What effect does darkness have against light? None. Just as surely self-evident is the fact that nothing is hidden in darkness when light is present, and there is no such physical state where more darkness can be added to disappear what is exposed by the light. In the world that now is, where discourse has been totally destroyed, where what is seen is defined as its opposite, light exposed reality is defined as whatever the delusional mind of evil men wills. In the New Heaven and New Earth, reality is defined coinciding with its actual form, and not even the darkest of men’s minds are able to alter it in the minds of those who see (re-cognized the light).
The way of man, in this current corrupt world, is to respond to light overcoming their darkness, after several failed feeble attempts to pour on more darkness (deceit – fake reports), is to agitating those still ignorant of the light. These now troubled masses, having come (by indoctrination) to love the darkness where they hide, able therein to commit ever unthinkable evil against their neighbors, have degenerated into a former lower state, unable to discern reality, unable to comprehend the light or the unseen things in it now seen.
They, confused in this condition, panic, and allow all rational thought to escape their reasoning. This is the condition when the animal nature is in control, as a beast caught in an inescapable trap, and unable to flee back into the darkness, they resort to violence – and in our time, it is by force of government, through false accusation acted upon by administering injustice (or uncontrolled outbursts of profanity, or plays depicting the brutal murder of those they have demonized and dehumanized because they are in the light). This is true in everything from climate change to the ongoing witch trials; false accusation, relying upon evidence which reports unsubstantiated and unprovable claims, which are never substantiated, and all evidence that contradict the accusation is ignored and suppressed.
The deception is compounded by a campaign of ridicule and vilification, using cultural icons, as the useful idiots who have gained their “star” status by how well they act out fiction, and by the “expert” testimony of those who are only experts because they are willing to argue the known lies in public. These unwitting puppets, ignorant of their own ignorance, along with their masters, the willful manipulators (politicians, reporters and preachers), no longer able to affect the many who have come into the light (having regained their cognitive capacity for recognizing truth), spiral into uncontrollable tantrum, which actually accelerates the degeneration and self-destruction.
These are the effects of light coming into the world, and the darkness is the so-called “wisdom” of this corrupted world.
1 Corinthians 3
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
The Greek word translates “craftiness” in verse 19 above is panourgia, meaning sophistry, meaning to use fallacious arguments, especially with the intention to deceive.
The additional apsect is seen when the word is examined through the two Greek words it is compounded from; pas, meaning the whole of the manner or means, and ergo, meaning work.
It is telling of God taking the wise in this world, in the whole of their work, as their own ignorance returns upon them as it proves itself as such.
As previously discussed and studied, verse 19 contains the only quote from Job that appears in the New Testament. The quote shows the deeper meaning of the entirety of Job, and gives understanding to His suffering, when understood in the context of 1 Corinthians 11:19, which was discussed in the prior post. “19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”
In the previous post, we discussed the word “heresies,” first from its appearance in 2 Peter 2:1 where we are told of the false teachers among us, who have brought in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD (the Light) that bought them. There we saw these are those who refuse the
love of the truth, and instead choose to be destroyed by keeping their own ways of deceptions. We know these are the men in power over what is taught and reported, sitting in God’s seats of judgment in church and state, and rather than administering justice, as God intended, they mete out the opposite, injustice, while abusing their power to victimize their neighbors.
This is the point of Job – these men, the false accuser and the minsters of injustice, are exposed as wicked men, and those approved of God are raised up from lowly places to replace them.
The nuance in Job is that this quote appears in one of the accusation of those accusing Job. It is as Eliphaz tells of his dream, when man has fallen into deep sleep, and in this he is shown the ways of righteousness. This is directly related to Peter, in 2 Peter 3, telling of those who knowing the way of righteousness turning from it. These are those having been rebuked, warned and corrected away from their unrighteousness, but instead choose to return or remain in it, having forgotten the ways of correction – into rightness, equity and justice in judgment, especially for those sitting in the highest seats.
1 Corinthians 4
2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the LORD.
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the LORD come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
7 For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?
8 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be you followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the LORD, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the LORD will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will you? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Job 5, after the above quote appears in verse 13, tells of this as part of the false accusing mouth of the wicked being stopped, and it then in verse 17 & 18 says, “ Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty: For He makes sore, and binds up: He wounds, and His hands make whole.” It is what Peter speaks of in 2 Peter 3 when he tells of the longsuffering LORD, correcting, not wanting any to perish – by continuing in their own self-destructive ways, following their own ignorance.
2 Peter 2
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Job 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 If we assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4 Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.
5 But now it is come upon you, and you faintest; it touches you, and you are troubled.
6 Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?
7 Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 Does not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Job 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?
2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly [simple minded] one.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.
6 Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward [those who twist and pervert truth] is carried headlong.
14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
20 In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21 You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.
25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.
As we have discussed in prior posts, the verse that follow 1 Corinthians 3:19, as it tells of the LORD taking the wise in their own craft, speaks of His knowing the thoughts of those thought wise in this corrupted culture, and they are vain (worthless and without any value). We know this later portion (verse 20) as being quoted from Psalms 94:11, a Psalms with its subject being, Rest for the earth. In the context of our conversation we understand the darkness of these false teachers and preachers, all their false accusation and fake news, as causing and maintaining the decent into unbelief, and the agitation of the ignorant. These many aspects show the reason it is allowed to occur, and giving the way to return to rest and peace: by hearing those approved by God, proven and vindicated in the same fires that destroy the reprobates.
Psalms 94
1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shew yourself.
2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastises [disciplines] the heathen [those who don’t know the LORD], shall not he correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom you chastens [disciplines and corrects], O LORD, and teaches him out of your law;
13 That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked [the recalcitrant and incorrigible].
14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frame mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the LORD is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
