Psalm 82:5

Psalm 82:5

The gods know nothing 

The legal system of any society is its rock and its foundation. If the right building blocks are in place and they are maintained, then all that is built upon them will stand. Governments have to rule based on the law of the land. Everything is based on laws, from the immense interaction of galaxies in the universe to the tiniest microbes that are unseen by human eyes. Empires and kingdoms need law and order as does a new-born baby. If the laws that run transport systems and offices and schools and hospitals break down, their organisations start to crumble and falter and before long they are in chaos. The same principles apply to the moral world. The highest moral laws are God’s, obey them and all will be well. As soon as we abandon His principles and re-write them with our own, chaos is imminent. 

That is why this Psalm is so stinging in its condemnation of the “gods”. They know nothing, they understand nothing, and they fail to submit themselves to the higher authority who knows all things. The consequence? The rulers walk about in darkness and the foundations of the whole earth are shaken. This world was created to be run God’s way, He is its designer, and He sustains it, if things are not done His way the whole world order crumbles. That is what we are seeing in our lifetime, and things are going to get worse. Sooner or later the world is going to look to a man to be its god, to get it out of its mess. And the Satan will oblige!

 

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