satan is a community organizer

The other day as I was reading Hebrews another scripture gusted into my thinking – “truth is fallen.” This scripture is from Isaiah 59:14-15a, “Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter. So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.” In context Isaiah 59 is about the dark-heartedness of people and says that God was astonished that there was no man to intercede…so He did it Himself. Isaiah goes on to say, “When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.” (59:19) Although Isaiah 59 is specifically prophetic about Jesus Christ coming to save us, most Old Testament prophecies have at least duel applications.

satan is a community organizer

How was it that Jesus was finally put to death? Not by what means, as in the Cross and the nails, but rather why did the people kill their Messiah King? What set the stage for such a diabolical rage of the mass?

From the time of Jesus’ birth satan wanted this One – this Only Begotten – DEAD! It seems obvious that it was he who incited Herod to kill ALL the babies around Jesus’ age, thus his evil pursuit began right after Jesus was born. Jesus however escaped due to his parents’ prophetic revelations from God. First to Egypt, then to Galilee. Later satan tempted Jesus in the desert trying to gain His allegiance through intrigue, but to no avail.

We know Jesus laid down His own life, but what was satan’s part? How did satan finally accomplish his evil scheme? Besides his brief appearance in the desert, while Jesus was fasting, the Bible doesn’t say much about what the enemy was doing between the birth and death of Jesus. So what was he up to? I think he was community organizing!

satan worked through the masses – the people. He knows the heart of man, apart from God, is desperately wicked, so they would be his pawns, his puppets – his ignorant allies.  He waged war through their thoughts, religion, jealousy, and through deception. He worked by enticing the soul of man. Man at his worst. Man’s twisted evil unregenerate soul. Then he gave them a channel through which their anger and hatred could flow. That is how satan worked out his evil scheme. He thought, “I can’t kill Him so I will incite others to do it for me. I will use their system, their framework, and their laws … their evil hearts will bow to me – they will do it for me! Yes, that is how it will work.” And it did.

This community organizer’s intrigue is on the rise again with increasingly intense acceleration. He is stirring up the masses by inciting hatred, flaring racial tensions, social tensions, religious tensions, and economic tensions. He is breaking down the doors wherever sin has been crouching. With every opportunity he is ravaging our streets – in our America, in our world.  

But what did the Lord say? “When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.” God is a community organizer too.

To be continued in Part 2...