“Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.” (Pr 11:21 AV)
Another word of the phrase, ‘hand join in hand’, would be a conspiracy. The wicked plan to overthrow the righteous,
but it never works. A conspiracy had a
very short half-life. Eventually,
conspiracies are discovered because no one believes coincidence can be that
well-orchestrated. Common sense would
tell us that fate does not organize itself into a grand scheme. As Solomon put it, time and chance happeneth
to them all. But these are small and
quick events. They may work to the
interests of the wicked, but to have a conspiracy work, deception, and the
ability to permanently hide it is necessary.
That is never the case because truth will always prevail. The suggestion above is the wicked will
conspire to punish the righteous. The
LORD does not promise us a life free of trouble. Part of being a Christian is to suffer for
the name of Christ. Yet, the LORD will
not allow the church to be consumed by the wicked. The conspiracy will not work.
David is a perfect example of this verse and maybe he is whom the writer
had in mind when he penned these words. In
the early years of David, he didn’t have it easy. For thirteen years, David fled from the face
of his father-in-law, Saul. Shortly
after Saul assumed the office of king, God proclaimed he would lose the throne
and it would pass to David. This would
cease the practice of passing the crown to one’s son with Saul. Jonathan would not sit on the throne of
Israel. This did not sit well with
Saul. From cave to cave and from
wilderness to wilderness, Saul pursued after David that a javelin might be
thrust through his heart. Saul wanted
David dead so that Jonathan could reign in his stead. Along the way, David suffered for his
calling. He occasioned the death of the
priests at Nob. He was betrayed by a
city in his own tribe’s territory. He
had to send his parents away into a pagan land that they might not be used as
bait to get to him. Towards the end of
his reign, David suffered a conspiracy of his own son Absalom. All these efforts to end the ministry and
life of David eventually fell apart. God
protected David. He had troubles. That is for sure. But he survived because the conspiracies failed.
The church is guaranteed victory.
The gates of hell will not prevail against the church. We see the beginnings of persecution on the
church similar to the persecutions during the first century AD. These persecutions will grow and become more common. These persecutions will climax during the
reign of the AntiChrist. During those
seven years, professing Christ will cost the saint his head. What the Devil and the world do not
understand is the church is a spiritual kingdom. You cannot kill it by temporal means. We are seeing the fire-bombing of church
buildings in the western world. Something
that was only seen in third world countries with predominate secular or
religious zealots who hate God. The
world is joining hand-in-hand that the righteous might be destroyed. But it won’t work. The church will prevail because the church is
eternal. Though hand join in hand, no
matter how strong the alliance, the righteous will prevail! Guaranteed.
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