What does the obliteration of the French aristocratic rule during the French Revolution have in common with the demise of a predator submarine whose captain disregards a safety feature on his torpedo to prevent self-annihilation?
The famous quote from the Executive Officer of the Soviet Alpha attack submarine, rings in the annuls of submarine movie history, “You arrogant ass! you’ve killed us!” Is the final word as the armed torpedo is about to come home in the classic scene from “The Hunt for Red October.”
The moment the Alpha’s captain realizes his decision meant the death of his own submarine.
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It could also be a suitable epitaph for the French aristocrats to thought it would be useful to foment hate and unrest in the populace to remove power from King Louis the XVI.
This is another way for conveying that the greater the false assurance, the greater the terror will be of those who reap the extreme consequences of their schemes. The consequences of the worship of worldly wisdom or hubris will result in sheer terror in its final phase. The terror may be short-lived of it may endured long enough for blood to run down the streets, like it did in Paris in the Terror, flowing so grotesquely that even the cows refused to go down the streets (according to my sister who also studied the French Revolution).
There comes a tipping point when the awareness of man, when he begins to see the short sightedness of what he had held to be true or otherwise immutable. That transformation gets stamped with the inevitable label of “foolishness” of which the Bible has much to teach about.
There is an inverse rule also, what seems like foolishness to natural man turns out to be God’s truth.
... a natural man does not accept the depths of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually examined. – 1 Corinthians 2:14.
To the natural man, the power of God and Christ are foolishness and unable to be believed, but everything else is idolized:
18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. 19 For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”
20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased, through the foolishness of the message preached, to save those who believe. 22 For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, 24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. – 1 Corinthians 1:18-25.
Terror, those who believe they were saved by their own righteousness, their own measure of moral goodness, rather than putting their complete trust in the work of the Savior and the Grace and Glory of God:
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, in Your name did we not prophesy, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ – Matthew 7:21-23
Jesus further taught about God’s judgment and those who are unprepared for it:
26 And just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 It was the same as in the days of Lot—they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; 29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and]brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. -Luke 17:26-29
Jesus teaches, via parable, of a man who expresses regrets and agony from hell. Most church leaders will skirt the way the Bible talks about eternal separation from God. Appeasers like to euphemize it, not tell the entire truth, in effort to make God someone who does not offend.
In today’s parlance and brevity of expression Hell Sucks Forever. You don’t want to end up there. I find it is helpful to read about someone who suffered for their error, make one not want to follow the same route.
19 “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. 20 But a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, 21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. 22 Now it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man also died and was buried. 23 And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things. But now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you are not able, and none may cross over from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I am asking you, father, that you send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham *said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’” – Luke 16:19-31
Well meaning sometimes describe hell as a place that you choose to go if you don’t want to be with God for eternity. Sounds like the difference between having a Pepsi or Diet Pepsi, a matter of choice.
You may not be spiritually at the place where you can come to acceptance, but you have to begin understanding how HOLY and RIGHTEOUS GOD IS and more importantly, how UNHOLY and UNRIGHTEOUS you are and how you must truth in God’s Grace through the only door through which salvation will be secured.
You may come to the point where the matrix of your own self-delusion is decidedly shattered so that you finally get a glimpse of the truth, this in order to be able to stop that self-destructive march into the last moment then the circular running torpedo of your self-righteousness comes home or the wave of the blood lusting mob will take nothing less than another head from the cold blade of the guillotine.
Freedom from Terror
You may realize that God, in His infinite wisdom, understood that for each of us to live to the fullest that we receive true freedom, this freedom has root in the truth that God sent His Son to do for us what we can never do for ourselves:
9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. -1 John 4:9-10.
Only through the perfect sinless sacrifice of Jesus, in our faithful acceptance and trust of this work of Christ, can we be satisfactorily covered in righteousness to face Holy God in judgment.
The is only one way to salvation, may you rest upon the certainty of God’s Gospel:
Jesus invites each of us, 28 “Come to Me, all ]who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28-30
For a one minute explanation of the Gospel, watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCP9UcC7BzE
For a review of the Ten Commandments: https://www.challenyee.com/the-ten-commandments/
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2-18-2024