Let him…

“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” Revelation 22:11

Revelation 22:11 appears to be saying; whatever decision a person makes, let him make it. There seem to be those who have already made decisions to follow their own minds. So whatever decision they make, so be it.

This is a hard saying in the Bible. But in the next verse (12) Jesus says,’behold, I am coming quickly, and my reward is with me to give to everyone according to his works!

God declares the earth belongs to him and everything within it. Every human being belongs to him, Psalms 24:1. Every tree in the field, every cattle on a thousand hills belong to him Psalms 50:10-12.

He created all things for his pleasure, Revelation 4:11,

Yet we see evil… We may not understand why darkness is so persuasive and how it rules society on many different levels. I pay the highest auto insurance rate in the nation, not because I am a bad driver. I just happen to live in a city with a high auto theft rate. So everyone in my city is judged based on what a small minority of evil wicked people do. Wickedness drives the economy! It influences people’s decisions on many different levels.

For example, James 4:13-17

“Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing are evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”

Justice and judgment are a habitation of hHs throne, Psalms 89:14-37

It may seem like wickedness is winning, but wait a minute! James 5:1-7 says the rich wicked shall weep and howl for the miseries that shall come upon them. Their riches are corrupted. Their gold and silver are cankered. The destruction of it will eat the flesh like fire!

But the opposite is true for those who learn to wait on the LORD. See John 17:2; Psalms 37; Ecclesiastes 2:26