WRATH OF THE MOB

   People are angry; they feel both entitled and victimized. Entitled people look at what others have and covet it. It should be theirs and is not. Victimized people are usually those who covet but do not obtain. The time of wrath is at hand; it always is. Wrath is more than anger; it is vengeance because of anger. Using myself, let me relate the wrath of Larry.

  In college, I felt (an emotion) as if my professor wronged me. I was angry and to level the score between him and me, I scattered roofing nails in his driveway. My impression was that I was wronged on his grading of my test. Looking back, I surely had performed poorly, but as people are inclined to do, I blamed him for my failure.

  Anger was caused by jealousy. That professor had power over me. His power over me had to be minimized. I gained power over him by destroying his property. If not for his property, I could have struck him. I was acting like a child who resents the authority of a parent, or a childish adult who resents those in authority. “Victims” always blame others for their own plight. Rather than working on improvement, they rely on emotions by feeling entitled without the work! Victims have an “I deserve” attitude.

  Did my wrath change my grade? No. What was changed? The professor who once had good tires, had tires which perished with the nails. Surely, he was angry! I had leveled the playing field. I had nothing more and he had less, but in the end, there were two angry people.

  As I matured, I became ashamed. That professor was my neighbor, and it turns out that he was a good man. He was not an angry person, but with my observations, a hurt person.  I should have made it right by confession, but never reconciled with him.  I had changed because of myself. I went from a content student to a doubleminded Christian, and as James wrote, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (Jas 1:8). I was unstable and irrational.

  “Double-minded” is manifesting two divergent images. There was civil me and mean-spirited me. I had an invisible “doppelganger.” In that case, a bad spirit in me.

²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. (Jas 1:22-24; NKJV).

  There is a “spiritual mirror” for Christians to self-observe. For instance, when Christians sin and are convicted of it, rather than repent, they can just walk away. The person sees the evil “twin” but once the spiritual mirror reveals the iniquity, the man walks away from his doppelganger as if he is not in there! When I matured as a Christian, it became harder and harder to just walk away from the evil within.

  The story of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde was an example of that. The good doctor was kind and gentle, but Mr. Hyde was vengeful. He murdered! Vengeful people are murderers as well. They murder by hatred. Wrath is murdering the soul of another. Because God is just, I have been murdered many times in that I cause people to hate me. Not that I provoke but others do not like who I am. I do not fit their pattern of what they think I should be.

  I have loved ones who hate me, because I fail to fit their image that they have drawn in their minds. Everyone has a doppelganger in that their, “Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41).The “doppelganger” is the “flesh” with its emotions and attitudes, and the “spirit” is what the person should be according to the Doctrine of Love.

  Consider again, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” Unstable people are erratic and irrational. Wrath does not make things right again or what they should be!

  The mob right now is full of wrath. They feel entitled and victimized. The complaint is that there exists “white privilege” and systemic white racism. Their wrath is irrational; it will neither provide more nor cause rational people to empathize with their plight. Rational people just will not identify with instability.

  Tearing down the property of others, whether buildings, vehicles, or statues, does not change either the existence of racism nor improve the living conditions of those who feel oppressed. They are those with “victim” attitudes who feel entitled to the things that others have. How does burning the buildings of others provide wrathful people new homes? How does burning cars provide new cars for the wrathful? How does hating society decrease hatred for those who have been oppressed.

¹⁴ But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. ¹⁵ Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (Jas 1:14-15)

  With the mob, temptation is wanting what others have. That is the basis of socialism, and that jealously of those who have brings forth wrath. Socialism is the “temptation” and communism the “sin.” Note that James referred to one’s “own lust.” Many desire things that belongs to others and get angry when it is not obtained. Once, that lust grows in the hearts of men, then wrath is forthcoming.

  Lust belongs to the angry, but the catalyst belongs to Satan. Satan cannot make people angry, but he can provide the provocation. It is not coincidence that George Floyd died as quickly as everyone now must wear masks. Now the mob can hurt with impunity because their identities are concealed. During the day they seem civil, but at night, their “Hyde” doppelganger roams the streets and destroy in a futile  attempt to make things even.

  “Lust brings forth sin,” as James wrote. The lust is social equity and the sin is wrath. As soon as the light dims, mobs go onto the streets and distribute hatred. Using the excuse that whites hate blacks, the wrathful irrationally “justify” hurting the “haters.” Indeed, the left thrives off Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance. It is the tool of Satan’s demon, George Soros, who funds those who lead the mob.

  The modus operandi of the mob is based on Popper’s Paradox and funded by crony capitalist George Soros. It reads:

  We should claim the right to suppress them (the intolerant) if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. (Wikipedia; “Poppers Paradox of Tolerance’” underlines, parentheses, and italics mine).

  According to Popper and implemented by George Soros, it is fine to exhibit wrath to rid the world of hatred. That Paradox makes hatred appropriate to make the world a much different society. For them, it is okay to use violence and destruction to rid the world of haters! That is irrational. According to James, the lusts of the mob does change things, but not for the good. Wrath grows hatred. The people who are hated are provoked to hatred, and hatred is magnified. That is irrational thinking of unstable people!

  What would God have people do?

¹⁹ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ²⁰ For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. ²¹ Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. ²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. (Jas 1:19-22)

  Civil people do what is “right.” Those things are: “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance;” and to that is added, “against such there is no law” (Gal 5:23-24). The mob wants to defund the police and Democrats hearken unto their irrational demands. There are laws against unrighteous things (Gal 5:19-21) but no law against right-living. If the mob wants no law and to eliminate the need for the police, what must they do? Love one another because that is the greatest fruit of the spirit that eliminates vengeance. Rather than Soros’s hate one another, how about trying God’s love on another?  What have we to lose? Nothing, but all to gain.

  The mob killed Jesus, but He loved them anyhow. We are not God, loving the enemy is toughlove, and when the enemy hates loving people, it makes love hard. Only the tough Christians can love the mob and thus far Jesus is the only Person who was capable of that. Mobs make hard love more difficult.

  Now back to my doppelganger. Once he spread nails in the driveway of a nice man, unrighteous me became a one-man mob set out to make things even. Surely, if he hurts, I could feel better, but when I matured, I felt worse. Mature people are rational. Throwing nails only harms others; it did not make my grade better.

  The same goes for the mob violence across the nation. All that destruction did not bring back George Floyd or even eliminate racial injustice. The mob, with their wrath, has made more people have hatred. Hatred begets hatred. Popper’s Paradox grows hatred. It is a viral infection more potent and widespread now than COVID-19! It makes sense that the viral hatred spreads COVID. Perhaps the COVID-19 is God’s way of justice for George Soros; to punish those who have such hatred!

  James spoke against filthiness (Jas 1:21). Mobs are filthy talking and so are there supporters. Hollywood, the media, and the left speak filthily. What words do the mob use so often? The F-word. What word do you hear on television and in movies? The F-word. What do you hear Obama and Biden speak so often? The F-word. 

  That expression is wrathful. It suggests that people should degrade themselves, and the F-word is degrading. Degraded people have no problem hating others! They have no problem degrading what others built-up! If you want to diminish hatred, then avoid filthiness. Think on vulgar black language; it is half "F-you." If they want to be loved a good start would be speaking with civility and kindness!

  Note: I googled "protestor pictures" and did not find one picture with the "F-word." However, when I watched the news most pictures have the "F-word." Who is hiding the truth? The media wants you to believe that protest is civil discourse. Most of what we see is not civil!

(Picture credit: CBS)