Psalm 18:44
44 As soon as they hear [shema`] ['ozen] of me, they shall
obey [shama`] me: the strangers [ben] [nekar] shall submit [kachash] themselves unto me. KJV-Interlinear
44 As
soon as they hear, they obey me; Foreigners submit to me. NASB
Obey, ‘shama,’ refers to
obedience, or to make the noise of obedience, to act out overtly as though one
is obedient.
Submit, ‘kachash,’ means
to feign, to fake, to lie, to act out in a hypocritical fashion, to make overt
ovations, but in fact are really thinking the opposite.
And so the spiritually negative
person, is aware of the reputation and power of God, and when they come face to
face with His awesome power, they bow low with an overt expression, but are
really thinking hate, disrespect, indifference in their hearts.
When David defeated enemy
after enemy, still others came along with hypocritical attitudes and no respect
for David as a king, as a national leader, as a military strategist.
And yet Davids reputation
preceded him in the piles of corpses he left on the battlefield.
And so during the
Tribulation, and when Christ returns at the Second Advent, He too will leave
corpses stacked as high as the horses bridle on battlefields worldwide.
When that future period
of history arrives, during that entire seven year period, not one single family
will be untouched by the judgments and death that will inundate the planet. And for the entire seven years, the storms,
disasters, gang violence, organized atrocities and worse will escalate more and
more, on an unprecedented scale.
And even then, in the face
of the most horrendous terror and judgments ever in history, people will still
mock God, people will still make false ovations, people will still pretend
obedience, but will really hate and resent God with a passion.
And doesn’t that seem
rather odd, when people are faced with God awesome power and have nothing of their
own to counter it?
But then, people even
today, make phony endorsements, pretend obedience, but really pursue things
that are convenient and acceptable to them, rather than things that are
consistent with Gods will.
What do you suppose they
can expect when their individual judgment day arrives?
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