build, reserved for that Promised twinkling of an eye Moment –The Glorious fraction of a second when Christ Calls the Church –all born-again believers—to Himself.
Here is how to be part of that Call so that you can, along with all Saints of this Age of Grace, have Joy in the Heavenly Father’s Presence Forever.
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).
– Terry