Well, it may be too late. Crazy, unstable, overtly
emotional, unsound, and blatantly evil people seem to be growing in number, and
it has many wondering what has happened. We all would like a black and white
explanation but there is a lot of gray here. Who is responsible for so much
crazy in our world? Who is influencing the population to behave violently? The
hard part of this answer lies in our lack of understanding of the sons of
Belial. Where the evil lies is in the unseen but very present caste system we
all live in. The unrighteous chose a soft life of luxury at the expense of the
rest of the population. When we look back in history we see things in black and
white, the unrighteous versus the righteous. Solomon wrote many important
things regarding this dilemma that are applicable to all generations. He tried
to warn the youth of his day, but they did not listen any better than the
people of today who do not practice wisdom. The concrete answers to the dilemma
of an unstable world were written for us years ago. There are some things that we
should be aware of, and then there are some actions that we can take to rebuke
evil.
Last week we touched on the things that God hates. We
noticed a few alterations to the text in this section as well. Let’s review
what we looked at previously.
Proverbs 6:12 A foolish man and a transgressor goes in
ways that are not good. 13 And the same winks with the eye, and makes
a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his
fingers. 14 His perverse heart devises evils: at all
times such a one causes troubles to a city. 15 Therefore his
destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.
16 For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and
he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul. 17 The eye of the
haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just; 18and a
heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —are hateful to
God. 19 An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on
quarrels between brethren.
We can see a lot of the things we read in verse 13 mirrored
in our modern politics. Solomon calls them “foolish and transgressors, or
lawbreakers”. We have to adjust our thinking, the wisest man that ever lived
called these people foolish lawbreakers, but they think of themselves as smart
and wise. These foolish scammers rejoice in all the things that God hates. They
are mistaken, but they attempt to convince the world that they are right. For
just a moment, think of the words written for us by the Apostle John, he lays
out the end of this age well in advance of the events coming to pass. In other
words, we know the events of the end of the age, but we are seemingly caught in
a loop of disbelief, as if these things cannot be happening in our time. David
gave warnings for the same issues. http://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2016/04/dark-and-light-cursing-belial-essene.html
Psalm 36: For the end, by David the servant of the Lord.
36:1 The transgressor, that he may sin, says within
himself, that there is no fear of God before his
eyes. 2 For he has dealt craftily before him, to discover his
iniquity and hate it. 3 The words of his mouth are transgression and
deceit: he is not inclined to understand how to do
good. 4 He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every
evil way; and does not abhor evil.
Here is the simplified black and white answer. The
statement that the lawless one “says within himself” tells us that perhaps he
is having a conversation in his head, but he may not be conversing with his own
mind but with a demon; suggesting that there is no God, therefore no fear of
God. The lawless one rationalizes that his bad behaviors haven’t been punished,
therefore God must not be watching. He plans more evil and enjoys it. Solomon compares
those people who love justice and those who love evil. Let’s focus on these two chapters in the Book of Wisdom piece by piece.
Wisdom 1:1 Love righteousness, ye that be judges of
the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart
seek him. 2 For he will be found of them that tempt him not; and
sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him. 3 For froward thoughts
separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise.
This first segment resonates with those who love Yahweh, and
those people receive the Spirit of Wisdom, which again makes the dilemma of
evil in the world more black and white.
4 For into a malicious soul wisdom shall not enter;
nor dwell in the body that is subject unto sin. 5 For the holy spirit
of discipline will flee deceit, and remove from thoughts that are without
understanding, and will not abide when unrighteousness cometh in.
6 For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not acquit a
blasphemer of his words: for God is witness of his reins, and a true beholder
of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue. 7 For the Spirit of the
Lord filleth the world: and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of
the voice.
This is all relatively simple to understand. The Holy
Spirit dwells with those people who love the Lord and seek His ways. The
righteous hear the voice of the Spirit.
8 Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot
be hid: neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pass by
him. 9 For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the
ungodly: and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the
manifestation of his wicked deeds. 10 For the ear of jealousy heareth
all things: and the noise of murmurings is not hid.
11 Therefore beware of murmuring, which is
unprofitable; and refrain your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so
secret, that shall go for nought: and the mouth that belieth slayeth the soul.
Here is where the gray areas come in. The Spirit of the
Lord sees and knows what is being said and done under the sun; and while these
things are all known by the Lord, people may fall into the traps of poor
behavior. This may not be inherently or intentionally evil, but this behavior
is technically wrong, which is why Solomon is warning us. He also suggests that
we don’t seek death or wish to die when we make these mistakes because God did
not make death.
12 Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull
not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands. 13 For
God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the
living. 14 For he created all things, that they might have their
being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison
of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the
earth: 15 (For righteousness is immortal:) 16 But ungodly
men with their works and words called it to them: for when they thought to have
it their friend, they consumed to nought, and made a covenant with it, because
they are worthy to take part with it.
Originally humans were not created for death and ill
health. The kingdom of death was not upon the earth until ungodly people brought
it here; making friends with death and making a covenant with death.
Righteousness is immortal. Unrighteousness is temporal, deadly, and final. Who
makes a covenant with death? Those who believe they will receive something on
this earth in exchange for their evil behavior. Making an agreement with hell
means one is expecting privilege in hell. At the time of Solomon’s writing that
may very well have been the case because the devil was in charge of hell, but
since Jesus took back the keys to hell and death, spoiling principalities and
powers, there is no special place in hell for the workers of evil on the earth.
This is one of those lies that people fall into, because they do not know what
Jesus accomplished. This is one reason so many people make a covenant with hell
today, they don’t know who is in charge of hell now. Should they be surprised
that they believed a lie from the devil? Should anyone trust the deceiver?
Solomon goes on, contrasting the righteous with the unrighteous.
2:1 For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves,
but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there
is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the
grave. 2 For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter
as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a
little spark in the moving of our heart: 3 Which being extinguished,
our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft
air, 4 And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have
our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud,
and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the
sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.
The ungodly believe that there is no remedy to death. They
see people die and that they do not come back to life, so they believe that
this is the end of their existence. But righteousness is immortal, Wisdom 1:13.
Since they don’t believe in the immortality of the spirit and soul, why behave
godly? They reason within themselves, as David pointed out in Psalm 36, and
maybe the talking in their heads is a conversation with a demon attempting to
talk them out of godliness. If we notice how poetic Solomon wrote this, we see
that the ideas don’t come to people with hell-fire and blood as an enticement
for a covenant with hell. Instead the enticement is soft, simple, and easy like
a warm breeze: ‘why bother pursuing
righteousness, it’s all too hard with no rewards before we die, and who will
remember us; no one comes back from the grave’.
5 For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and
after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man
cometh again.
People are led into ungodliness because what they “see”
with their eyes is that people die and that is the end. They do not look ahead
to eternity, they don’t believe it exists. If one does not believe in an
afterlife, then there is no reason to be a good person.
6 Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that
are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in
youth. 7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and
let no flower of the spring pass by us: 8 Let us crown ourselves with
rosebuds, before they be withered: 9 Let none of us go without his
part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every
place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.
This sounds so luxurious, let’s read it like this: let’s live in splendor and opulence. We will
drink expensive wine and uses expensive oils to keep ourselves looking young.
We will wear glamorous rose crowns as if we are royalty, we should not deny
ourselves of every pleasure and gratification, and we will leave flower petals
and tokens everywhere we go so that others know that this is our status and
position in life. Everyone will be able to smell the sweet perfume as we walk by.
This all sounds like a soft and easy way to think of selling one’s soul to the
devil. But this is what Solomon is communicating, it is easy and sweet for
people to make a covenant with hell. Now the fragrant savor takes a turn
towards evil when people recognize what they need to do to achieve the heights
they dream of.
10 Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not
spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the
aged. 11 Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is
feeble is found to be nothing worth.
We have a world-wide eugenics program promoted to the poor
under the guise of inconvenient pregnancy and abortion. It used to be, in the
United States, that children born with disorders and retardation were put to
death, and adults sterilized. Now the spin is eugenics before birth. Who
advocates for that? Who wants to kill all babies before they are born? This is
not just some ridiculous ceremonial sacrifice to a stone god. No one is dancing
around a statue throwing baby parts into a fire at the statue’s feet, this is a
procedural extermination program for the poor. The women who have had abortions
are not necessarily bad or evil, they have simply been influenced by the evil
elite. This is a gray area we need to consider. They didn’t know this was a
global agenda instituted by the devil to curse and kill humanity. Luckily, for
those who ask, Yahweh forgives.
Notice that not caring for the elderly is the same matter,
a systemized eugenics program, making someone else “god” other than Yahweh.
While we can see these evil people have disrespect towards the elderly and believe
the idea that old people are a drain on society, the
Essenes/Nazarenes/Therapeutaes all did the opposite, they respected and cared
for the elderly.
It is easy to bully and abuse the weak in the world and
Jesus shamed the Pharisees for doing that. If that is the way our world is
supposed to work then what we see as far as crime and light punishment is
exactly correct. Stealing is simply a matter of one dominating another. Killing
children in a school is again simply dominating the weak of the species.
Bullying and imprisoning the just and righteous is perfectly acceptable in the
devil’s world, where the elite sons of Belial dominate the masses. The elite
wear the rose crowns and live in luxury while the non-elite are slaves to those
dominating the world. Because of this crooked mentality, doing good rather than
evil is looked at as being weak. Being kind and caring for the disabled and
elderly is not rewarded but mocked. To remedy the situation, infantile eugenics
and geriatric eugenics are promoted and marketed as compassion. It is “compassionate to end one’s suffering or to
not bring a baby into a world of suffering”, nonsense. Truly, if the devil
wasn’t the god of this world and the sons of Belial didn’t run our world
governments, we wouldn’t have suffering. One day there will be a eugenics
program to clean out evil people from off the earth, instead of the innocent;
that will be just before the millennial reign.
12 Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous;
because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he
upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the
transgressings of our education. 13 He professeth to have the
knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord. 14 He
was made to reprove our thoughts. 15 He is grievous unto us even to
behold: for his life is not like other men’s, his ways are of another
fashion. 16 We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth
from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be
blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.
This sounds like something the unjust, lawless people say
today. It seems as if this was written for us, but really not much has changed
over the years. It seems like there is an agenda to close Christian businesses
and businesses run by Christians via taxation and frivolous litigation. It
seems by the very existence of the righteous, the unrighteous feel condemned,
and become grievous. Is that because deep down they know they are doing evil
and the presence of a believer in Yahweh reminds them of their own guilt? The
end of the just is blessed, the just have eternal life instead of eternal
death.
17 Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove
what shall happen in the end of him. 18 For if the just man be the
son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his
enemies. 19 Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we
may know his meekness, and prove his patience.20 Let us condemn him with a
shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.
21 Such things they did imagine, and were deceived:
for their own wickedness hath blinded them. 22 As for the mysteries
of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness,
nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.
Intentional mistreatment of the innocent sons of God in our
society seems crazy. Why harm those who do good? But as we see, the insanity
that comes over the mind of an evil person is irrational. Attacking the sons of
the Most High does not lead to a better society. And yet that is not the goal
of the elite rulers, instead the goal of the elite rulers is for they
themselves to live in luxury and be pampered, they really do not care about
anyone else. Had they known the mysteries they probably would have changed
their agenda, striving for blamelessness. Here is why.
23 For God created man to be immortal, and made him to
be an image of his own eternity. 24 Nevertheless through envy of the
devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.
One of the mysteries that the unrighteous missed is that
man is created to be immortal. If one is going to be immortal the question
becomes where will that one exist in immortality? Eternity is a long time.
Because of the envy of the devil and the devil’s jealousy toward humankind, the
devil set out to turn humanity on itself. Man killing man is the scheme. The
devil brought the kingdom of death into the world, and men wanted to make a
covenant with it so that they fulfill all their dreams and pleasures on the
earth. If one holds onto the side of the devil he will surely find death,
eternal death. That is the shame of the devils deception spread out over the
world. We are eternal beings and yet we alone control where we will spend
eternity. The short sightedness of the unrighteous leads to their own demise.
And really, who can trust a deceiver? But there are people who willingly choose
evil over Yahweh. That is the condition that humanity finds itself born into.
Except today, Jesus holds the keys to hell and death. There is no getting past
Jesus at the time of death.
Solomon tells us that the Spirit of Wisdom makes those with
judiciousness a dwelling. The reverent fear and worshipful awe of the Lord
includes the hatred of evil.
Prov 8:12-14 I, Wisdom [from God], make prudence my
dwelling, and I find out knowledge and discretion. [James 1:5.] 13 The reverent
fear and worshipful awe of the Lord [includes] the hatred of evil; pride,
arrogance, the evil way, and perverted and twisted speech I hate. 14 I have
counsel and sound knowledge, I have understanding, I have might and power. AMP
Remember that the Holy Spirit was the architect in the
beginning. The Spirit of God moves over the earth today and is reproving the
world of sin, and righteousness, and judgment. Remember that the prince of this
world is already judged, John 16:7-ff. This is the black and white perspective that
we are looking for. There are people who willingly cleave to and make covenant
with the devil. The gray areas are those people who may do some things wrong
but are not intentionally evil. This is the clear cut understanding we have
written for us. This is why we have been given spiritual weapons to stand
against intentional evil.
To get a perspective of our spiritual weapons of
verbalizing imprecations we have the imprecatory Psalms written mostly by
David. Many people love David and want to sing his songs, but do not understand
his imprecations. I will list the imprecatory Psalms as there are too many to
review. All are attributed to David except two as noted.
Psalm:5,6,7,11,12,35,37,40,52,54,55,56,58,59,69,79 (Asaph),83
(Asaph),109,137,139,143.
Here is an excerpt from David.
Psalm 109:6 Set thou a sinner against him; and let the
devil stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him go forth
condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few: and
let another take his office of overseer. 9 Let his children be
orphans, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children wander without a
dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their
habitations. 11 Let his creditor exact all that belongs
to him: and let strangers spoil his labours. 12 Let him have no
helper; neither let there be any one to have compassion on his fatherless
children. 13 Let his children be given up to utter
destruction: in one generation let his name be blotted out. 14 Let
the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin
of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the Lord
continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth.
Those who are intentional toward evil can be subdued by our
intercession. Those who live in the gray area of life may just need to be
loved. Imprecations are our tool in evil times to keep the people who are
intentionally harming the sons of God at bay. They may have power on earth to
dominate, but spiritually they do not have the power that the sons of God have.
With the Holy Spirit residing within the believer, there is much the believer
can do to bind the attacks of the god of this world. The devil is not stronger
or more powerful than the Holy Spirit who resides in the righteous, but he does
have a lease on this planet. His time to rule over humanity is coming to a
close. The Essenes/Nazarenes/Therapeutaes and the Damascus community along with
the Prophets had a regular intercessory practice of cursing the devil and his
sons. These people who cleave to the devil, making a covenant with hell were
known as “sons of Belial”. They were also called the “lot of satan”. Depending
on which edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls one has, we see the term lot of satan in older additions amended
to sons of Belial in newer additions.
Part of their success as a community was to have structure. Here we see part of
their prayer and intercession.
Community Rule 1QS
And the Levites shall curse all the men of the lot of Belial,
saying: “Be cursed because of all your guilty wickedness! May he deliver you up
for torture at the hands of the vengeful Avengers! May he visit you with
destruction by the hand of all the Wreakers of Revenge! Be damned in the
shadowy place of everlasting fire! May God not heed when you call on Him, nor
pardon you by blotting out your sin! May he raise His angry face towards you
for vengeance! May there be no “Peace” for you in the mouth of those who hold
fast to the Fathers!” p99
The Levites of the community did the cursing while the
priests did the blessings. Today so many people want to associate themselves
with ancient Jewish practice and connect themselves to the Levites. If that is
the case, these individuals should get busy cursing this evil lot, the sons of
Belial. These are the people who have made a covenant with hell and cleave to
the devil, these are not the people of the gray areas of life. The Levites pray
for torture and destruction of the sons of Belial by the people of their own
lot. In other words, they are praying that sons of Belial attack sons of
Belial. Well that is handy. No need for anyone else to be involved. That is
what the devil tries to do to Christians, he tries to get Christians to fight
among themselves. Well the Essenes/Nazarenes/Therapeutaes and Prophets simply
turned the tables on the devil. When these people are being attacked by other
sons of Belial, they will cry to the Almighty, but they are cursed with no
peace for the evil they have done on the earth. This was a regular prayer
offered during times when people were entering into the Covenant in the
communities.
Part of their preparations for war included intercessions
against the sinful purpose of Belial. They took a spiritual approach to war and
interceded against the spirits of evil.
War Rule Xlll
Cursed be Belial for his sinful purpose and may he be
execrated for his wicked rule! Cursed be all the spirits of his company for
their ungodly purpose and may they be execrated for all their service of
uncleanness! Truly they are the company of Darkness, but the company of God is
one of [eternal] Light. p178
Thou hast created us for Thyself, [O God], that we may be
an everlasting people. Thou hast decreed for us a destiny of Light according to
Thy truth. And the Prince of Light Thou hast appointed from ancient times to
come to our support; [all the sons of righteousness are in his hand], and all
the spirits of truth are under his dominion. But Belial, the Angel of
Malevolence, Thou has created for the Pit; his [rule] is in Darkness and his
purpose is to bring about wickedness and iniquity. All the spirits of his
company, the Angels of Destruction, walk according to the precepts of Darkness;
towards them is their [inclination]. P 178
Belial is the angel of malevolence and he has other spirits
in his company, angels of destruction. Remember how Paul told the Ephesians
that there are principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual
wickedness? These are the spirits that influence people to pursue evil,
reasoning within themselves, or getting in their heads until they choose evil.
We alone choose life or death, righteousness or unrighteousness. We alone
determine whether to love justice and hate evil or cleave to the devil making a
covenant with hell. But man was not created for death and the kingdom of death
was not on earth until evil men brought it here by their evil ways.
Part of community life among the Essenes was to sing and
worship, but some of their songs explained the spiritual reality of life.
Hymn 10 (formally 5)……The torrents of Belial shall break
into Abaddon, and the deeps of the Abyss shall groan amid the roar of heaving
mud. The land shall cry out because of the calamity fallen upon the world, and
all its deeps shall howl. And all those upon it shall rave and shall perish
amid great misfortune. For God shall sound His mighty voice, and His holy abode
shall thunder with the truth of His glory. The heavenly hosts shall cry out and
the world’s foundations shall stagger and sway. The war of the heavenly
warriors shall scourge the earth; and it shall not end before the appointed
destruction which shall be for ever and without compare. P 267
Culturally from the times of the Prophets, through David,
into the first century, it was common protocol to acknowledge our spiritual
battle and spiritual predicament upon the earth. One of the schemes of the
devil has been to make us believe that there is no spiritual battle, and that there
are no evil people lording over the masses. It has become culturally
unacceptable to talk about people being evil, even to the degree we hesitate to
call murderers, liars, and thieves, evil. We Christians can’t even point out
morality because as Solomon told us, the evil people feel condemned by us so
they attempt to shut us up. Meanwhile, we have this incredible weapon of
intercession and we are afraid to use it. Man was not made for death. The
Almighty did not create a kingdom of death, the devil did. But Jesus won a
great victory for all humanity and he alone is in charge of the spirit and soul
when one dies. It is our choice as to who we will cleave to, and who we will
live for. And while we are on earth it certainly wouldn’t hurt to utilize the
tools we have to push back the sons of the devil. Solomon gave us some great
understanding of our worldly existence, in some very plain black and white
terms. There are children of righteousness and children of Belial, and we are
the ones who choose who to make Lord over our lives.
