“I decide if I’m a male or a female. I decide what a family is all about. I decide if I want borders or I don’t want borders. I decide if my children will be male or female regardless of how they were born. I decide. It’s me. It’s all about me. I am God.” I mean, the world is changing. And it’s funny because it used to be individuals, then it became movements. Now it becomes government funded.
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them in derision. You think you know something? You know nothing. You don’t control anything. You barely control yourself. You don’t control anything. God says, “I’m in full control. I allow you to do all these things. I’m going to judge you for all these things.” And for the rest of us, why are we so concerned? Why? I remember the two disciples going down to Emmaus. Remember them? They were walking. Jesus rose from the dead, remember? They’re just walking.
Have you ever seen a Jew that is angry? He’s using his hands. You tie our hands behind our backs, we cannot talk. And they were talking and they were talking and they were talking. And the Bible says that they were talking, and Jesus appears and they look at Him and they were talking. Jesus is walking before them and they were talking and talking. And He says, “What are these things that you are talking about and why’re you’re so sad?” Jesus, the resurrected Lord, starts walking by them. They’re talking about the Lord. He’s walking right by them. They look at Him and they continue. And he said, “Are you the only stranger? You haven’t heard the things that happened?” And Jesus said, “What things?” I love that answer. “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty indeed. We were thinking that He was going to redeem Israel.”
And He’s like, “And?” “And now it’s the third day.” “And?” “Yeah, and two women from our group, they walked to the tomb and they found it empty, and they came and the men ran all the way back there and yet they saw that the women actually were right.” “And?” They just told Jesus that Jesus resurrected, and they still didn’t get it.
You see, here we are looking at world events and instead of being so happy, what are we? We’re telling each other of all the bad things that are happening all around us as if we did not know that it’s going to happen. And you know what? Jesus did not rebuke the Pharisees or the Sadducees when He was walking on the road to Emmaus. Who did He rebuke? His disciples. And He said, “Oh, foolish ones and slow of heart to believe…” What? “That which the prophets have said.”
You’ve been going to the synagogues every Saturday. Every Saturday you hear the words of the prophets read to you about what Messiah’s all about, where He’s going to come to, where He’s born, by how He’s going to be born, the fact that He has to die, the fact that He has to resurrect, the fact that He’s coming back, ought not the Messiah to have suffered all these things. And then, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, He expounded to them about Himself.
Wow. The Bible is really something we need to consider as serious. “Oh, can you stay with us and have dinner with us?” “I need to go.” “Please stay with us.” “All right.” And then He took the bread and blessed it and they must have seen some pierced hands there, and their eyes were opened and He was gone.
Psalm 2:1-5
Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? 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 bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the LORD shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure.
While it may seem odd to read of the Lord laughing at someone, imagine this scene: a mouse is wildly gesturing and squeaking all sorts of threats at a grizzly bear! Certainly our fictitious grizzly would laugh at the idea he was in any sort of danger.
This disparity of power is what is pictured in the passage above. When God created, He said there are two genders, male and female. When someone says there are 72 genders or whatever the current tally is at, He laughs at the idea.
To say to God, “We are going to break to bonds of truth and cast away the cords of Your word,” is like a mouse threatening a grizzly bear. He, God, will hold them in derision, a word which means “to mock, ridicule, laugh at, scorn.”
The two dejected disciples were heading home on the very day Jesus rose from the dead. They were discouraged, despite having already been told He was raised from the dead. Then Jesus showed up.
Luke 24:25-27
Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Jesus was saying to the downcast pair, “Why didn’t you believe My word? How foolish it is not to.” The same is true today. With the preponderance of scriptural evidence regarding the regathering of the Jews to their national homeland, and with the abundance of verses that point to a major defection from truth both in the world and the church in these last days, how foolish is it to side with those who are saying, “Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us.”
There is one more attitude that is prevalent and foolish in our day:
2 Peter 3:3-6
Scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.
The word scoffer can also be translated as a false teacher or a mocker of God’s word. These people are in abundance today, which should tell us, along with the defection from truth and strong delusion we are seeing around us, Jesus is coming for us soon!
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus,