Countless People Who Do Not Know Their Left from Their Right (Edited with ChatGPT)

 

There are three things that God loves: mercy, holiness, and judgment. What God loves the most is holiness, yet only He is holy, and others need God’s mercy to grow toward His holiness. That is why God loves mercy—because it is not in our essence to be perfectly holy. However, there are those evil apples who say light is dark and dark is light, truth is a lie and a lie is truth, who are completely allergic to holiness and gravitate toward evil. Here is where God’s judgment becomes a critical tool for building holiness.

 

After all, it is foolish to expect holiness out of an evil person by rewarding evil, and some evildoers need the judgment of God. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Yesterday, today, and forever, He loves holiness, mercy, and judgment. Just read the message to the seven assemblies of the Lord—His sword is a double-edged sword that cuts both ways. The sword that comes out of the mouth of the Lord Jesus is the Word of God. If you obey the Word of God, it is for blessing; if you disobey, it is for judgment. The words that come from the Lord will judge you because they are both truth and spirit. When Jesus speaks, He is declaring spiritual law, and that law will be enforced by the power of God. His words are spirit and truth; they give life to the faithful and build the foundation of destruction for the faithless. 

 

Dears, even the faithful—I mean the real faithful, those who are born again and led by the Holy Spirit—are judged by God daily. Grace means we are children of God through the blood of Jesus, and it means we are adopted children of God. We have a Father who fathers us. Fathering is an art and requires patience, wisdom, endurance, long-sightedness, and, sometimes, speaking in the tongue of a donkey. We are not hired servants. Therefore, God will not simply kick us out just because we commit grave sins—He loves us. Yet, spanking is natural when we become too much like a donkey, and God must speak our language. Sometimes, God can even allow sickness and death to befall the faithful—say, if one disrespects the blood and flesh of the Lord. If God does not punish you, either He is being very patient, expecting you to learn without spanking, or you are a bastard of the devil who is not written in the Book of Life. 

 

There have been countless people and civilizations who worship idols, swim in sin, and follow the devil. God never had serious headaches about those people. He punishes them severely to uproot them forever, but that happens over a long period of time, only when their sins become too grave. They are like street children, eating from the trash bin, ugly and lawless as any street child is. No father loses his mind over them. If they cross the line of the law, however, the police are watching to give them a serious sentence in the big house. With His children, however, He is not only serious about sustaining them but also about disciplining them because they are not bastards of the devil but His own people. 

 

When God wants to punish His children because they have been evil for a long period and have not listened to His corrections, He first withdraws His support from them. He takes away food and water, closes the heavens from raining the light of God (His Spirit), removes knowledgeable and skillful people from them, and allows children to become their rulers. God exposes their real nature and weaknesses by removing Himself from them. Naturally, the garden of God will grow thorns and wild plants, and wild animals will graze there.

 

The people will be left in the hands of the people of this earth—greedy, self-centered, hypocritical, and self-serving individuals who imprison the masses for their own comfort. For power, dominance, respect, and wealth, they will enslave the people in a yoke of oppression. Resources will become scarce, and the thorns will hoard most of them. They may even dismantle the citizens’ houses to fortify their city walls. Everything will turn upside down—until the final judgmental blow comes from God.

 

Why? Because God withholds His Spirit from guiding the hearts of all formal and informal leaders, prevents the rise of wise counselors to support the people, withholds the blessings of food and water, and allows the thorns promised to Adam to freely express the nature of God’s judgment upon humanity. This is the final warning before the biggest blow, and the final blow comes soon after—unless the people listen. This is the history recorded in the Bible.

 

If you look carefully, you can see this pattern in people’s lives. You will see it around you, in those you know well. Observe their life stories, their stumbling blocks, and when they fall—you will find a correlation between their downfall and their past sins. For some of us, because God wants us to notice this pattern, He amplifies our punishment and rewards as a lesson. Yet, this system works everywhere. God repays both good and bad. What goes around does come around. The wheels within wheels, controlled by the cherubim and guided—along with the cherubim—by the Spirit of God, are judgment wheels. God judges, and His cherubim are in apprentice training.

 

The biggest problem I see in this system is that people do not understand what happens or why it happens. The stiff-necked children of Jacob had prophets to warn them, to teach them right from wrong, and to distinguish their right (what is heavenly) from their left (what is accustomed). But most people today lack that knowledge. Even when God punishes them, they may become more evil, seeking to survive in the hell God has given them as punishment, never understanding what caused their downfall. Yet we all know that God has better reasoning and judgment, as He plays a complex chess game while we play checkers, chasing heaven and hell. God knows better.

 

That is why it is a privilege to have someone to show you what is right (what is heavenly) from what is left (what is accustomed). Even if you reject the truth and face the hand of God, at least you were told the way out of your hellhole. Many people are enslaved by Babylon, but how many know why—and, more importantly, the solution? It is good to have a Samuel, a Jeremiah, an Ezekiel, and others, because even if you do not understand their light, you will see it as you sink into hell and need a way out.

 

It has never been God’s desire to destroy people, but to punish them into holiness. That is why if a sinner becomes holy, his past sins are never remembered—he is now holy. If a child of a sinner becomes holy, he is holy, and the sins of his parents are not counted against him. But if a holy man becomes sinful, his past holiness is meaningless—he is now sinful. And if the child of a holy man turns to sin, he too is sinful.

 

If you were holy yesterday, the same reason that made you a precious jewel in God's eyes will now judge your current sins. Your past holiness is not a license for present sin—the same sword that once cut in your favor will now cut against you. It is a double-edged sword. Even Lucifer was once a spotless, holy angel—but that did not excuse his rebellion. What sets you apart is not you, but your holiness. And what makes you worthless is not you, but your sin. The real question is: Does your spiritual ID say “holy” or “sinful” now?