Recently, we've all been bombarded by lies. If it isn't the news media, it's our breathless brothers and sisters with the latest conspiracy theory. If it's not the Illuminati, it's the Bilderberg conspiracy, the Rothchild's, the Rockerfellers, the Merovingians or the Jewish bankers. People you thought were wise counselors seem to be led off down paths that all have one thing in common. They are paths that stray from the light and delve into dark places. Jesus is not the subject of these elaborate stories, though He may be mentioned as justification for such flights of fancy, but Christ is not the center of the story.
We need to be so careful here at the end, for Satan has had millennia to work out his schemes and he deludes himself that they are almost come to fruition. Over and over he's tried to make things work on this Earth the way he argued way back in the beginning that things ought to go. You don't have to go very far in Earth's history to see a pattern in which layers or hierarchies of authority between the people (aka, the masses, the proletariat, the collective) and some central Earthly authority. This is rather different from the single layer from human to God governance that Christianity teaches. Sadly, power attracts the corruptible and again and again, humans layer the church government with ever more and more elaborate hierarchies inserted between the Lord and his children.
All around us we see the signs that Christ's coming is imminent. But we are warned that "The devil our adversary walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."* If we wish to survive the time of trouble ahead of us, we must be wary of the deceptions laid before us like so many land mines.
Lucifer
has been a liar from the moment he arrived on Earth. His first lie was,
"You shall not surely die." That wasn't what God said, of course. But Satan deceives
by flattery. He told Eve she could be like a god. He tells you that you are smarter and better than all the stupid
schlubs around you. He tells you that you understand things no one else does, especially all those ordinary folk that are so much less "aware" than you are.
Lucifer is a brilliant deceiver.
Jesus says the truth shall set you
free. It's a very good idea to go to the source of Truth and keep yourself regularly infused. When you are wandering about the world, beware. Before you latch onto some conspiracy theory,
especially if it feeds your ego, remember, as the old spiritual puts it, "Satan is an evil charmer. Shut the door, keep out the devil."
Paul is even more direct with regard to spending time looking into dark places. "...it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which
are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when they
are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. For this reason it says, 'Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.'”**
Seek the truth. If some conspiracy theory attracts your attention be very careful. Do not rush to attribute the events on the nightly news to some brilliant human plot to control the world. We have been told who is plotting against us. Much of what seems to be some diabolical plot, is simply the shared interests and the similar lusts for power of wicked people. It is also the stupidity of those steeped in vanity, sin and selfishness that creates what seems like a dangerous plot to harm us.
Angels stand behind us to lead us safely through the valleys of the shadow of death. We need fear no evil. For He is with us. His angels surround us. We need what is available to us in His Word and no other secret "truths". For in conspiracy theories, there be dragons.
© 2021 by Tom King
* 1 Peter 5:8
** Ephesians 5: 12-14
