Even Family Will Betray You

 “So Samson’s wife wept in front of him and said, “You only hate me, and you do not love me; you have proposed a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told it to me.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told it to my father or mother; so should I tell you?” However she wept before him for seven days while their feast lasted. And on the seventh day he told her because she pressed him so hard. She then told the riddle to the sons of her people.”
---Judges 14:16-17

​On Thanksgiving Day of 2018, Christ sounded the Clarion Call. He gave an audible signal to His faithful and His true that demons are advancing and that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were preparing to take wing. In a very real sense, Gabriel blew his horn.
 
Deep-space sonar stations around the world received this signal weeks later. The signal defied physics and baffled the world’s top scientists and astronomers. Reports of the signal were largely, and deliberately, ignored by the media and by political leaders. Idolators that long ago abandoned Christ’s commands buried the story so as not to alarm the public and pressed forward with their unholy agendas as if nothing happened. (Ezekiel 28:2-5)
 
Christ warned that the days ahead will offer an “Abomination of Desolation”. (Matthew 24:15). He warned that men and women that have succumbed to demons will attempt to deceive His faithful about His arrival: “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘He is over here,’ do not believe him.” (Matthew 24:23) He also warned that His faithful and His true will suffer through tribulations unlike any before.
 
Many of these tribulations will come through friends, family, and loved ones. As Christ reveals, “brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.” (Matthew 10:21-22). True sons and second sons of Israel will be hated by men and women who succumbed to Satan. They shall covet us and attempt to drag us down with them.
 
It has been this way since the fall of man. Alon and Best (known as Cain and Abel within modern scriptural translations) were the first two progeny of Adam and Only (known within modern scriptural translations as Adam and Eve), and Alon murdered Best out of jealousy and spite. Weak people surrender to Satan when they are denied their way. They listen to his lies and become covetous in their ambitions.
 
In his second letter to Timothy, the Apostle Paul warned of the evils that would plague the world in the last days: “For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Christ.” (2 Timothy 3:2-4). He also warned that those who have forsaken Christ would put on false fronts and deceive those within their circles of their intentions.
 
We often turn a blind eye to the men and women in our lives for whom we have had affection. We see them for whom we wish them to be rather than whom they are. In the days to come, it is important to take a step back and evaluate our relationships and hold our loved ones to account.
 
It is far better to cut cancerous people out of our lives than to allow the relationships to metastasize and affect our being. As Paul wrote, “For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, Christ judges. Remove the evil person from among yourselves.”
 
Though prayer and meditation, Christ will reveal the merit of your relationships if you ask Him. As the Apostle Paul noted, there is no hope for men and women that oppose truth and allow depravity to occupy their thoughts. (2 Timothy 3:8-9) Viewed with an objective lens, their foolishness is obvious.

“A good name is to be more desired than great wealth;
Favor is better than silver and gold.
The rich and the poor have a common bond,
The Lord is the Maker of them all.”
---Revelations 22:1-2

 
CHRIST TRANSLATES FROM BEAST TO YEAST. CHRIST RETURNITH.

Author: Erik Gagnon - Managing Partner, Chi Rho Consulting