verse 2 – 8:
V 2 Gods enemies make an uproar – trying to distract and deceive from the truth.
They raise their heads – they put their plans into action.
V 3 Crafty plans against Gods people – to distract and deceive them.
It is a planned move, not a random set of spur of the moment things.
V 4 They want to wipe out the Church! For that will cause God the most pain.
V 5 It is not against us that they direct thier hatred, we are just their pawns, it is against God who loves us so much that He was prepared to sacrifice His Son for us.
God the Father can not die or the entire creation would collapse and cease to exist.
God the Holy Spirit can not die for the same reasons.
God the Son created everything therefore He must come and recreate it – His physical manifestation in space and time did it by His life, suffering, death and resurrection.
On the other side, what has lucifer ever done for humanity? NOTHING!
Humanity is what lucifer is sacrificing to achieve his goal.
V 9 – 18 but it is not against flesh and blood that we battle as they did. Paul tells us of our true battle, which is against lucifer.
God alone is able to do this fight, but somehow we are involved – for God could just wipe out lucifer, but does not. Somehow we fit into this whole thing and are a key to destroying arguements, imaginations and opinions raised against the knowledge of God.
God the Son, His physical manifestation in space and time, enters me by faith and becomes my life in space and time and continues His work of destroying those arguements, imaginations and opinions that are against and drawing humans away from a relationship with the Father!
By somehow trying to adopt our ‘religion’ to better get along with these arguements, imaginations and opinions, we are missing the plot of these arguements, imaginations and opinions , which display a false desire of wanting to make us ‘better people’ and falsely say “This is pleasing to God”.
BUT!!!!! the truth behind it all is to dethrone God and detract from the glory of the cross of Jesus, the Christ!
I realise more every day that the battle is for the mind, the strong view points, arguements, imaginations and opinions that people have.
As I focus on Christ and what He wants, then daily I am crucified as more and more earthly things are brought to the cross; repented of; forgiven and a new course of action is decided on – Jesus course of action.
Thus as I trust Christ to sort things out in my life, by the faith that God gives me, these are the things I boast of, that Jesus has accomplished in me.
Romans 15: 18, out of context as such but it does hold true; therefore I no longer boast in worldly things but rather in what Christ has done in me!