PRÉCIS ON THE GOD WHO MAKES DISTINCTIONS IN REJECTION OF THE AMERICAN JESUS

SCRIPTURE. “With the kind and merciful You will show Yourself kind and merciful, with an upright man You will show Yourself upright, with the pure You will show Yourself pure, and with the perverse You will show Yourself contrary. For You deliver an afflicted and humble people but will bring down those with haughty looks.” – PSALM 18:25-27, AMPC

KEY TERMS

• “HUMBLE.” ‘Ani’ [עָנִי]: “From a primitive root [‘anah,’ עָנָה] meaning, ‘To defile;’ the idea of looking down upon or browbeating; to depress; abase, afflict, chastise; deal harshly with, exercise force (against); lowly, meek, poor; needy or saintly; mishandled or weakened; [imp., ‘persecuted’]; submissive; opposed to proud, arrogant or assuming; in an evangelical sense, having a low opinion of one’s self, and a deep sense of unworthiness in the sight of God.”

• “HAUGHTY.” ‘Rum’ [רוּם]: “‘To be high or raised up;’ to exalt oneself; lofty, loud; to presumptuously promote; proud, set up tall; syn., ‘to breed worms’ [in one’s soul]; fig. of a hand, symbol of might; rebellious, worthless; akin to raising the waves of the sea; to extol; to set on a high throne; ‘to erect a stone [or statue to oneself];’ proud and disdainful; having a high opinion of one’s self, with some contempt for others; lofty and arrogant; supercilious.”

QUOTATION. “As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.” ― C.S. LEWIS, Mere Christianity, 1952

COMMENTARY. “In these verses David lays down the general method of the procedure of God’s Providence and Moral Government, which, in the issue, will be according to the moral character and conduct of men themselves. 

‘With the merciful,’ &c. — A declaration similar to that of our Lord, ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.’ ‘With an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright’ — An invariable friend to his integrity; just to reward it, and faithful in all thy promises to encourage it. ‘With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure’ — That is, the lover of purity, righteousness, and truth, and ever acting toward those whose character this is, according to the perfect rectitude and unspotted purity of thy own nature.

‘With the froward [disobedient, rebellious] thou wilt show thyself froward’ — With the perverse Thou strugglest, or, rather, wilt struggle or wrestle; that is, until thou shalt conquer him. The word rendered ‘froward’ signifies one of a perverse disposition, who twists and twines himself, just as his humour, passions, and interest lead him; or, ‘a crafty, wily person, who accustoms himself to all the wiles of deceit.’ With one of this character, the Psalmist says, ‘God will wrestle’ [fight against, oppose as an enemy]. The meaning is, that He will deal with perverse, designing, and crafty men, according to their deserts; will oppose them in their designs, struggle against, and walk contrary to them, Leviticus 26:23-24; that He will disappoint them in all their subtlest devices, and cause them to fall by those very wiles by which they endeavour to deceive and ruin others.

‘For thou wilt save the afflicted [remnant] people’ — Thou art wont to deliver those who are poor and distressed when they humbly wait upon Thee; ‘but wilt bring down high looks’ — Wilt lay those low who, proud of their power, insolently oppress them; or, those proud persons who discover the pride of their hearts by their haughty looks and overbearing conduct.” – JOSEPH BENSON, Notes on the Holy Bible, 5 vols., 1811-1818; edited

DK. Ah, beloved, just TWO SHARP THOUGHTS in summary. God is being so crystalline clear here, that ‘The Humble’ shall be persecuted by men mercilessly, but the God of Justice shall bless and exalt and honor them in this life, and in the Afterlife. But to ‘The Proud’ He shall become their Arch Foe, and abase and oppose their every move, and destroy all who do not repent, casting them into “Outer Darkness” forever.

These Distinctions are so very plain that a little child can understand them. But the American Church apparently cannot – or will not! And by that Rebellion, there shall be blood and fire and smoke from both God and man, but of very different kinds and toward very different Final Outcomes.

Pastors, Priests and Prelates who will not take a knee to Christ shall take a knee to Antichrist, have their reward here and now, but shall eternally perish. The Contrite, however, who shall only bend the knee to the True Christ, shall inherit more than they could possibly imagine, though they may forfeit this present life.

Might be a good time to reassess one’s course, wouldn’t you think?  Selah.