The Failure of Evil Governments to Restrain Evil

Righteousness exalts a nation (Prv 14:34), but when the wicked rule, the people groan (Prv 29:2). The whole creation groans because the ruler of this world is not Jesus Christ (Jn 12:31; 14:20; 16:11; Rom 8:22–23), the righteous King of glory (Ps 24:7–10). Referring to Jesus, the world declares, “We will not have this man to rule over us (Lk 19:14)!”

Satan is a liar and the father of lies (Jn 8:44). He has been a murderer from the beginning. The children of the devil are liars and murderers, too (Ps 116:11; Rom 3:4; 1 Jn 3:10). Their desire, learned from their father, is to be a god (Gen 3:5). They will do everything, employing the wisdom of the world, to compete with others to build a utopia (preferably named after them), which is void of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Love is the motive of God’s heart, in the reconciliation of His people, who represent His kingdom upon the earth (Rom 14:17; 1 Cor 13:8; 2 Cor 5:18–20; 1 Jn 4:8). The kingdom of heaven is set in contrast with the kingdom of this world (Jn 18:36; Rev 11:15). Men reap what they sow, whether they labor for this world’s system or for the kingdom to come.

Sowing sin in the field of this world will reap a harvest of destruction and death (Rom 3:23; 6:23), and when sin is frequent and particularly heinous, it is called, “evil.” Men love the world in darkness because their deeds are evil (Jn 3:19; 1 Pet 4:15). It is the light of truth that exposes evil (Eph 5:11). For this reason, people who dwell in darkness hate the light (Jn 3:20; 1 Jn 2:9). God is light (1 Jn 1:5); therefore, men are haters of God (Rom 1:30) and they hate the light of the world (Jesus) sent by the Father into the world (Jn 1:5; 7:7; 8:12).

The light of truth is the Word of truth, who is Jesus Christ, the King of kings (Jn 1:1; 14:6; 1 Tim 6:15). People of the world, void of the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:9), do not comprehend the significance of Emmanuel, God with us (Is 7:14; 8:8; Mt 1:23). If they did, they would repent of their evil deeds (Jer 26:3). They would seek after God for Him to have mercy upon them (Rom 9:15). There is no one, however, who seeks after God and His righteousness, who is Jesus Christ (Rom 3:10–12). In the futility of their minds (Eph 4:17), men imagine their filthy works are what make them “good” (Is 64:6).

The wisdom of the world entices people to trust in themselves (Ps 118:8; Prv 3:5–6), that is, in their governments. Although human government is decreed by God (Rom 13), to serve as a type of administration of the righteous King and Judge, on whose shoulders rest the government of the only righteous and holy nation (Is 9:6; 1 Pet 2:9). That government is not of this world, nor is its King (Jesus), who visited this world to preach peace to those who were captive slaves to King sin (Jn 8:34; Rom 6:6).

Upon His departure from this domain of darkness (Col 1:13), following His resurrection from the dead (Acts 3:15; Rom 6:4; 1 Cor 15), the ascended Jesus was enthroned at God the Father’s majestic right hand (Ps 110:1; Acts 2:33; Heb 1:3; 8:1). From His glorious throne, endued with all authority (Mt 28:18), King Jesus sent forth His Spirit to gather His lost sheep from every nation, who were subject to the dominion of Satan (Acts 26:18). Delivered from bondage to sin (Rom 7:14), the redeemed saints are made ambassadors for Christ (2 Cor 5:20) and witness to His righteous reign in the kingdom of God (Acts 1:8).

Upon the gathering of all the elect saints, at the appointed time, King Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead (Acts 17:31; 2 Tim 4:1; 1 Pet 4:5), who will be gathered for the Day of Judgment (Jn 5:28–29; Rev 16:14). Deeds done in the flesh will all be accounted for by the Omniscient record of the Omnipresent Omnipotent Lord of all (Acts 10:36; 2 Cor 5:10; Rev 20:11).

On that day, all nations will know of their failure to govern their people because of corruption caused by sin. All the systems of administration will have failed to produce the utopia their leaders promised. The prevarication of living happily ever-after (apart from Jesus) will be exposed as fraudulent once and for all.

The demonic world system, dominated by the spirit of Antichrist, in men of lawlessness will be set on fire in the righteous wrath of Almighty God (2 Pet 3:7, 10–12; Rev 18:8). The earth and all that is in it will be purified by the flood of fire, as God’s people are caught up together in the air to be forever in the presence of their Savior (2 Tim 4:18; 1 Thess 4:17), who has come to judge with perfect justice (Gen 18:25; Rev 19:11–21).

Until the great and terrible day of the Lord Jesus Christ, the world will suffer in diverse manners (Mt 24–25; Mk 13; Lk 21; Rev 6–18). In the providence of God, judgments come and come again, in order to prepare evil doers for the wrath of God to come upon them at the second death in the lake of fire (Rev 20:14–15). Death looms everywhere as a viable witness to the reality of separation, pain, and punishment.

Got evil? Then you have sin and a failed governance of restraint, as a demonstration of man’s failure to exercise dominion apart from Christ the sovereign Lord (Jn 15:5). The wicked are made by God for the day of evil (Prv 16:4). The world of darkness is filled with endless days of evil (Eph 6:12). There is no stopping the failure of corrupt human governments in their futile efforts to stop evil (Gen 6:5; Jer 17:9; Rom 8:7). The greater their zeal to stop their wicked citizenry, the greater their lust to gain power. The result is a people enslaved to corrupt governments, who have replaced the rogue rebels who were formerly free to do what was right in their own eyes (evil).

My fellow citizens, this world without God is without hope (Eph 2:12). The inclination for people to conjure evil and to act upon that which influences them (demonic, inspired, godless ideas) is all pervasive in both heart and mind (Rom 1:21; Eph 4:17-18). The world of darkness is doomed to destruction. As a citizen of this domain, you are warned of God’s wrath to come (Mt 3:7; Lk 3:7).

You must repent of your evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds (Acts 17:30). You must confess you are a rebel who loves sin and even death, while hating God. Unless you confess with your mouth, the bad news about yourself, this failed world of evil, and profess your faith in our only hope, Jesus Christ, you will die in your trespasses and sins. For evil will prevail until righteousness remains. Hope in God and not the governments of men.

David Norczyk

Spokane Valley, Washington

May 26, 2022