The Mystery Of Lawlessness At Work

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Author: John Malone
Date: 30th March, 2005 @ 01:01:58 PM

The Bible discusses the mystery of lawlessness (iniquity) .

Christians today need to be informing themselves about the various “mysteries,” especially because ALL the deeper matters of Scripture are predicated upon understanding them.

They are:
1. Of the kingdom of the heavens
2. Israel’s partial and temporary blindness
3. the church Christ’s body
4. the hope of Gentile glory
5. the rapture of the believers
6. iniquity (lawlessness)
7. godliness
8. 7 stars and 7 candlesticks
9. Babylon
10. the woman carried by the beast

The mystery of “lawlessness” has been at work since the time of the Lord’s ascension. Now lawlessness is not mere sin, but it is the promotion of sin by lawful authorities. For instance, when men and women decide that the man is NOT going to be the head of his household, but that they will adopt other arrangements, this is lawlessness.

When children are promoted as partners in the family, rather than subjects of their fathers and mothers, this is lawlessness. When the discipline of those children - including corporal punishment - is outlawed and otherwise discouraged by government, this is lawlessness.

Although lawlessness is today in mystery form - one day in the prophetic future it will take embodiment in the man of lawlessness - we can still discern it when the eyes of our understanding have been opened by the light of the Scriptures.

For instance, the Colorado Supreme Court has recently given us evidence that lawlessness is still alive and well when they commuted a death sentence to life imprisonment even though a presiding judge in the case said “If any case merits the death penalty, there cannot be serious debate about this case being that case.”

And so, with such stern words from a presiding judge concerning the validity of the death penalty, upon what principle does the commutation of the death sentence rest? Simply that the jury was exposed to the Scriptures in their deliberations, wherein, it may be rightly presumed, they discovered that God validates - indeed MANDATES - capital punishment.

Specifically, certain passages in the Book of Leviticus were read. That just goes to show that the jurors, though influenced by the Bible, did not really know where to turn when taking up God’s view on capital punishment, or they would have turned to that portion which God gave to Noah - and us - after the great deluge .

Notice, contrary to popular opinion, that God instituted the death penalty for the reason people never give: “For in the image of God made He man.” Capital punishment is instituted by God to preserve the image of God, which is man. Note further that God instituted that His image be preserved by calling upon a society of man to see to the execution of the murderer. IN OTHER WORDS, the foundation of human government rests upon CAPITAL PUNSHMENT.

So how odd is it that the lawful authority of the state, established by God Himself, first and foremost to execute murderers, now declares that coming to terms with capital punishment through reading about its origin and application from the One Who ordained it as the basis of human governance is cause for the state to refuse to execute the murderer so found.

Indeed, the state of Colorado is practicing governmental suicide with such lawlessness.

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