Truth and the World

Here is a post from a couple of years ago that would do a whole lot of folks a world of good to read, and to say amen to. I hope you can, because it's certain that it is truth.

Fairness, Equality, Inclusion & Tolerance - August 25th, 2011 Written by Lary R. Hale

First of all, every term in this title, as used by modern man, is an abomination to God. Why? Well, I'm getting to that, and don't worry, it won't take long. Was it "fair" when God torched Sodom and Gomorrah, along with two more cities; for pride, excess, idleness, homosexuality, and other wickedness as well? (Gen. 19:4-8; Ezek. 16:49) It was certainly right, and it surely confirmed that God is indeed "the judge of all the earth," even as Abraham adressed him (Gen. 18:25). What does God care what man thinks is "fair?" God also destroyed twenty four thousand of his own people in one day for committing fornication and disregarding the worship of himself (Num. 25:1-9). How fair was that, according to man's idea of fairness? The following quotation is from God speaking to Moses: "Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? (Exd. 4:11). How equal, or fair, is that? I believe that God knows more than we do, and he does many things for reasons known only to himself. Is he wrong simply because we don't know what he's doing or why? I don't think so. After Saul, the first king of Irael failed to keep God's commandment that was delivered to him, Samuel told him: "The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou" (I Sam. 15:28). Now that certainly doesn't sound very much like equality, does it? But I believe that if God says someone is better than someone else, they are. When Jesus told Peter to feed his sheep, and also told him how he was going to die, Peter wanted to know what was going to happen to John. Jesus told him that it was none of his business, and if he decided to keep John alive until his second coming, that it was his own business and decision (Jn. 21:17-22). That doesn't sound very fair or equal, does it?

The apostle Paul commanded the believers in Corinth to put a man out of their fellowship because he had comitted fornication with his stepmother, and had not repented (I Cor. 5:1-7,13). How's that for inclusion and tolerance? God commanded Israel to not marry anyone apart from the congregation of Israel, and that commandment is very much intact for new testament believers as well (Deut. 7:3,4; II Cor. 6:14-18; I Cor. 7:39). That certainly doesn't sound very inclusive. When this commandment was grossly broken by Israel after they returned home from Babylonian captivity, Ezra commanded all of the trespassers to put away their strange wives, as well as the children that they had by them (Ez. 10:3). That doesn't sound to me like fairness, inclusion, or tolerance, but it does sound really right. God has already destroyed the entire population of the world [minus eight people] for going stedfastly against his rule and will, and he has promised to do it again (Gen. 6:5:7; II Thess. 1:6-9). And he killed fifty thousand people in a day for looking into the ark of the covenant, which was against what he had commanded in the law (I Sam. 6:19). I have a feeling that none of these things are going to sound very nice to the advocates of today's ideologies of fairness, equality, inclusion, and tolerance. No my friend, these are just words that man has manipulated through pride to mask his own self pity and his defiance of the authority, rule, and judgments of God. Instead of believing God for who he is, and for what he's about, man has invented mindsets to hide his wickedness, rather than forsake it and be blessed (Eccl. 7:29; Prov. 28:13). But the question is, can man's ideologies change God's righteous judgment against his sins and pride? I didn't think so. The devil has felt misaligned ever since being cast out of heaven, and has done all he can against the cause of Christ. But he is still cast out, and he is still going to the lake of fire for eternity (Rev. 20:10). And so is the fate of all who hide their sins behind self pity and ideology, and fail to come clean and humble themselves before God, and do his will. Amen.