The Devil's Work Every Single Day

The devil is busy placing angry thoughts into the minds of many to turn them against one another.

Pride keeps people angry when there is no reason to be angry.

The devil hates believers, even causing people to believe they are saved when they are not. These are the people who are easily enraged when they are confronted with their sin of pride.

When we encounter someone who has been told they need to rethink their belief or their actions and they rage as a result of the conversation we know we have met a prideful person.

Those who believe they are doing right do not rage at a challenge. They may even listen to the challenge to ponder it if they have not heard the principles presented before.

However the narcissist will rage nearly every time they are confronted. They will mock, demean and reject anyone who brings truth that contradicts their elevated view of themselves.

In short: Narcissists do not listen carefully to learn truth unless its what they want to hear. They rage when they don't like what they have heard.

When God said the angry man does not have ears to hear He does not mean they have no ears, He means they are "sticking their fingers in their ears" to deliberately resist hearing. This is the meaning in the original language.

We see this all the time when we speak to stubborn people. They refuse to answer simple questions when asked and ignore anything you say when they are not raging. They can learn to restrain their actions but the angry mentality remains.

This is the state of our world today, get used to it believers and be prepared to address it Biblically.

2 Timothy 3:1-5
"1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."

Notice God said these people will have a form of godliness, or "religion" but not the relationship with Christ. These people our pridefully holding on to their own self esteem, in so doing they deny God in favor of self. They do not say there is no god. They say they will make their own ideas of what God means in His Word.

These people claim to follow the Bible but they resist its truth mixing it with many other forms of false doctrine to satisfy their own lust for pleasure and power.