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VENGEANCE is a Right of God
Each and every child of God today lives in two different realms. Although we are on earth, we have a presence in heaven before God the Father. Though on earth, we seek those things that are above. Our affections are above in the Person of the Son of God. We, as Joshua, in Zechariah Chapter 3, must walk before God in all of God’s statutes, and all the commandments that the Lord Jesus and the apostles related unto us in the gospels and in the epistles. One has to have a rightful interpretation of God’s grace. You cannot have grace without God’s love, and grace and love must be upheld by God’s truth and righteousness. God’s grace is a calling through faith, and faith is a gift of God. Faith is not a blanket decree over the whole world. Faith is the instrument of God to quicken the righteous in the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace is not over nations, for nations are still responsible to God’s order, and to God’s demands. This is why there have been wars among all the nations of the world in millenniums of battles. It is man against man under the influence of Satan. It is Satan who weakens the nations in the sins of the world. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (Isaiah 14:12)
God moves His angels to fight against the wicked principalities of the air. God also raises up evil men who fulfill His purpose when the nations reach a terminal ungodly state of evil. Remember, that at the command of the Lord Jesus Christ He could have called LEGIONS of angels to keep Him from the cross. But it was the delight of the Father’s will that was within the Lord Jesus Christ, the joy that was set before Him, as He said, I delight to do thy will O God. All the angels that are under God’s command do not move or battle or minister independently from the command of God. We see this in the seven letters to the seven Churches in the book of the Revelation. It is Christ who sends those angels, and each of the seven angels have a different message to give to each of the seven churches. They are ministering spirits that minister to the heirs of salvation. At God’s command, these holy angels war against ungodly nations. Satan’s desire from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is to enslave man in sin and death, and to torment man through man’s lifetime with the lust and the iniquity that Satan possesses within himself to overthrow all from the beginning the works of God.
SIDE NOTE: Even in our current age, if we see what God sees we will understand the wars both in the Ukraine and in Israel. The people of Ukraine are NOT free for their nation is a ‘Satellite nation’ of the United States. The Ukraine, as a nation, has been one of the most corrupt political nations. They (Ukrainians as well as the citizens of the United States) have no voice or power to fight against their overlords. The citizens of the Ukraine are victims caught in a vice between their own government and those who lust over the resources of what was once called ‘the breadbasket of Europe.’ For a long time, Ukraine led in political human trafficking which engulfed the world; so, God is allowing the destruction of the Ukraine. But it is not only the Ukraine, it is the politicians of the entire world that embraced human trafficking in every form, in sexual perversions, and now with the open border policy of the United States and other western nations, the governments themselves are using human trafficking in undermining their own immigration laws to destroy their own culture. The United States is not exempt from destruction, but our destruction is going to be greater and deeper than the destruction of the Ukraine. The governments of the western world have been overcome by the influence of Satan. And God’s VENGEANCE and His recompense are being felt and seen all over the world. The government of the United States under Satanic influence not only overthrew the election of 2020 but is actively working behind closed doors to overthrow the election of 2024. Under Satan’s influence the invisible personalities of our rogue government have been writing their game plan to create a country of slaves to feed the demonic lusts of the politicians and their overlords. Under this satanic influence, the United States government is destroying its citizens and eventually it will destroy itself. The die is cast, and no matter who is elected in this next election, God’s hand might be stayed for a time period, but the judgment of God has already been set and the time will come by His will and purpose. As Satan desires to be God, we live in a world where the inner being of mankind also lusts with the desire to be God over the people. In all walks of life, you have dominant personalities under Satan’s influence to overthrow and to put in subjection other men. The sad part is that the leaders of the nations of today’s world are made up of dominant figures under the influence and control of Lucifer, who has weakened the nations. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! Isaiah 14:12) ◆ End of Side Note.
This battle over mankind began at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. As time passed man became a murderer, as years went by men under Satan’s influence destroyed other man, and when nations formed under man’s rule these nations destroyed each other in the lust over the control of mankind. All being led by their father the devil to their own destruction. Wars are fought not to set men free, but to become masters and controllers over other men. Man is individually in slavery to sin, but sin has brought ALL NATIONS into the same slavery. It is the lust of the flesh for power, for wealth, for dominance over others that rules the world today. Even the war between the states called ‘the civil war’ did not set men free but brought the entire country into a different system of slavery which has progressed in its rules and demonic laws and institutions to make the chains and shackles heavier and harder over its own citizens. Citizens bear the weight of this tyrannical government, and they bear a heavy burden as their families are inundated by the promotion of sin and lust of the flesh from their own government and its programmed propaganda tentacles controlling the visual and sensual industries.
The knowledge of good has been overcome by the knowledge of evil. And we are at the fullness of this world slavery. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. (Matthew 23:4) Break one of the rules of the masters and you suffer, but if you obey, as a good slave, you will be allowed to continue in your own toil and burden.
Many hide themselves in religion not to receive the peace of God, but to have peace with man. Religion never looks for peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ, religion is to soothe the conscience, but it is a weak counterfeit for there is no peace of God or peace with God because religion is only filthy garments worn by self-righteous imitators of truth.
As we look over the world of strife, we ask this question in the presence of God, What is man that thou art mindful of him? As a whole, mankind is afraid to step out of himself and look and see what he really is. Man feeds with the swine, he is master of the dung hill, and he lies in the putridness of sin’s sores. As the sore’s spreads within, man succumbs to death; and therefore, he pays for the wages of sin which is death.
The redeemed of the Lord Jesus Christ can see and feel the movement of evil all around. In Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, it is only Pilgrim who has a vision to reveal the vanities in the vanity fairs of this world. Pliable moves with every wind and doctrine and never sees the evil all around. Remember the old former outdoor movies, you were far away from the screen, but you saw all the characters. Those who are born of the blood of Christ are removed from this world although they are in the world, yet they see this world as far off as the movie screen, and they can discern through the word of God that which is good and that which is evil. They have a presence with God and His goodness, but they are aware of Lucifer traveling throughout the world and devouring those who are unaware of his diabolical acts and those who have given themselves to the spirit of evil to do evil which is in Satan. It is amazing how many fail to see Satan’s script or the unveiling of his personality through the word of God. This is our story about our humanity. This is why man turns away from the word of God because the word of God penetrates within man’s heart to show man his utter worthlessness. God’s word shows man his beginning: his infancy and his presence with God. God’s word shows us the tragedy of sin WITHIN Adam that has passed on to every man through his history: past, present and future. God has given us, through His word, the complete profile of all of mankind and of all nations, and all of man’s acts upon the earth. The more one looks INTO the divine word of God, the more the heart of man is revealed. When man sees his true state and the desperation of that state, he has an opportunity to turn to God and to repent of his own personal sin. When anyone is born again, they receive the Spirit of Christ within them, they have been transformed from a child of Adam and Adam’s sin into the goodness of God IN Jesus Christ. They are a NEW CREATION. Do you understand this? And by the Spirit of Christ, they FEEL the NEWNESS of that creation, and by the Spirit of Christ they follow Him and learn of Him, and their entire desire is to be obedient to the will and purpose of the Son of God. As a young Christian, that Spirit within fights against the influences of Satan all around: in their family, at work, and even in the church of this world, and especially in the influences in the government of Satanic men who rule over them, who have the power to order them to kill and to make war. As Satan moves in the world around the children of God, they are in a capsule of God’s love, and they respond to the Spirit of Christ within them. The word of God is much more than knowledge. It is a guide through the terrors around them. As we explore the difference between God’s VENGEANCE and His JUDGMENT, we should understand that VENGEANCE DOES belong to God, it is not ours, FOR IT IS GOD WHO HAS BEEN OFFENDED and viciously rejected. The word VENGEANCE is recorded forty-five times in the word of God, and seven times in the New Testament. Let’s view some of these words in both the Old and in the New.
● Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. (Jeremiah 51:11)
● To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. (Deuteronomy 32:35)
● And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 25:14) Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; (Ezekiel 25:15) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. (Ezekiel 25:16) And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. (Ezekiel 25:17)
● And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. (Micah 5:15)
● God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. (Numbers 1:2)
● Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. (Romans 12:19)
● And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (2nd Thessalonians 1:7) In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (2nd Thessalonians 1:8)
● Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 1:7)
The creator of all things, the very Being who has given us the universe: the stars and the planets, and given man the earth to dwell in. This is not a Metaverse life. It is a life of flesh and blood, soul and spirit. According to Genesis Chapter 6, man’s destruction came because of his evil heart and his runaway imagination. An imagination without any control, without borders of reason . . . are we not there today with the Metaverse. AI has become a Controller, a tool of Satan to lead mankind down a path of evil and as AI is a tool of the devil, the chain of sin and the ball of death is getting heavier in the world of Adam.
The imagination of man drastically affects the heart of man and vile imagination can lead men down the dark alleys of sin; however, the word of God is there to reveal God’s JUDGMENT and God’s VENGEANCE. Reading the previous verses about vengeance we can see a definition and an application of God’s vengeance on individuals, on cities, and on nations. God leaves no one out. As we approach or are in the very last days of Church history, that day will be determined when the last soul is brought into the Church then the door to the Church will be shut, and a new age will begin.
This will be the Age of Tribulation when God’s judgment and vengeance will be felt ALL over this planet through His SUPERNATURAL acts that only He can accomplish. In Revelation Chapter 6, He will shake the foundations of the world. He will use the heavens and cast His judgment down as great balls of fire upon the men of this world. All realms and positions of mankind will hide themselves IN FEAR of God’s vengeance and judgments, and they will hide themselves from the WRATH of the Lamb.
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