Posted by
The Chiefest of Sinners on Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:44:52 AM
We are instructed of Jesus as to how evil operates:
Matthew12:29
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
One must first bind the “strong man” before spoiling his goods, including his liberty.
Samson had a covenant with God, and enjoyed the Spirit of God; but he also failed to walk uprightly and keep his covenant; so he gave in to the tempter who took him captive. His enemy subjected him to torture and humiliation. His eyes were blinded during the torture, so that he had to be led around by another. As a result, this once great warrior, who the enemy had feared, was bound and reduced to grinding in the enemy’s mill. The strong man was then manageable by reason of his blindness.
In this country today, the populace is blinded to the facts of their heritage, due to their own failure to love the truth (…thy Word is truth.-John 17:17). As a result they, who were once strong in liberty and freedom, are now led around by those who are really their enemy.
The token of Samson’s covenant with God, his hair, began to grow; and finally God remembered Samson one last time. Will He remember us “one last time”?
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Luke 21:34-35
34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.