BE WEARY AND BEWARE, O PEOPLE OF GOD
THEME: DISCERNMENT AGAINST THE “POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEATH” AND DECEPTIVE GLOBAL SYSTEMS
Our pen is that of a ready writer, speaking of the things heard, transmitted, and delivered to us for proclamation. We speak and write about the Master and the Golden Gate of Glory to heaven. He is the Master who speaks with authority and power, who brings good news of peace, love, life, joy, faith, and hope. He delivers victory, peace, and life eternal—even Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, Saviour, Redeemer, and King of glory. His words and promises are true, yea and amen. From Him, to Him, and for Him creation came, as well as the revelation of the beauty, majesty, and glory of the Father God. “I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the End, He declares: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8 KJV)
He has warned the whole world about our times and end times, saying there will be terrible times on the earth. Nations will rise against nations; kingdoms will rise against kingdoms. There will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of sorrow, He warns.
In the midst of such challenges and tribulations, declares the Master, false Christ’s, false prophets, and false teachers shall rise who would deliver and cause people to worship, honor, and glorify them as redeemers and gods.
We write to remind the Church people in particular and the government, people, and nation that it is these times of confusion and falsehood, of suffering and pain that men, ideas, and systems that propose, promise, and set forth systems and ways of salvation, deliverance, success, victory, and solutions will flood the land. The unscrupulous and wicked always take advantage of such times and circumstances to do evil and cause havoc, exploit, cheat, rob, and put the suffering, vulnerable, and plain into much a pain, sorrow, and ultimate damnation with themselves.
For example, in the frantic efforts to secure ideas, aid, and assistance from “so-called” ‘developed countries,’ Ghana—like many foreign aid and investment dependent countries get aid, investment, and technology transmitted with conditionalities, philosophies, ideologies, religion, and culture not just alien to them but also which are destructive and cause the loss of dignity, sovereignty, and glory. They bring with them measures that cause a surrender and loss of right to independent, autonomous decision and direction of national interests. These make development a curse rather than a blessing. Thus, Britain is not ashamed to make homosexuality part of aid package. America and the United Nations send condoms, free sex and moral laxity, and cultural indiscipline and roguery as part of modern devices for the solution of population explosion and social problems.
Meanwhile, foreign investors, citizens, and media bombard political parties, politicians, business folks, investment partners, professionals, executives, and public officials with envelopes and IT gadgets, cars, and vacation trips, cheques and bank accounts, buildings and friendship with people of corrupt, immoral, and reprobate spirits, minds, and works.
At the same time, corrupt, immoral, human depraved, perverse, and dehumanizing behavior patterns and lifestyles are being churned out through the media including IT systems to children and youth, the innocent, simple, and vulnerable round the globe. The dirt, filth, and ignoble of reprobate minds, peoples, and nations are now exported without limitations in the global market, supported is it with government approval and power. Their philosophies, systems, and ways that reject God, the truth, light, way, and knowledge of Him are presented as the way and proof of advancement, progress, civilization, knowledge, sophistication, and so-called “modernism.” They have thereby raised the base elements of fallen man to center stage in behavior, conduct, and life. Bestiality, inordinate behavior, violence, drugs, and booze are the signposts of dead and doomed people, and nations.
The saddest and most alarming aspect with these developments of degeneration, negativity, and negatives in the world and human affairs in general is that false Christ’s, false prophets and false teachers have arisen, with signs and proofs of solution to human problems. The result is the rising propensity of Divine wrath and judgement with consequential suffering and pain, agonies, and woes. “The soul that sins shall die, says the Lord”—compounds human weakness, frailty, condemnation, curse, disease, and sickness to high levels of social disequilibrium and desolation. These inevitably cause failure, evil, and destruction. Satanic and human wickedness exploit the situation causing much havoc, mass suffering, devastation, and hopelessness.
Now, we may distinguish between two or three types of Falsehood causing devastation and destruction to the human race, peoples, nations, and the world. Indeed, falsehood is compounding what we call the political economy of death exposing the human race to extinction. Death and destruction are the resultant world order.
First, there are human philosophies of imagination, speculation, and calculation being presented and adopted as Redemption Epistles, Formats, Systems and/or Way(s) for the solution of human and societal problems. Second, there are scientific theories, physical, and social, based on observation and analysis of natural phenomena, physical, material, and human. We may also wish to consider religious postulations from men and spirits which work to determine, strengthen, and enforce tradition and culture and the destiny of peoples and nations. Simply stated, philosophy, science, and religion have failed to mitigate much less arrest, the sinful fallen man.
The truth is that both Satan and man are ‘cast out’ beings prevented from accessing the fullness of Truth, Light, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Power of the Creator. Neither is full as of itself. The two united do not have comprehensive knowledge, authority, and power to save man—or themselves in fact. All power belongs to the Creator. The ideas, powers, and works of Satan and man cannot but run short with knowledge, wisdom, and power. Satan and fallen man cannot match nor destroy completely and permanently the Creator’s ordered and set-up nature, systems, and mechanisms. At the best, they only perpetuate the ‘cast out syndrome,’—death and destruction. There is no life nor permanence in them (John 10:9-10).
From the Divine perspective, all propositions from Satan and man—apart from being of rebellion-cum-disobedience disposition—do not have fullness of divine light, wisdom, and power needed for the world of darkness and death. They do not have knowledge, authority, and power to establish comprehensive, permanent, and eternal systems. Meanwhile, they operate in an environment of Divine wrath, judgement, and pleasure. Only the will and word of God abide forever. Amen (1st Peter 2:9-10; John 1:6-9; 8:12; 12:46; 14:6; Revelation 22:5).
Beloved people of Ghana, saints of God, not of man nor spirits, Beware and Be Weary of the philosophies, ideologies, scientific, social theories, and religious postulates of men and spirits. There is no light nor life in them. One may well benefit from them in a short while or in some special ways under some conditions, circumstances, and desires. However, they offer no permanent solution nor system for the human nature, the problems of life and the hopelessness and death outside the salvation, redemption, restoration, rest, and eternal life in the Truth, Life, Light, Way, Liberty, Joy, and Hope in and from the Creator. Jesus Christ the Savior and Redeemer is the Word, the Truth, the Light, and the Way. He is the Life and Hope in God for man.
Be warned therefore about false prophets and teachers, and the philosophies, ideas, principles, and theories of men and spirits. Sad to say, there are many in the church today. Let us seek, find, abide, and rest in Him—Jesus Christ, the Light unto the Gentiles and the world. Amen!
December 19, 2013
(Published on Thursday, January 8, 2014, pg. 3 of The Ghanaian Observer)