Fact: God is not in control of this world!

On September 11, 2001 and last Sunday, 9/11, 2011, we heard the preachers or ministers of many different denominations interviewed by national TV hosts state how “God is in control” and then state something like from Isaiah 55:8-9 where God says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. (9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”  This was to comfort us while accepting the foolish suffering of the murderous acts because if God knew it was to happen and He allowed it; therefore, He must have had some mysterious higher reasoning for allowing it that we in our simple minds would not be able to understand.  Our spiritual leaders in all denominations have let us, the common people, down by sitting on their intellectual pedestals and teaching such errors. 

First, the Bible says that God is not in control of the world.  The Scripture (KJV) states in 1 John 5:19, “And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.”  The NIV states, “…and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.”  The Greek Interlinear states, “and the world whole in the evil one lies.”  How could that be since Jesus says in Matthew 28:18, “…All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth”?  The devil has no power or authority, but he receives control or advantage in situations when people choose to neglect and reject God’s Word, or when we ignorantly accept and obey incorrect teachings.   You can easily see how controlling the devil must be with most of the people in our country and around the world completely disregarding God’s Word.  When Christians disobey God’s Word, we give satan control of the circumstances in our lives too!  The Apostle Paul states in 2 Corinthians 2:10-11, “To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Chirst; (11) Lest satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”  He is saying that during the time we are failing to forgive someone, we are giving satan the advantage in our lives.  We will be out of fellowship with God because Jesus says in Matthew 6:15, “But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”  So, when we choose not to forgive (or disobey other of God’s instructions to us like teaching, preaching, serving in positions of ministry that He has called us to) we are willfully putting our hand in the hand of satan and giving him control of the circumstances in our life until we turn and choose to forgive.  Many Scriptures show that through ignorance and compromise we give satan the (control) advantage in our lives.  Our Christian denominations are filled with errors: many teaching the opposite of others. This is not pleasing to God for He says in Ephesians 4:4, 13 that there is only one faith and that our spiritual leaders are supposed to be teaching and leading all of us into the unity of that one faith, not hundreds of “faiths.”  Ephesians 4:26-27 states, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: (27) Neither give place to the devil.”  And Jesus says in, Matthew 5:25 that we should, “Agree with thine adversary quickly…”  We are opening up our lives to the control of the devil for as long as we fail to forgive or obey other of God’s Word to us personally. 

Secondly, Isaiah 55:8-9 was written for a society similar to ours today.  The Children of Israel were conducting their sacrifices, proclaiming fasts, going through their worship services, praying as they should just like our Christian society is doing and then they asked where is God and why did He let 9/11 happen?  Why isn’t He answering our holy prayers and showing respect unto all of our good works? God explains about their works in Isaiah 58:2-3, “Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. (3) Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?...”  They are saying, “Look how great we are, and God isn’t even paying attention to us!”  That is why God told them in Isaiah 55:8-9 that their ways were not His ways, and their thoughts were not His thoughts.  The He told them why He was not responding positively to their prayers in Isaiah 59:1-2 which is why He is not standing up for the Christian community of our nation too, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: (2) But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.”

There are many individual Christians in our society which are getting personal answers to prayer, but the leaders in our Christian society as a whole are filled with errors of Scripture, intellectualism and pride in good works instead of seeking the true pure Word of God to bring unity in the body of Christ.  

My books and videos address many of the errors which need to be corrected in our Christian community.  Have a blessed day.