Next time someone presents another conspiracy theory for you to ruminate over and constantly worrying about, just read this and you will be reminded that the world is now so full of lies and false news that hardly anything we see online or in the news is worth listening to.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
Man of Lawlessness
2 Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
3 No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, "
We are living in the apostasy of the church right now. Politics and conspiracies have become more prominent than Jesus Christ. The worship of knowledge, even false knowledge has become the norm.
If those who say they are Christians spent one month not seeing any news at all they would perhaps begin to draw closer to Christ as they ponder His glory and our future home going.
2 Timothy 4:8 "in the future there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing."
I promise you, there is no value in knowing all the news out there especially since we have no way to vet any of it.
The value of meditating on God's Word and sharing it with others is of far greater value with eternal consequences.
Matthew 24:14
"And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."
Psalm 96:3
"Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!"
Our mandate from God was not to keep track of all the political events or the filth happening, but it was to share the gospel, grow in holiness ourselves and keep ourselves from being corrupted by the world around us. We cannot keep ourselves from corruption by knowing the details of what evil people are doing.
Galatians 6:8 "because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit."
Seeking after knowledge of the wicked world is sewing corruption for the flesh.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people."
God commanded us to "stay away from such people as described in 2 Timothy 3, that would include all the news about them.
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