Hatred – the
Poison that Kills:
The equivalency of hatred and
murder has already been mentioned. That comes from the Greek word miseo for hatred and is further
expanded to include detestation and persecution. 139 Hateful is to
love-less. Hatred, then is the
reciprocal of love. Just as there are numerous types of love: erotic,
brotherly, familial, and divine love it seems that there must be different types
of hatred: sexual misuse, isolation, apathy, and spiritual. Scripture indicates
that God is even capable of hating; not people but sin! 140 It is
specifically mentioned that God hates the doctrine
of the Nicolaitanes. 141 That doctrine is condoning fornication or
any type of lascivious behavior within the Church. As parents always say, “Hate
the sin but love the sinner” - that’s what Holy Scripture is all about! That
decree cannot be found in a specific verse but the contexture is throughout scripture.
God uses profound words for His hatred
of behaviors: abomination, disgusting, viperous, treacherous, irreverence, and
so on. Those are the same types of hatred that the Adversary has for the things
of God! Satan hates the Doctrines of God whereas God hates the doctrine of
Satan which is the law of sin. God doesn’t even hate Satan! His desire is that
he not perish but since Satan will never trust God, his destination is to
perish forever – to be cast into the fiery pit. 142 God would rather
not do that but order must be maintained! Satan will die a horrible death.
Satan is the example. Because of
his devilish nature, he will be forever dying in Hell. That is his domain!
Satan seeks the throne of God but deserves to kneel in agony. Eventually Satan
will feel the pain for himself that God feels for mankind. The night before God
died, he agonized, not for Himself but for mankind. God feels pain. He came to
mankind to feel what people feel. Because He so loves us, he wanted that none
should perish. That is not the case, and God knew that even before he died to
those who love and despise Him. How he felt about his creatures is explained
best by Luke:
And (Jesus) being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and
his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
143
That is how much God loves. He
was feeling pain for Himself but for “whosover” for whom He was about to die!
That is the epitome of love, being how God’s love is to be reciprocated and
shared. Those who love with unction,
with exceedingly great fervor, are to love that much! Just thinking of God
dying for mankind should arouse great pain inside and cause the human heart to
throb in empathy to the One who died in the place of those who deserve death!
God felt that way toward his
fellow man. Bearing our own cross is having intense love not only for God but
every person, even our enemies! God died for them as well.
Usually, people discuss Jesus on
the cross dying for the sins of mankind. That event was ultimate grace. Herein,
“God” is ascribed as dying. That is done so that the reader understands the
intensity of the grace! God in three aspects was nailed to the cross. Jesus
cannot be separated from God’s identity and die only in the flesh. God died as
Creator, Savior, and Holy Spirit. After God died, because His flesh died, God’s
Spirit which experienced death on the cross is rightfully called the Holy Ghost.
The intensity of divine love
must be known to understand the intensity of evil. What is evil? Holding the
Law of God reprehensible. Hating God’s Law so much that one is in agony. The
Law of God condenses down to divine love!
Again, that comes from the Greatest Commandment. Evil is having reprehensible
feelings for love. That depth of reprehensibility to love is the paramount hatred.
That’s how much Satan hates God. That hatred is Satan’s motive for killing God!
Satan desires to destroy God
because he believes in Him. All the demons do! 144 To target God as
the Victim means that Satan must truly believe in Him. He does, knows God’s
Power, and realizes that he can never kill God but only destroy His Kingdom. Thus,
killing God is isolating God to the heavens with no one to commune with him. To
achieve his purposes, Satan must destroy to things: the heaven and the earth.
The two together are the Kingdom of God. Essentially, Satan must steal God’s Kingdom.
Just as in the monarchial times, there was always a pretender to the throne – an adversary most often a close family
member – who sought the position and authority of the king.
Satan is part way through with
his revolution. The first battle was won with one weapon. He deceived the
woman, and the man followed suit. With that one “win”, the tactic became a familiar
weapon. Ever since, mankind has been wounded by the fiery darts of deception. 145
Those darts are projected by the hollowness of temptation. Pleasure is offered
to those who lust, and from those fruits they eat, consuming deadly poison, of
course, in small does such that death comes on gradually. Small increments of
poison over seemingly longtime spans is how people are gradually killed.
Gradual and painless death is
the best deception. Even Heinrich Himmler gassed his victims so subtly and
painlessly that his colleagues thought him humane. That is Satan’s tactic, and
like Himmler, he deceives others in killing for
him. Sinners do the dirty deed on themselves. Sinners also killed God.
The ultimate love is that none
should perish. This the ultimate hatred is that all should perish. Killing the
body is not fully death; Satan must destroy the souls of mankind as well to
minimize God to the greatest extent possible. What better way to minimize God,
that destroy His institutions? God’s most closely guarded institution are the
righteous. When the righteous are incorporated for the worship of God, that
organization is called the Church. (Here, capital C is used to designate not
denominations or the building but all who trust God for salvation.) Don’t let
it frighten the protestant, but the Church is catholic in nature, meaning “universal”. There is only one faith,
one baptism and one Lord. 146 In his attempt to undermine God, Satan
must destroy the Church. Rather than doing the dirty work himself, as Himmler
did, Satan enlists his soldiers to destroy all the many temples of God one
stone at a time.
Those sinners without
contrition, and atheists fail to realize it but they serve their lord as well.
He is not Almighty but their master, doing their master’s will. 147
Atheists and the unrighteous serve a god. In practice they serve their gods of
themselves but on principle, unbeknownst to them, they also serve Satan!
Service to one is love. Disservice to the other is hatred. Those who unwittingly
serve Satan love him and his laws and despise God. Satan is the demagogue and sinners and
atheists are the “useful idiots” which is attributed to Vladimir Lenin 148
and used extensively by progressives even today.
Those who are being used by
autocrats are useful idiots. Scripture
refers to them as fools, slightly less offensive maybe. 149 The
foolish are those who blaspheme the
Lord, which one should remember is twofold: dismissing God as Lord or elevating
oneself to lordship. Both are those are hatred of God, and Satan knows his
useful idiots are ready to take to the streets to undermine God and elevate
themselves. Satan smiles! His deception is effective because people are
gullible. Their itching ears are scratched by what they want to hear and
believe whether it is truthful or not! 150
Parents generally implore: do not hate others, when kids say, “I
hate so and so.” The kids respond, “I don’t hate them; I just dislike them.”
Disliking is a mild form of hatred. The hatred scale goes from zero to infinity
– from apathetic to “hate their guts”. “Dislike” is slightly higher than
apathetic on the hatred scale while “hating their guts” as children say, is
wishing them to perish forever in Hell. Perfect love is that God desires that “none
should perish”. Ultimate hatred is that “all should perish”. That is repeated
because it’s so important. Satan desires that all shall perish. Mankind may not want that all should but many. That
seems to satisfy mankind’s moral needs but that shows contempt for God in that
His will is that none should die. To wish that on just a few – our enemies – is
unrighteous and sinful. 151 Loving the enemy is hard work in that
even loving friends oftentimes is not easy!
It is hard work to love but hatred
comes easily. Satan uses that natural born inclination to make his job easier.
The propensity toward hatred is the outcome of original sin. Mankind was designed
to love. That was the Designer’s intent. Satan intended to disrupt innocence and
teach people how to hate. Being mature adults, Adam and Eve quickly learned to
disobey. Children learn disobedience gradually. It’s not that children hate
their parents when they cry for attention or feign pain; it’s their genetic way
of gaining power. Disobedient young children are becoming budding gods and
goddesses, and by the teenage years they are well established as lords over the
household – little princes and princesses!
Immature adults have learned godhood
well. Not being satisfied with royalty in their little kingdoms, they do as
they want to do in spite of others. By assuming lordship over their own lives, their
will is to do what is right in their own eyes! 152 This self-esteem is blasphemy,
if the reader remembers that from before. Meekness is the way to demonstrate love
for God, and to keep His Kingdom intact. 153 The flip-side of
meekness is pride which is esteeming oneself too highly.
God designed mankind to love.
Because people were originally children of God, rightfully everyone loves
themselves. No one hates themselves; 154 not even the suicidal. That seems to be so much love for themselves
that they cannot stand the pain of living. The deception of “self-esteem” is destructive
because it is God who mankind is to esteem. If people are obedient to God, He
will take care of us! There is no need to build esteem because that is an
outcome of loving God.
Satan’s tactic is to blaspheme
God by creating little gods; even trillions of them. He is confident in his
position, not seeing mankind as much of a threat! Job showed Satan what righteousness
is all about. God allowed Satan to test Job’s love or lack of hatred but wasn’t
allowed to kill Job. 155 Satan accused God of putting a hedge around
Job for safety’s sake. Indeed, God did! Likewise, when sinners are born-again,
God puts a hedge of safety about them. With the hedge intact, in the end, the safe shall be saved!
Job stayed faithful to God
because he loved Him so much that he lost his wealth, family, and was
threatened with losing his own life. That is great love but if Satan had overcome
him, and he could have, he would have demanded that Job hate God! That applies to
all ages and all men. Hatred is the weapon of mass spiritual destruction and is
done by attacking faith!
139 Strong’s Dictionary
140 Holy Bible; Psalm 45:7
141 ibid; Rev 2:15
142 ibid; Rev 20:3
143 ibid; Luke 22:44
144 ibid; Jas 2:19
145 ibid; Ephes 6:16
146 ibid; Ephes 4:5
147 ibid; Luke 16:13
148 Safire, William (12 April 1987). "On Language: Useful
Idiots Of the West". The New York
Times.
149 Holy Bible; Psalm 74:18
150 ibid; 2 Tim 4:3
151 ibid; Mat 5:42-44
152 ibid; Deut 12:8
153 ibid; Psalm 37:11;
Mat 5:5
154 ibid; Ephes 5:29
155 ibid; Job 1
156 ibid; Rev 12:10
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