Please
read my previous article in order to get the context
of this one. (Article: Mercy: The Rule of Love)
Below
I will "develop an equation":
Revelation
2:24 “‘However, I say to the rest of YOU who are in Thyatira, all
those who do not have this teaching, the very ones who did not get to
know the “deep
things of Satan,”
as they say: I am not
putting upon YOU any other burden.
Acts
15:28 and we ourselves
have favored adding
no further burden to
YOU, except these
necessary things,
2
Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one seduce YOU in any manner, because it
will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man
of lawlessness gets revealed,
the son of
destruction.
2
Thessalonians 2:7 True, the
mystery of this lawlessness
is already at work;
2
Thessalonians 2:9 But the lawless
one’s presence is
according to the
operation of Satan
with every powerful work and lying signs and portents 10 and with
every unrighteous deception
John
13:34 I am giving YOU a new commandment [Rule of law], that YOU love
one another; just as I have loved YOU, that YOU also love one
another.
1
John 3:7 Little children, let
no one mislead YOU;
he who carries on
righteousness is righteous,
just as that one is righteous. 8 He who carries on sin originates
with the Devil, because the Devil has been sinning from [the]
beginning. For this purpose
the Son of God was made manifest,
namely, to break up the works of the Devil.
1
John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a manslayer,
and YOU know that no manslayer
has everlasting life remaining in him. 16 By this we have come to
know love, because that one surrendered his soul for us; and we are
under obligation to surrender [our] souls for [our] brothers. 17 But
whoever has this
world’s means for supporting life
and beholds his
brother having need
and yet shuts the door
of his tender compassions upon him [MERCY],
in what way does the love of God remain in him? 18 Little children,
let us love, neither in word nor with the tongue, but in
deed and truth.
2
Corinthians 11:13 For such men are false
apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming
themselves into apostles of Christ.
14 And no wonder, for
Satan himself keeps transforming himself into an angel of light.
15 It is therefore nothing great if his ministers also keep
transforming themselves into ministers
of righteousness. But
their end shall be according to their works.
Matthew
13:37 In response he said: “The sower of the fine seed is the Son
of man; 38 the field is the world; as for the fine seed, these are
the sons of the kingdom; but the
weeds are the sons of the wicked one,
39 and the enemy that sowed them is
the Devil. The
harvest is a conclusion of a system of things, and the reapers are
angels. 40 Therefore, just as the weeds are collected and burned with
fire, so it will be in
the conclusion of the system of things.
41 The Son of man will send forth his angels, and they will collect
out from his kingdom
all things that cause stumbling and persons
who are doing lawlessness,
42 and they will pitch them into the fiery furnace. There is where
[their] weeping and the gnashing of [their] teeth will be. 43 At that
time the righteous ones will shine as brightly as the sun in the
kingdom of their Father. Let him that has ears listen.
Let's
connect the dots:
“the
deep things of Satan” - “the mystery of this lawlessness” -
“the operation of Satan” - “with every unrighteous deception”
“the
weeds are the sons of the wicked one - the Devil”->
ministers
of righteousness->“transforming themselves into apostles of
Christ.”--> “as they say: I am not putting upon YOU any other
burden.” --> “for Satan himself keeps transforming himself
into an angel of light” -> “ with every unrighteous deception”
“means
for supporting life”-> “yet shuts the door of his tender
compassions upon him [MERCY]” -> “no manslayer has everlasting
life” -> the son of destruction [Geena - the valley of the son
of Hin′nom]. -> “as they say: I am not putting upon YOU any other burden.”
Leviticus
18:21 “‘And you must not allow the devoting of any of your
offspring to Molech. You must not profane
the name of your God that way. I am Jehovah."
Matthew
12:7 However, if YOU
had understood what this means,
‘I want mercy, and
not sacrifice,’ YOU
would not have condemned the guiltless ones.
Psalm 103:13
13 As a father shows mercy to his sons,
Jehovah has shown mercy to those fearing him.
Psalm 103:13
13 As a father shows mercy to his sons,
Jehovah has shown mercy to those fearing him.
Jeremiah
19:1-5 This is what Jehovah said: “Go, and you must get an
earthenware flask of a potter and some of the older men of the people
and some of the older men of the priests. 2 And you must go out to
the valley of the son of Hin′nom, which is at the entrance of the
Gate of the Potsherds. And there you must proclaim the words that I
shall speak to you. 3 And you must say, ‘Hear
the word of Jehovah, O YOU kings of Judah and YOU inhabitants of
Jerusalem. This is what Jehovah of armies,+ the God* of Israel, has
said:
“‘“Here
I am bringing a
calamity upon this place,
of which when anyone hears, his ears will tingle; 4 for the reason
that they have left me and have proceeded to make this place
unrecognizable and to make sacrificial smoke in it to other gods whom
they had not known
[“the deep things of Satan” - “the mystery of this lawlessness”
], they and their
forefathers and the kings of Judah; and they have filled this place
with the blood of the
innocent ones ["YOU would not have condemned the guiltless ones"].
5 And they built the high places of the Ba′al in order to burn
their sons in the fire as whole burnt offerings to the Baal,
something that I had
not commanded or spoken of, and that had not come up into my
heart.”’
Luke 21:22 because these are days for meting out justice, that all the things written may be fulfilled.
Isaiah 49:15 Can a wife forget her suckling so that she should not pity [Mercy] the son of her belly? Even these women can forget, yet I myself shall not forget you.
2 Chronicles 7:13 When I shut up the heavens that no rain may occur and when I command the grasshoppers to eat up the land and if I send a pestilence among my people, 14 and my people upon whom my name has been called humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn back from their bad ways, then I myself shall hear from the heavens and forgive their sin, and I shall heal their land.
“REPENT,
for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.”