“The
Lord is in His holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven.” Psalm 11:4
In First John, the beloved Apostle,
warns us of many anti-Christs that will come into the world and are already
here. The Christian community has too strong a focus on the one Anti-Christ who
will come to defy Christ’s return. While he will come and be the epitome of
wickedness, he isn’t the only anti-Christ. There are many today who come and
say that they believe in Jesus or are Christians but who are anti-Christs. They
try to unseat Christ from His rightful place of full authority and adulation.
They want to deny His right to His status as God. They want to disrupt His laws
and replace them with ones that say sin is right and righteousness is wrong. When
they do this within the framework of the name of Christ; they are anti-Christs.
But, there is good news. The Lord is
in His holy temple. He cannot be moved. He is not threatened by all the false
assumptions of man and false messiahs, whether political or religious, that try
to upend His eternal rule. God, Psalm 2 says, sits in heaven and laughs at
them. This is good news for those who get so concerned about the work of the
anti-Christs. These false Christs will not prevail in the eternal realm. While
they try to prevail in our temporal realm we are to be busy doing what is best
for eternity and not become obsessed with what will perish. The Lord is in His
holy temple and we can confidently depend on His help each day to do His work
for eternity.
Dear
Father, We rejoice in the certainty that You cannot be moved by all the schemes
of man. Help us to concentrate on eternal work and not be dismayed by the
scheming of the anti-Christs among us. Amen.
The
Friday Benediction
Until Monday, my friends, may the good God envelop
you with His grace; may you prove the common confession of faith, “I believe in
the holy Christian church and in the fellowship of the saints”, and may you be
enriched with joy and hope as you exercise that confession this weekend. Amen
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