I am always infuriated when I watch films, and television and they mock our Lord Jesus Christ. It can be a simple expletive including our Lord’s Name or it can be jokes that mock Him. I am incensed that never do the cruel puns poke fun at any of the false gods or their teachers. My blood boils at the blasphemies disguised as soliloquies. And then I realize, that it has always been this way. When Christ our God preached, the religious leaders and common people insulted him, and sought to kill Him. And at the pivotal moment when facing the cup of suffering He must drink, Hewas mocked and beaten by the people, “Now the men who held Jesus mocked Him and beat Him. And having blindfolded Him, they struck Him on the face and asked Him, saying, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck You?” And many other things they blasphemously spoke against Him,” (Luke 22:663-65), “Then Herod, with his men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate,” (Luke 22:11), “What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.” Then they began to spit in Jesus' face and beat him with their fists. And some slapped him,” (Matthew 26:66-67), “They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.” (Matthew 27:28-31), and, “The people who were going by shouted blasphemies at Jesus. They shook their heads at him. ‘So!’ they said. ‘You were going to destroy the Temple and build it in three days, were you? Save yourself, if you’re God’s son! Come down from the cross!’The chief priests, too, and the scribes and the elders, mocked him.” (Matthew 27:39-41 NTE). We see from soldiers to commoners to priests, everyone joined in on beating and mocking Jesus. I have then realized this is the normal response of the world that does not believe in Christ as we do. We Christians cannot even fathom disrespecting our Lord and Savior, but actually the abusing and blaspheming of Him had been happening since Calvary and during His ministry by those who refuse to believe in Him and His message.
In fact the spirit at work in people that mocks Christ is the Antichrist, “Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months.” (Revelation 13:5). The Beast and Antichrist is known as the Man of Lawless, and it says the spirit of lawlessness goes before him, “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. “ (2 Thessalonians 2:7-10). This means the abuse and blasphemies against our Lord and Savior will only increase in this world as these end times play out. We praise our Lord Jesus, but the world will blaspheme Him and be judged at His Coming (Revelation 19:11-21, Zachariah 14:1-18).
The world may mock our Messiah, but when He comes on the clouds He will cut them down, “Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse was standing there. Its rider was named Faithful and True, for he judges fairly and wages a righteous war. His eyes were like flames of fire, and on his head were many crowns. A name was written on him that no one understood except himself. He wore a robe dipped in blood, and his title was the Word of God. The armies of heaven, dressed in the finest of pure white linen, followed him on white horses. From his mouth came a sharp sword to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He will release the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty, like juice flowing from a winepress. On his robe at his thigh was written this title: King of all kings and Lord of all lords. Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, shouting to the vultures flying high in the sky: “Come! Gather together for the great banquet God has prepared. Come and eat the flesh of kings, generals, and strong warriors; of horses and their riders; and of all humanity, both free and slave, small and great.”Then I saw the beast and the kings of the world and their armies gathered together to fight against the one sitting on the horse and his army. And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who did mighty miracles on behalf of the beast—miracles that deceived all who had accepted the mark of the beast and who worshiped his statue. Both the beast and his false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. Their entire army was killed by the sharp sword that came from the mouth of the one riding the white horse. And the vultures all gorged themselves on the dead bodies.” (Revelation 19:11-21) and He shall caste them into the Lake of Fire, “Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:15). The unbelievers mock now, but all there abuses will be met by God’s Wrath! They may poke fun now, but the enemies of Christ shall tremble when He appears, “And they cried to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.” (Revelation 6:16). The blasphemous will be smitten to pieces, while we who are in the Lamb (Jesus)’s Book of Life shall be saved, “The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.” (Revelation 3:5 NIV). Amen.
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