The Upside Down World of Fools

According to Obama, "Because the world has never been less violent, healthier, better educated, more tolerant, with more opportunity for more people, and more connected than it is today," (source)

Proverbs 29:2 "When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan."  Proverbs 29:12 - If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

We live in a world dominated by loud fools who say "that what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right; that black is white and white is black; bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter."  Isaiah 5:20

In a twisted way, they can turn everything you say against you.  If you rebuke them for their foolishness, they have no understanding.  Their pride and arrogance is impenetrable.  The center of their world is their own intelligence.

The Arrogant Fool

Proverbs 18:6-7 Fools’ words get them into constant quarrels; they are asking for a beating. The mouths of fools are their ruin; they trap themselves with their lips.

I think the above proverb explains why right minded people are becoming increasingly agitated.  Normally peaceful people are on the verge of exploding; we see it everywhere.  Law abiding people are furious over police murders and over the agitators that commit the crimes.  The overwhelming evidence of Hillary Clinton's crimes is baffling, yet her supporters are like Stepford Americans, no longer able to discern right from wrong.  Islam is a violent dangerous religion, yet it is the Evangelical Christian that is demonized.

The only arbiter of truth in this time is the Holy Spirit.  We must constantly filter the externals through the sieve of the Holy Scriptures and through the discernment of the Holy Spirit, otherwise we will be deceived.  We will be in danger of engaging with fools.

For there is already at work the mystery of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:7), the ultimate deception that is sent from the Lord for those who are perishing.  (2 Thessalonians 2:10-11).  This will not get better, indeed as we quickly rush toward the Rapture, it will get worse.  Friends, cover yourself in prayer, ask the Holy Spirit for discernment, do not waste your energy on the deceived fools but instead through your testimony be ready to give an answer for the hope that lives within you.

30 Days of Birth Pangs - Day 8 Vexed Souls

2 Peter 6:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

2 Peter 6:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

2 Peter 6:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.

Most of the time when we read Jesus' words:  Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot... we focus on the homosexual sin of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Recently, we began looking at the passage of being married and being given in marriage as it relates to that issue, but the Lord wants us to look deeper.  Read verse 8 again... Lot was vexed.  He was troubled in his soul with the wickedness surrounding him.  It says he lived day after day with them and it hurt his heart - it vexed his soul.

Genesis 19:7 - Lot pleads with them, his friends... please don't do this wicked thing.  The righteous souls cry out to their fellow men, please brothers do not do this!  Lot lived with them, they were his mates, Genesis 19:1 finds him sitting at the city gates.  Cities banded together to defend one another, Lot had to trust these people.  

Remember, Lot was a righteous man, otherwise the Lord would have just destroyed him with the rest of the city.  Somehow with all the salt pillars and the incident with his daughters later we lose that part of the story.  It is easy to get caught up in the salacious aspects but consider what type of man could have been found righteous in such an environment and during that point in Biblical history.

Vexed Soul

Take heart Brothers and Sisters, the Lord knows that your heart is vexed.  He knows you are crying out to your friends, your family, and your nation for them to not do these evil things but let your heart not be troubled.  The Lord rescued Lot and Peter tells us that He will rescue us as well.  For we are not appointed to wrath but will some day soon be with the Savior.

Lovers of Self - Day 1 - Rapture Index Score:  10 out of 10

Perplexities of Nations - Day 2 - Rapture Index Score:  8 out of 10

Mass Animal Deaths - Day 3 - Rapture Index Score:  7 out of 10

Revilers - Day 4 - Rapture Index Score:  8 out of 10

Signs in the Heavens - Day 5 - Rapture Index Score:  9 out of 10

Commotions - Day 6 - Rapture Index Score:  7 out of 10

Scoffers - Day 7 - Rapture Index Score:  10 of 10

Vexed Souls - Day 8 - Rapture Index Score:  10 of 10

Total to date:  69 out of 80 or 86.25%