In a righteous society, where righteousness is uplifted and exemplified by the leaders of the nation, the society is centred around honesty and righteousness and therefore the fringes of society are more likely to be wrong than right, if they oppose that centre.
In a wicked society, where righteousness is shunned, mocked and unrighteousness is gladly ratified by law, the society is centred around darkness, injustice and deceit, and therefore the fringes of society are more likely to be right than wrong, if they oppose that centre.
This is why the Church is more and more on the wrong side of issues in recent years. It’s acting on an outdated model of society being ruled by a Hezekiah or a Josiah, rather than what it actually is: a society ruled by Ahab and Jezebel, and Manasseh. Until it recognises this truth it will continue to get major issues very wrong.
When I shared this comment with some other people a few noted something which I think should be mentioned: it is not likely that the Church leadership is capable of changing on this perspective until things have gotten much worse, and we need to pick up the pieces after some serious collapse. But, while this may be the most likely way things go, repentance and revival is only one generation away from a complete turn around. This is what I hope for.
For now we can say that the reason that so much of the church seems to falling for the tricks of the globalist elite is they still foolishly believe that the leaders of our society are on their side. This could not be further from the truth.
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Matthew Littlefield writes to think through some of the current issues facing society, the Church and whatever else comes to mind that might be interesting to process. Matt's focus is usually historical or scriptural, though he will address current issues from time to time as well. He is a co-author of The Ezekiel Declaration and the book, Defending Conscience, How Baptists reminded the Church to defy tyranny. He blogs most days at YoungGospelMinister.blogspot.com.
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