Christ spoiled principalities and powers

(A cloke of maliciousness)

Colossians 2:15

King James Version

15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Absolute power absolutely corrupts is this biblical?

You know I said in a previous blog that some Christian study the demographics of evil so they can better know how to administer the word of God. They can become better preachers. They can become the sharpest tool in the tool shed. And with that in mind I did have a revisitation, another look at the demographics of evil around the world and its depth. I've seen much reported throughout the years. Even in current times. It's incredible even the political depth of such. I looked at the wars in their profound evils and what suffering they have brought upon the Earth. I saw a fella that had gone to a totalitarian regime Nation and did not return but when he did he was so far damaged that 4 days later he died and his mother vowed to fight for his cause for the rest of her life. I've seen how men have easily sold out in their own soul justified. You can't serve two masters because hell is eternal. But they don't really believe that but what a reality check they're going to get because after this life comes judgment. I've seen the damaging effects even on Canadian soldiers that have developed Post-traumatic stress disorder and the level of adequate support is like pulling teeth for them. From when I was not in Christ but in the world God showed me and loving me is a real way something I could never have phantomed. You might think why would he create the world with this magnitude of evil which it really is. The other reality you're going to know once you become a true believer is the depths of Satan. Christ said he was a murder from the beginning. Think about this cherubim Angel who was guarding the throne of God at one time and now he hates his own maker. Pride was found in him and he became prideful in his own beauty. You see even if I had that magnitude of beauty on the outside it is so easy to become corrupted by it. But on the other hand Christ had no beauty that he should be desired. He was actually rejected and despised. He was a man well acquainted with sorrow and yet he was on Earth the son of the Living God. Truth is those fallen angels & demons work against people of God and especially against unbelievers and people who are unaware but the fallen Angels work for Satan and God has reserved them for judgment. Think about what they are doing in this world is assisting Satan in all manner of evil. Any true Christian knows this is absolutely the truth and it's impossible for the God of creation to lie. God tells us there's a way that seems right unto a man but in the end it is the way of death. God is the God of the Israelites and he is the God of Israel. We know for sure that Armageddon will happen because God tells us so in the Book of Revelation. We know what is going to happen to Israel in those days as it's going to become extremely difficult even for women that are pregnant. Now I'm saying all of this maybe a lot of people won't be here to witness these things but many nations have nuclear weapons and Nation will eventually rise up against Nation because Christ told us so in the end times. There's going to come a war unlike anything man has ever seen and so I think Christians should promote peace and not just be thinking about themselves while preaching and promoting the gospel. Now of course Jesus or we can call him Emmanuel the Jewish Rabbi, the biblical Jesus said they did not listen to him so don't be surprised when they won't listen to us. He said if they persecute me they will persecute you and he is the son of the Living God. Can God be right? Absolutely you can put all your faith and trust in God. You know even as born again Christians we can argue are we under the law or aren't we. If we were under the law none of us would make it. Christ did that for us. God provided grace and mercy but that doesn't give true believers the right to ignorantly let it rebound over and over. We can also argue being in the world or not. Should we just go on as the old man? Absolutely not because a man who looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God. The evil one counterfeits everything and he is much whittier and conniving than any man on the face of the Earth. I mean look what he did to JOB. He wanted to sift Peter. Look what he did to Judas Iscariot an apostle chosen. God tells us the depths of Satan are extreme. It also works God's will. We can look at it like he reports back to God but he weakens the Nations according to the prophet Isaiah so get with it.

What the Bible says about Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

(From Forerunner Commentary) see below

1 Peter 2:16, KJV: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16, NASB: Act as free people, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bond-servants of God.

1 Peter 2:17-21 basic commentary that I found.

(From Forerunner Commentary)

"There is oppression and abuse all over the world. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." People abuse when they amass power'whether it be in the family, in the community, or in the nation. There is plenty of abuse of authority. In this nation, we are moving rapidly toward the time when Christians will be abused far worse than they have ever been in the past. We have been called to this'to submit to evil out of respect for God, out of faith. This does not mean we are submit to do evil, but to submit to God in the face of evil."

Let's see what Henry Matthew thinks

(Read 1 Peter 2:11-12)

"Even the best of men, the chosen generation, the people of God, need to be exhorted to keep from the worst sins. And fleshly lusts are most destructive to man's soul. It is a sore judgment to be given up to them. There is a day of visitation coming, wherein God may call to repentance by his word and his grace; then many will glorify God, and the holy lives of his people will have promoted the happy change."

Henry Matthew commentary continued

(Read 1 Peter 2:13-17)

"A Christian conversation must be honest; which it cannot be, if there is not a just and careful discharge of all relative duties: the apostle here treats of these distinctly. Regard to those duties is the will of God, consequently, the Christian's duty, and the way to silence the base slanders of ignorant and foolish men. Christians must endeavour, in all relations, to behave aright, that they do not make their liberty a cloak or covering for any wickedness, or for the neglect of duty; but they must remember that they are servants of God."

In my after note and after thoughts I want you to look over this blog and read the commentaries that I have put on it and pray and contemplate what is written here in your mind. You see you can't be in Christ and in the world. Many people are deceived and are not living the life in Christ. When they face the judgment they're going to face a metal wall. Why? because they're not with it and they are massively deceived. They reject correction. So take it serious. If you have died with Christ in baptism and you are now a new creature in Christ put the old man away and put your mind on doing God's will instead of your own. Romans 6:4 kjv You must put your faith and trust in the biblical Lord Jesus Christ and his finish work on the cross

December 11th 2022 7:44 a.m.