Psalm 66: The Recurring Loss Of Evil and Holiness Hits Home

I do not endorse John MacArthur, but I did happen to hear some of his eschatology on the way to pick up dinner the other night. Which illumined that even starting out from scratch (as it were when all the enemies of God are dead and all the living of the earth are believers) man will come to love evil rather than God. Bing! Cain killed Abel. The remnant returned from Babylon killed Jesus. Nimrod came from Noah. Churches apostatize. It is a recurring principle seen even in the initial creation: God created the earth holy, it became darkened, and He made it holy again, and Adam made it darkened again, and God accepted Abel's sacrifice, sinful man killed Abel, God gave Noah a new holy earth, Nimrod rebelled in it...and on and on it goes.

IT IS US!!! It is not an event at the end of time. It is a pattern in our lives, and it is constant. We get saved, holy-fied (holiated?), and then lose holiness by our love of some remaining evil. We repent (hopefully), and then do it all over again. It is easy to give up sin for the day, but to give up the love of evil permanently? Not so easy. First Peter four says: "If Christ thus Sorrowed in the flesh, you too arm yourselves through Him with this perspective. For whoever die through His body, He gives them rest from all their sins, so as they may not live according to the desires of humanity, therefore -- however long they are in body -- except so as they may live according to God's will. For the season of living in vain has passed, when you did the works according to the will of pagans, like drunken prodigals, in outrageous singing and demonic behavior. And, behold, now they wonder about you and curse you, as you do not engage with them in the debauchery of that old life of the prodigal, those who must answer to God, who made it necessary* (destined) for our Lord to judge the dead and the living" (Alexander).

Get made holy again. Resolve to give up the love of sin and darkness, and lift up the light of life as Moses did. See Psalm 66. If we still regard iniquity in our hearts, God will not hear, but if we don't....