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This article is written to let you know the limits of human knowledge. Human knowledge is beset with various limitations, uncertainty, difficulty, restricted and limited by time and space, and lacking of true knowledge. “Had I known” is a very regrettable expression because the person does not know the true facts about a situation. If the truth were known in advance, he would act differently, he would do differently. If he knew that waiting for a taxi in Shanghai at a bus stop for two hours would not get on a taxi after all, he would not have gone there to wait for the taxi and wasted two hours for nothing! This is an illustration of the sad and sorrowful meaning of “Had I known!” 

Luk 16:19-31, “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in 

purple and fine linen, enjoying himself in splendor everyday. And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and 

longing to be fed from the scraps which fell from the rich man’s table; 

not only that, the dogs also were coming and licking his sores. Now it 

happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s arms; and the rich man also died and was buried. And in 

Hades he raised his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away 

and Lazarus in his arms. And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, 

have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his 

finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’ 

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being 

comforted here, and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us 

and you a great chasm has been set, so that those who want to go over 

from here to you will not be able, nor will any people cross over from 

there to us.’ And he said, ‘Then I request of you, father, that you send 

him to my father’s house—for I have five brothers—in order that  he may warn them, so that they will not come to this place of torment as 

well.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them 

hear them.’ But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to 

them from the dead, they will repent!’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not 

listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if 

someone rises from the dead.’”

Note: We are not here to discuss Hades which means Hell had been 

moved. It is impossible for those in the Paradise to see those in Hell 

now. Nowadays you have the Gospel of Jesus Christ preached all over 

the world.  The point is had the rich man known, he would not want to be 

in the place of torment. Actually, the rich man asked Abraham to let 

Lazarus rise from the dead and send him to his father’s house to warn 

his five brothers, so that they will not come to the place of torment as 

well. This is a lesson and warning to the unbelieving and the wicked, 

they had better know now and repent and believe so that they will not go to Hell. It will be too late to regret then and there. I believe all who are in Hell suffering now, if they had known Hell is such a place of eternal torture and agony, they would not want to be there. If you do not have other knowledge, you should have this knowledge. So, beware, when you still have a chance to repent and believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Do it now when you can!

July 14, 2021 is the day of infamy and ignominy for me. If you can picture or imagine an old man getting up early, eating breakfast, and getting ready to get to a taxi because he has some important business to be done. He could not have a full breakfast because he is incontinent. From where he is to where he is going it will take a long time even by a taxi. He cannot afford to have urination or bowel movement anywhere like home. The old man retired in Shanghai because he could not afford to retire in America. Besides it is costly and dangerous for a man of advanced years to drive in America. In Shanghai his transportation completely relies on taxi. It is impossible to get on a public bus to go where you want to go in Shanghai. It would not be possible for an old man to travel by subway (although cheap) because there is no seat available and it requires plenty of walking, and up and down in fighting the crowds. 

So before 10 a.m. the old man with his cane is walking slowly and 

unsteadily to the elevator. Getting down from the elevator, he struggles 

with his cane walking toward a bus stop where there is a metal bench he can sit down there waiting for the taxi. He does not have a cellphone to call taxi, so he just sits there hoping luckily an empty taxi may come by. You do not know how inconvenient in Shanghai waiting for a taxi if you do not have a cellphone to make a call. The day is hot with 36℃ and he feels thirsty and tired. He waits, waits and waits. One hour has passed. There he sits waiting and waiting and waiting. All his expectations, turning his head left and right watching and looking for an empty taxi, do not bring a good result. He is still patiently waiting, waiting and waiting. Twelve o’clock strikes in his travel watch silently, there is no hope to get on a taxi. So he disappointingly walks with his cane going back home. If the old man had known that waiting two hours for a taxi would not produce a positive result, he would not have gone to the bus stop to wait there anyway. 

You see, man has limited knowledge. He does not know the real situation. Many things that he does, he has no assurance what will be the outcome. Not only the old man, but every man and woman, even the scientist and philosopher does not and cannot know the future whether immediate or tomorrow or by and by. 

Once I was watching an earthquake taking place in Los Angeles, many 

were driving on a bridge. A certain man driving westward, suddenly and without notice, the front part of the bridge fell off to the sea; the poor man with his car plunging into the sea helplessly and hopelessly. “Had he known” what would happen to the bridge, he would certainly change the course of his driving and drive safely to where he was heading. No one would intentionally head for disaster unless he is insane or suicidal. This unfortunate life situations happen to billions of people on earth. You just do not know what lies ahead. No one has advanced knowledge, however bright and brilliant a person maybe. 

I knew the family of a white beautiful blond young woman who married to a white man. It happened that I met the white man at the friend’s house. After a number of years of marriage, suddenly the white man told his wife that he wanted a younger woman and so divorced her. If the white woman knew that her marriage is going to be a divorce down the road, I am sure she would not have married that white man in after years.

I had met another Chinese fellow at the college. He knew my English was very good, and so he befriended me since college days. I went on to obtain a B.A. and advanced degree from a top American university, and became a very knowledgeable person. And when he had a business of his own, he even used me to write a policy and procedure manual to 

satisfy the government requirement. Over the years he had consulted me which cost thousands of hours of my time to help him in many ways. Had I known he would be a traitor, I would not recognize the friendship from the beginning.

How many men and women get married, and did not know who their 

spouses actually were. When they realized it, it was too late. Now it is 

necessary to say I have been around the world, I have seen plenty of 

beautiful girls and women. This is the most beautiful girl I have ever met in my life. After years have gone by, when this most beautiful girl turns into an old lady and after the death of her husband, she told me 

personally something most shocking and sad, she said to me directly: 

“I made a mistake in finding the wrong man!” You do not know how much tears and heartbreaks and pain in that confession.

A young woman who was a CPA, one day she consulted me of her 

personal problem: her husband ran away. She asked me what to do about it. I told her confidentially: If she still loves him, run after him. By the way she was not a Christian, so divorce was not a problem for her case. However, Jesus Christ forbids Christians to have a divorce. 

Human knowledge is so limited. Lots of knowledge you have are useless. The knowledge you really need, but you do not have. It is such a sad story. My German professor told us, when he was young, he needed the money, but he had no money. Now when he is old, he had the money, but he did not need the money. Knowledge is worth much more than money. Knowledge is often like money, when you need it you do not have it. It is useless to possess all kinds of knowledge when you do not need them. The knowledge you need, you do not have it. That is the tragedy of needing the true knowledge. 

A young man told me his story. When he was young he thought or 

fancied that to be a social worker would be a nice thing. So he went to 

college and major in sociology. After he obtained his degree, he landed a job in a welfare department of a county. There and then he mourned for the mistake of his life everyday. He confided to me, it was terrible to 

become a social worker. Everyday you meet and deal with the most 

undesirable people and lowest strata of the society. He was sick of his 

job, sick of his life…. 

Life is full of contradictions. When you need money, you do not have 

money. When you have money, you do not need money. When you are 

young, you have many friends, but you do not need friends. When you 

are old, you do not have reliable friends. When you are successful, you 

have many friends, but you do not need friends. When you are down, all your friends disappeared. In our lives probably there are a million of things we really do not know, had we known about the real situation, we may have done or lived differently. 

This is my reflection and confession. After studying, working, and living in America for almost half a century. I gain some insights. Whether you know it or not, job has the most effects or impacts on anyone’s life. I discover among all medium and large corporations I have worked for, it was not principle and practice of management that ruled and dominated corporate life, it was personalities and politics. Unbelievable but it is real and true, most of executives were white males who knew nothing about management principles and practices and without any leadership skills. 

Once I had a project to establish the company policy and procedure 

manual. The senior vice president was angry at me and told me to get off his back because he did not do anything. Imagine the senior vice 

president of a corporation who did nothing? Another vice president of 

finance once called me and said he did not know the difference between a policy and procedure. I assured him I was there to help. Although I have retired more than 10 years, the ghost of awful corporate experiences still hunt me in my sleep. Only once I had the pleasant dream of being elected the chief of a big corporation; oh how I restructured the organization, appointed competent executives, laid down directives and objectives of the company! That was only a dream. In reality America is a very discriminatory society, structured and built in a way that the highest level an able minority can go is a middle level manager. I had known and worked with Chairmen, Presidents, CEOs, and many Vice Presidents before. They were all white males who did not have a respectable or proven ability, expertise, knowledge and leadership. Years ago but one white executive called Jim King was the most remarkable. He wanted to do a corporate wide project, he looked around and found me the most qualified. So he did a most remarkable and unusual thing by putting line executives, Vice President of Finance, Controller, General Manager under me a staff specialist to undertake and lead the project. When the project was completed, he ordered to give me a bonus of $2,000, but Uncle Sam took 50% of tax away. I learned an able, qualified, and talented minority is like an eagle without wings in America. Abilities without real opportunities will not go far. 

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If the great Russian leader Putin said, “There is no happiness in this 

world.” You should have knowledge of the peril and problem of super 

powers. Jesus Christ says, Jhn 16:33, “These things I have spoken to 

you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” Peace in Greek is eirēnē  which means a state of emotional tranquility; rest; quietness; freedom from conflict and war; harmony; concord; felicity; assurance of one’s soul having passed from death to life; the blessed state; – which occurs 92 times in the New Testament. Tribulation in Greek is thlipsis which means anguish; affliction; oppression; trouble; pressure; distress; burden; straits; – which occurs 45 times in the New Testament. 

Mat 12:7, “But if you had known what this means: ‘I DESIRE COMPASSION, RATHER THAN SACRIFICE,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.”

We often do not know the meaning of life, so often we condemn the 

innocent. Without the true knowledge, we would not have known many 

things.

Dan 12:4, “But as for you, Daniel, keep these words secret and seal up the book until the end of time; many will roam about, and knowledge will increase.”

Years ago people did not travel more than 50 miles from the place of their birth. In the end of time, travel becomes convenient by jets and fashionable and affordable. It was Helen Keller who said, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” I never regretted to spend a great sum of my savings for seeing the world when and where I developed the Theory of Good Society. This experience was more precious than owning a real estate. It was a bold and daring adventure of quitting a job, took my savings with me and explored and evaluated the six most advanced European societies. Clearly the trip broadened my vision and enriched my experiences to learn and discover how the best of the world had lived. I consider it is worth to pay for the knowledge of the world while you are young. Someone said, “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” I like to say I feel at home in Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, and Norway) but not for the cold climate; and I dislike England, France, and Germany anyway. I agree with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who said, “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” 

Tourists roam around the world and knowledge of the people will increase. The world witnesses the tremendous increase of knowledge. Probably in the last 50 years the world has acquired more knowledge than in the last 5,000 years. 

“If you had known” …

I. WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge is difficult to define, and there are many opinions. I define 

knowledge as the comprehension of truth by the mind in reality. 

Knowledge is more than belief, opinion, perception, or information. Later I will divide knowledge into two kinds: divine and human. It will better explain their differences. 

Merriam Webster defines knowledge: the circumstance or condition of apprehending truth or fact through reasoning : COGNITION  

No one can by human knowledge discover the ultimate truth of life. Not one human idea can explain all things.

What we see may not be true. For example, it is a well known fact that a 

straight stick looks bent if it is half-immersed in water. The straight stick does not really become crooked when submerged in water. It only 

appears to be so. So we know appearances are deceptive. Perception 

alone cannot be basis of knowledge. Perception is often subjective.

One’s belief is not knowledge. All primitive people  believe in idols and 

their idols are true gods. Just like the Japanese who believe their 

executed WWII war criminals are heroes and true gods. All idols are 

actually false gods. You might say then what is the difference between 

the belief of an idol worshipper  and the faith of a Christian? There are 

great differences between falsity and truth, between darkness and light. 

The Bible says, Heb 11:1, “Now faith is the certainty of of things hoped 

for, a proof of things not seen.”

Christian faith is based on the certainty of things and a proof of things 

not seen. What are the certainty of things? Death is certain. The Bible says, Rom 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

It is certain that all have sinned, for all will die. There is no man who will not die. So death is certain. Eternal life is a proof of things not seen. God is eternal. For God is Spirit cannot be seen. Faith is to believe in God’s Word that sinners who repent and believe in Jesus Christ will have eternal life. Secondly, let you know for certain, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior of mankind, that God has made Jesus Christ both Lord and Christ. Act 2:36, “Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified.” The Gospel is first preached to the Jews, the Jews may know for certain that this Jesus whom they crucified is both Lord and Christ. 

How do we know that God has made Jesus Lord and Christ? By the 

power of resurrection from death. Because my Redeemer lives for ever, 

so I shall live. Therefore, the Christian faith is unlike the belief of idolaters. The things we hope for is eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven, and the proof of things we have seen is Jesus Christ rose from the dead, ascended to the highest Heaven, sitting at the right hand of God, and He is coming to be the King of kings and the Lord of lords. This revealed knowledge of God is the certainty and proof of the Christian faith. Christians know the reason of our faith: it rests on the Word of God and the Person of Jesus Christ. 

The blind man testifies, Jhn 9:25, “He then answered, “Whether He is a 

sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now 

I see.” Christians do know now because Jesus Christ has opened our 

eyes so that we may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of 

Satan to God. Act 26:18, “to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among who have been 

sanctified by faith in Me.” The forgiveness of sins are certain, and an 

inheritance among saints are what we hoped for. The proof is the Spirit 

of the Lord living in us. 
Jhn 20:29, “Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you now believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

In early days, all disciples and believers had seen the Lord and witnessed the miracles that Jesus performed. In the last days we do not see, and yet we believed.

Gal 1:11, “For I would have you know, brothers and sisters, that the 

Gospel which was preached by me is not of human invention.” The 

glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ is not of human invention, because it is according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past. We know evolution was a human invention. We know “big bang” was also a human invention. We know “higher criticism” was also a human invention. In 1907, Leo Baekeland  developed Bakelite, the first popular synthetic plastic. Now plastics have polluted lands and oceans everywhere. Many human inventions are as trash and rubbish as used plastics.

Eph 1:18, “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the 

glory of His inheritance in the saints.”

Note: I do not know whether the eyes of your heart means your mind. 

One thing is clear Christians have the eyes of their hearts enlightened so that they will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. I also know that unbelieving scientists, theologians and philosophers do not have the eyes of their hearts enlightened. So they are blind spiritually.

Phl 3:10, “that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.”

Not many know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the 

fellowship of His sufferings, including me. 

Apostle Paul said, 2Ti 1:12, “For this reason I also suffer these things; 

but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am 

convinced that He is able to protect what I have entrusted to Him until 

that day.”

What reason? 2Ti 1:10-11, “but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, Who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel, for which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.”

The Lord Jesus has also given me life and immortality. I cannot compare myself with the great Apostle Paul, what I have suffered for Christ and the Gospel is very little and almost nothing. But I am also not ashamed, for I know Whom I have believed, and I am also convinced that He is able to protect what I have I have entrusted to Him until that day. That day is coming soon.

Cited above are examples of the faith and knowledge of Christians are 

quite different from the people of the world. We have sure and true 

knowledge in Jesus Christ which secular scientists, scholars, and 

philosophers could never have.

For Christians, knowledge is based on the revelation of Jesus Christ, 

enlightened in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. It is not human concept or 

invention. Christians do not trust our perception, conception, cognition, figures and numbers, sensations, experiences, analysis, imagination, impression, induction, intuition, introspection, deduction, opinion, observation, proposition, representation, reflection, and reason.  Christians trust in the Word of God, and the revealed truth in Jesus Christ. 

Someone said, “There are two kinds of knowledge: the first one is 

because of our senses and the second one is because of thought.” Now we know our senses are not dependable. If thought is able to produce knowledge, then the mental hospital with psychotic patients would be profuse with knowledge.

Gen 12:11, “It came about, when he was approaching Egypt, that he said to his wife Sarai, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman.” 

Note: Know in Hebrew is yāḏaʿ which means to perceive and see; 

acknowledge; consider; declare; learn to know; know by experience; find out and discern; recognize; have understanding of; to be acquainted; – which occurs 953 times in the Old Testament. Abraham knows Sarai or Sarah by acquaintance, senses, experiences and reason. If Abraham and Sarah were standing there, I could not honestly say I know Abraham because I have never met him before. However, although I did not know Sarah before, I could honestly say I recognize she is a beautiful woman. Just as I know my professor Dr. Harold Koontz intimately, so I could say I know Dr. Koontz was a world class great professor.

Jhn 7:29, “I do know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

Note: Know in Greek here is oida which means to have knowledge; 

understand; to know for sure. Jesus uses the word “know” especially 

emphatic. He knows God emphatically which no one can say. Jesus 

does know God, because He is from God, and God sent Him to the world to save sinners. Such knowledge is not possible for mankind, because the knowledge of Jesus Christ is absolutely true, pure, infallible, highest, complete, ultimate, and eternal. God is ONE and ETERNAL.

Despite of all you know, there are only two kinds of knowledge: divine 

and human. Divine knowledge is impossible and beyond human, it is 

only acquired by revelation of God through Jesus Christ. It is impossible for human to find or get to know God. There is no human way to God. God must reveal Himself or man has no means to find or get to know God. The knowledge of the Most High is the sure and true knowledge because God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. God has foreknowledge, for He knows the end from the beginning. Just as the clay cannot be anything without the potter, so the creature without the Creator is nothing. A dog without its mater is nothing, so man without God is less than a dog. The OMNIPOTENT, OMNIPRESENT, AND OMNISCIENT GOD is all and in all. Everything good flows down from God. So the knowledge of God as He is, is from everlasting to everlasting. 

God knows the end from the beginning. Isa 46:10, “Declaring the end 

from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been 

done, Saying, ‘My plan will be established, and I will accomplish all My 

good pleasure’.” God has no beginning and no ending.  Jhn 1:1-5, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being though Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. In Him was Life, and the life was the Light of mankind. And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it.” 

Divine knowledge is the Light, humankind being in the ignorance of 

darkness cannot grasp it. For this reason, the knowledge of God is 

absolute, complete, pure, sure, infallible, supreme, ultimate, and eternal. This divine knowledge is the revealed knowledge.

Eph 1:17, “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, 

may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of 

Him.”

The knowledge of the Almighty God can be obtained only through the revelation. Revelation in Greek is apokalypsis which means manifestation; enlightenment; laying bare; making known things before unknown; disclosure of truth; instruction; – which occurs 18 times in the New Testament. The revealed knowledge of God is precise, correct and true knowledge.

On the other hand, human knowledge is verified knowledge, never a foreknowledge. The best of human knowledge is scientific, organized, 

but limited by time and space, always progressive and tentative, never 

absolute or ultimate or eternal. For example, Japan is a country in Asia. 

This is a current knowledge. But we do not know if 50 years from now 

would God use ten largest earthquakes of 10 magnitude and ten biggest tsunamis to sink Japan to the bottom of Pacific Ocean. Then Japan will be no more, what you know now about Japan will not be true anymore. Another example, California is a state of America. Who knows if later California successfully secedes from the Union, then California will not be a state of the United States. One hundred years from now, probably all adults in the world today will be gone for good — dead.

Exo 18:11, “Now I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods; indeed, it was proven when they acted insolently against the people.”

Note: Did I not tell you that human knowledge is limited by space and 

time? The Scripture cited above, “Now I know” is spoken by Jethro, the 

father-in-law of Moses after Moses told him everything that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had confronted them on the journey, and how the Lord had rescued them. You see the divine knowledge can also be verified. Divine knowledge is more than belief, fact, experience, and reason. We may not understand what we see. For example, when the children of Israel are crossing the dry Red Sea, do you understand what you see? Insight, introspection, good sense and cognition may not grasp the divine truth. Someone has well said, “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” I am saying you cannot use imperfect human instruments trying to attain true knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus said, “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” NO. That is not true knowledge, it is only human knowledge that you do not know. I like the humor of Mark Twain, “The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.”

Just look at your own life, is it not true that you know so many things 

that just are not so? History has proven, even scientists have known so many things that just are not so. Human knowledge is fallible. I like 

Confucius who said, “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s 

ignorance.” The extent of human ignorance is further from this side of 

Heaven to that side of Heaven. It is not exaggeration to say that human 

ignorance is unlimited. Humans have too many stupid ideas.

Of all the knowledge in the world, most people do not know there are 

only two kinds of knowledge: human and divine. Divine knowledge is 

beyond humans no matter scientists or philosophers. Divine knowledge by nature is absolute, complete, definitive, infinite, infallible, supreme, supernatural, ultimate, and eternal. The God of the universe is OMNIPOTENT, OMNIPRESENT, OMNISCIENT, SELF-EXISTENT, and 

ETERNAL. That is the reason man cannot compare with His creator. A 

creature cannot compare with the Lord of the Universe. As regards 

human knowledge, by nature it is progressive, tentative, never complete or ultimate. Immanuel Kant said, “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” The senses, understanding, and reason of all people are not equal and the same, therefore one may know better than the other. It was Socrates who said, “I know that I know nothing.” This confession should humble all human limitations, ignorance, and incompetence. 

Knowledge is not equal to understanding. Albert Einstein said, “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” For example, as it is reported on TV that Western Europe recently suffers severe floods; but I have no understanding why more than two hundreds of people died. Could it be the floods come all too suddenly and catch the people unprepared? Could it be the level of water was too high and some people who could not swim were drowned? One may have knowledge without understanding. It is not possible to have understanding without knowledge. “But knowledge is easy for one who has understanding.” I found my female university classmates were so afraid of philosophy because they could not understand what they read. We all know to believe in Jesus Christ is to have eternal life. Many, including me, would not really understand the meaning of eternal life. “But rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.” But if you rebuke a fool, that is a different story. You see it is not easy even to know the relationship between knowledge and understanding. “But when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.” Most people may think the wise does not need to be instructed. Pro 24:5, “A wise man is strong, and a person of knowledge increases power.” A wise man is strong, because knowledge is power. Do you know knowledge can be increased? No one has enough knowledge in this life. May I suggest understanding this paragraph alone is better than many books you have read. How many do you know have learned wisdom? 

Western civilization has gone through thousands of years and earnestly sought the wrong things, namely money, power and sex– striving after wind. Ecc 2:26, “For to a person who is good in His sight, He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God’s sight. This too is futility and striving after wind.”And the West has followed the path of injustice to this day; confronting futility and striving after wind. 

Western knowledge is ridiculous. They propagandize democracy, human rights, freedom, and justice; but they practice the opposite. In the last 500 years or more they practiced imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, militarism,   monopolism,  supremacism to dictate and dominate the world. 

Take the United States, from the beginning it lied, killed the natives of 

America and robbed the land of the Red Indians. The West (Europe and 

America) has oppressed China since the infamous Opium Wars. Since 

the end of WWII, America has been a warmonger and aggressor that 

killed millions of innocent peoples around the world. The democracy 

practiced in America is a phony democracy where 1% of the population 

rules over and controls the 99%. The 1% of the population owns most of the power and wealth, while the 99% work for the one percent. American leaders and politicians spread so-called democracy and freedom by attacking, occupying, robbing, and changing the governments of many nations. America passes extra-territorial laws to force other countries to comply, interfere and intervene and sanction many nations that do not kowtow to America. America is the hegemonic power in the world with its allies. America is no model for the world. The wisdom and knowledge of the West has led the West astray and produced corrupt, worldly and secular civilizations.

The best organized human knowledge is acquired by senses, but senses are not perfect instruments, not completely reliable. Sigmund Freud said, “Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.” Human observations themselves are not completely reliable and can be manipulated by many factors. 

On the other hand, divine knowledge is quite the opposite of human 

knowledge just as God is not like man. It is impossible to compare the 

infinite with the finite, the glorious with the ignoble, the eternal with the 

temporal. The sooner a man realizes his sinfulness and weaknesses and ignorance and bows down to the Almighty God the better. 

Even so, human knowledge needs to be verified. The standard of human knowledge is so low in terms of space and time. For example, all have the knowledge that Japan is a nation in Asia. Suppose in 50 years from now God uses ten earthquakes of 10 degrees and ten giant tsunamis to sink Japan down to the bottom of Pacific Ocean; then Japan is no more. Who can be sure that Japan will always be in Asia? No one.

This is the knowledge not all have it:

Knowledge will cease and will be done away with.

II. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL

Since the Fall of Adam, every human is born with the knowledge of good and evil. All human adults have the innate knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong, light and darkness. Conscience is not something 

acquired, however conscience can be deadened by sin. The knowledge 

of good and evil is not acquired by the senses. 

Little ones (babies and infants) do not have knowledge of good and evil, therefore they should not be baptized because they do not know how to repent of their sins and believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. The Roman Catholic Church baptizes every infant because it counts them as their members. The Roman Catholic Church may have the largest members in the world because their infants and babies are 

counted as members.

U. S. is dominated and ruled by American leaders and politicians that 

make democracy a mockery. One of the greatest flaws of American 

government is its criminal justice system. The judges habitually plea 

not guilty on behave of crooks and criminals. There is an insanity plea 

which is most outrageous. Insanity plea is not a plea on behalf of the 

insane person. An insanity plea is a plea by defense lawyers to make 

culpable crook and criminal to escape punishment and judgment on the pretense the criminal is insane. I had visited a mental hospital before where various insane and psychotic persons were hospitalized. I saw one most pitiful act was the insane patient eating his own feces. If all those crooks and criminals in American courts make insane pleas would voluntarily and willingly eat their own feces, then probably I would believe in their insanity pleas.  

All human beings are born with the knowledge of good and evil. Every 

rapist, robber, arsonist, terrorist, extortionist, monopolist, con artist, liar, killer, prostitute, pimp, drug trafficker, etc. knows what he/she has done is wrong and evil, but they do it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, “The battle line between good and evil 

runs though the heart of every man.” 

Rom 7:19, “For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very 

evil that I do not want.” The heart of every man and woman knows the 

difference between good and evil. No one has to be told.

Origen  was right, “The power of choosing good and evil is within the 

reach of all.” God has given mankind free will, he/she is free to choose. 

But the sad thing is the fact that mankind often chooses evil. By nature 

man has a tendency toward evil. To sin is natural, to be holy is 

supernatural.

I agree with Marcus Tullius Cicero, “The function of wisdom is to 

discriminate between good and evil.” Racial discrimination as practiced in America is bad. There is a kind of discrimination which is good, that is the discrimination between good and evil. The Bible says, Rom 12:9, “Love must be free of hypocrisy. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.” Let this be the motto of every Christian, Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. 

Immaneul  Kant said, “The only objects of practical reason are therefore 

those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.” Immaneul Kant is wrong. We can only know good and evil by the Word of God. According to the sight of God who determines which is good or evil. Human reason is faulty.

Blaise Pascal was right, “When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.” Remember, Cling to good; for the choice of evil has bad eternal consequences. 

III. MAN’S KNOWLEDGE IS LIMITED AND 

FALLIBLE.

Peoples of the world are divided into two groups: not the rich and the 

poor, but those who have knowledge, and those who have not. There are also two kinds of knowledge: the human and the divine.

Socrates may represent the best of human wisdom, who said, “True 

wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand 

about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” Among the three to 

know and understand, ourselves may be the easiest and smallest (yet 

most people do not know themselves); life is complicated, when one 

starts to understand life a bit, the person is already old; and the world is the largest and may be the most difficult to understand because of its size, scope and complexity. Socrates did not even mention the 

unknowable: God, truth, wisdom and eternity. The wise is characterized 

by humility.

John Locke points out, “The knowledge of man can not extend beyond 

his own experience.” Now, a born blind person can never know what a 

beautiful sunset is, that is beyond his own experience. If you have never tasted the original delicious Hangzhou’s beggar chicken, it is impossible you have such understanding. If you have never seen the beauty of green valley in Norway, it is not possible you understand what I am talking about. Man’s knowledge is limited by his own experience. For this reason, Jesus says, Jhn 3:6, “That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.” Flesh can never understand spirit. A natural man like scientist, theologian, and philosopher can never understand spiritual things or things pertaining to God.

I appreciate and almost love the statement of a great scientist, Werner 

von Braun, the father of space science, who said, “They (evolutionists) 

challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really 

light a candle to see the sun? They say they cannot visualize a Designer. Well, can a physicist visualize an electron? What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electron as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the grounds that they cannot conceive Him?”

I concur with Pascal who said, “It is the heart which perceives God and 

not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not the reason.” Heart may have a reason to believe in God which reason may not know. It was Immanuel Kant who discovered, “The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.” God created the universe with a purpose.

Eph 3:9-11, “and to enlighten all people as to what the plan of the 

mystery is which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all 

things; so that the multifaceted wisdom of God might now be made 

known through the Church to the rulers and the authorities in the 

Heavenly places. This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord.” The eternal God has eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord. Christ Jesus our Lord is appointed to reign and rule with the saints in the Kingdom of Heaven forever and ever.

It was Epictetus who said, “God gave man two ears, but only one mouth, that he might hear twice as much as he speaks.”

Rev 2:7, “The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.’”

Do you want to eat the fruit of life in the Paradise of God? No one yet 

has the experience with the fruit of life and in the Paradise of God.

Gen 2:9, “Out of the ground the LORD God caused every tree to grow 

that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also 

in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and 

evil.” God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food. When I was in Norway, oh how beautiful those forest trees that I saw. How pleasant to the sight was the green valley! Ignorant man does not know God caused many things to happen, including the forest trees.

Man cannot see from a distance for several reasons:

1. Man’s eyes are too dim to see.

Eyes are dim from old age (cataract).

2. There are also blinded eyes who cannot see.

2Co 4:4, “in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds 

of the unbelieving so that they will not see the light of the Gospel of 

the glory of Christ, who is the Image of God.”

This explains WHY otherwise brilliant secularists and philosophers who do not and cannot see the light of the Gospel and the glorious Jesus Christ who is the Image of God. I do not need to name those blind scholars and unbelievers. I usually do not promote the names of the wicked or evildoers.

3. Thorns in the eyes.

Num 33:55, “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land  from you, then it will come about that those whom you let remain of 

them will be like thorns in your eyes and like pricks in your sides, 

and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.”

What are the thorns? Jesus Christ explains, Luk 8:7, “Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.”

Luk 8:14, “And the seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked by worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and they bring no fruit to maturity.”

European and American supremacists for hundreds of years are 

chocked by worries, riches, and pleasure of this life, and they bring no 

fruit although they claim to be Christians. Isn’t it funny that the white and black supremacists have worries about the peaceful rise of China? For riches and pleasure of this life they have dictated and dominated the world. They are also blinded by the god of this world, so they do not see the glory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. No matter how bright and brilliant are unbelieving scientists, theologians, and philosophers — the god of this world (the devil) has blinded the minds of them so that they will not see the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the Image of God. 

1Jo 2:11, “But the one who hates his brother or sister is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”

Those who have racial hatred, and those who hate Christians are in the 

darkness and walk in the darkness. Hatred is darkness that blinds people. Europeans and Americans who hate other nations and peoples are in the darkness and walk in the darkness. Blacks who attack, rob and murder Asians are in the darkness and walk in the darkness. Western leaders and politicians who harbor hatred and they are in darkness and walk in darkness, so that they cannot see the value of peace to coexist with Russia and China. They refuse to follow President Richard Nixon in seeking a just and lasting peace for the world.

Gen 39:7, “And it came about after these events that his master’s wife had her eyes on Joseph, and she said, “Sleep with me.”

Western leaders and politicians have their eyes on the wrong things in 

dictating and dominating the world.

Men have their eyes on the wrong things: lust, greed, power, money, 

glory — the things that will pass away.

Ridiculous is knowledge of Western powers. On the one hand they preach democracy, on the other hand they practice autocracy and dictatorship. For example, in America 1% of the population rules over and controls 99% of the population. The 1% of the population owns all the power and wealth, while the 99% work like slaves for the one percent. Is that called democracy and freedom?

According to Serghey Stoilov Gherdjikov, “We live and it seems we never experience Death. But actually we always experience the resistance of chaos against our lives and we finally die. So, science can not resolve the problems outside the limit (the form) of the perceived world. It is not possible to explain the un-observable, the indescribable.”

Herbert Spencer said something interesting: “Scientific knowledge is a 

sphere floating in a space of ignorance and growing ever larger. As the 

sphere grows, its outer surface grows, too, and thus the surface of 

contact with ignorance grows.” In fact, humans also live and float in a 

space of ignorance.

According to Jürgen Mittelstrass, “scientific knowledge must as a rule 

be taken to be imperfect or incomplete and incorrect, though not in the 

sense of a defect.” 

It is interesting that Dr. Bryan W. Roberts lists the following limits:

 · Limits on the study of human relationships.

 · Limits on the transmission of data like television signals.

 · Limits on human travel, such as to deep-sea regions.

 · Limits on the tasks a computer can carry out.

 · Limits on one’s ability to move.

 · Limits on tasks like the turning on/off of a lamp.

 · Limits on the speed of matter and light..    

   Limits on what you can see from outside a black hole, or hear from outside a dumb hole.

 · Limits on what you can do from within a black hole.

 · Limits on what you can prove.

After all, it is wise to know human is limited, limited in every way. 

The following questions confront mankind perennially: 

Do you know? What do you know? How do you know? 

Do you not know? What can you know? Do you not know what these things mean? Do you not know what these are?

Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of 

God? Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one 

receives the prize? Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? There are limits to the human knowledge.

You do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and 

naked. 

You do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.

You do not know the activity of God who makes everything.

You do not know destruction will come on you suddenly. 

You do not know great and mighty things.

You do not know what you are asking.

You do not know which day your Lord is coming.

You do not know when the appointed time is.

You do not know how to analyze this present time.

You do not know about.

Pro 27:1, “Do not boast about tomorrow,
For you do not know what a day may bring.” 

1Co 8:1, “Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that we 

all have knowledge. Knowledge makes one conceited, but love edifies 

people.”

The danger of human knowledge is to make one conceited or puffed up. Have you ever met a humble professor? Or a humble rich and powerful person?

Worldly knowledge can ruin people. Eve wants to know like God. 

Knowledge of poison can kill people.  A babbling fool will come to ruin.

Wickedness brings the sinner to ruin. A fool’s mouth is his ruin.

Luk 19:40-42, “Jesus replied, “I tell you, if these stop speaking, the 

stones will cry out!”

When Jesus approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known on this day, even you, the conditions for 

peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.” 

If you had known! If Christians do not tell the truth on this day, the 

stones will cry out! What upsets me most is that many false preachers 

pretend to tell the truth for money. Many false prophets predict the day 

of the second coming of the Lord for money. Many teach false doctrines to mislead the people. I do not need to name names. The mainstream powerful American and Western media continuously and habitually spew out false opinions and views, and deliberately spread fake news and disinformation without shame. Jesus Christ wept over Jerusalem. Will any American weep for Washington, D.C.? 

What is it that blinds American leaders and politicians? What is it that 

blinds European leaders and politicians?  What is it that blinds the 

Japanese, Australian, Canadian, Indian, and British leaders and 

politicians? It is most shocking they do not know the time. It is most 

shocking they do not know what they should do. It is most shocking they do not know the condition for peace. The West does not feel 

responsibility and remorse for their genocide, war crimes, sins and 

iniquities. The truth is hidden from their eyes!

Jesus warns, Luk 17:26-30, “And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man: people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, and they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, and they were building; but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from Heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.”

If Hitler, Hideki Tojo (and Japanese emperor) and Mussolini had known 

their outcome would be defeat and death, would they start the World War II? 

If you had known! Would you … 

2Pe 3:10-14, “But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the 

Heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the Day of God, because of which the Heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! But according to His promise we are looking for new Heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless.”

The Day of the Lord and the Day of God refer to the Day of the second 

coming of Jesus Christ. This is the revealed knowledge that the Heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. That is the end of the world.

IV.   MAN DOES NOT HAVE TRUE 

KNOWLEDGE. 

Num 22:31, “Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the 

angel of the LORD standing in the way with His sword drawn in His hand; and he bowed all the way to the ground.”

Man as the measure of all things is not correct. Incorrect man can not 

have true knowledge, just like a crooked ruler cannot make a straight 

line. Using Plato’s cave as an illustration, what the prisoner sees is only the shadows, not the reality. The best of human knowledge is only the 

shadows. White and black supremacists want to conquer the world, but 

they do not know the Lord standing in the way with His sword drawn in 

His hand.  Not only many blinded by darkness only see shadows. The pornography produced by evildoers makes you see flesh, lust, lewdness and nakedness even you did not want them. They just suddenly popped up in your computer uninvited. There are so many evildoers who harm and hurt others’ computers. No government is doing anything to destroy those who force smut and dirt and filth and gunk of ugly female nakedness on others through the Internet. The last days are full of perils because many are lawless and useless and they are terrorists of all kinds. These evildoers love themselves, love pleasure, and love money by all means. 

I don’t know who was Philip K. Dick, but he said something which is true. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” There are people who actually do not believe the existence of sin, sickness, death and Hell. My friends, they do not go away just because you do not believe them. If you do not deal with sin, death, and Hell now; you will have eternity to regret then. No one can say I have no sin. Well, if you have no sin, then you will not die. Is there anyone who will not die? After death, everything is settled in the place of suffering, which is called Hell, the place of eternal suffering. They will not go away whether you believe it or not. The good news is the truth that the problems of sin, death and Hell can be resolved once and for all while you are still alive. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, WHO came down from Heaven is to be your Savior and my Savior. All you need to do is to repent and believe in Jesus Christ, you can be saved by grace through faith. All your sins may be forgiven because Jesus Christ has paid for them by His life. Jesus Christ rose from the dead and so He can justify you before God. Then death is not a fear. For Jesus says, Jhn 6:40, “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.” The last day is the end of the world. We do not see Jesus Christ now for He is sitting on the right of God in Heaven. But those who do not see and yet believe are blessed. Because our Redeemer lives forever, so we shall also live. 

Those who died in Christ will be raised on the last day, the day Jesus 

Christ comes to judge the world and to be the King of kings and the 

Lord of lords. You had better deal with the reality of sin, death, and Hell 

while you can now. Sweat, determination, and hard work cannot deal 

with sin, death, and Hell. Jesus Christ can. But you must seize the 

moment of salvation.

Mar 8:22-25, “And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought a 

man who was blind to Jesus and begged Him to touch him. Taking the 

man who was blind by the hand, He brought him out of the village; and 

after spitting in his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, 

“Do you see anything?” And he looked up and said, “I see people, for I 

see them like trees, walking around.” Then again He laid His hands on 

his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see 

everything clearly.”

In an analogy, the best perception of man is seeing people like trees, 

walking around. Perception is not knowledge. Is seeing knowing? Is 

knowing seeing? Even a man can see clearly, it does not mean he 

understands what he sees. Like the ten blind men by touching an 

elephant have different perceptions of what an elephant really looks like.

The Blind Men and the Elephant is a parable from India that has been 

adapted by many religions and published in various stories for adults and children. It is about a group of blind men who attempt to learn what an elephant is, each touching a different part, and disagreeing on their findings. Their collective wisdom leads them

to half truth. The same collective wisdom of mankind leads only to half truths.

The enemies of the true knowledge are lies, falsehoods, falsity, deceit, conceit, fake news, disinformation, misinformation, false religions, false doctrines and teachings, false theories, etc. which are so prevalent like dog feces on the streets.

2Co 4:6, “For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”

The mass of mankind needs the Light to shine out of darkness. Only God who is Light can give the Light of the true knowledge. All primitive religions born and bred in darkness and ignorance, and spreads superstition like wild fire. There are trillions of examples how superstition destroys and ruins lives. When there is great rain storm and flood, the primitive people believe somehow they angered the god of the sea. So they picked a virgin and sacrificed her by throwing the girl to the sea to appease gods. In the West, some believe wearing a rabbit’s foot around your neck brings good luck. Some Chinese believe turning the word blessing 福 upside down will bring good luck. Every race has its own superstitions. A few examples are sufficient.

Jer 10:14, “Every person is stupid, devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his cast metal images are deceitful, and there is no breath in them.”

A stupid person is devoid of knowledge. Idols and cast metal images are deceitful. The Word of God says every person who worships idols is stupid. I do not have to name countries and peoples. Idolatry breeds superstition, and superstition promotes backwardness. Not a few primitive people believe they had previous existence. The fact is, you only exist when you are born. No one, except Jesus Christ, had previous existence. Jesus Christ had previous existence before He came down to the earth. Jesus Christ was with God. Some people believe they have life to come. Their belief in the life to come is quite different from Christian belief in eternal life. They believe in so-called cyclical life, one does not die and he just changes into different animal. Some believe in the life to come they may marry the persons they could not marry in this life. The Word of God says in the life to come there will be no marriage or given to marriage, the saints will live like angels. There is no such a thing called reincarnation. Every person who dies either goes to Hell or goes to Heaven. It is very funny, being superstitious is ridiculous. 

Some people in Portugal believe that walking backwards may connect you to the devil. However, in China some people think walking backwards is a beneficial exercise. In China the number 4 is an unlucky number, because the pronunciation of “four” in Chinese is similar to the word “death.” In primitive societies, the most pitiful and pathetic is the live sacrifice of humans to appease their angry gods.  

False preachers who merchandise the Gospel and get rich by preaching do not know the Lord is standing in the way with His sword drawn in His hand.

European and American supremacists want to dictate and dominate the world do not know that the Lord standing in the way with His sword drawn in His hand.

Japanese militarists who committed genocide of 35 million Chinese, sex slavery, slave labor, and untold atrocities, but denied them and refused to pay reparations and compensations; and they want to revive an imperial and militaristic Japan. The Lord is standing in the way with His sword drawn in His hand. The judgment of the Lord is going to fall upon the world sooner than you think.

Increasing knowledge of the world results in increasing pain. The more knowledge you have about the world, the more worries you have.

Ecc 2:26, “For to a person who is good in His sight, He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God’s sight. This too is futility and striving after wind.”

The people who seek money, power, and pleasure are striving after wind. A life that is striving after wind is futility and vanity.

The knowledge of the Most High is the real knowledge and the true knowledge. God is the measure of everything. It is God’s sight that determines good and evil. It is the will of God which rules the universe. 

1Co 8:2, “If anyone thinks he knows anything, he has

not yet known as he ought to know.”

Unbelieving scientists, theologians and philosophers think they know something, but the Word of God says they have not yet known as they ought to know. They do not know what they ought to know. Just like the children in kindergarten do not know what they ought to know. Most people do not know what they ought to know. The poor man knows he is poor, but a fool does not know he is a fool. 

Eph 4:13, “until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.”

A mature Christian has attained to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. The fullness of Christ can only be known by the revelation of God. So the human knowledge cannot reach the revealed knowledge.

Luk 1:77, “To give His people the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins.”

A Western philosopher was so arrogant that he wrote an article, “Why I Am Not A Christian”. What is the use of worldly knowledge that a man died in his sins?

What is the point of having science, theology and philosophy, if you do not have the knowledge of salvation? The knowledge of salvation is the revealed knowledge of God. Salvation is the way of God. You may obtain the salvation of God by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and the forgiveness of sins.

1Co 12:8, “For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit.”

God is Spirit, beyond the inquiry of science and philosophy. The power of the Spirit is the power of God. The Spirit of Christ dwells in Christians. 1Co 2:12,

“Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.” To know the things freely given to us by God, you need to have the Spirit who is from God.  

1Co 2:13-14, “We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

Human knowledge can be taught by human wisdom. The Ivy League American universities at best teach human wisdom, they do not know spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. A scientist or philosopher is a natural person who does not accept and does not understand the things of the Spirit of God. Worse of all, these natural persons think the things of God as foolishness to them. Since they are not spiritual, so they cannot discern thing spiritually.

I agree with Karl Popper, “Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.”

Actually some so-called scientific theories have been wrong and mistaken. 

Someone said, “The pretensions of final truth are always partly an effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.”

Human knowledge has no final truth, only pretensions, because human knowledge is limited and faulty. 

I agree with Robert Frost, “Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s all any of us have.” There is no need to be arrogant. All humans have are limited knowledge and insufficient evidence.

Jean Piaget admits, “This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.” 

On the other hand, the Savior Jesus Christ is not only strong enough but powerful to uphold all things by the Word of His power.

Heb 1:3, “And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the Word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.” In Christ is the final truth and certainty of all things.

2Co 10:5, “We are destroying arguments and all arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.”

Secularists have many arguments and arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, it is the task of Christians to destroy anything theory or teaching against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. The true knowledge is the knowledge of God. The true wisdom is obedient to Jesus Christ.

V.   THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS THE GOD OF KNOWLEDGE

1Sa 2:3, “Do not go on boasting so very proudly, Do not let 

arrogance come out of your mouth; for the LORD is the God of knowledge,
And with Him actions are weighed.”

The Lord knows if you are boasting, if you let arrogance come out of your mouth. The Lord God also weighs the actions of men. Unbelieving theologians, secular scientists and philosophers, national leaders and politicians, Wall Street executives, the rich and powerful go on boasting so very proudly. They do not know that the God of knowledge weighs their actions. God will judge every word, deed, and thought of every man. God weighs every word, deed, and thought of every man. There is no exception, be it president or pimp, prime minister or prostitute.

The Lord is the God of knowledge. Unlike idols and false gods who know nothing. 

Luk 16:15, “And He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of people, but God knows your hearts; because that which is highly esteemed among people is detestable in the sight of God.”  

The God of knowledge knows all things, including every secret, and the hearts of men. Are not leaders and politicians highly esteemed among people? If I tell you the truth, you will be offended. The people who are highly esteemed among you are the detestable in the sight of God. How do you stand if you know God detests your president, prime minister, general, high ranking official? God knows the hearts of men, although most men are deceptive. Can you find an honest man in government, business, industry, education, entertainment, sports, and media?

Psa 44:21, “Would God not find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.”

God knows everything. God can find out everything. Your sins will find you out. God knows the national secrets of America, Japan, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, etc. with their genocide. God knows the secrets of all nations, all peoples, the secrets of the heart. God knows the heart and the secrets of the heart. No one can escape God’s judgment for God knows everything. You cannot have a dream team of lawyers to fool God. God knows the secrets of evidence. Most pathetic is Japan trying to revise history textbooks to whitewash the evil and dark history of Japan. God searches the hearts. God knows all things and all peoples. 

Job 11:11, “For He knows false people,
And He sees injustice without investigating.”

God knows, white and black supremacists are false people. They create conflict and chaos in this world, and yet they have the gall to call for order. They are the trouble makers in this world, and yet they do not have shame to pass the blame on others. They practice darkness, evil, and injustice and yet they are like the Pharisees who point the fault and flaw of other peoples. What they really want is to dictate and dominate the world and enslave the whole world. Europeans are false people who fool the world for hundreds of years with their evil deeds. Japanese are false people who deny their war crimes and refuse to pay compensations. Americans are false people who invade and attack other nations under false pretenses. Palestinians and Hamas are false people who claim they have resettlement right in Jerusalem and the Jewish land. Illegal migrants are false people who pretend refugees and invade America and Europe; they want to get something for nothing. Funny parts about Western governments, whenever there are bad and unlawful things happen, there will be investigation. Investigations benefits lawyers and legal professions at huge public expense. The worst thing is the investigations of American presidents that amount to millions and millions of dollars for nothing. God knows injustice without investigating.

There is a Chinese saying, You know the man, you know his face, but you do not know his heart.

Psa 44:21,“Would God not find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.”

God also knows the haughty from afar.

Historically, there are no people who are more haughty than white supremacists. You would not be able to bear or stand it if the black supremacists gain power and position.

Dan 2:22,“It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him.”

God reveals the profound and hidden things. God knows what is in the darkness because God dwells with the light. The light of God exposes all dark and evil things profound and hidden. There are so many revisionists to cover up dark and profound and hidden things in history. On the Day of Judgement, God can play back all those dark, profound and hidden things of nations and peoples. The light of God will reveal everything so that the wicked cannot make excuses. For God knows all things, He is greater than our heart.

May I remind the rich and powerful of the world, you have no way to escape the torchlight of God; and so you have no way to escape the judgment of God. It is much better you repent and believe than go to Hell for eternal punishment.

The following is a contrast between our God and the idols:

Psa 115:3-8, “But our God is in the Heavens; He does whatever He pleases.

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of human hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see;

They have ears, but they cannot hear; They have noses, but they cannot 

smell; They have hands, but they cannot feel; They have feet, but they cannot walk; They cannot make a sound with their throat.

Those who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them.”

Why in the age of information, there are still many who worship idols? Those who make idols become like them. Those who trust idols are fools.

VI.  THE HIGHEST KNOWLEDGE.

The knowledge of God is the highest knowledge. The creature has a need to know the Creator. Without the knowledge of the Creator, the creature is lost. 

Saint Augustine said something most remarkable, “Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.” For thousands of years, Western civilization has looked for and pursued the wrong things: money, power, and sex. That is why the Western civilization is restless and manifested itself in imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, monopolism,   supremacism, materialism, militarism, secularism, etc. arrogant and self-centered, and under the pretense of democracy, human rights, freedom and justice. 

Augustine also said, “Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.” Western civilization does not lead people to God, in fact it leads people to corruption, evildoing, ruin, and destruction. 

Immanuel Kant said, “A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.” Life is full of problems and troubles. We can get consolation of love from the Word of God which cannot find anywhere in the world. This is one of the many benefits from the knowledge of the Most High. It is all free because it is the grace of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero said something partly true, “The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.” When Cicero talked about human, he only meant the human reason. The human reason is not infallible and perfect. The Word of God is infallible and perfect. So let the wise, average minds, the stupid and all instructed by the Word of God. The knowledge of the Most High is the highest knowledge.

I concur with Immanuel Kant, “The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.” There is no one has more knowledge of God through revelation than the great Apostle Paul. For this reason even Paul says, 1Co 13:9-10, “For we know in part and prophesy in part; but when the Perfect comes, the partial will be done away with.” No one has perfect knowledge of God on earth. When the Perfect Jesus Christ returns, we will know fully as we are fully known. 1Co 13:12, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known.” This is the advanced knowledge based on true revelation: The day is coming when Christians will have full knowledge.

The key of knowledge includes the knowledge of sin, the knowledge of salvation, and the knowledge of the Savior. With the knowledge of sin, the sinner seeks the salvation of God. In seeking the way of Salvation one must come to the knowledge of the Savior, the Son of God who came down from Heaven to save sinners.

Num 24:16, “The declaration of him who hears the Words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, yet having his eyes uncovered.” 

The knowledge of the Most High is the most important knowledge because God is the Judge and measure of all things. To have the knowledge of the Most High, firstly, you must hear the Word of God. Secondly, you must have the mind of Christ. Thirdly, you must have the Spirit of God to enlighten you.

Isa 55:9, “For as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

I heartily concur with the magnanimous John Milton who said, “The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.”

It seems to many secularists, the end of all learning is to glorify themselves. In the last days, we witness people who love themselves, who love money, and who love pleasure and hate God.

Christians do well if we can echo the great Apostle Paul, Phl 3:8, “More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ.” Do you know money, power, and sex are actually rubbish? On the other hand, human knowledge acquired by scientists, theologians and philosophers makes them “puffed up” and more “self-centered” than others. Col 2:18, “Take care that no one keeps defrauding you of your prize by delighting in humility and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind.” The values of money, power, and pleasure are inflated so high in Western nations that truth, integrity, and justice disappear from them. The worldly have the fleshly mind. The fleshly mind is a depraved mind, the mind set on the flesh; but Christians have the mind of Christ. To have the mind of Christ is to have the highest knowledge, surpassing all the values of men.

Deu 31:29, “For I know that after my death you will behave very corruptly and turn from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will confront you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of your hands.”

Note: Moses by revelation had advanced knowledge that after his death, the children of Israel would behave very corruptly and do evil in the sight of the Lord. After your death, do you know how would your children behave? I always felt sorry for those who by faith built a great institution or organization, but after their death those institutions or organizations turned out to be against the wishes of the founders. Harvard university is one of many examples. Whoever thought after the death of President Richard Nixon, his Library would invite a pompous betrayer to speak at his Library against the strategic policy and grand vision of the great Richard Nixon who sought a just and lasting peace for the world? 

This is a great precious lesson in life we can draw from David. In spite of all his faults, David was a great believer. In his darkest hour and the most difficult moment of his life, he said something most memorable:

1Sa 22:3, “And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

Although David was a man after God’s own heart, a prophet, but he did not know everything. So David must wait until he knows what God will do for him. Christians must not run ahead of God, or make preparations until they know what God will do for them. What God will do for you is much more important than what you will do for God. George W. Truett  was right, “To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.” 

1Ki 17:24, “Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the Word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.”

Note: This is the second “Now I know” in the Old Testament. The poor widow who had her boy brought back from death said to the prophet of God, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the Word of the Lord in your mouth in truth.” This poor widow also verified the Word of God as truth. When I was a professor hired by the Chinese Ministry of Education at a Chinese university, the students asked me if I had encountered errors in the Holy Bible. I said to them, If the Word of God is wrong, I would not have believed in God on the basis of truth. 

1Ch 12:32, “From the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command.”

Note: The sons of Issachar were blessed; they were men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do. Since the death of President Richard Nixon who sought a just and lasting peace for the world, I hold American leaders and politicians do not understand the times, with no knowledge of what America should do. This is the day of infamy and calamity. American leaders and politicians do not understand the times, with no knowledge of what America should do. America is in crisis. The world is in crisis. They may have windy knowledge of democracy, human rights, freedom, equality and justice. They are in darkness, and they do not practice truth, integrity, and justice.

Jesus Christ not only is the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth— Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Jhn 14:5-6, “Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going; how do we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I AM the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus Christ is the Way to God, there is no other way. This is the Truth; to believe in the Truth is to have Life. To have Life is to have eternal Life. The way of the world is the ungodly way. The way of salvation is to be saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Christianity is the Way. It is not narrow minded to say all religions are the wrong ways to God. Truth may be offensive. The way of life is not corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit. The Western way of life is corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit. The Christian way is a new and living way, for in this way is the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ a new and living way. Christ has taken the old way and nailed it to the cross. The way of the truth is the way of righteousness. This is the mature Christian way of life:

Eph 4:14-17, “Henceforth, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him Who is the Head, that is, Christ, from Whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the Body for the building up of itself in love. So I say this, and affirm in the Lord, that you are to no longer walk just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their minds.”

Christians no longer walk just as the Gentiles also walk. There are also Gentile Christians. The Gentiles here means the unbelievers, the worldly. Christians no longer walk just as the unbelievers and the worldly also walk. The unbelievers and the worldly walk in the futility of their minds. Money, power, and sex are futility. The minds that seek money, power, and pleasure are the futility of minds. 

Col 1:9, “For this reason we also, since the day we heard about it, have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.”

The highest knowledge is not didactic, dialectic, mathematics, geometric, atomic, scientific, theoretic, hyperbolic, astrophysics, linguistic, cosmologic, Vedic, Platonic, Aristocratic, Socratic, Stoic, etc. The highest knowledge is the knowledge of the Most High and the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. Secular scientists, scholars, and philosophers however brilliant and bright they may be, they do not have the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. Much worse are world leaders and politicians who are actually agents of the devil who rules this present world.

Col 1:9-10, “For this reason we also, since the day we heard about it,have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”

For Christians, to be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that we will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God — this is the highest peak of a Christian life or the Summum Bonum which all believers aspire to. They understand the ultimate truth of life in Christ. 

We like to conclude with the prayer of Augustine:

“Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul’s joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.”

Mar 11:10, “Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our father David; Hosanna in the highest!”

The Highest One is coming. Hosanna is Greek is hōsanna which 

means an exclamation of adoration; oh save! Be propitious; blessed be; 

save us! hooray! hallelujah! – which occurs 6 times in the New Testament. Hallelujah! The Highest One is coming.

THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE IS TO KNOW

THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD, AND

THE SAVIOR OF MANKIND.

BY REPENTANCE AND FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST 

YOU CAN HAVE FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND

RECEIVE THE ETERNAL LIFE.

WOULD YOU COME TO JESUS NOW?

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This article is written to let you know the deadly sin of pride. It is so much better to humble yourself before God, repent and believe in Jesus Christ to receive the forgiveness of sins and the eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Human beings are miserable and sinful creatures, yet they have pride not because of their strength and superiority. Men have pride because exactly of their weakness and inferiority; they have to pride themselves in wealth, fame, power, position, possession, property, profession, pornography, pleasure, etc. in order to satisfy their needs, rather their lusts. They could never find satisfactions in the things cited and aforementioned, so they want more and more and more, until their lives are consumed and years wasted. Here lies the miserable end of human existence without God and without hope in this evil and ungodly and wicked world. Above all, poor miserable creatures do not realize or they do not wat to know mankind has to be accountable to God in the end. They thought and wish death is the end of everything. They never know or do not want to know, after death is judgment. 

Psa 75:5, “Do not lift up your horn on high, Do not speak with insolent pride.’”

God does not like insolent pride. Insolent in Hebrew is ʿāṯāq which means bold; forward; arrogant; stiff; grievous; hard; impudent; wicked; – which occurs 4 times in the Old Testament. What is insolent pride? In ancient times man wore gold chain as ornament on his neck. So to show off his gold chain ornament, a proud man spoke with his neck moving to and fro. If you watch some Western leaders speak, you will recognize they speak with insolent pride also.

Pro 21:24, ““Proud,” “Arrogant,” “Scoffer,” are his names, one who acts with insolent pride.”

Pro 11:2, “When pride comes, then comes dishonor;
But with the humble there is wisdom.”

Dishonor follows pride.

Pro 16:18, “Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before stumbling.”

The first sin committed in the universe was pride, and the sinner was Lucifer. Destruction follows pride.

It was Samuel Taylor Coleridge who said, “And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.”

Isa 14:12-19, “How you have fallen from Heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who defeated the nations!

“But you said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to Heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.

‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’

“Nevertheless you will be brought down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the Pit.

“Those who see you will stare at you,
They will closely examine you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,

Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’

“All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
Each in his own tomb.

“But you have been hurled out of your tomb
Like a rejected branch,
Clothed with those killed who have been pierced with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the Pit
Like a trampled corpse.”

The fallen angel had five fatal “I will.”

All sins are conceived by self.

‘I will ascend into Heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’

No one can be like the Most High.

The creature can never become like the Creator.

The devil used the same dirty trick on Eve, 

Gen 3:5, “For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.”

If Eve was not seduced, the whole history of mankind would be different. However, there is something that the Lord Jesus wants Christians to be like the Father.

Mat 5:48, “Therefore you shall be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” To be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect is a sanctified ambition.  Sinful men do not want to be perfect, merciful, longsuffering, compassionate, holy, etc. But sinful men want to be like God in power, glory, honor, majesty, dominion, authority, sovereignty, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence, etc.

Emily Bronte said to the point, “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” 

Remember Lucifer and Eve. Henry Ward Beecher had an insight, “A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” I have many things to be grateful to my Heavenly Father. I was terrified and grateful that I was not eaten by a crocodile when I was a stupid boy. Now as an old man everyday I am looking forward to the Kingdom of Heaven.  Heb 12:28, “Therefore, since we receive a Kingdom which cannot be shaken, let’s show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe.”

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, trans. D.C. Lau

“The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful, yet this is only the ugly; the whole world recognizes the good as the good, yet this is only the bad.”  “The court is corrupt, The fields are overgrown with weeds, 

The granaries are empty; Yet there are those dressed in fineries, 

With swords at their sides, Filled with food and drink, 

And possessed of too much wealth. This is known as taking the lead in robbery. Far indeed is this from the way.”  

James Bryce thought the system of democratic government in America is such that it is hardly calculated to attract the best men of the country into politics. I think the strenuousness of a presidential campaign alone is enough to frighten off all the wise souls of America…Who is he that he should want to reform other people and uplift their morals and send other people into an insane asylum? But these primary and secondary humbugs keep him happily busy, if he is successful, and give him the illusion that he is really doing something and is therefore ‘somebody’.”  

Pro 11:2, “When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.”

Shame follows pride. Why? Pride falls and fails.

Pro 16:18, “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

Not only shame comes after pride, destruction also follows pride.

Oba 1:3, “The pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high;
You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’”

The pride of the hearts of American leaders and politicians have deceived themselves. Although they lost the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War, etc. they have not learned how to change and conduct themselves in pursuit of peace and prosperity. They have not learned from President Richard Nixon.

Francesco Petrarca was right, “Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”

I. WHAT IS PRIDE

In the Old Testament there are several words in Hebrew which mean the same as the English word pride.

Lev 26:19, ‘‘I will also break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.”

Pride in Hebrew is gā’ôn which means arrogance; pomp; excellency; swelling; exaltation; majesty; sublimity; – which occurs 49 times in the Old Testament.

2Ch 32:26, “However, Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.”

Pride here in Hebrew is gōḇah which means height; loftiness; haughtiness; excellency; exaltation; grandeur; arrogance; elation; magnificence; majesty; – which occurs 17 times in the Old Testament. Because Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, so the wrath of God did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

Job 33:17, “So that He may turn a person away from bad conduct, and keep a man from pride;”

Pride here in Hebrew is gēvâ which means lifting up; arrogance; exaltation; – which occurs 3 times in the Old Testament. Pride is a bad conduct.

Job 41:15, “His strong scales are his pride, Locked as with a tight seal.”

Pride here in Hebrew is ga’ăvâ which means haughtiness; arrogance; excellence; highness; swelling; rising up; majesty; magnificence; splendor; – which occurs 19 times in the Old Testament. The strong scales of a crocodile are its pride. Do men have strong scales to protect themselves?

Job 41:34, “He looks on everything that is high;
He is king over all the sons of pride.”

Pride here in Hebrew is šaḥaṣ which means lion; dignity; elation; – which occurs 2 times in the Old Testament. Sons of pride call themselves son of lion the king of beast. Ignorance or not, the Chinese emperors called themselves sons of dragon. Dragon is another name for devil.

Psa 75:5, “Do not lift up your horn on high,
Do not speak with insolent pride.’”

Pride here in Hebrew is ṣaûā’r which means neck; back of neck; back of neck, of man, wearing gold chain as ornament; necklace; thus speak not with arrogant neck means not to speak with insolent pride.

Psa 90:10, “As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is only trouble and tragedy;
For it quickly passes, and we disappear.”

Here pride in Hebrew is rōhaḇ which means arrogance; object of pride; strength; that of which one is proud; – which occurs 1 time in the Old Testament. The pride of a human life is only trouble and tragedy. The rich and powerful also cannot escape from trouble and tragedy.

Pro 8:13, “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverted mouth, I hate.”

Here pride in Hebrew is gē’â which means arrogance; – which occurs 1 times in the Old Testament. The fear of the Lord prevents man from pride and arrogance. 

Pro 11:2, “When pride comes, then comes dishonor;
But with the humble there is wisdom.”

Dishonor follows pride. Dishonor comes after pride.

Pride here in Hebrew is zāḏôn which means presumptuousness; arrogance; insolence; godlessness; swelling; haughtiness; – which occurs 11 times in the Old Testament. Dishonor comes after pride. 

Isa 2:17, “And the pride of humanity will be humbled
And the arrogance of people will be brought low;
And the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.”

Pride here in Hebrew is gaḇhûṯ which means loftiness; haughtiness; – which occurs 2 times in the Old Testament. Humanity has no pride, in some way some animals have more pride than humanity.

Isa 10:12, “So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the arrogant pride of his eyes.”

Pride here in Hebrew is tip̄’ārâ which means glory; beauty; honor; splendor; boasting; bravery; – which occurs 51 times in the Old Testament. The eyes reflect the arrogant pride of man.

Isa 16:6, “We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride; even of his arrogance, pride, and fury; his idle boasts are false.”

Pride here in Hebrew is gē’ê which means lofty; arrogant; lifted up; high; – which occurs 8 times in the Old Testament. America, UK, Canada, and Australia exhibit excessive pride in boycotting Beijing Winter Olympics.

Dan 4:37, “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and honor the King of Heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just; and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”

Here pride in Hebrew is gēvâ which means absolute pride; – which occurs 1 times in the Old Testament. 

It does not take a Hebrew scholar to know that pride is a very complicated concept in Hebrew. A man can be proud in many ways.

Mar 7:21-22, “For from within, out of the hearts of people, come the evil thoughts, acts of sexual immorality, thefts, murders, acts of adultery,

deeds of greed, wickedness, deceit, indecent behavior, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.”

In the New Testament Jesus is the first to point out pride and other things are out of the hearts of people.

Pride in Greek is hyperēphania which means arrogance; haughtiness; the character of one who, with a swollen estimate of his own powers or merits, looks down on others and even treats them with insolence and contempt (Strong’s Concordance); – which occurs 1 time in the New Testament. Jesus’ concept of pride is very clear and cuts to the heart.

I agree with Sophocles, “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” Too bad, not many know that their course is wrong. For 500 years the white Europeans have not learned that their course is wrong and Americans plunge into the same dark path of destruction. 

Augustine said, “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”

Billy Graham had this right, “Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”

American lifestyle is getting more and more outrageous and ridiculous that you can’t tell a man from a woman, a woman from a man; because genders have many classifications and categories beyond the grasp of ordinary people. There are people who take pride in same-sex marriage and homosexuality.

Martin Luther said years ago, “The god of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.” Surprisingly, the three prevalent values of America and the world today are money, power and sex.

I will give you a picture of a proud man: he is a man who has no wisdom, but full of self-hallucinations and puffed up with fanciful vanities. George Eliot had keen insight when she said about a proud man, “He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.”

II. Words Related to Pride

According to Merriam-Webster, 

Words Related to pride

• · aplomb, 
• · assurance, 
• · confidence, 
• · self-assurance, 
• · self-assuredness, 
• · self-confidence, 
• · self-pride, 
• · self-trust, 
• · self-worth
• · dignity, 
• · face, 
• · honor, 
• · prestige

But I just select only two words, arrogance and vanity.

There are even people who think their successes are due to arrogance. It is like to say dog feces is a delicious dish.

Jer 49:16, “As for the terror you cause,
The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
You who live in the clefts of the rock,
Who occupy the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,” declares the LORD.”

I used to wonder how lofty Western leaders caused terror in the world, I have found the answer is the arrogance of their hearts have deceived them.

Leo Tolstoy said, “An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.”

Let us agree for now with Tolstoy’s thesis for the time being that a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person. But I disagree that an arrogant person considers himself perfect. In my observations, all arrogant persons consider themselves superior, superior in ability and morality. I have never met an arrogant person who is truly morally excellent. I often argue, if you are right then you do not need to get angry. If you are wrong, anger would not justify you. 

Someone said, “Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. “

Some poor stud chose honest arrogance. There may be hypocritical humility, but there is no such a thing called honest arrogance, just as there

is no honest fraud. A man may go down to Hell and still thinks he is honest.

Isa 13:11, “So I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their wrongdoing; I will also put an end to the audacity of the proud
and humiliate the arrogance of the tyrants.”

There was an American leader, he is the incarnation of the audacity of the proud, and the arrogance of the tyrants. God will put an end to the audacity of the proud and humiliate the arrogance of the tyrants.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance for the sake of arrogance. There are people who are simply arrogant, they do not know why they are arrogant. It is like peacock that displays itself.

Pride is the mother of arrogance. Arrogance is a bastard son of pride, vanity is its promiscuous daughter. Isa 9:9, “And all the people know it,
That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart:”

Pride is the mother of arrogance, it is conceived in the heart.

Arrogance may be doing something for an inadequate person, it is certainly not doing anything for the country.

I agree with Samuel Butler, “The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.” 

I was surprised but I agree with Joe Biden who said, 

“This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. “ There is no nuclear option for mankind. The West has exhibited too much arrogance of power in the last 500 years. It is hoped Joe Biden will stick to his word and never uses the nuclear option against Russia and China.

Arrogance is a beggar naked without clothes. I agree with Albert Einstein who said, “The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” Western and American leaders and politicians have conducted themselves most dangerously and arrogantly. I saw a Western diplomat with a pale and ghastly face like a corpse, and yet he exhibits an air of arrogance. The Word of God is descriptive, Pro 30:13, “There is a kind—oh how lofty are his eyes! And his eyelids are raised in arrogance.”

Eze 7:10, “Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.”

In some of Hollywood movies, you can see “arrogance has blossomed.” Sadly, many nations copy Hollywood’s blossomed arrogance in making movies of violence and vulgarity. 

I agree with Manoj Vaz who said, “Arrogance is nothing but Stupidity with an ego.” 

Walter Russell Mead said, “What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.” 

The Scripture says, Psa 119:78, “May the arrogant be put to shame, because they lead me astray with a lie;
But I shall meditate on Your precepts.” 

Arrogance is not bigness, it is swelling like a frog blowing up itself. It is most pathetic to watch a little man acting and talking like a big man. If you have not met some, try to watch TV.

Someone said, “Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit, for merit itself is offensive.”  The arrogance of those who have merit is like a woman who uncovers her buttock.

I agree with Nicolas Gomez Davila although I do not know who he was. “The modern mentality is the child of human vanity puffed up by commercial advertising.” This is true in all Western nations.

Ecc 7:8, “The end of a matter is better than its beginning; patience of spirit is better than arrogance of spirit.”

Do you want to watch the arrogance of spirit? Watch the way Western leaders and politicians speak.

The highest form of vanity is not love of fame. Worse, it is love of self. Lucifer had it. Eve had it. Christians are told  Rom 6:6, “knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin  might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.” Eph 4:22-24, “that, in reference to your former way of life, you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you are 

to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put

on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.”

Jas 4:16, “But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.”

Inevitably arrogant people boast, all such boasting is evil. God considers pride, arrogance and boast evil.

Job 20:6, “Though his arrogance reaches the Heavens, and his head touches the clouds.”

Arrogance has lofty goal, it reaches the Heavens.

It is my estimate that the arrogance of the West has reached the Heavens. The heads of Western leaders and politicians touch the clouds. For example, the West prides themselves in democracy, but their form of democracy is phony. What is democracy when one percent of population rules over the 99 percent and owns most of the power and wealth? What kind of human rights when justice is perverted and abuse of power is prevalent and racial discrimination is rampant?

1Sa 2:3, “Do not go on boasting so very proudly, Do not let arrogance 

come out of your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge,
And with Him actions are weighed.”

God does not like arrogance, and He weighs the actions of man.

“vanity” occurs 89 times in 81 verses in the YLT.
Page 1 / 2 exact matches (Job 7:3–Ecc 7:6)

Job 15:31, “Let him not put credence in vanity, he has been deceived, for vanity is his recompense.”

A man must not put credence in vanity, for doing so is to be deceived; vanity is his recompense. 

Years ago I discovered there is vanity in beauty, but no beauty in vanity. This applies to both male and female. Often a vain male is worse than a vain female.

Job 31:5, “If I have walked with vanity, and my foot does hasten to deceit.”

If a man walks with vanity, and his foot hastens to deceit. All vain people resort to deceit. The state of the world is very bad when lie and falsehood become fashionable.

Psa 39:5, “Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but vanity.”

This is a truth that the rich and powerful will soon find out: Certainly every man at his best state is but vanity.

Eph 4:17, “So I say this, and affirm in the Lord, that you are to no longer walk just as the Gentiles also  walk, in the vanity of their minds.”

Vanity in Greek is mataiotēs which means what is devoid of truth and appropriateness (Strong’s Concordance); perverseness; depravity; frailty; fruitlessness; transience; – which occurs 3 times in the New Testament. The modus operandi of Washington, Wall Street, and Hollywood is the vanity of their minds.

If you spend some time and effort, you soon discover theologians and philosophers walk in the vanity of their minds. If you watch Western leaders and politicians, you soon find them walking in the vanity of their minds. The knowledge of self will preserve the virtuous from vanity; while the knowledge of self will prompt the wicked to display vanity.

Victor Hugo has good insight when he said, “Stupidity talks, vanity acts.” Because arrogance and vanity are children of pride, like mother like daughters. Both the acts of arrogance and vanity are not pretty to look at because they are spiritually naked and ugly. Something is morally defective and mentally deficient when one is motivated by vanity. Blaise Pascal had keen sight when he said, “Vanity is but the surface.” All vain people are superficial. When I was in Europe, they told me Americans are superficial. When I was in Washington, D.C. they told me Californians are superficial. All vain people are superficial. 

The wicked let arrogance and vanity walk through their mind with their dirty feet. The pure out of the integrity of his mind shuts them out.

Ecc 1:2, “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher;
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

All is vanity includes self, self-interest, power, money, pleasure, this life, this world, all human works, all the days of your life, all sorts of evil, all things you cherished, all things that were luxurious and splendid, all things that are what the nations of the world eagerly seek, all things that can be destroyed, all things of the world, all things not for the glory of God, all things not in truth, all things not in accordance with the plan of God’s will, all things not subjected to Christ — all is vanity. 

2Co 10:5, “We are destroying arguments and all arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.”

Above all, Christians are destroying arguments and all arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Science, theology and philosophy of the world have many arguments and arrogance raised against the knowledge of God. Christians must reject those “arguments and arrogance” and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

Marcus Aurelius said something to the point:

“Look at the minds of those who seek fame, observe what they are, and what kind of things they avoid, and what kind of things they pursue. And consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.” 

Jane Austen was shrewd to say, “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

I agree with Emily Bronte who said, “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

C.G. Jung was right, “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”  Western leaders and politicians are good examples of people “something is out of tune” but they never hear a still, small voice says to them. (1Ki 19:12)

Andrew Murray was right, “Pride must die in you, or nothing of Heaven can live in you.”  If pride dwells in our heart, nothing of Heaven has room to live in.

Pride is the mother of arrogance; for arrogance is the manifestation of pride. You never see a humble person with arrogance.  Pride takes pleasure in thinking highly of oneself. Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us natural. I agree with Samuel Butler who said, “The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”

All money does not mean a pride in accomplishment. Monopolists make money easy way. Corrupt doctors and hospitals are organized criminals who charge whatever they please with immunity and impunity. Scam artists defraud a bundle of money without skill.  Once my professor asked me what went wrong with the Savings and Loan industry and insurance companies. I told him Savings and Loans who took in your money and gave you 3% interest, when you make loan they charged you 8% interest — does not have any skill at all. When you can borrow at a $1 million against your life insurance policy and pay 8% interest, insurance executives did not have any skill at all. When the market paid 24% interest, Savings & Loans and Insurance companies still charged 8% interest, there skills are required and so most Savings & Loans and Insurance companies went bankrupt. 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau boldly said, “The English are predisposed to pride, the French vanity.” I have been to the two nations and met multitudes of their peoples. That was the reason I do not like the two countries.

There is a secret bottom-line self-respect and spirit in every human heart that revolts against tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

1Jo 2:16, “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride 

of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.” The lust of the flesh is sex. The lust of the eyes is money or wealth. The boastful pride of life is power. These three things are all that is in the world, and cherished by the world.

There are two things that characterize human moral failure and character flaw more than anything else in the world, namely, arrogance and violence. An arrogant person may not be violent; but a violent person is always arrogant. On TV recently I witnessed a black big man who exhibited maximum violence and arrogance by stepping on and trampling over the small body and head of an Asian woman repeatedly, while another big black man was watching at a glass door of another store. The worst thing about this evil deed maybe the fact that the big black man did not know at all this unfortunate small Asian woman and she never did anything wrong to the big black man. God knows.

Everything stained by the world, has pride in one or another of these things, and arrogance and vanity.

III.  PRIDE OF FAME

George Santaya considered Love of fame the highest form of vanity.

Lin Yutang was among the most famous Chinese, he said, “Fame is one of humbugs of this life.”

When evil Japanese aggressors occupied China, they first killed those famous in towns. That is the way to eliminate leadership. You have less resistance without leadership. Only God knows how many evil deeds committed by the Japanese militarists that wared war against China in14 years.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld was a sharp thinker who said, “The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.”  I have no respect for the fame of a general that many died for him needlessly.

George Santayana reasoned brilliantly, “The highest form of vanity is love of fame. It is a passion easy to deride but hard to understand, and in men who live at all by imagination almost impossible to eradicate. The good opinion of posterity can have no possible effect on our fortunes, and the practical value which reputation may temporarily have is quite absent in posthumous fame. The direct object of this passion — that a name should survive in men’s mouths to which no adequate idea of its original can be attached — seems a thin and fantastic satisfaction, especially when we consider how little we should probably sympathize with the creatures that are to remember us. What comfort would it be to Virgil that boys still read him at school, or to Pindar that he is sometimes mentioned in a world from which everything he loved has departed? Yet, beneath this desire for nominal longevity, apparently so inane, there may lurk an ideal ambition of which the ancients cannot have been unconscious when they set so high a value on fame. They often identified fame with immortality, a subject on which they had far more rational sentiments than have since prevailed.”

Lin Yutang said, “There is a wealth of humbug in this life, but the multitudinous little humbugs have been classified by Chinese Buddhists under two big humbugs: fame and wealth. There is a story that Emperor Ch’ienlung once went up a hill overlooking the sea during his trip to South China and saw a great number of sailing ships busily plying the China Sea to and fro. He asked his minister what the people in those hundreds of ships were doing, and his minister replied that he saw only two ships, and their names were ‘Fame’ and ‘Wealth’. Many cultured persons were able to escape the lure of wealth, but only the very greatest could escape the lure of fame. Once a monk was discoursing with his pupil on these two sources of worldly cares, and said: ‘It is easier to get rid of the desire for money than to get rid of the desire for fame. Even retired scholars and monks still want to be distinguished and well-known among their company. They want to give public discourses to a large audience, and not retire to a small monastery talking to one pupil, like you and me now.’ The pupil replied: ‘Indeed, Master, you are the only man in the world who has conquered the desire for fame!’ And the Master smiled. 

“From my own observation of life, this Buddhist classification of life’s humbugs is not complete, and the great humbugs of life are three, instead of two: Fame, Wealth and Power. There is a convenient American word which again combines these three humbugs into the One Great Humbug: Success. But many wise men know that the desires for success, fame and wealth are euphemistic names for the fears of failure, poverty and obscurity, and that these fears dominate our lives. There are many people who have already attained both fame and wealth, but who still insist on ruling others. They are the people who have consecrated their lives to the service of their country. The price is often very heavy. Ask a wise man to wave his silk hat to a crowd and make seven speeches a day and give him a presidency, and he will refuse to serve his country. James Bryce thinks the system of democratic government in America is such that it is hardly calculated to attract the best men of the country into politics. I think the strenuousness of a presidential campaign alone is enough to frighten off all the wise souls of America…Who is he that he should want to reform other people and uplift their morals and send other people into an insane asylum? But these primary and secondary humbugs keep him happily busy, if he is successful, and give him the illusion that he is really doing something and is therefore ‘somebody’.” 

Although I do not know Erma Bombeck, I agree with what she said, “Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.” 

IV.  PRIDE OF POWER

Lev 26:19, “I will also break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.”

The most malicious and vicious concept of power was conceived Niccolo Machiavelli who said, 

“Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.”  That is the power politics practiced by American and European supremacists and also by Islamic terrorists.

Lord Acton was right, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Power belongs to God. Man is unfit to exercise power. Only God is worthy to have absolute power.

I agree with Abraham Lincoln who said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.’’ I knew a white man who was without job experience and work skill, when he was promoted to be a supervisor by another veteran, the poor man lost his head and ran his little unit like the military. One of the major reasons of the American corporate failure is Theory X managers. I found it sour when an Internet article praised Theory X managers. Little do they know Theory X manager or supervisor is autocratic, authoritarian, bossy, irrational because he considers everything wrong what he does not know. Besides a Theory X supervisor throws a tantrum like a child with an iron hand. His pathological personality blossomed.

Whoever thought that Abraham Lincoln has a prophetic insight, “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country… corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” 

Frank Herbert had a point when he said, “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” 

George Bernard Shaw expressed similar view, “Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. “

I agree with Edward Abbey who said, “Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. “

Peter Joseph had insight when he said, “The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream “Allahu Akbar” before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.”

James Madison had experience when he said, “The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”

I agree with Thomas Jefferson who said, “Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.”

Don’t you see America is heading that way?

Edmund Burke had learned from political history, “Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.”

William Henry Harrison knew what he was talking, “There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”

Power belongs to God; it is unsafe in the hands of men.

V.  PRIDE OF POSITION

Position entails authority, and authority comes with glory. For that reason, people of the world cherish position.

There is a Biblical incident that describes the power of position. Asa was a good king who did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like his father David.

1Ki 15:12-14, “He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made. And even his mother Maacah, he also removed her from the position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her abominable image and burned it at the brook Kidron. But the high places were not eliminated; nevertheless Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the LORD all his days.”

King Asa removed even his mother Maacah, because she had made an abominable image. There is no tolerance for idolatry. 

The history was so interesting and instructive that I must quote the whole chapter,  2Ki 7:1-20, “Then 

Elisha said, “Listen to the Word of the LORD; this is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’” The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning responded to the man of God and said, “Even if the LORD were to make windows in Heaven, could this thing happen?” Then he said, “Behold, you are going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; but if we sit here, we will also die. Now then come, and let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, then we will die.”

So they got up at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there. For the Lord had made the army of the Arameans hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, that is, the sound of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians against us, to attack us!”

So they got up and fled at twilight, and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—indeed the camp itself, just as it was; and they fled for their lives.

When these men with leprosy came to the outskirts of the camp, they entered one tent and ate and drank, and carried from there silver, gold, and clothes, and they went and hid them; then they returned and entered another tent, and carried valuables from there also, and went and hid them.

Then they said to one another, “We are not doing the right thing. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent about it; if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now then come, let’s go and inform the king’s household.”

So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor a human voice; only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”

And the gatekeepers called and announced it inside the king’s house.

Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”

One of his servants responded and said, “Please, have some men take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send them and see.”

Therefore they took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the army of the Arameans, saying, “Go and see.”

They went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away when they fled in a hurry. Then the messengers returned and informed the king.

So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. Then a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in accordance with the Word of the LORD.

Now the king appointed the royal officer on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; but the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, will be sold about this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria.”

At that time the royal officer had responded to the man of God and said, “Now even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could such a thing as this happen?” And he had said, “Behold, you are going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”

And this is what happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.”

There are many lesson from this history: (1). Suffice to say the Word of God will always come true. (2). Unbelievers will perish. (3). The royal officer was trampled to death, his position could not save him.

Don’t be fooled, there are no moral authorities and virtuous characters in high places. Noam Chomsky said, “Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.”

Dag Hammarskjold said something interesting, 

“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.” You see in many big American corporations where there are unqualified and unworthy executives or supervisors who intentionally humiliated their subordinates.

Thomas a Kempis had spiritual advice, “Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. “ 

Mar 10:42, “Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles domineer over them; and their people in high position exercise authority over

them.”

Western powers fool the world with so-called democracy and human rights. In practice Western leaders and politicians domineer over the people, and those in high position exercise authority over the people. 

Christians are different. Whoever want to be prominent must be servants. There is no Christian nation on earth. Which country you know is really serving the people?

VI. PRIDE OF POSSESSION

Gen 13:5-13, “Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents. And the land could not support both of them while living together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together. And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.

So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are relatives!

“Is the entire land not before you? Please separate from me; if you choose the left, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right, then I will go to the left.” Lot raised his eyes and saw all the vicinity of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt going toward Zoar. So Lot chose for himself all the vicinity of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. So they separated from each other. Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the vicinity of the Jordan, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked sinners against the LORD.”

The Scriptures cited above are very interesting about the two men, Abraham and his nephew Lot. When Abraham went away as the Lord spoken to him; and Lot his nephew had almost nothing and went with Abram. God blessed Abraham so much that he was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold. Now Lot also had flocks, herds, and tents. “And the land could not support both of them while living together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.”

(1). If you follow and accompany a man blessed by God, you will be blessed too.

(2). The land could not support both of them. The world today could not support the world’s population while the poor and backward nations keep producing people who are not self-supportive.

(3). Too great possessions will separate people.

(4). Possession is often the cause of strife between people.

(5). There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock.

(6). Relative should not have strife.

(7). Magnificent Abraham let his nephew choose first.

(8). A man’s choice reveals his true character. Knowing the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked sinners, Lot moved his tents as far as Sodom. 

Gen 12:4-8, “So Abram went away as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the people which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.

Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time. And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him. Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.”

People who have expertise in topography and geography should follow the Word of God and make a map representing the land that God had given to Abraham and his descendants. The illegally occupied land by Palestinians, Arabs, and Hamas must be vacated and they should depart from the Jewish land without further delay.

Luk 12:16-21, “And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive. And he began thinking to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and I will store all my grain and my goods there. And I will say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years to come; relax, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!”

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is demanded of you; and as for all that you have prepared, who will own it now?’

“Such is the one who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich in relation to God.”

This rich man, God calls him a fool! Why? He has many goods stored up for many years to come; relax, eat, drink, and enjoy himself! There are people in Washington, Wall Street, and Hollywood who store up money and gold for many years to come so that they can relax, eat, drink, and enjoy themselves! Unawares and unprepared, this every night God demands his soul. The rich man stores up treasure for himself and his family and his descendants, but he is not rich in relation to God.

Democritus said, “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”

I agree with Oliver Goldsmith who said, “Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.”

A worldly philosopher said, “The money rewards … which those agencies of publicity have made possible places temptations in the way of able men which are difficult to resist. To be pointed out, admired, mentioned constantly in the press, and offered easy ways of earning much money is highly agreeable; and when all this is open to a man, he finds it difficult to go on doing the work that he himself thinks best and is inclined to subordinate his judgment to the general opinion.”

As an illustration, an incumbent American president is often offered millions of dollars by publishers for whatever book he may want to write although he is no scholar and does not offer any worth of wisdom.

Just as a famed movie star or sports star or just a celebrity can make big money on commercials whether what he/she presents and represents is true or not. If the star or celebrity is beautiful or handsome so much the better. The commercials sell image or appearance, this tells you how phony it is. Thanks be to God there will be no advertising or commercial in the Kingdom of Heaven.

I agree with Arthur Schopenhauer who said, “Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”

Among the most important teachings of Jesus Christ is to be on your guard against every form of greed. In particular in the last days people become lovers of money, lovers of themselves, and lovers of pleasure. One of Jesus’ great truth is not even when one is affluent does his life consists of his possessions. In America a man is valued by his possessions. In the Kingdom of God man is not valued by his possession. 

Luk 12:15, “But He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one is affluent does his life consist of his possessions.”

JESUS made it clear, life does not consist of one’s possessions even when one is affluent. Even when one is affluent, his life does not consist of his possessions.

VII.  PRIDE OF PROFESSION

Not a few take pride in professional competency. In a sense it is good to have professional competency. Imagine a surgeon who does not know what he is doing. Imagine a doctor who gives wrong diagnosis. Or imagine a pilot who does not know how to fly.

What is bad is the professionalism that looks down at other professions. A megachurch and TV preacher pushed an airplane attendant with the statement, “Do you know WHO I am?”

A professional who wants to be a “guru” in order to attract more followers and make more money. 

Scientists, theologians, philosophers have an air they are superior and indispensable. A Chinese physician PROUDLY declared he was a scientist.

Mat 23:2-12, “saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses.”

The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses, because that is the highest and most honored chair. My professor Dr. Koontz told me a new colleague Japanese was very arrogant. All professors like to be the chair of …

“Therefore, whatever they tell you, do and comply with it all, but do not do as they do; for they say 

things and do not do them. And they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as their finger. And they do all their deeds to be noticed by other people; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. And they love the place of honor at banquets, and the seats of honor in the synagogues,

and personal greetings in the marketplaces, and being called Rabbi by the people. But as for you, do not be called Rabbi; for only One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers and sisters. And do not call anyone on earth your father; for only One is your Father, He who is in Heaven.

Roman Catholics are guilty of so many fathers, church fathers,  such as Augustine, John Chrysostom, Jerome, and Eusebius, etc. The worst of all the apostate church calls the pope “Holy Father.” It is blasphemous to call anybody “Holy Father”. Only God is the Holy Father.

“And do not be called leaders; for only One is your Leader, that is, Christ. But the greatest of you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.” In the Bible, in particular the Jews, Rabbi is such an honorable and venerable title. 

According to https://cn.bing.com/search?q=guru%20&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&ghc=1&pq=guru%20&sc=8-5&sk=&cvid=929619FD53CC4ED38F8AACAD64901160
”Guru is a Sanskrit term for a “mentor, guide, expert, or master” of certain knowledge or field. In Pan Indian traditions, a guru is more than a teacher: traditionally, the guru is a reverential figure to the disciple or

student, with the guru serving as a “counselor, who helps mold values, shares experiential knowledge as much as literal knowledge, an exemplar in life, an inspirational source and who helps in the spiritual evolution of a student”. Whatever language it is written in, Judith Simmer-Brown explains that a tantric spiritual text is often codified in an obscure twilight language so that it cannot be understood by anyone without the verbal explanation of a qualified teacher, the guru. A guru is also one’s spiritual guide, who helps one to discover the same potentialities that the guru has already realized.”

In the eyes of the world, guru maybe equivalent to Rabbi, more than a teacher.  Jesus Christ does not want any Christian to be called Rabbi, Father, or Leader.

Jhn 13:12-17, “Then, when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? You call Me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’; and you are correct, for so I am. So if I, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I gave you an example, so that you also would do just as I did for you. Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.” Humility is not just a topic, it must be practiced.

“The Indian movie “Oh My God” has explored the corrupt side of religious gurus who are involved in money swindling and cheating in the name of religion. More and more of India’s godmen are finding spirituality to be profitable bank account. The god business has become a sublime way to make ridiculous wealth. In the name of spiritualism, wide varieties of “spiritual” products are sold to commoners. These products are quite pricey and act as a great source of income for the “religious” figureheads. “Spiritual” magazines, books, incense sticks, oils, food supplements and medicines are the most popular merchandise available at almost all “spiritual hubs”. Most of the gurus run their business through trusts so that their names are not directly associated with the matter.”According to    https://bashny.net/t/en/164513“British journalist Mick Brown conducted an investigation of Sai Baba and found that those who were religious teacher allegedly “raised” or dead so far, either, and did not die at all. Brown accused the guru not only for fraud but also of sexual abuse, although evidence has not led the last journalist.”C. Wright Mills seemed to talk about those famed professionals, “The celebrities are The Names that need no further identification…Wherever the celebrities go, they are recognized, and moreover, recognized with some excitement and awe. Whatever they do has publicity value. More or less continuously, over a period of time, they are the material for the media of communication and entertainment. And, when that time ends — as it must — and the celebrity still lives — as he may — from time to time it may be asked, ‘Remember him?’ That is what celebrity means… 

“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency and skill than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States. It is carried to the point where a chattering radio and television entertainer becomes the hunting chum of leading industrial executives, cabinet members, and the higher military. It does not seem to matter what the man is the very best at; so long as he has won out in competition over all others, he is celebrated. Then, a second feature of the star system begins to work: all the stars of any other sphere of endeavor or position are drawn toward the new star and he toward them. The success, the champion, accordingly, is one who mingles freely with other champions to populate the world of the celebrity.” 

America has become a strange land where brutal police, corrupt politicians, pimps and prostitutes take pride in their profession.

VIII.  PRIDE OF APPEARANCE

Eve was attracted by the appearance of forbidden fruit that she listened to 

the devil and disobeyed God. Appearance influences behavior.

Gen 29:17, “And Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in figure and appearance.”

When a woman is beautiful in figure and appearance, what else does she need? Rachel was probably the most beautiful shepherdess. Where can you find a man who is not interested in a beautiful woman? Jacob loved Rachel and was willing to work seven years for her. Love is an incredible thing. Gen 29:20, “So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like only a few days because of his love for her.” Love is able to commute seven years into a few days. Love is willing to wait.

Gen 39:6, “So he left Joseph in charge of everything that he owned; and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.”

A young man needs more than handsome in form and appearance. Being handsome in form and appearance may open a career door, but it takes more to make one somebody.

1Sa 16:7, “But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God does not see as man sees, since man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

God does not see as man sees. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

In America, if you live in a mansion, drive Mercedes- Benze, dressed in $5,000 suit, and wear expensive jewelry, everyone including strangers will salute and bow to you. For in America, the value of a person is measured by what he appears to be or what he has or what he possesses. But God is not like men.

Jhn 7:24, “Do not judge by the outward appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

Jesus knows the heart of man, and people judge according to the appearance. Although most people know, appearances are deceptive.

2Co 5:12, “We are not commending ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.”

Worldly people take pride in appearance, Christians take pride in heart. It is normal to be proud of a sound ministry.

2Co 10:7, “You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, have him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so too are we.”

Appearances are outwardly.

Col 2:23, “These are matters which do not have the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.”

Self-made religion and humility and severe treatment of the body may have the appearance of wisdom, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

Jas 1:11, “For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.”

The rich man in his pursuits will fade away like the sun withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perished.

If Marilyn Monroe were alive and walking on the street, every man in the vicinity will stop what he is doing and starts looking. This is the power of appearance. 

Immanuel Kant said, “You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am.” To really know a person, you must not only see the outside, you need to know the inside of a man. The Chinese has a saying, “You know a man from his face, but not from his heart.”

Immanuel Kant observed, “Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless.” 

According to Aesop, “Appearances are often deceiving.” Remember, the fatal mistake of Samson was to fall in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. Samson was not deceived by Delilah, Samson deceived himself.

Martin Luther who stood the test of time and tribulation said conclusively, “Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing. ” 

Some one said, “The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. ”

I agree with John Ruskin who said, “The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. Years ago I discovered: There is vanity in beauty but no beauty in vanity.

A spiritual man rooted in the Word of God, enlightened, made partakers of the Holy Spirit, can penetrate the veneer of the outward appearances of false prophets, false teachers and anti-christs. But multitudes of people are deceived and fooled.

IX. PRIDE OF LIFE

1Jo 2:16, “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.”

Luk 12:19, “And I will say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years to come; relax, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!”

The rich and powerful in the world habitually express themselves as the rich man cited above. They have stored money and gold for many years to come. What have they to worry?

An ungodly philosopher surprisingly reached the following conclusion, “The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.” I wonder what he had faith for since he did not have faith in God.

For some people, they have pride of life because what they know to control others, force and persuade others to do things they want them to do; or to show off and make people think they are better, richer, stronger, smarter, and more knowledgeable than others. 

A centurion said something remarkable, 

Mat 8:9, “For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”

There are people who have boastful pride of life, they have authority and power to tell people come or go, do this or do that. Unfortunately, I encountered a Jewish jeweler who deliberately dropped things on the floor and told his employees to pick them up. He did not allow his regular employees to work 8 hours a day. At the sixth hour he would make a tour to pressure every employee to finish their work in seven hours a day, and thus he saved one hour without pay from each employee. 

The most dangerous fact today is this: Western leaders and politicians have the authority and capability to attack and occupy any nation they like, without cause or reason. The same group of people can incite a nuclear war to destroy the whole world. This is the prize they pride of life. Those who think they are secure because they have power, position, wealth and pleasure usually take pride in life.

God reveals a future of conflict and peril. The Word of God has revealed the future to mankind. Many uninformed people believe tomorrow will be better. They are led down the primrose path by false prophets and false teachers. 

2Ti 3:1-13, “But know this, that in the last days last days perilous times will come. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters 

of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these. For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless 

in regard to the faith. But they will not make further progress; for their foolishness will be obvious to all, just as was that also of Jannes and Jambres. Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me! Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But evil people and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

Western leaders and politicians are holding to a form of democracy, human rights, justice but they have denied their powers. The democracy they practice is 1% of population rules over the 99 percent and own most of the power and wealth. These men oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless claim to be Christians.

William Wilberforce made the right conclusion, “It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart. ”

1Ti 1:5, “But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.”

Love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith is more precious to Christians than the boastful pride of life from the world.

X. THE CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE

Phl 2:16, “holding firmly the Word of Life, so that on the day of Christ I can take pride because I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.”

It is sound and good to hold firm the Word of Life so that on the day of Christ one can take pride because one did not run in vain nor labor in vain. This is the kind of pride which is without sin and without blame.

2Ch 32:26, “However, Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.”

The wrath of the Lord often comes to those who exhibit the pride of their hearts.

Job 33:17, “So that He may turn a person away from bad conduct, and keep a man from pride.”

Pride is a bad conduct which we must turn away.

Job 40:10, “Adorn yourself with pride and dignity,
And clothe yourself with honor and majesty.”

Believers adorn themselves with good pride and dignity, and clothe themselves with honor and majesty.

Psa 31:18, “Let the lying lips be speechless, which speak arrogantly 

against the righteous with pride and contempt.”

The sons of pride speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt. The wicked speak with swelling pride. 

Dan 4:37, “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just; and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”

Nebuchadnezzar, the greatest king of the Babylonian Empire learned the experience that God is able to humble those who walk in pride.

With all my heart, I believe the Kingdom of Heaven is an object of pride forever, the Holy City, New Jerusalem is a great joy from generation to generation. The pride of Western powers and sole superpower will come down. The will fall by the sword when Jesus Christ will return to reign with the saints forever and ever. The world and everything in it will be destroyed. The kingdoms of the world will be brought to an end. The Kingdom of Heaven will begin when the Lord rules and reigns for eternity.

The Christian pride in Christ Jesus is abundant now, but will be glorious in power and honor in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming. 

CONCLUSION

Pro 8:13, “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverted mouth, I hate.”

The fear of the Lord is to hat evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way and the perverted mouth. American and European leaders and politicians are guilty of pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverted mouth.

If American leaders and politicians truly love America, really concerned about the future of America and want to do what is right. This is the way they can do. Issue a proclamation of a national day of mourning for the past sins of America. Leaders and politician push aside personal pride, put on sackcloth and sit down on the floor of the Capitol. They are to call on God earnestly, confessing their sins and iniquities, and they are to turn, each one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands. They are to apologize to the American citizens for leading America in the wrong path for so long. They are to apologize to the whole world for their crimes committed against many nations and peoples. This maybe their last chance.

They are to resolve to reform and renew America, building a righteous nation. This is a revolutionary change without a revolution.

Luk 18:9-14, “Now He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:

“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and began praying this in regard to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, crooked, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to raise his eyes toward Heaven, but was beating his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ “I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other one; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

The two men represent the two groups of people. One who is self-righteous, the other who is repentant. The self-righteous can never find forgiveness of sins.

Olivier G. Wison said something interesting, “Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride, and something to look forward to with hope.”

Gal 6:17, “From now on let no one cause trouble for me, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.” 

Rev 14:13, “And I heard a voice from Heaven, saying, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.” 

John Ruskin said, “In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”

Why let pride send you to Hell? Come down and humble as a child and kneel at the cross and ask the Lord Jesus to forgive your sins and accept Him as your God and Savior.

I agree with Blaise Pascal who said, “Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”

Phl 1:26, “so that your pride in Christ Jesus may be abundant because of me by my coming to you again.”

Pride here in Greek is kauchēma which means rejoicing, the same word used in first part of 2Co 5:12. To have pride in Christ Jesus is to have abundant joy in Christ Jesus. 

Phl 2:16, “holding firmly the Word of life, so that on the day of Christ I can take pride because I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.”

There is One day as no other days, that is the Day of Christ. There is one pride as no other prides. The pride in Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

The mayor of Washington, D.C. bowed to the illegal acts of street people who set up tents on public streets. She should be dismissed and deported. The National Guards are empowered to trash the tents, clear the streets and vanish street people. Los Angeles is disgraced city because the California Governor and Los Angeles mayor failed to solve the problems of street people who not only set up tents on public streets, but also urinate and defecate. All the more urgent for the national capital to move to Lincoln, Nebraska. In the face of national debt exceeding $37 trillion, the people can save money by abolishing the House, retain the unicameral legislation of Senate to move also to Lincoln Nebraska. All this can be accomplished legally by a national refrerendum. America is ruined by dark and evil forces.

Descendants of American Flying Tiers whose forefathers had sacrified their lives in the war against Japanese aggression and atrocities must always be honored and remembered. The Chinse government must treat them as eternal friends, and they are welcome to China anytime. Such blood bonds must be appreciated and maintained forever.

The world wrongly marks the anniversary of dropping atomic bomb on Hiroshima while neglecting the Japanse aggression and atrocities of killing 35 million innocent Chinese without remorse or reparations. UN overappointed unqualified blacks and media have given too much covergage to unworthy black spoke-persons. It is amazing no matter how beautifully white organizations and individuals hail human rights, civil rights, democracy, development, technology, benefits, justice, etc., what they are actually after is MONEY. This can be said equally true about blacks.

Global media highlight the number of Palestinians who have died, but fail to consider why Palestinian Authority and Palestinians do not want to evacuate from Jewish land and resettle in Arab land. Palestinians, men and women, young and old, are shameless beggars. They remain in Gaza to qualify for refugees so that they can get everything free from international community. The international community is ignorant of the fact that GAZA and related territories all belong to the Jews. Israel has every right to take back and take over Gaza and related territories. Palestinians must evacuate and relocate to Arab lands, make a living and establish its own Palestinian state without further delay.

French nincompoop Macron reognized Palestine as a state but failed to know that Palestine does not have territory and sovereignty. Leaders of UK, GERMANY, AUSTRLALIA would commit the same mistake by supporting terrorists. Hamas, Hezebolla, Houthis are wicked terrorists, they should be destroyed without mercy. Leaders of Palestinian Authority are guilty for the death and malnutrition of children because they lead Palestinians to the path of destruction. They could have led Palestinians to lands of Arabs to earn a living and build their own Palestinian state. Palestinians (young & old, man & woman) are most shameless beggars for food & water, they don’t want to go to an Arab land to earn a living and build their own Palestinian state. Africa amid famine has the most fat people in the world, they are also shameless beggars. Ukranians are shameless beggars for weapons, they do not have reason for existence. Harvard though the richest university in the world is a shameless beggar for US aid. Japan claims to practice democracy, its ruling party lost election miserably, yet its prime minister shamelessly wants to stay in power. The world must realize years of aid to Africa produced nothing, trillions of dollars went to black holes.  Africa is corrupt, unmotivated and useless. Black leaders and politicians take advantage of it; dress well, eat well, and live a luxurious life style. Black problems can be solved only by Blacks. Let Africa alone to survive on its own. Blacks create most of the problems in the world, given too much coverage and platform in world media, overappointed and given too many spokespersons and positions in UN. Any nation who shares destiny with Africa will be doomed. Nothing good comes out of Africa: primitive religion, superstition, spiritism, orgies, black magic, tribalism, voordoism.

If the Texas flooding is an act of God; Ukraine conflict, and conflicts of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis must be acts of the devil.

India must coexist with China, at the same time India and South Africa must be expelled from BRICS besause they do not remain true to BRICS’ founding mission, they do not belong, must be replaced by Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. US and EU must not rearm Ukraine, let Russia destroy it, and never to be rebuilt. The leader of Ukraine must also be executed.

Palestinian Authorities are guilty for leading Palestinians to a path of death, children died and suffer malnutrition.  Palestian Authorities do not lead Palestinians (who are Arabs) to a land of Arabs to work for a living and build the Palestinian state.

American forces have successfully wiped out three Iranian nuclear sites through B-2 bombers. The “everlasting consequence” is Iran cannot be a nuclear threat anymore. I stand with the overwhelming majority of Dutch people to demolish NATO — the war machine.

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Willie Wong Thought

Willie Wong

August 15, 2025

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Some philosopher misconceived and misstated, “The greatest evil is physical pain.” The greatest evil is evil itself. Evil has many forms. You do not have to agree, but you need to be open-minded and seek the truth of God. The greatest evil on this Planet is not only ignorance, but deliberate distortion of the truth. Secondly, the greatest evil is travesty of justice.

Gen 6:5, “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of mankind was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.”

Mankind is often confused for not knowing the Word of God. The Ultimate of Righteousness, Holiness, Truth, Wisdom and Power is God, therefore it is proper that God decides and determines what is good or evil. Good and evil are determined by the sight of God. What God sees as good is good. What God sees as evil is evil. If you do not know this, you are in darkness. Wickedness in Hebrew is raʿ which means mischief; hurt; harm; badness; grievance; noise; sadness; trouble; adversity; sore; ill; pain; unpleasantness; pain; unhappiness; malignancy; viciousness; devilishness; distress; misery; injury; calamity; impishness; wrong; wretchedness; – which occurs 666 times in the Old Testament. Wickedness is synonymous with evil. Apparently, the evil intent of the thoughts resides in the human heart. 

Jesus Christ says, Mat 15:19-20, “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, acts of adultery, other immoral sexual acts, thefts, false testimonies, and slanderous statements. These are

the things that defile the person; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the person.”

Gen 6:5 summarizes historically the condition of days of Noah that prompted God to wipe out mankind from the face of the earth.

Then naturally comes the question:

What is the origin of evil? Where did evil come from?

Speculations of philosophers on evil are so varied and voluminous that a lifetime of study cannot find the answer.  Many still do not know that science and philosophy do not have the clue or right answers to the ultimate things, but the Word of God is sure and shining. In Genesis you cannot find the origin of the devil, for evil comes from the devil; and the devil exists before the creation of mankind. In the beginning was Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ was with God, for Jesus Christ was God. So Jesus Christ existed before everything, before the universe, and before the devil. Jesus Christ says, Luk 10:18, “And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from Heaven.” This is the historical event, witnessed by Jesus Christ, of the downfall of Satan like a flash of lightning from Heaven.

I.  The Origin of Evil

The devil is the origin of evil. Evil comes from the devil.

The Fall of Lucifer as the origin of evil is provided in detail as follows:

Isa 14:12-21, “How you are fallen from Heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!

For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into Heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit.

“Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,

Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’

All the kings of the nations,
All of them, sleep in glory,
Everyone in his own house;

But you are cast out of your grave
Like an abominable branch,
Like the garment of those who are slain,
Thrust through with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the Pit,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot.

You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
The brood of evildoers shall never be named.

Prepare slaughter for his children
Because of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

The Word of God provides what a lesson for the children of mankind. There is nothing higher than Heaven, yet the devil who was called Lucifer before, fallen from Heaven like lightning and was cut down to the ground. In an analysis we discover the problem of Lucifer was his heart, worse than cardiac diseases like Angina, Myocardial infarction or Atherosclerosis; for the devil has the evil heart. Lucifer had five deadly desires in the expression:

‘I will ascend into Heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’

The sin of Lucifer was rebellion, more than insubordination. Satanic sin was related to lust for power, arrogance, and self-centeredness. Evil is a mystery, and the devil is also a mystery.  In Genesis 3 is not the origin of evil; the origin of evil is in Isaiah 14. Lucifer wanted self-deification.

I object to preachers and theologians who hold the power of evil is greater than the power of good. The Word God says, Rev 20:1-3, “Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he took

hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

and he threw him into the Abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.”

Jesus Christ did not send a legion of angels to arrest the devil, Satan, the serpent of old, the dragon. A mighty angel alone is more than enough to take hold of the devil in a great chain and throws the devil into the Abyss and shuts it and seals it over him. The Lord will commence His millennium so He does not want the devil to upset the peace reign. 

It is stupid to question whether the Scriptures cited above are literal or figurative. Can you fall from Heaven and the fall be figurative? There is a tendency and general practice of all unbelieving theologians who distort and dismiss the major doctrines of the Bible as figurative or symbolic representations. It becomes fashionable for them to call the Holy City, New Jerusalem, the square City of 1,400 miles wide, long, and high as figurative and state of imagination.

Rev 12:7– 13, “And there was war in Heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war,

and they did not prevail, and there was no longer a place found for them in Heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Then I heard

a loud voice in Heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night.

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with with death. For this reason, rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you with great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time. And 

when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.”

It is important to know that the devil has many names, including the serpent of old, the dragon, Satan, the ruler of this world.

The greatest evil is to have a false opinion about truth; secondly is to have wrong opinion about justice.

Pro 6:18, “A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that run rapidly to evil.”

The wicked has a heart that devises wicked plans, and feet that run rapidly to evil.

You do not see the wicked slowly and gradually run to evil. And equally the wicked fall like a flash of lightening.

Not a few hold the greatest moral issue of all times is the nuclear war. I think the use of the word “issue” is unfortunate. The related matters can be sized up as dilemma, problem, predicament, perplexity, trouble, tragedy, double bind, quandary, etc.

I agree with Immanuel Kant who said, “But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.”

We know evil is intrinsically bad. In this article we consider the greatest things which are intrinsically evil. The more I study the world, the longer I live the more I am convinced of the truth of Christ, Jhn 8:44, “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer  from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because 

because he is a liar and the father of lies.” The truth of Christ is the Word of God. Heb 4:12-13, “For the Word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we must answer.” The true source of all evil in this world is the devil and his children. Truth is true not only for you, and it is true for all. Liars are inevitably become murderers or killers. The US, Australia and Japan tell lies about China, China’s threat in order to justify their attacks, containment and interference in China’s internal affairs of Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong. Only God keeps the records how many lies Western leaders and politicians and Japanese militarists have told.

Like father, like son. The children of the devil are like their father. Two sins characterized the devil from the beginning are murderer and liar and the father of lies. You see Western leaders and politicians commit the same sins as their father the devil. They want to do the desires of their father. The atrocities and brutalities and inhumanities of Western powers and Japan no longer confound or confuse believers.

I agree with Soren Kierkegaard who said, “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”

Above all, Jesus has the final word:

Jhn 3:19-21, “And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed. But the one who practices the truth truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God.”

Good deeds can only be performed in God.

Man is the only animal who on purpose causes pain to others with no regret or remorse at all. That is the trouble and tragedy such as the allied troops of 8 nations (namely Britain, US, Japan, Germany, France, Austria, Russia, and Italy) attacked Beijing simply because China was weak. To them aggression, destruction and oppression were not a moral concern. After that many years, they do not seem to have moral obligation to return China’s national treasures at market value of US$100,000 trillion dollars not counting years of interest. Britannica wrote and explained the Opium Wars as if China were to blame. The darkness and evil deeds represented by Western powers and Japan are so deep and thick and they penetrated the whole world.

Immanuel Kant brought a point to focus when he said, “If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.”

The history of the West (including the United States) despite of Christian influence is nothing but like the child who only thinks about how he may dominate the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

Consequently, there are people in this world who try to avoid punishment when they do wrong. They never had the idea of doing good for the sake of goodness. People do not do right because it is right. People do not do good because it is good. German has a word called schadenfreude: enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others. Liars eventually and inevitably become killers and murderers. 

The Western mainstream media bothers me with their shameless lies and falsehoods. Long ago Soren Kierkegaard said about them, “The daily press is the

evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.” Under the banner of freedom of the press, they have no conscience and no sense of truth, full of lies and conceits. When they spread lies and conflicts, they do not feel any moral responsibility. They are experts in distortion, disinformation, and deception. 

I agree with Arthur Schopenhauer who said, “What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.”

I also agree with Immanuel Kant, “In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”

Thinking of evil is already evil in itself.

II. MISUNDERSTANDING OF GOD

Although the source and origin of evil is the devil, there are unbelievers and the wicked who like to blame God for anything. Many misunderstand God because they misunderstand the truth.

Mat 5:17, “Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose.”

To misunderstand is to hold the wrong opinion. Do not suppose that Jesus has come to abolish the law of Moses. No, Jesus came to accomplish their purpose. The law is good and holy, but mankind is sinful. No man can accomplish the law of Moses, Jesus Christ accomplished on behalf of sinners, the Righteous for the unrighteous. That is the meaning of redemption. 

1Co 12:2, “You know that when you were still pagans, you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols.”

Pagans are led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols by falsehoods, false beliefs, and false religions. Many misunderstand God led astray by wrong ideas and swept away by mistaken religion. For example, the Chinese has many false beliefs.

Mat 22:29-33, “But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, since you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in Heaven. But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God:

‘I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.”

Peoples, including philosophers and scientists, are mistaken because they do not understand the Scripture nor the power of God. You should use the Word of God to test all doctrines and teachings of men. Lack of understanding of the Scriptures and the power of God often lead people to errors and misunderstanding. The more knowledge you have of the Holy Bible and the power of God, the less confusion you have in this world.

Job 34:10, “Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil,
And from the Almighty to do wrong.”

This is the truth of God: Far be it from God to do evil, and from the Almighty to do wrong. God does not do evil and God does not do wrong.

There was an evil philosopher who posed a challenge to God as follows:

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing?

The he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing?

Then where cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing?

Then why call him God?”

With one track mind, the evil philosopher did not know God. The evil philosopher thought he was wiser and more able than God. God is able to prevent evil, there is nothing impossible with God. There is no doubt that God is almighty and omnipotent. But God in His wisdom does not prevent evil now. Why? Evil comes from the devil. The devil is the ruler of demons and the present ruler of the world. 

Jhn 16:11, “and regarding judgment, because the because the ruler of this world has been judged.”

The devil has been judged and condemned, but his execution day is when Jesus Christ returns to the earth. 

Eph 2:2-3, “in which you previously walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among

them we too all previously lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest.”

The evil philosopher did not know that there are two opposite groups in this world: the children of God and the children of the devil, also called the children of wrath and sons of disobedience. God is His mercy saved some people in the world who previously walked according the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the evil spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. The sons of disobedience are agents of the devil, they walk according to the course of this world, live in the lusts of their flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and they are by nature children of wrath. This explains why the world is in such a sorry sinful state. The sons of disobedience are among world leaders and politicians, they will judge after death. When Even disobeyed God by reaching for the forbidden fruit, God did not prevent her by chopping her hand. God created mankind with free will.

God is never malevolent. 2Pe 3:7-9, “But by His Word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people. But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.”

The ungodly people who do all evil deeds in this world are going to be destroyed on the day of judgment. Even so God is patient toward them, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. The evil philosopher simply did not have the knowledge of the plan and work of God.

God is beyond the mind of the evil philosopher. 

Amo 3:7, “Certainly the Lord GOD does nothing
Unless He reveals His secret plan to His servants the prophets.”

The evil philosopher did not know God’s secret plan because he was not a servant or prophet of God.

Psa 115:3, “But our God is in the Heavens;
He does whatever He pleases.”

The Scriptures cited above should put to the rest the argument that God was not able or not willing. 

Mic 6:8, “He has told you, mortal one, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?”

Do you know any evil philosopher who walks humbly with God?

1Co 2:14, “But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

The evil philosopher was a natural person who did not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. All natural persons, including philosophers and scientists, are devoid of the Holy Spirit, and they cannot understand spiritual things.

1Jo 3:1, “See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know Him.”

1Jo 3:10, “By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.”

3Jo 1:11, “Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does what is good is of God; the one who does what is evil has not seen God.”

Children of God do what is good; children of the devil do what is evil.

If you fail to understand this dichotomy existing in this world, then you fail to understand many things.

III.  EVIL THINGS

Evil is construed the equivalent of wickedness. The following seven evil things are the source of evil.

I agree with Blaise Pascal who said, “Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.”

Here I only identified 7 forms of evil which we will analyze and discuss one by one.

Good and evil are not appetites. They are abstract concept of real things.

I do not agree with the philosopher who said, “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil,  ignorance.”

Those executives in Wall Street who created the economic crisis in 2008 that robbed the world more than $50 trillion dollars were knowledgeable but not good. The Japanese militarists had knowledge of the weakness of China and thus in 14 years of war of aggression they killed 35 million Chinese. The Eight Power Allied Forces (Britain, US, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Austria and Italy) attacked the weak Qing Government and forced China to sign the most insolvent and unequal Protocol in human civilization, burned down Yuan Ming Garden, robbed and looted China’s national treasures worth at market value of more than US$100,000 trillion, not counting the interest. Those leaders of 8 nations had knowledge of China’s weakness and they were most evil aggressors and oppressors. The days are coming that they will have to return all China’s national treasures. History upon history rejects the philosophy of knowledge good, ignorance evil.

Among the evils presented in this world today, they include:

1. War of aggression (including possibly nuclear war)

2. Terrorism

3. Corruption

4. Injustice

5. Fraud

6. Greed

7. Lust

I agree with Soren Kierkegaard who said, “All the shrewdness of ‘man’ seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.” Evil man or the wicked seeks to commit war crimes, terrorism, corruption, injustice, fraud, greed, and lust without responsibility.

Gen 43:9, “I myself will take responsibility for him! You may demand him back from me. If I do not bring him back to you and present him to you, then you can let me take the blame forever.”

Judah was great and grand to take responsibility. Judah did not give just empty words, he backed up his words with deed. He was willing to be a slave so that to let the boy go back to his father.

I do not know Steven Magee who said, “The terrorist in my life is the corrupt government.” 

I do agree, a corrupt government is the greatest terrorist because it has the greatest power and wealth.

When leaders and politicians are caught committing crimes, they say they take responsibility means nothing because they are not prosecuted and do not pay for their crimes.

1.  War (or possibly nuclear war)

The first conflict on earth was Cain killed his brother Abel. The history of mankind is the history of war.

The first war in the Bible were called the War of the Kings as follows:

Gen 14:1-2, “And it came about in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).”

The victor was the unpredicted but magnificent Abram, the Hebrew, who led out his trained men, born in house, number 318 and went in pursuit of the enemies. 

Gen 14:16, “He brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his relative Lot with his possessions, and also the women, and the other people.”

To make a long story short, after Abram’s return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him.

Gen 14:21-24, “Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give the people to me and take the possessions for yourself.”

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the LORD God Most High, Possessor of Heaven and earth, that I will not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you do not say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’ I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their share.”

Abram or later Abraham fought a just war and won.

Who takes responsibility for killing the natives of America and robbing their lands? Germany killed 6 million Jews and took responsibility to confess their crimes and paid compensations. Japan killed 35 million Chinese in 14-year war of aggression  and denied them and never paid war reparations or compensations. Japanese leaders and people even worship their executed war criminals as national heroes and living gods. Who takes responsibility for creating the largest national debt in history? Who takes responsibility for the big lie about Iraq for having the weapons of mass destruction? Who takes responsibility for spreading lies about the last election? Who takes responsibility for European imperialism and colonialism and capitalism in the last 500 years or more? Who takes responsibility for all the war crimes and genocide committed by America since the end of World War II? 

The allied forces of 8 nations (Britain, US, Japan, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy) were responsible for the infamous Opium Wars and burning and killing of Chinese, robbing and looting China’s national treasures at the market value of US$100,000 trillion dollars not counting years of interest. The days of accounting are coming, the 8 nations must return China’s national treasures without further delay.

It was Ernest Hemingway who said, “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ”

Historically, all the wars since the end of Word War II were waged by America and its allies. America is responsible for killing millions of innocent peoples around the world and making millions more of war refugees who live in abject poverty. If American leaders and politicians do not change, there will be more atrocities and war deaths to come.

Please read my article, WHY THE UNITED STATES MUST NOT HAVE WAR WITH CHINA.

https://williewongthought.hpage.com/why-the-united-states-must-not-have-war-with-china.html

It has been a long time, now something good has happened. According to Hong Kong (CNN) Five of the world’s largest nuclear powers pledged on Monday to work together toward “a world without nuclear weapons” in a rare statement of unity amid rising East-West tensions.

“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” said the joint statement, which was issued simultaneously by the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom and France. “As nuclear use would have far-reaching consequences, we also affirm that nuclear weapons — for as long as they continue to exist — should serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent war.” The US and its allies must keep their word. The West has proven to say one thing and does another thing. Words need to be backed up by deeds. If America is serious, now disband NATO, close all overseas military bases, annul all military alliances, withdraw all troops and military apparatus, condemn Australia-Japan war pact, and cease interference and sanction of any nation. It is not wise for U.S. to arm Ukraine and threaten the security of Russia. History will prove who is sincere and true, but history is always after the fact.

I supported President Richard Nixon who sought a just and lasting peace for the world and I agree with what he said, “Short of changing human nature … the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. ”

Many Americans do not know that American wars since the end of World War II have enriched the military-industrial-security complex very much and increase the national debt exceeding $37 trillion dollars.

2. Terrorism

The nation that produces and supports terrorism is evil. The religion that produces and supports terrorism must also be evil. Islamic terrorists are the only viable groups that have caused world-wide problems today.

Sexual violence is a form of terrorism.

According to

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence#

Victims of Sexual Violence: Statistics

· On average, there are 463,634 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the United States.1

Younger People Are at the Highest Risk of Sexual Violence

· Ages 12-34 are the highest risk years for rape and sexual assault.3

· Those age 65 and older are 92% less likely than 12-24 year olds to be a victim of rape or sexual assault, and 83% less likely than 25-49 year olds.4”

If what is reported above is true, then there is something obviously and outrageously wrong with American criminal justice system. The first time rape the man should suffer 20 years of hard labor without parole. The second rape the man should be castrated. The third rape the man should be executed.

For 14 years Japanese militarists committed innumerable terrorist acts in China. The allied

troops of 8 nations (namely Britain, US, Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Austria, Italy) committed terrorist acts in China.

The Opium Wars were terrorist acts.

Europeans committed terrorist acts under imperialism, colonialism and capitalism for the last 500 years or more.

The 9-11 incident was a terrorist act.

Hamas and Hezbollah have committed terrorist acts.

Although America is the sole super power, it is not effective in fighting terrorists because it has fought the terrorists the wrong way.

The greatest terrorist acts committed since the end of World War II have been done by America.

American hegemony and imperialism have committed terrorist acts to this day.

According to

https://cn.bing.com/images/search?view

According to

https://treehozz.com/what-is-an-example-of-state-terrorism#:

“Also, what are the 6 types of terrorism? There are six basic types of tactics that terrorist groups have used: hijackings, kidnappings, bombings, assassinations, armed assaults, and barricade-hostage incidents.”

Sociologists have raised the question, why the black population in America only comprises 14.2% of population and yet blacks commit most of the crimes in America and commit especially most of the violent crimes? Since Johnson’s Great Society the federal government, state and local governments have spent more than US$6 trillion dollars to aid the black peoples, and yet the blacks do not improve but get worse in all indicators. I never forget what I saw live on TV, a black youth covered up his whole body forcefully pushed an Asian elderly man from behind that he fell on his face to the ground and died later. A big black man for no reason repeatedly and forcefully trampled on a small Asian woman on her head and body while another big black man watching from the glass door at a store and closing the door. I also watched on TV some blacks looted the stores of Asians and beat up the owners. 

Violence is a great evil. There is no question about the barbaric nature of these violent people. Historically, the first violence was committed by Cain against his brother Abel. In addition to physical violence, there are also psychological violence and verbal violence.

3. Corruption

Corruption must have evidence. Man like Daniel who was trustworthy and never had negligence could not be charged of corruption. Sin is slavery and creates corruption. 

Corruption is an abuse of power. ONLY those who are in power and those who have power can be corrupted. The best deterrence to corruption is to vest and invest sovereignty in the Constitution. The Constitution must stipulate that the national sovereignty lies in the power of its citizens. Citizens are vested with the national sovereignty powers and rights. Under national referendum, the citizens have the authority, power and right to remove anyone from office, including the president, simply by a majority vote of no confidence. It does not require the ineffective and useless process of impeachment. Citizens exercise power in every dominant issue and direction of the country.

Human trafficking is a great evil of corruption.

According to

https://www.statista.com/topics/4238/human-trafficking/#:

“Despite increased international attention and resources from states and other non-governmental institutions, the number of people falling victim to human trafficking around the world continues to grow. Between 2008 and 2019 the number of human trafficking victims identified worldwide more than tripled from 30,961 to 105,787.”

Sociologists wonder at the chops and skills of black pimps who successfully seduce a group of pretty young white women willing to sell their bodies to support black pimps and their life styles. There are all kinds of prostitutes which are hard to eliminate. The law should execute all pimps and those selling children and young women for sex. Religion that practices sexual abuses of women and girls should be outlawed in the world. The law should also execute drug traffickers without mercy.

2Pe 1:4, “Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust.”

Born again Christians are partakers of the divines nature and they have escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust. You must wake up if you do not know the world is corrupt. The world is corrupted by lust.

I do not know who Ken Poirot was, but I agree with what he said, “Wherever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption.” 

Government has the greatest power and money, therefore greed and corruption. I think many backward, poor, unproductive countries have corrupt leaders who swindle and squander their national resources, the people should rise up to execute them. Corruption is like cancer that no nation can tolerate.

I always respect Edmund Burke who said, “Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.” If the leaders and politicians of a nation are generally corrupt, where is democracy, freedom, human rights, equality, and justice?

According to 

https://ourworldindata.org/corruption

“Corruption is a phenomenon involving many different aspects, and it is therefore hard to give a precise and comprehensive definition. However, at the core of most definitions of corruption is the idea that a corrupt act implies the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Classic examples include bribery, clientelism, and embezzlement. Other, often more subtle and sometimes even legal examples of corruption include lobbying and patronage.”

Perception of Corruption by Institution, World, 2017

Percentage of survey respondents who answered that either “Most” or “All” are corrupt.

·  Change country

0%5%10%15%20%25%30%35%

Legislature38%

Police38%

Government officials37%

Local government councillors36%

Business executives35%

Tax officials34%

Prime Minister / President33%

Judges and magistrates31%

Traditional leaders25%

Religious leaders19%”

It was John Dewey who said, “As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.” 

The problems of Western nations, big business runs the countries and monopolizes power and wealth. That is why imperialism and capitalism flourish.

I do not know Edward Abbey, but what he said keeps me thinking, “And the so-called ‘political process’ is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.” 

Isn’t that what is happening in America? Big business and big money rule America.

I agree with Marcus Tullius Cicero who said, “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.”

Do you know the leaders and politicians are the ones who can commit treason from within? The mess and misery of America are caused by treason from within. They will seal the doom and destruction of America, if American citizens do not wake up and do something.

4. Injustice 

The world is full of injustice. Probably you cannot find a 100% just country in the world.

Deu 32:4, “The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and just is He.”

In the sight of God, injustice is a great evil.

Aristotle was right when he said, “Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”

Watch out corrupt doctors, dentists, hospital owners, drug and insurance companies, labs and medical supplies, etc., create the most costly healthcare in the world, run as organized crime, defraud and fleece patients with immunity and impunity, and bankrupt millions of American families. Banks and insurance companies also defraud customers and do not follow the federal records keeping laws. Industries produce fake products and unreliable services.

I also agree with Desmond Tutu who said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Billions of peoples in the world are oppressed by injustice one way or another.

Plato had better understanding than most people when he said, “The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call ‘injustice’.”

Millions of American employees suffer injustice under the hands of white and black abusive supervisors.

America needs the spirit of Thomas Jefferson who said, “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” Most peoples in the world are not even aware of the unjust laws exist in their countries. Lawyers and lawmakers often are the worse abusers of injustice.

The noble Plato said, “To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.”  But the wicked who inflict injustice on the victims think they are superior.

I agree with Theodore Roosevelt who said, “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.” The evil of the wicked is that they know what is wrong and they still choose to do what is wrong.

Marcus Aurelius was morally brilliant when he said, “Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.” There are people who do not know, that doing injustice makes oneself evil.

2Ch 19:7, ““Now then, let the fear of the LORD be upon you; be careful about what you do, for the LORD our God will have no part in injustice or partiality, or in the taking of a bribe.”

Christians fear the Lord, and they are careful about what they do. Christians have no part in injustice or partiality, or in the taking of a bribe.

Years ago a black man who killed his white wife and another white man, because he had a dream team of lawyers and black jury, the black man was acquitted. Injustice is to acquit the guilty, injustice is a great evil.

Andrew Cuomo won’t be prosecuted for conduct against women

By Barbara McQuade, Chuck Rosenberg and Joyce VanceIs a glaring example of injustice.

“There are many appalling facts in the August New York attorney general’s report regarding Cuomo’s behavior toward numerous women, which preceded his resignation from office. Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah’s findings – that there was credible evidence to conclude the alleged conduct did occur – are consistent with those in the report. But a DA’s authority is limited to prosecuting crimes that were committed in their county. Cuomo might have done reprehensible things to women in other places, such as Manhattan, but these prosecutors have no authority to prosecute him for conduct occurring outside of their jurisdictions. This is the law.

New York state has three criminal statutes that could apply here. The first makes “forcible touching” a crime. To convict someone of that crime, a prosecutor must prove that Cuomo “forcibly touche(d) the sexual or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of degrading or abusing (them,) or for the purpose of gratifying (his own) sexual desire.” State law also makes third-degree “sexual abuse” a crime; here, a prosecutor must prove that Cuomo “subject(ed) another person to sexual contact without (their) consent.” The final statute, general assault, requires a physical injury. This is also the law.

An unjust legal system cannot produce justice. Unjust leaders and politicians work to create injustice. The government that knowing what is right and still does what is wrong is causing injustice. Injustice is to indict the innocent and acquit the guilty. Injustice is a great evil. 

Psa 7:14, “Behold, an evil person is pregnant with injustice, and he conceives harm and gives birth to lies.”

Western leaders and politicians are pregnant with injustice because they want to dominate and dictate the world, so they conceive harm and give birth to lies. This Scripture gives reason why people lies.

5.  FRAUDS, FALSE WORDS

I agree with Plato who said,  “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

Preachers who do not have the power of the Holy Spirit use flowery words or false words to exploit and fool the congregation by saying, “Something good is going to happen to you!”

The West operatives proclaim, Russia isn’t under any threat from NATO. This is a classic example of false words or a black lie. Another Western propaganda, “Kazakhstan’s current unrest was sparked by the government’s decision to lift caps on the price of fuel.” Western powers execute a strategy of creating unrest and instability so that they can overthrow a government from within that they don’t like. They tried the same strategy for many years on China’s Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong, but they failed and China was strengthened by smart policy and wise actions. Taiwan is different. Since 1949 the U.S. by military forces has taken Taiwan as a de facto colony. The current Taiwanese regime is made of anti-China and traitorous members who committed treason against China, they are willing running dogs of America and they deserve to be executed when Taiwan is liberated.

Financial frauds appear in many forms including investment fraud, Ponzi scheme, bank fraud, stock fraud, pension fraud, pyramid scheme, bankruptcy scandal, mail fraud, skimming, phone bank fraud, invoice fraud, online banking fraud, loan fraud, check fraud, insurance fraud, electronic fraud, etc.

2Pe 2:3, “and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.”

You see so many drug and medicine advertisements that exploit you with false words. False words lead you to be a hypochondriac that you need to see doctors for all sorts of unnecessary tests and take all sorts of unnecessary drugs. Greedy people are always exploiters. They exploit you with words because they intend to exploit you in deeds. Western powers exploit the world with the propaganda of democracy, freedom, equality, and human rights. The truth is none of Western powers practice real democracy. How can anyone claim democracy when 1 percent of population rules over the 99 percent and owns most of the power and wealth?

Some years ago I had my cataract surgery done in Shanghai which was expensive. The surgeon gave me the false words that there would be no more problem. I was ignorant of what was called post cataract. Some doctors gave the wrong diagnosis and wrong treatment that I almost lost the sight of my left eye until I went through the second eye surgery. False words produce false assurance.

Exo 5:9, “Let the labor be heavier on the men, and have them work at it so that they will pay no attention to false words.”

Generally speaking, it is right to pay no attention to false words. 

Beware, there are many false things in this world, including:

false testimony –  Exo 20:16

false report –  Exo 23:1

false charge – Exo 23:7

false witness –  Deu 19:18

false religion – 1Sa 15:23

false hope –  2Ki 4:28

false people – Job 11:11

false expectation –  Job 41:9

false way – Psa 119:29

false balance – Pro 11:1

false statement –  Pro 13:5

false scale –  Pro 20:23

false boasts – Isa 16:6

false sons – Isa 30:9

false vision – Jer 14:14

false dreams – Jer 23:32

false divination –  Eze 21:23

false vows – Mat 5:33

false prophets – Mat 7:15

false christs –  Mat 24:24

false apostles – 2Co 11:13

false brothers –  2Co 11:26

false circumcision – Phl 3:2

false signs –  2Th 2:9false belief – 2Th 2:11

false teachers –  2Pe 2:1

I think one of the most shocking things I encounter in my humble life is the present day lack of integrity. People are no longer honest. People are no longer moral. I agree with Marcus Tullius Cicero who said, “Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?” People would deliberately lie without shame. 

2Th 2:11, “For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.”

To believe what is false is a great evil.

Countless frauds and scams are committed daily through phone, Internet, email, and mass media and across nations.  Which governments are truly prosecuting them? Just the emails alone, you receive frauds and scams every day and some in the names of famous persons.

6.  Greed

Jesus says, Luk 12:15, “But He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one is affluent does his life consist of his possessions.”

Jesus knows there are many forms of greed that mankind must be on his guard against. Even when one is affluent his life does not consist of his possessions. 

I agree with Democritus who said, “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. “

Epictetus had well said, “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. “

I also agree with Marcus Tullius Cicero who said, “Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.” The greatest danger America faces is not from outside, it is from within. American people worship riches, not righteousness. America is corrupted by lust for power and riches. The bad thing is if you are rich, living in a mansion, driving a Mercedes, wearing expensive clothes and costly jewelry, even you are a crook – American public will kowtow to you. In American society, a person is valued by his possessions. People do not mind how you get rich so long you are rich. Money matters to most people. 

Marcus Tullius Cicero was interesting in what he said, “When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.”

Avarice is also called greed in the Bible. This is the truth of God which will not pass away:

1Ti 6:10, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

Yeas ago at work I met a white woman who was so much possessed by the love of money that she irrationally believed in Chinese Fengshui to make her rich.

I do not know Erich Fromm, but I agree with what he said, “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” 

Seneca was right, “For greed all nature is too little.” 

I think B. C. Forbes was right when he said, “The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.” 

In my opinion, all those billionaires and the richest people in the world are out-and-out failures. They know it that is why they use philanthropy to compensate their guilt and failure.

I agree with Mahatma Gandhi who said, ““Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” Capitalists and imperialists have destroyed the world to satisfy their greed. Climate warming is only but one dangerous consequence. 

I think this is the confession of Warren Buffet, “I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”

Rich people are greedy and fearful, fearful and greedy.

7. Lust

Mat 5:28, “but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Jesus Christ has the highest moral standard. A man not only can commit adultery by his deed, he can also commit adultery in his heart.

Jas 1:14, “But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.”

Lust is so strong like a flood that can sweep away a person, a people, and a nation. 

Jas 1:15, “Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it has run its course, brings forth death.”

The Scriptures cited above give etiology of lust: when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it has run its course, brings forth death.

Jas 4:2, “You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel…”

When people lust and do not have, they will resort to murder. When people are envious and cannot obtain, so they will fight and quarrel.”

Western leaders and politicians are envious of Hong Kong and Xinjiang. They cannot obtain, so they fight and quarrel with China by false accusations.

2Pe 1:4, “Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust.”

Corruption that is in the world is great on account of lust.

1Jo 2:16, “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.”

In the world and from the world are the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. The lust of the flesh is sex, the lust of the eyes is money, and the pride of life is power. The lust of the flesh includes sexual immorality, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, etc. 

I wonder why you often hear male leaders and politicians involve in sexual immorality, whether sexual abuse or forced sexual intercourse with other women. Does it means male by nature has stronger sexual desire than female? Or such lust of the flesh is culturally and socially determined. We do not intend to answer those questions. We just call to the fact of the lust of the flesh is strong evil desire whether male or female. Lust denotes strong evil desire.

Col 3:5, “Therefore, treat the parts of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.”

Lust is related to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed. KJV uses a big word called concupiscence. 

1Th 4:5, “Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:” Lust is used only negatively. It is not proper to say one lusts for virtue.

Lust is a strong craving or desire, often of a sexual nature. The word is never used in a positive context; rather, it is always seen in a negative light, relating primarily either to a strong desire for sexual immorality or idolatrous worship. 

Jas 4:2, “You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.”

To lust in Greek is epithymeō which means to covet; strongly desire; lust after; long for; seek things forbidden; set the heart upon; – which occurs 16 times in the New Testament. 

The truth of Christ is most instructive: lust leads to murder. The wicked lust and do not have, so they will resort to murder. Western powers lust after Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang. They did not get what they lust so they hired Chinese traitors to commit terrorist acts in Hong Kong, and followers of Dalai Lama to commit riots in Tibet, and Islamic terrorists in Xinjiang. Western leaders and politicians fight and quarrel with China because they have intention to destroy China from within. They failed and made false accusations against China, such as genocide, forced labor, abuses of human rights, etc.

Indeed, the unregenerate are governed and controlled by deceitful lusts or dark desires of the flesh.

Eph 2:3, “Among them we too all previously lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest.”

Eph 4:22, “that, in reference to your former way of life, you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit.”

All unbelievers and the wicked have “old self”, their way of life is being corrupted in accordance with the lust of deceit.

Col 3:5, “Therefore, treat the parts of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.”

The earthly body of unbelievers and the wicked is much alive to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed.

Tit 2:12, “instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and in a godly manner in the present age.”

On the contrary, Christians are instructed to deny ungodliness and worldly desires; and to live sensibly, righteously, and in a godly manner in the present age. How do Christians live? Live sensibly, righteously, and godly. To know this is better reading many books on Christian life.

1Th 4:3-6, “For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess 

his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in 

lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; and that no one violate the rights and take advantage of his brother or sister in the matter, because the Lord is the Avenger in all these things, just as we also told you previously and solemnly warned you.”

Paul warns Christians solemnly that it is the will of God to have sanctification, abstain from sexual immorality and lustful passion, which is characteristic of those who do not know God.

Peter also admonishes Christians to live for the will of God.

1Pe 4:2-5, “so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God. For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of indecent behavior, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries. In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same excesses of of debauchery, and they slander you; but they will

give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.”

Christians will give an account to God and not to pursue a course of indecent behavior, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, wanton idolatries and debauchery.  Beware carousing and drinking fit the description of American parties.

Apostle John also stresses Christians to do the will of God:

1Jo 2:15-17, “Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God continues to live forever.”

The lust of the flesh is sex. The lust of the eyes is money. The boastful pride of life is power. The values of sex, money, and power are prevailing American values. They are passing away; but the one who does the will of God continues to live forever.

Interestingly, the three Apostles cited above concur by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to do the will of God is to deny the lusts.

Do animals know sin? I don’t know because I am not an animal. But mankind who lusts for power, lusts for sex, lusts for fame, and lusts for fortune do know sin.

Lust is overwhelmed and driven by feeling. Feeling overpowers flesh. Whether it is a strong desire, passion, or lust it is rooted in feeling. So a life base on feeling can never be spiritual. A spiritual life is based on faith. 

American leaders and politicians live as if they were unaware of the impending disaster and destruction of America, and the impending disaster and destruction of the world.

War, terrorism, corruption, oppression, fraud, greed, lust, etc. are what the Bible calls sins. They are evil deeds.

IV.  THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD

Psa 103:19, “The LORD has established His throne in the Heavens, and His sovereignty rules over all.” 

This is the truth of God. The sovereignty of God rules over all. The sovereignty of God means God rules over all. The truth of God is supreme. The knowledge of God is the greatest knowledge. The sovereignty of God is supreme because it rules the universe. It is a mistaken idea that evil escapes the sovereignty of God.

Note:   Sovereignty in Hebrew is  malkuwth which means reign; empire; realm; royalty; royal power; supreme power; sovereign power over a country; royal dominion; kingdom; the power of authority to rule; – which occurs 92 times in the Old Testament. Rule in Hebrew is mashal   which means to reign; to govern; to have dominion; to exercise authority or power; – which occurs 84 times in the Old Testament. God’s sovereign power is not over a country, over a sphere, or over a people. The sovereignty of God rules over all, the whole universe. 

I agree with Marcus Tullius Cicero, “The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.”

The sovereignty of God manifests especially the POWER and Wisdom of God. The sovereign power of God historically is used to protect His children from calamity, to provide  means to meet the needs of God’s people, to  prevent  bad things from happening or to punish  the wicked or evildoers. 

The concept of the sovereignty of God must be viewed in terms of the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of God coupled in the framework of His will and the providence of God. 

Exo 15:18 ,   “The LORD shall reign forever and ever.” 

Note:  Reign in Hebrew is  malak  which means to rule; to induct into royalty; to be king; to govern; to exercise sovereign power; to exercise authority as a monarch; to rule a country; – which occurs 520 times in the Old Testament. The Lord shall reign forever and ever. 

Psa 77:14 , “You are the God who works wonders; 
You have made known Your strength among the peoples.   ” 

Note: Wonder in Hebrew is pele’  which means marvel; extraordinary and hard to understand thing; miracle; something wonderful and admirable; something awesome and mysterious; – which occurs 12 times in the Old Testament. Scientists do not even know how many wonders God works in nature, not to say the supernatural. Strength in Hebrew is `oz  which means power; might; security; majesty; praise; splendor; glory; – which occurs 93 times in the Old Testament. Christian peoples know something about the power and strength of God. Unbelievers do not know God or His power and glory. 

As a comparison in the much lower level, American leaders and politicians proudly promulgate so-called democracy, but they do not believe or practice the sovereignty of American citizens.  So the US CONSTITUTION does not vest the national sovereignty with the American people. There is no practice of national referendum to determine and decide the most important issues and matters of the country. For that reason American leaders and politicians execute America as an empire even though the vast majority of American citizens do not want wars of aggression or interference in the affairs of other nations. They do not respect the will and wishes of American citizens. For this reason, American democracy is not true democracy.

Dan 4:35 ,   “All the inhabitants of the Earth are accounted as nothing, but He does according to His will in the host of Heaven and  among  the inhabitants of Earth; 
And no one can ward off His hand 
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’  ” 

Note: Nothing is  la’  (Aramaic) which means no; none; without; not anything; no thing; – which occurs 24 times in the Old Testament.   In comparison to the Almighty God, the inhabitants of the earth (including secular academics, unbelieving theologians, scientists and philosophers) are accounted as nothing. This kills the ego of atheists to count them as nothing. 

Deu 4:39 ,  “Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the LORD, He is God in Heaven above and on the Earth below; there is no other. ” 

Note: Unbelievers and atheists, know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in Heaven above and on the Earth below, there is no other. In time of death, you will know too late. 

1Ch 29:11-12,  “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the Heavens and the Earth;  Yours is the dominion,  O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.  Both riches and honor come  from You, and  You rule over all, and in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone.   ” 

Job 9:10 , “Who does great things, unfathomable, 
And wondrous works without number.   ” 

Note: The great things God does are unfathomable, and the wondrous works are without number. 

Job 9:12,  “Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him? Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’ 

Psa 29:10 ,  “The LORD sat  as King  at the flood; 
Yes, the LORD sits as King forever. ” 

Note: The Lord sat as King at the flood means nothing disturbs God. The Lord sits as King forever means the Lord reigns and rules forever. Can any white supremacist dictator sit at flood or snow storm?

Psa 83:18 ,  “That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth. ” 

Psa 93:1,  “The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; 
The LORD has clothed and girded Himself with strength; 
Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved. ” The Lord reigns, nothing can be moved.

Psa 135:5-6, “For I know that the LORD is great 
And that our Lord is above all gods.  Whatever the LORD pleases, He does, in Heaven and in Earth, in the seas and in all deeps. ” 

Note: Let all the peoples in the world know this, especially the atheists and unbelievers: Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, in Heaven and in Earth. 

Dan 2:47 , “The king answered Daniel and said, “Surely your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, since you have been able to reveal this mystery.” 

Mat 6:13 , “And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”  

Note: The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory belong to the Lord Almighty forever. God is able to deliver His children from evil. 

Act 17:24-25,   “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is  Lord of Heaven and Earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;  nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things .” 

Note: God is the Lord of Heaven and Earth. God does not need anything or anyone. God is eternally Self-Sufficient. He gives to all people life and breath and all things. 

Rom 9:19, “You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 

Note: Because GOD IS WHO GOD IS, His sovereignty is absolute and ultimate and eternal. No one and nothing can resist or thwart  the will of God. It is meaningless to say God has the right to rule the universe. That is neither an issue nor a question. Who is to challenge the right of God?  Supreme power belongs to God. Some notion that God has to pledge allegiance to someone or something is absolutely stupid, even if it is not blasphemous. Therefore, to understand the concept of the Sovereignty of God, it must be viewed in the overall framework of God’s omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence, coupled with the Will of God and Divine Providence that God does whatever He pleases. God does not please anyone or anything. God does as He pleases. 

The sovereignty of God can be defined as the Lord God rules over all, over all mankind, nature, kingdoms, all things in Heavens or on Earth, visible and invisible, forever. God’s sovereignty manifests in the control of men or mankind, control of events, control of kingdoms, control of   nature, control of events or whatever comes to pass, and control of the whole universe (Heavens and Earth). All things and everything are in the hands of God. 

Psa 45:6 , “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; 
A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your Kingdom. ” 

Note: God’s throne is forever and ever. God’s sovereignty is forever and ever. A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of God’s Kingdom. 

(A.)  God rules over the Universe 

Psa 59:13 , “Destroy them in wrath, destroy them  that they may be no more; that men may know that God rules in Jacob 
To the ends of the earth. Selah. ” 

Ecc 11:5 , “Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones  are formed  in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things. ” 

Note: Man includes secular academics, unbelieving theologians, scientists and philosophers do not know many things.  For whatever they claim to know, they do not even know a little thing such as when they are going to die.  Much less they do not know the activity of God who makes all things. 

Amo 4:13 , “For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind 
And declares to man what are His thoughts, 
He who makes dawn into darkness 
And treads on the high places of the earth, 
The LORD God of hosts is His name. ” 

2Ki 19:15, “Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above  the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made Heaven and  Earth.   ” 

(B.)  God rules over the nations. 

Psa 47:8 , “God reigns over the nations , 
God sits on His holy throne. ” 

Not even the sole superpower can escape the rule and control of God. ASK American leaders and politicians, why after spending trillions of dollars and over 20 years, they could not win the war in Afghanistan, and run away in defeat and disgrace?

Note: Reign in Hebrew is  malak  which means to be king; to rule over; to ascend the throne; to induct into royalty; to exercise authority as monarch; – which occurs 520 times in the Old Testament. Nation in Hebrew is gowy  which means state; country; people; the nations besides Israel; – which occurs 561 times in the Old Testament. Throne in Hebrew is kicce’  which means seat of honor; figuratively royal dignity, authority, power; sovereignty; – which occurs 136 times in the Old Testament. No throne is like God’s throne because it is holy. Holy in Hebrew is  qodesh  which means hallowed; consecrated; sacred; divine; perfect in goodness and righteousness; – which occurs 519 times in the Old Testament. God rules over the nations, let all world leaders beware.  Western and American powers have dictated and dominated the world for the last 500 years, God can destroy super powers in a moment!

Deu 11:12 , “a land that the LORD your God cares for. He watches over it through each season of the year!   ” 

Note: The State of Israel was originally given by God to Abraham and his descendants. Care for in Hebrew is  darash  which means to inquire; to resort to; to seek with care; to frequent it; to ask for; to take the care of; to feel interest or concern; – which occurs 167 times in the Old Testament. Watch over means the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it.   It is called the Promised Land, a land that the Lord cares for. The State of Israel is surrounded by enemies, but God watches over it through each season of the year. Palestine and Palestinians are the evil legacy of British empire.  When God gave the Promised Land to Abraham and his descendants, there were no Palestine and Palestinians. There will be no Palestine or Palestinians in the Promised Land. So it is right and wise for Palestinians to seek their statehood in the neighboring Arab states. I wish them well.

The British empire historically had done many evil deeds. There are two things that the leaders of United Kingdom if they have moral character and courage to do right. (1.)  When the British empire colonized Israel it turned to be Palestine where illegal Arabs moved in and occupied the Holy Land without payment.  In the beginning was Israel and Jewish people when God gave the land to Abraham and his descendants. It is right for leaders of UK to inform the Palestinians and Hamas and all Arabs that they have no part or portion in the Promised Land. They cannot build a state in the land of the Jews. No authority under Heaven can give the Promised Land to Palestinians who are actually Arabs. The United Nations has no authority to give the land that God gave to Abraham and his descendants for over 4,000 years to so-called Palestinians.  Therefore the so-called Palestinian authority can find Arab land to build its state or for Palestinians to join other Arab states. (2). When the British empire colonized India, to make its colony look bigger, the British government illegally and unilaterally incorporated large territories of China into the Indian Map. Thus it created today the border conflict between India and China. It is up to the leaders of United Kingdom to inform its former colony India that the British government was wrong in robbing the land of China, and so solve the conflict once and for all. The world is witnessing and watching whether the government of UK will do right or not.

Deu 8:20,   “Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish  before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.   ” 

Note: Study history to find so many nations the Lord makes to perish. The sole Superpower is so arrogant, being a liar, aggressor, murderer and robber — threatening and oppressing, sanctioning and attacking many nations. Beware, God is able to make the sole Superpower to perish and vanish from the world because its leaders would not listen to the voice of God. 

Psa 82:1, “A Psalm of Asaph. 
God takes His stand in His own congregation; 
He judges in the midst of the rulers. ” 

Note: God judges in the midst of the rulers, He will punish the wicked rulers and their nations. 

Rev 18:8,  “For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong. ” Apparently the whole world is plagued by COVID-19 and OMICRON helplessly.

Job 34:29, “But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty?   When He hides His face, who can see Him?  Yet He watches over both individuals and nations .” 

Note: Some world leaders and nations are doing evil for hundreds of years, for example Western imperialist and colonialist nations have done in the last 500 years or more. God watches over both individuals and nations for their words and deeds. 

2Ch 20:6, “and he said, “O LORD, the God of our fathers, are You not God in the Heavens? And are You not Ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You. ” Note: No one can stand against God. For God are the Ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations, including the sole superpower and evil empires. 

Psa 22:28 , “For the kingdom is the LORD’S.  And He rules over the nations. ”  Psa 66:7, “He rules by His might forever; His eyes keep watch on the nations; Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah. ” 

Note: Kingdom in Hebrew is mĕluwkah  which means kingship; royalty; a realm; dominion; a country ruled by a king or queen; – which occurs 24 times in the Old Testament.   Rule over in Hebrew is mashal which means to reign; to govern; to have dominion; to exercise dominion; to have power; to exercise authority or power over; – which occurs 84 times in the Old Testament. The sovereignty of God includes ruling over the nations. The eyes of God keep watch on terrorist and warmongering nations. Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Can the U.S. Space Force Troops attack or invade the throne of God? Of  course not; like eggs cannot hit the Rock.

Dan 2:20-22, “Daniel said, 
“Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, 
For wisdom and power belong to Him. It is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; 
He gives wisdom to wise men and knowledge to men of understanding.  It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; 
 He knows what is in the darkness, 
And the light dwells with Him. ” 

Note: Wisdom and power belong to God. Some countries rely on their nuclear weapons and boast of their military power. God removes and establishes kings. God knows the secrets of nations. 

Dan 5:21 , “He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of   Heaven, until he knew that   the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and   appoints over it whomever He chooses. ” 

Note: The king of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar learned the hard lesson; he was made like a beast, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and appoints over it whoever He chooses. There are those who still do not realize that God can destroy great nations, even the sole superpower. 

God is warning against arrogant and aggressive dictators and warmongers. Because their arrogance has come up to the ears of God, therefore God may put His hook in their noses and His bridle in their lips. They may turn back to folly, turn into dust, turn back and suddenly be ashamed, turn aside to their crooked ways; turn pale;  turn to wailing, turn away from the truth. 

Dan 5:17-30, “Then Daniel answered and said before the king, “Keep your gifts for yourself or give your rewards to someone else; however, I will read the inscription to the king and make the interpretation known to him. O king, the Most High God granted sovereignty, grandeur, glory and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.  Because of the grandeur which He bestowed on him, all the peoples, nations and men of every  language feared and trembled before him;  whomever he wished he killed and whomever he wished he spared alive;  and whomever he wished he elevated and whomever he wished he humbled.  But when    his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed  from his royal throne and his  glory was taken away from him.  He was also driven away from mankind, and his heart was made like that of  beasts, and his dwelling place  was  with the wild donkeys.  He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he recognized that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and that  He sets over it whomever He wishes. Yet you, his son, Belshazzar , have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this, but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of Heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified. Then the hand was sent from Him and this inscription was written out.  Now this is the inscription that was written out: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’ “This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENE’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.  ‘TEKEL’—   you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient .‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” Then Belshazzar gave orders, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put  a necklace of gold around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he now  had authority as the third ruler  in the kingdom. That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. ” 

Note:  There are not a few world leaders today whose hearts are made like that of beasts. They have no truth and no integrity. Where is the Babylon empire now? Where is the Roman Empire now? Where is the British Empire now? Where is… The leaders of the super powers are so arrogant and wicked, lying, killing and robbing. Pretty soon they will see the handwriting on the wall, MENE, MENE… TEKEL, they have been weighed on the scales and found deficient. 

God can cause a superpower to be defeated, an example of terror to all the nation of the Earth. 

Psa 22:28 , “For the kingdom is the LORD’S 
And He rules over the nations. ” 

Psa 132:17 ,  “There I will cause the horn of David to spring forth; I have prepared a lamp for Mine anointed.” 

Jer 33:15 ,  “ In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth. ” 

Note: There is a nation that declares to wipe out Israel from the face of the earth. I am not worried because the Lord will cause the horn of David to spring forth. God’s sovereignty includes controlling and ruling over the affairs of nations. 

Neh 13:26,  “Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin. ” 

Note: Foreign women (women who are idolaters) are dangerous, they even cause Solomon to sin. 

(C.)  God controls men, events or things come to pass. 

Job 34:21,  “For God watches how people live; He sees everything they do. ” 

Note: Do you see imperialist and capitalist nations live in pleasure and luxury from the wealth they robbed from their colonies and practices of monopoly, sanction and oppression, live in the flesh and injustice??? God sees everything the unrighteous nations do. 

Deu 32:39 ,  “See now that I, I am He, 
And there is no god besides Me; 
It is I who put to death and give life. 
I have wounded and it is I who heal, 
And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.   ” 

Note: God is One, there is no other. God puts to death and gives life. God wounds and He heals. There is no one who can escape the hand of God. There is nothing or no event can withstand the sovereign power of God. No one and nothing can restrain God. 

Job 38:33,  “Do you know the laws of the universe? 
Can you use them to regulate the Earth?” 

Note: NO man knows the laws of the universe. No man can regulate the Earth. 

Psa 14:2 , “The LORD looks down from Heaven upon the entire human race, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. ” 

Psa 53:2 , “God looks down from Heaven on all humankind to see if anyone who is truly wise, if anyone seeks after God.” 

Western leaders and supremacists are wise in their own estimate. Do you know who is truly wise?

Psa 147:17 , “He casts forth His ice as fragments; 
Who can stand before His cold? ” 

Note: The ungodly do not realize that God looks down from Heaven upon the entire human race, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. Today all over the world peoples seek money, power and sex. Do you seek after God? Do you seek righteousness? Do you seek things above? Man is so feeble and weak, he cannot stand cold or heat. 

Ecc 6:12 , “For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?”  

Note: Even secular academics and atheists do not know what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life. No one can tell a man what will be after him under the sun. 

Ecc 8:7 , “If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?” 

Note: Secular scientists claim to know a lot, things happening billions of years ago. Yet, really no one knows what will happen tomorrow. No one can tell when death will happen. 

Isa 33:14 , “Sinners in Zion are terrified; 
Trembling has seized the godless. 
“Who among us can live with the consuming fire? 
Who among us can live with continual burning? ” 

Note: Sinners should be terrified and the godless should be trembling. In the last days the wicked are arrogant and get worse and worse. God is the Consuming Fire. Hell fire is continual burning. Hell fire cannot be quenched.

Dan 5:23 , “For you have proudly defied the Lord of Heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny! ” 

Note: Destiny means fate, something to which a person or thing is destined. God controls what happens in the future. Many are not aware that controls the whole course of everybody’s life is God. God controls your destiny. God controls the destiny of any nation, including the sole superpower.

Psa 18:32 , “The God who girds me with strength 
And makes my way blameless? ” 

Hab 3:19 , “The Lord GOD is my strength, 
And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet,  
And makes me walk on my high places. 
For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.   ” 

1Sa 16:7, “But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” 

Note: God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. Appearances are deceptive. No man can fool God. 

1Th 2:4 , “but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who examines our hearts. ” 

Note: Those who have been entrusted with the Gospel must not please men. God examines our hearts to see the motive. 

Psa 55:19,  “God will hear and answer them   — 
Even the one who sits enthroned from of old— Selah. 
With whom there is no change, 
And who do not fear God. ” 

Job 21:22 ,  “Can anyone teach God knowledge, 
In that He judges those on high?   ” 

Psa 58:11, “And men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely there is a God who judges on Earth! ” 

Note: You may doubt or disbelieve. Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on Earth. As you see more and live longer you will know. 

Psa 95:7 ,   “for He is our God. 
We are the people He watches over, 
the flock under His care. 
If only you would listen to His voice today! ” 

Gen 9:6,   “Whoever sheds man’s blood, 
By man his blood shall be shed, 
For in the image of God 
He made man. ” 

Note: The Sovereign God decreed that whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed. God instituted death penalty for murderer. Whoever opposes death penalty (capital punishment) opposes the authority of God. If you oppose God, do not call yourself a Christian. Those who oppose God are enemies of God. 

Gen 41:51 , “Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,”  he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble   and all my father’s household.” 

Note: Most wonderful is the fact God can make His children forget all their troubles. God not only made Joseph lord of all Egypt; God made him to forget all his trouble. 

Psa 37:31 , “The law of their God controls their thinking; their feet do not slip. ” 

Psa 68:6 , “God makes a home for the lonely; 
He leads out the prisoners into prosperity, 
Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land. ” 

Lev 26:13, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect. ” 

Note: God brought the Jewish people out of the slavery of Egypt and broke the bars of their yoke and made them walk erect. A free man can walk erect. 

1Ki 12:15 , “So the king did not listen to the people; for it was a turn of events  from the LORD, that He might establish His Word, which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. ” 

Note: Turn of event in Hebrew is cibbah  which means turn of affairs; a change of course; a cause to change; a change of what is happening; a sudden change in circumstance; – which occurs 1 time in the Old Testament. Mind you, the Supreme Lord can make a turn of events. No one controls events, events control men.  Warmongers, imperialists, supremacists, monopolists, militarists, and terrorists may think they are strong and powerful, actually they do not control events, events control them. COVID-19 in 2020 proves how desperate and powerless are nations and peoples of the world.

1Ki 22:34  , “Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight; for I am severely wounded.” 

Note: God can use what seems to be at random or without definite aim or direction, rule or method to serve His purpose. There are myriads of events or happenings in the world and some may be thought of as accidents, incidents or chances. How can secular academics and atheists know which ones are not turns of events from the Lord? God had decided the wicked Saul must die. A certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. It is awesome to know the Supreme God controls whatever comes to pass.  

1Ch 12:23 , “Now these are the numbers of the divisions equipped for war, who came to David at Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the Word of the LORD.” 

Note: God turned the kingdom of Saul to David according to His Word. God can vanish the greatest evil empire any time. 

2Ch 10:15 , “So the king did not listen to the people, for it was    a turn    of events     from God that the LORD might establish His   Word,    which He spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. ” 

Note:   King Rehoboam did not listen to the people, it appeared he was willingly made his decision. But it was a turn of events from God that the Lord might establish His Word. 

1Ki 14:1-20,   “At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.  Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise now, and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who spoke concerning me that I would be  king over this people. Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”  Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.  Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick.  You shall say thus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that she will pretend to be  another woman.”  When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you  with  a harsh message. Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel, “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel, and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you—yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight;   you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back—therefore behold,  I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.  Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the LORD has spoken it.  Now you, arise, go to your house. When your feet enter the city the child will die. All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s family will come to the grave, because  in him something good was found toward the LORD God  of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on.   For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the  Euphrates  River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.  He will give up Israel on account of   the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he made Israel to sin.” Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.  All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the Word of the LORD which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet. Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.The time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. ” 

Note: Calamity in Hebrew is ra`  which means evil; mischief; trouble; harm; affliction; adversity; unhappiness; misery; bad thing; painful thing;  injury; sorrow; wretchedness; badness; disaster; lasting distress or suffering; major misfortune; – which occurs 690 times in the Old Testament. God is able to bring calamity on the house of any one, including the royalties. God is able to bring calamity on any evil nation. 

Isa 44:25, “Causing the omens of boasters to fail, 
Making fools  out of diviners, 
Causing wise men to draw back 
And turning their knowledge into foolishness. ” 

Note: Cause to fail in Hebrew is parar  which means to break; break in pieces; make void; defeat; disannul; frustrate; come to naught; break asunder; cause to cease; make ineffectual; shatter; make of none effect; crack through; annul; bring to nothing; – which occurs 51 times in the Old Testament. Just as Jesus Christ turned water into wine, so God can turn the knowledge of wise men into foolishness. God can make fools out of strategists, causing wise men to draw back. 

2Ch 30:7, “Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror, as you see. ” 

Note: White supremacists, imperialists, militarists, monopolists, hegemonists, capitalists, and terrorists — don’t be so arrogant, God can make you a horror. 

2Ch 18:33 , “A certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor.  So he said to the driver of the chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight, for I am severely wounded.” 

Note: God’s sovereignty includes controlling whatever comes to pass. The wonder is the fact that a certain man drew his bow at random, God made it to strike King Saul in a joint of the armor. When God wants to destroy a man, no weapons or military can protect him. 

Isa 29:16 , “You turn things around! 
Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, 
That what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”; 
Or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? 

Note: God turns things around means God reverses things. The clay is not equal with the potter. God is the potter, man is the clay. God’s sovereignty includes the power of God to turn things around. God controls events. 

Eze 14:17, “Or if  I should bring a sword on that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass through the country and cut off man and beast from it.” 

Eze 14:19 ,   “Or if  I should send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and beast from it .” 

Note: God can bring a sword on any country or send a plague (epidemics) against any nation. COVID-19 powerfully proves the case.

Eze 14:21 , “For thus says the Lord GOD, “How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem:   sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!   ” 

Note: God can use sword, famine, wild beasts and plague as severe judgments against any country to cut off man and beast from it. 

2Ki 19:28 , “Because of your raging against Me, 
And because your arrogance has come up to My ears, 
Therefore I will put My hook in your nose, 
And My bridle in your lips, 
And I will turn you back by the way which you came. ” 

There is no doubt that the arrogance of American and European leaders and politicians has come up to the ears of God.

Job 12:17-21,  “He makes counselors walk barefoot 
And makes fools of judges.  He loosens the bond of kings 
And binds their loins with a girdle.  He makes priests walk barefoot 
And overthrows the secure ones.  He deprives the trusted ones of speech and takes away the discernment of the elders.  He pours contempt on nobles and loosens the belt of the strong. ” 

Note: Counselors, judges, kings, priests, secure ones, trusted ones, elders, nobles, the strong cannot escape the sovereignty of God. 

Pro 21:1 , “ The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD;  He turns it wherever He wishes. ” 

Note: Everyone and everything is in the hand of the Lord. God turns everyone and everything wherever He wishes. 

1Co 1:19 , “For it is written, 
“I WILL DESTROY  THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, 
AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE   .” 

Note: Destroy in Greek is  apollymi  which means to perish; to abolish; to put out of the way entirely; to put an end to ruin; to render useless; to kill; to put to death; to ruin; to annihilate; to vanish away; to blot out; to vanquish; to put out of existence; – which occurs 94 times in the New Testament. Set aside in Greek is  atheteō  which means to bring to nothing; to despise; to reject; to disannul; to cast off; to do away with; to disregard; to nullify; to make void; to slight; – which occurs 21 times in the New Testament. God will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the cleverness of the clever. Study Biblical history you will find many interesting illustrations. 

Psa 55:23 , “But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of Destruction;  men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You. ” 

Note: You can be sure God will bring down the wicked to the Pit of Destruction (Hell), and deal with men of bloodshed and deceit not to live out half their days. Yes, I trust in God. 

Num 9:18 , “At the command of the LORD the sons of Israel would set out, and at the command of the LORD they would camp; as long as the cloud settled over the tabernacle, they remained camped. ” 

Note: God cares and controls the state and sons of Israel. God is known as the God of   Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  God brought the sons of Israel out of Egypt and led them through the great wilderness to the Promised Land. 

Dan 4:37,  “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.” 

Note: Nebuchadnezzar spoke in experience about the sovereignty of God. God was able to humble the arrogant Nebuchadnezzar. God is able to humble American and European leaders and politicians who walk in pride and dictate the world.

Jas 4:4 , “ You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ” 

Note: Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. The ways of the world are contrary to the way of God. 

Mar 7:37 , “They were utterly astonished, saying, “He has done all things well;  He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.” 

Note: It is wonderful to know ultimately all will acknowledge that God in His sovereignty does all things well. People were utterly astonished that Jesus Christ has done all things well. 

(D.)  God Rules Over Nature. 

Exo 15:1-21, “Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said,   “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea. The LORD is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him; my father’s God, and I will extol Him. The LORD is a  Warrior; the LORD is His name.  Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea;  and the choicest of his officers are drowned  in the Red Sea. The deeps cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone.  Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power,  Your right hand, O LORD,  shatters the enemy. And in the greatness of Your excellence You   overthrow those who rise up against You; You send forth Your burning anger, and it  consumes them as chaff .  At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing waters stood up like a heap;  the deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire shall be gratified against them; I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.’  You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.  Who is like You among the gods, O LORD?   Who is like You,   majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders?  You stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them. In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength You have guided  them  to Your holy habitation. The peoples have heard,  they tremble;  anguish    has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chiefs of Edom were   dismayed;  the leaders of Moab,  trembling  grips them;  all the inhabitants of Canaan have  melted away. Terror and dread fall upon them; by the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone;    until Your people pass over, O LORD, until the people pass over whom You have purchased. You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, the place, O LORD, which You have made for Your dwelling,  the sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established. The LORD shall reign forever and ever.  For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea,  and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but  the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea.  Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’ s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing. Miriam answered them,“ Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.” 

Note: Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song because God delivered them from the powerful Pharaoh in ruling over nature. By nature it means the natural, physical, or material world. Sea, winds, waters, earth, mountains, wilderness, birds, rock, weather, sun, moon, stars, storm, animals, fire, etc. are parts of nature. God controls over nature and the law of nature. 

Deu 11:4 , “and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the Red Sea to engulf them while they were pursuing you, and the LORD completely destroyed them.” 

Note: Here is another historical example how God used His sovereign power to protect His children and prevent them from disaster or destruction and at the same time God punished and destroyed the enemies of Israel the Egypt’s army. 

Exo 15:22-26, “Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into   the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and  found no water.  When they came to Marah, they could not drink  the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.  So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it  into the waters, and the waters became sweet.  There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them.   And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and   keep all His statutes, I will put  none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for  I, the LORD, am your Healer. ” 

Note: Here is another historical example of how God used His sovereign power to change bitter waters into sweet for His children to drink in the wilderness. 

Exo 16-7,  “Then they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to   the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt. The whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The sons of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the LORD’S hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold,  I will rain bread from Heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My instruction. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”  So Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, “At evening you will know that the LORD has brought you out of the land of Egypt;  and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, for He hears your grumblings against the LORD; and what are we, that you grumble against us?” 

Note: Here is another historical example how God used His sovereign power to  provide Manna (bread from Heaven) to eat in the wilderness of Sin. The Lord hates grumblings against Him. Therefore, Christians do not grumble against the Lord. 

Exo 16:8-15, “Moses said, “This will happen when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to the full in the morning; for the LORD hears your grumblings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”  Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, ‘Come near before the LORD, for He has heard your grumblings.’”  It came about as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  “I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God.’  ”So it came about at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.  When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat. ” 

Note: Here is another historical example how God used His sovereign power to provide bread and meat for the children of Israel to eat in the wilderness. 

Deu 8:15 ,   “He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water;  He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.” 

Note: Here is another historical example how God used His sovereign power to lead the children of Israel through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water. God provided and brought water for them out of the rock of flint. Imagine water out of the rock of flint, never before had it happened. 

1Ki 17:3-7,  “Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.  It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there.”  So he went and did according to the Word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.  The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.  It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. ” 

Note: Here is a marvelous historical example how God used His sovereign power to command the ravens to provide bread and meat for the prophet Elijah. 

1Ki 17:9-16, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”   So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, “   Please get me a little water in a jar   , that I may drink.”   As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.” But she said, “As the LORD your God lives,  I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that   we may eat it and die.” Then Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. For thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘ The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the face of the earth.’  So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days. The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, according to the Word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah.” 

Note: Here is another historical example how God used His sovereign power to provide  for Elijah, the widow and her son for many days. God overruled the nature to make the bowl of flour never exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty. God works wonders. 

2Ki 2:19-22 , “Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold now, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.” He said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.” So they brought  it  to him.  He went out to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘ I have purified these waters; there shall not be from there death or unfruitfulness any longer.”  So the waters have been purified to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke. ” 

Note: Here is another historical example how God used His sovereign power to purify the waters. 

2Ki 6:1-7, “Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limited for us.  Please let us go to the Jordan and each of us take from there a beam, and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live.” So he said, “Go.”  Then one said, “Please be willing to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I shall go.” So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For  it was borrowed.”  Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it  in there, and made the iron float. He said, “Take it up for yourself.” So he put out his hand and took it. ” 

Note: Here is an interesting historical example how God used His sovereign power and overruled the laws of physics to make the iron (axe) float to relieve the son of the prophets from losing his borrowed axe. 

Job 37:15 , “Do you know how God controls the storm 
and causes the lightning to flash from His clouds?” 

Psa 107:29 , “He caused the storm to be still, 
So that the waves of the sea were hushed.” 

Note:  Cause in Hebrew is quwm  which means to perform; accomplish; establish; set; fix; impose; make; carry out; give effect to; to make something happen; – which occurs 630 times in the Old Testament. God has power over nature to cause things to happen. 

Jer 13:16 , “Give glory to the LORD your God, 
Before He brings darkness 
And before your feet stumble 
On the dusky mountains, 
And while you are hoping for light 
He makes it into deep darkness, 
And  turns it  into gloom. ” 

Amo 4:13 , “For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind 
And declares to man what are His thoughts, 
He who makes dawn into darkness 
And treads on the high places of the earth, 
The LORD God of hosts is His name.” 

Num 16:25-35 ,  “Then Moses arose and went to Dathan and Abiram, with the elders of Israel following him,  and he spoke to the congregation, saying, “ Depart now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, or you will be swept away in all their sin. ” So they got back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram;  and Dathan and Abiram came out and  stood at the doorway of their tents,  along with their wives and their sons and their little ones.  Moses said, “By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these deeds; for this is not my doing. If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me. But if the LORD brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol,  then you will understand that these men have spurned the LORD.”  As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their  possessions. So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. All Israel who were  around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth may swallow us up!” Fire also came forth from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.” 

Note: These two examples show how God used His sovereign power to punish the wicked men by splitting open the ground under them, swallowed them up, then the earth closed over them. And fire came forth from the Lord to consume the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense presumptuously. 

Isa 38:8 , “Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway , which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps.”  So the sun’s shadow  went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down. ” 

Note: God caused the sun’s shadow go back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down. God rules over nature. 

Jos 10:12-13 , “Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,“ O sun, stand still at Gibeon, and O moon in the valley of Aijalon.”  So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies. Is it not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. ” 

Note: God’s sovereignty includes God made the sun stand still and the moon stopped for about a whole day. 

Psa 104:19, “He made the moon for the seasons; 
The sun knows the place of its setting. ” 

Note: God’s sovereignty includes controlling the seasons. 

Jon 4:8 , “When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.” 

Note: God’s sovereignty includes controlling a scorching east wind. 

Jon 1:4 , “The LORD hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up. ” 

Note: God’s sovereignty includes the Lord hurling a great wind on the sea. 

Dan 3:8-30, “For this reason at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and   brought charges against the Jews. They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: “O king, live forever! You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, and bagpipe and all kinds of music, is to   fall down and worship the golden image. But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.   There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have disregarded you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”  Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and anger gave orders to bring Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego; then these men were brought before the king.  Nebuchadnezzar responded and said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?  Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?”  Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up. ” Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and his facial expression was altered toward Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. He answered by giving orders to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. He commanded certain valiant warriors who were  in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego in order to cast them     into the furnace of blazing fire. Then these men were tied up in their trousers, their coats, their caps and their other  clothes, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.  For this reason, because the king’s command was  urgent and the furnace had been made extremely hot, the flame of the fire slew those men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. But these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, fell into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire still  tied up. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded and stood up in haste; he said to his high officials, “Was it not three men we cast bound into the midst of the fire?” They replied to the king, “Certainly, O king.”  He said, “Look!  I see four men loosed and     walking about  in the midst of the fire without harm, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the  gods!” Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of blazing fire; he responded and said, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the Most High God, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego came out of the midst of the fire. The satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king’s high officials gathered around and  saw in regard to these men that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them.   Nebuchadnezzar responded and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who put their trust in Him, violating the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies so as not to serve or worship any god except their own God. Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way.”  Then the king caused Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego to prosper in the province of Babylon. ” 

Note: Here is another most dramatic example how God used His supreme power to protect  Shadrach, Meschach and Abed-nego and  prevent  fire from consuming them, and used the same fire to punish    and slay His enemies. 

Dan 6:10-24, “Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously. Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel  making petition and supplication before his God. Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king’s injunction, “Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.” Then they answered and spoke before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a day.”  Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him.   Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Recognize, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”  Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions’ den.  The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.”  A stone was brought and laid over the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing would be changed in regard to Daniel. Then the king went off to his palace and  spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.  Then the king arose at dawn, at the break of day, and went in haste to the lions’ den. When he had come near the den to Daniel, he cried out with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God,  has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to deliver you from the lions? ” Then Daniel spoke to the king, “O king, live forever!   My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths and they have not harmed me, inasmuch as I was found innocent before Him; and also toward you, O king, I have committed no crime.”  Then the king was very pleased and gave orders for Daniel to be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den and no injury whatever was found on him, because he had trusted in his God. The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones. ” 

Note: This is a classic example how God used His sovereign power to  prevent the lions from harming Daniel, at the same time using His power to punish  those malicious men (with their children and wives) crushed by the same lions. 

Jer 10:13 , “When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the  Heavens, and He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the Earth; He makes lightning for the rain , 
And brings out the wind from His storehouses. ” 

Zec 7:14 ,   “but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate.” 

Note: God’s sovereignty includes scattering among all nations with a storm wind and making the pleasant land desolate.

2Ch 6:28, “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, if there is locust or grasshopper, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is.”

Note: God’s sovereignty includes creating famine, pestilence, blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, plague, trouble, tragedy, earthquake, flood, tornado, drought and sickness.  

V. THE ULTIMATE VICTORY

2Sa 23:12, “But he took his stand in the midst of the plot, defended it, and struck the Philistines; and the LORD brought about a great victory.”

As  Shammah took his stand and the LORD brought about a great victory, so Christians must take a stand in the truth. 

1Ch 29:11, “Yours, LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the Heavens and on the earth; Yours is the dominion, LORD, and You exalt Yourself as Head over all.”

Victory in Hebrew is neṣaḥ which means strength; constancy; perpetuity; eminence; endurance; to the end; splendor; triumph; glory; – which occurs 43 times in the Old Testament. Victory is God’s.  Dominion in Hebrew is mamlāḵâ which means kingdom; reign; realm; sovereignty; royal dignity; – which occurs 117 times in the Old Testament. Head in Hebrew is rō’š which means chief; top; captain; ruler; first; leader; highest; – which occurs 600 times in the Old Testament. The Lord has victory and dominion; and He is the Head over all.

Pro 21:31, “The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.”

The West is preparing for war, because its has military alliances, military bases, military equipment and apparatus, and large quantity of nuclear weapons; but the victory belongs to the Lord.

Mat 12:20, “A BENT REED HE WILL NOT BREAK OFF, AND A DIMLY BURNING WICK HE WILL NOT EXTINGUISH,UNTIL HE LEADS JUSTICE TO 

VICTORY.”

The Lord is merciful, a bent reed He will not break off, and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish. You say what the Lord is doing? Until the Lord leads justice to victory. JUSTICE will have victory, because the Lord Jesus is coming to lead justice to victory. Warmongers, imperialists, militarists, supremacists will have defeat, justice will ultimately have victory. 

1Co 15:54, “But when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written: “DEATH HAS BEEN SWALLOWED UP in victory.”

The Lord of Life Jesus Christ is able to make perishable put on the imperishable, the mortal put on immortality. In Jesus Christ even death will be swallowed up in victory. So Christians have nothing to worry.

1Co 15:55-57, “WHERE, O DEATH, IS YOUR VICTORY? WHERE, O DEATH, IS YOUR STING?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law; but 

thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Through our Lord Jesus Christ we Christians have final victory over sin, over evil, and even over death.

God will finally, completely, and ultimately eliminate evil all together.

I wholeheartedly agree with Edmund Burke who said, 

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” 

Good men and good women must do something so that the evil does not triumph in this world. However, due to the limits of what mankind can do, there will always be injustice and as there will be always poor people in this world until the second coming of Jesus Christ to right the wrong, and to judge the world.

The ultimate victory of God over evil does not depend on mankind or anything. God will reign forever and ever.

Psa 146:10, “The LORD will reign forever,
Your God, Zion, to all generations.
Praise the LORD!”

IN CONLUSION

Victory belongs to God. Ultimate victory belongs to God. By faith you can have final victory in Christ. You do not need any strategy. There is no anxiety or apprehension. For the Lord is able to make believers stand. No one can stand in God’s way. God has done it, it is a matter of time. The victory in Christ that no evil can defeat. The victory in Christ that nobody and nothing can change.

In the Kingdom of Heaven there will be absolutely no evil, no evil of any kind or form. There will be no longer evil, filth, darkness, injustice, tear, sorrow, sickness, or even death in the Kingdom of God.

Do you want to have a share in the Kingdom of Heaven of perfection? You may, if you repent and believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

You can do it now.

Willie Wong Thought

Willie Wong

August 14, 2025

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*BIBLICAL WISDOM

ON September 3, 2025 for China to mark 80^th anniversary of victory over Japanese aggression and fascism is a historical necessity and hard-earned victory. All foreigners who heroically sacrificed their lives for China in their fight against Japanese aggression must individually be commemorated and remembered, their relatives are eternal friends of China. I  have never seen such a great parade before, the size and scope of it would overwhelm your mind; every aspect of it was systematically planned, every step of male and female soldiers was of uniform procedures, every military vehicle with all nuclear missiles and every war airplane in the sky well performed; the words such as grand, massive, superb, magnificent fail to describe the whole celebration. I wholeheartedly salute every Chinese military man and woman who participated. From 1931-1945, the brutal behavior of Japanese were worse than wild beasts and deserve ten atomic bombs in recompense. Even today Japanese government and leaders do not repent of their war crimes, they worship executed war criminals as their national heroes and living gods. Japan never apologizes and pays compensation for killing 35 million Chinese, made hundreds of thousands sex slaves, millions of labor slaves and untold atrocities. Never again will China be oppressed. I am sure the militant Japan is deterred, but America is on the wrong side of history. Thank God it did not rain.

UN, EU, GERMANY, UK, FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZELAND, ETC. are strange and unreasonable peoples. Who is stopping Palestinians to build a Palestinian state in an Arab land? It is wrong and illegal to build a Palestinian state in Jewish land (Gaza, West Bank, etc.). That is the cause of conflict.

The fact that National Guards have to patrol Washington, D.C. with weapons speaks loudly and badly of the capital. The mayor of Washington, D.C. should be dismissed and deported. All the more urgent the national capital should move to Lincoln, Nebraska, without delay.

The mayor of Washington, D.C. bowed to the illegal acts of street people who set up tents on public streets. She should be dismissed and deported. The National Guards are empowered to trash the tents, clear the streets and vanish street people. Los Angeles is a disgraced city because the California Governor and Los Angeles mayor failed to solve the problems of street people who not only set up tents on public streets, but also urinate and defecate. All the more urgent for the national capital to move to Lincoln, Nebraska. In the face of national debt exceeding $37 trillion, the people can save money by abolishing the House, retain the unicameral legislation of Senate to move also to Lincoln Nebraska. All this can be accomplished legally by a national refrerendum. America is ruined by dark and evil forces.

Heroes of all races who sacrified their lives for China in the war against Japanese aggression should be celebrated and remembered. The descendants of them are eternal friends of China. Descendants of American Flying Tiers whose forefathers had sacrified their lives in the war against Japanese aggression and atrocities must always be honored and remembered. The Chinse government must treat them as eternal friends, and they are welcome to China anytime. Such blood bonds must be appreciated and maintained forever.

The world wrongly marks the anniversary of dropping atomic bomb on Hiroshima while neglecting the Japanse aggression and atrocities of killing 35 million innocent Chinese without remorse or reparations. UN overappointed unqualified blacks and media have given too much covergage to unworthy black spoke-persons. It is amazing no matter how beautifully white organizations and individuals hail human rights, civil rights, democracy, development, technology, benefits, justice, etc., what they are actually after is MONEY. This can be said equally true about blacks.

Pet economy is wasted economy. Money should better be spent on nutrition and education of children and orphanes. In cities all dogs must have annual license of Y5,000, cats Y4,000, and birds Y3,000. It is exempt for rural areas. If a dog defecates in public place, it shall be fined Y3,000 plus cleanup by owner or walker.

Global media highlight the number of Palestinians who have died, but fail to consider why Palestinian Authority and Palestinians do not want to evacuate from Jewish land and resettle in Arab land. Palestinians, men and women, young and old, are shameless beggars. They remain in Gaza to qualify for refugees so that they can get everything free from international community. The international community is ignorant of the fact that GAZA and related territories all belong to the Jews. Israel has every right to take back and take over Gaza and related territories. Palestinians must evacuate and relocate to Arab lands, make a living and establish its own Palestinian state without further delay.

French nincompoop Macron reognized Palestine as a state but failed to know that Palestine does not have territory and sovereignty. Leaders of UK, GERMANY, AUSTRLALIA would commit the same mistake by supporting terrorists. Hamas, Hezebolla, Houthis are wicked terrorists, they should be destroyed without mercy. Leaders of Palestinian Authority are guilty for the death and malnutrition of children because they lead Palestinians to the path of destruction. They could have led Palestinians to lands of Arabs to earn a living and build their own Palestinian state. Palestinians (young & old, man & woman) are most shameless beggars for food & water, they don’t want to go to an Arab land to earn a living and build their own Palestinian state. Africa amid famine has the most fat people in the world, they are also shameless beggars. Ukranians are shameless beggars for weapons, they do not have reason for existence. Harvard though the richest university in the world is a shameless beggar for US aid. Japan claims to practice democracy, its ruling party lost election miserably, yet its prime minister shamelessly wants to stay in power. The world must realize years of aid to Africa produced nothing, trillions of dollars went to black holes.  Africa is corrupt, unmotivated and useless. Black leaders and politicians take advantage of it; dress well, eat well, and live a luxurious life style. Black problems can be solved only by Blacks. Let Africa alone to survive on its own. Blacks create most of the problems in the world, given too much coverage and platform in world media, overappointed and given too many spokespersons and positions in UN. Any nation who shares destiny with Africa will be doomed. Nothing good comes out of Africa: primitive religion, superstition, spiritism, orgies, black magic, tribalism, voordoism.

If the Texas flooding is an act of God; Ukraine conflict, and conflicts of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis must be acts of the devil.

India must coexist with China, at the same time India and South Africa must be expelled from BRICS besause they do not remain true to BRICS’ founding mission, they do not belong, must be replaced by Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. US and EU must not rearm Ukraine, let Russia destroy it, and never to be rebuilt. The leader of Ukraine must also be executed.

Palestinian Authorities are guilty for leading Palestinians to a path of death, children died and suffer malnutrition.  Palestian Authorities do not lead Palestinians (who are Arabs) to a land of Arabs to work for a living and build the Palestinian state.

American forces have successfully wiped out three Iranian nuclear sites through B-2 bombers. The “everlasting consequence” is Iran cannot be a nuclear threat anymore. I stand with the overwhelming majority of Dutch people to demolish NATO — the war machine.