SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - MOB AND PROTEST

MOB VIOLENCE AND PEACEFUL PROTEST

  The purpose of the mob was, ironically, to show support for God and His Laws. To resort to mob violence there must be a crime so audacious that there is a reason to be angry. What better crime than for a mere “man” to claim that he is God! All along, Jesus’s adversaries were trying to get Him to say that. Of course, He never denied that He Is but finally confessed to that. He was willing to die to be God.

  Ultimately, all sin is “to be.” Not to be less, but to be God. Lucifer was aware of that as he also wanted to be God as was written previously and can be found in Isaiah fourteen. Adam and Eve, having the virus of sin, wanted to be as God as well (Gen 3:5) but to be that they were more like Lucifer. Lucifer was hung in effigy in the flesh of Judas because he wanted to be God. Judas made the mistake of thinking that he was determining the death of Jesus. Judas was arrogant, thinking he was the cause of Jesus’s death. He thought he had more power than he had. That is what those who incite mobs always think. Jesus death was a Divine Plan and Judas fell into Satan’s trap for the love of money. Modern mobs work the same way.

  The Law of God supports God. It is an itemized list and are the conditions for the Abrahamic Covenant. The Ten Commandments, or better said, “the Ten Prescriptions” are a list of God’s Wills for mankind. Jesus was accused for the most profound of the Ten: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” A better translation is, “Thou shalt have no other gods in God’s Face.” Who was Jesus? The manifestation of God; His Finger was God’s Finger, His hands God’s Hands, His Word God’s Word, and His Face is God’s Face: “The Word (of God) was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father” (John 1:14). To Philip, Jesus explained, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, ‘Show us the Father?’” (John 14:9)

  The mob had seen God the Father but failed to recognize Him. Why should they have recognized Him? The prophets described the Messiah, and His coming and going. After the transfiguration, Jesus’s face was glorious. What happened at the transfiguration? The Face of God was shown to the patriarchs and apostles as belonging to Jesus. Jesus was not as much transfigured as made more manifest. The multitude should have seen the glory of God on the Face of Jesus as they had Moses years before, but instead, they saw an imposter with a false face. As far as they were concerned, Jesus was as guilty of wearing God’s Face as white men are of wearing dark face. They thought Jesus was a pretend God and today that white men are pretend Negroes. The former is blasphemous to God and to the latter blasphemous to Men of Color. Both are wrong. Just as Jesus’s killers were acting in ignorance, the jesters today are as well.

  The mob never hated Jesus. They hated his breaking of the Commandments. By breaking one, it is as breaking them all (Jas 2:10). As far as the mob was concerned, Jesus broke all Ten Laws and was worthy of death. Jesus broke none of the Laws. The case, The World Against Jesus, was fabricated. Vigilante justice condemned Jesus. He could have explained and was given the chance but He remained silent. Why would he do that? For two reasons: (1) Mobs are irrational and reason is outside their capability, and (2) someone had to die for mankind and that “cup” belonged to Jesus. His “Cup” had to be broken and who better to break glass than the mob?

Peter, in the end, denied Jesus, but he was also the one to stand up for Jesus. Jesus conversed with His accusers:

⁵² Then said Jesus unto (Peter), “Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” ⁵⁵ … said Jesus to the multitudes, “Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.” ⁵⁶ But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled. (Mat 26:55-56)

  First off, Peter became like the mob. Jesus could have dispersed or even killed them, but He chose not to. He was a Man of Peace facing the mob. Peter rushed to meet violence with violence. He failed to trust Jesus for his own and Jesus’s own well-being. His faith was in violence and his own hand on the sword. What is the spiritual “sword” that Christians are to use? “The sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ephes 6:17), and “The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb 4:12). Peter should have persuaded those more rational that, indeed, this Man is God.

  Peter could have spoken Scripture to convince them, but he used violence. Indeed, given any mob, Scripture is the “Sword” that changes thoughts and hearts. Peter should have used the same argument with the mob that Paul used for Antipas. But Antipas was not persuaded. He was “almost persuaded” by Paul. Neither can mobs be persuaded, and neither can their cheerleaders! Persuasion does not work with mob mentality. Jesus was not a Roman citizen like Paul. He could not appeal the decision to Caesar but had the chance to appeal to Pilate and did not.

  God’s Plan was in the final stage, and nothing could prevent it. The world had degenerated just too much, and something had to be done to regenerate it.

  Today the mob is seen every day. The mob degenerates the world. When the desolation becomes so great, there will be another flood. Not a flood of water, but possibly atomic “waters” when the heavy waters will destroy the Earth a second time. The days are practically as in the days of Noah, and all that awaits is God’s Plan for its regeneration.

  Was Peter’s vengeance his to revenge? If there is to be vengeance, it will be by Jesus. The vigilante mob was judge, jury, and punisher of Jesus, and in the end the unredeemed will have Jesus judge, adjudicate, and punish the mob. Peter attempted to seek vengeance on Jesus’s behalf, but Jesus will in the end seek vengeance on behalf of Christians.

  What about mobs? Are they justifiable? Let’s see what scripture says:

¹⁸ If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. ¹⁹ Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” ²⁰ Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. (Rom 12:18-20)

  “Live peacefully among men.” Mobs are not there for peace, but protest. Mobs provoke anger and appeal to emotional responses. Think of a mob as cheerleaders at a ball game. They are there to encourage emotional responses. They excite the crowd to be as enthused as them, and for the players to respond to all those group emotions. That is what mobs do. They are cheerleaders for violence. Cheerleaders do not care who are the best team, but merely to promote their team. Mobs care not whether their multitudes are right according to laws, but right in their own eyes.

  The mob seeks vengeance which only belongs to God. With Jesus, there are two outcomes of judgment: guilty or innocent, but “justice” for the mob has only one outcome. With Jesus, the mob screamed “crucifixion” over and over. Is that not what is heard to this day?

  What should “peaceful protesters” be doing now as then? “If thine enemy hinger, feed him; give him drink.” Right “protest” is serving and preserving fellow men, even if guilty. What should Christians do rather than protest with the mob? They should pray for Mr. Chauvin to nourish his soul. Why do that? If he is guilty, God and only God will condemn him both in civil and spiritual courts of law. The man is indeed guilty of sin for all mankind sins. Trust that Jesus will judge him fairly, and remember, Pilate was a just man. The government, if fair, will judge rightly.

  In the end, even if civil justice is not served, Divine Justice will be. It will be Jesus who judges and punishes. The mob nor the “peaceful protesters” are not gods. They should stay home and pray for peace and true justice without all the emotion incited by Satan.

  Christians should have  been  ashamed of how one day, “I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me” and now they were out to kill him. What got into the crowd? Satan got into Judas and it is likely that demons got into them. Do you believe in angels? If so, you must believe in demons for they are dark angels.

  Darkness got into those who were disciples of Christ, and they still can! If a Christian finds themselves on the side of the mob, they should question who or what has become of their “new creature.” Has he reverted to the old one? Are Christians today crucifying Jesus all over again, as is written: “If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame” (Heb 6:6).

  Christians who walk with the mob are not walking the Way of Jesus. Those who once walked with Jesus previously, were then walking with the mob. Who were they ultimately supporting with their “statement?” They were supporting Satan who was in Judas? Ironically, those who had supported Jesus and appreciating His propitiation for their sins, would have been more appropriately standing under the Judas Tree just as Adam and Eve had been!

  Like Adam and Eve in the beginning, Christians need to stand under the correct “tree.” Shall it be the Tree of Life (Jesus) or the Philosophy Tree (Socialism and the other philosophies derived from Marxism.) Just who is your God? Is he Karl Marx or is He Jesus the Christ. Jesus said, “I AM” forty-eight times (Greek; Ego Eimi). Marx could not say that at all, but even Christians treat him as if he is. Over the years, Marx’s socialist manifesto has become the socialist “sword” that cuts to the heart of the non-discerning. Everyone must be grateful for Jesus’s grace because He knows our gullibility, hearkening to all sorts of voices within their minds.

  Let it be noted, with Jesus some of the multitude were violent and others were there protesting peacefully. However, as Jesus confronted them, they were all there against Him. The same condition exists today. When peaceful people walk with the mob, Jesus would recognize them as the silent mob!

(Picture credit: 3 Dec, 2017 DHWTY)