Have you ever noticed that God sometimes curses his own people? Consider his words to Isaiah, “Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand not; and see you indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate, And the LORD has removed men far away, and there are many forsaken places in the midst of the land. But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be laid waste: as a terebinth tree, and as an oak, whose stump remains, when they are cut down: so the holy seed shall be its stump.” (Isaiah 6:9-13 KJ2000)
God sent Isaiah as a prophet of doom to the rebellious houses of Israel and Judah because those two nations had rejected God as their sovereign King and Lawgiver. Yes, they were God’s people, but have you ever noticed how few of “God’s” people really respond to his word of truth? Millions claim Jesus as their “savior.” Millions say they obey him. Few really do. A strange thing exists in that most of us cannot even discern whether we obey God well or not. Paul said, “I do not even judge myself.” Why not? He could not accurately judge himself.
God told Isaiah to proclaim a curse over his rebellious people, saying, “Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand not; and see you indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes…” But why this curse? “Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed.” (Isaiah 6:9-10 KJ2000)
In other word, God brings this curse to keep them from repenting! And, since they won’t (can’t) repent, God brings judgment upon them again and again until all that is left is a stump, the holy seed. God uses continual judgments to refine his firstfruits sons. But, what of the rest?
Consider why the curse came in the first place. God’s people, types of the church today, rebelled against God’s truth and walked in disobedience. It was their continued disobedience and failure to repent that brought the initial curse. The curse, then, was God’s judgment for their sin. But why?
God cannot entrust spiritual truth to disobedient men. Truth marks the obedient sons of God. Thus God conceals his word to all the rest. Knowing this helps us understand a key verse concerning these times. “And then shall that Wicked One be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deception of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be condemned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 KJ2000) Here we see that God literally sends his people a spirit of delusion so that they will believe the lie.
When we see this then we can understand why many Christians voted for Barack Obama, a man who believes that patently evil things, like abortion and homosexual marriage, are good. They were deluded into believing a lie, and so, they voted for a liar. Isn’t it remarkable that Christians voted for their own antichrist, one who, even if not the antichrist, clearly walks in and governs by an antichrist spirit?
