“The fool hath said in his
heart, There is no God.They
are corrupt, they
have done abominable works, there is none that doeth
good,” Psalm 14:1; 53:1
Introduction
Throughout
human history there have always
been men (and women) who
have
convinced themselves that God doesn’t exist.The Divinely
Inspired Word of
God rightly labels these people as “fools.”Significantly, it was during the 19th and
20thcenturies
that this total denial of a Supreme
being was finally organized into a political and religious
ideology
called Marxism, based on the teachings of Karl Marx, a Jewish
apostate.
The
“fools” who
believed Karl Marx’s
idiot rantings then organized themselves into a political
party in 1914; the
Communist Party, correlating exactly with Psalm 14 as
verified by the opening
verse of that Psalm.Prominent among
the charter members of the Communist Party was another Jewish
apostate by the name
of Joseph Stalin. Joseph
Stalin helped to
overthrow the government of Russia and establish the first
nation on earth
whose official government policy was “atheism.”Stalin then rose
through the ranks of
the Communist Party, especially after the death of Lenin,
until he became the
head of the Party and the ruler of Communist Russia.Likely due to his
unbelief in the existence
of God, Stalin brutally and callously murdered 35,000,000 [35 million] of his own Russian countrymen to
entrench himself in power
as the sole dictator over Communist Russia.But all the works of fallen mankind, both good and bad,
must sooner or
later come to an end.Significantly,
the
53rd
Psalm is the second Psalm in God’s
inspired Word which
begins with a condemnation of “the fool” as
listed above in our
text verse.It
appears from the opening
verses of these two Psalms; 14 & 53, that the Lord God
Himself took notice of the
wickedness of Joseph Stalin and rotten God defying Communism,
and in spite of
Stalin’s denial of God the time came when Almighty God
required Stalin’s
soul.Compare
Luke 12:20 and
Job
27:8.Stalin
died in 1953,
correlating exactly with Psalm 53!Coincidence???
Atheism’s
limits…..
Those
who pay little attention to the
subject of “atheism” are
likely not
aware that atheism is limited to fallen, unbelieving, mankind.Just a few
notes here from the inspired
Word…..
Satan
most certainly believes in the reality of God, for
Satan has been
seeking to overthrow God and seize the throne of God since
before the creation
of mankind.Study
carefully Ezekiel
28:11-19, which sets forth the origin and fall of
“the anointed
cherub,” the
one we know today as Satan, the arch enemy and adversary of
God and of all that
is good.
The
angels, both the fallen angels and God’s angels believe
in the
reality of God.There
is abundant
proof of this truth in various events and statements recorded
throughout the
inspired Word of God.
The
demonic spiritsbelieve in the reality of God,
for such is explicitly
stated in James 2:19, “Thou believest that there is one God;
thou doest well: the
devils [demons]
also
believe, and tremble.”
It is also
obvious from many
passages in the Psalms, and elsewhere in the Scriptures,
that even the animals
and birds of the air believe in the reality of God,
for the inspired
Word tells us that they look to Him for the food necessary to
sustain their
lives.So this limits “atheism”
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only
to fallen mankind.It is only
fallen mankind who are stupid enough and brazen enough
to deny the reality
of their own Creator!Hello!Yet not even
all of mankind!Most
of unbelieving fallen mankind yet still has enough spiritual
discernment to
believe in the reality of God.However, I want to emphasize to our readers that
believing in the
reality of God is not sufficient to save one’s soul.Read James 2:19 as
mentioned above.One
MUST believe that God is real,
otherwise they would never come to Him for salvation, Hebrews 11:6.
Yet simply
believing that God is real does not automatically save one
from their sinful
fallen condition.Since
God is real, He
alone has the power to dictate the terms of salvation for a
lost soul, and He
has decreed that no one can be saved except through coming to
Him by placing
their “faith” in His Son.Read
it for yourself in John 3:3-7, 3:16-18, 3:36, 5:24, 14:6, Acts 4:12,
16:30-31, 20:20-21,
Romans 10:8-13, 1 Corinthians 15:1-3, Ephesians 2:8-10, 1
Thessalonians 4:14, and
Titus
3:5.The
Lord Jesus Christ is
God’s ONLY way of salvation, 1 Peter 1:18-19.
Atheism will end…..
It
is a sad truth that in this modern
world of high technology and great leaps forward in knowledge,
multitudes of
fallen men have convinced themselves that God simply doesn’t
exist.There are
likely more “atheists” in the world today than at any time
previously in all of
human history.I
have personally heard
men proudly boast of being atheists.I
have personally seen men rail against anything having to do
with the Bible,
Christ, Christianity, or God.Sadly, I
have seen and
continue to see the
objects or symbols of the living God being gradually removed
from an ever
increasing “atheistic” secular society.I am
referring to public displays
of the cross, the Ten Commandments, the nativity displays near
Christmas each
year, and displays emphasizing the resurrection of Christ
during the Easter
season.Even some
so-called “churches”
today are falling for this siren song of “fools” and
compromising with the
world.
Many
of these self-proclaimed atheistic “fools”
encourage themselves in their evil by saying, “If God really existed, He would do something to
stop all the
wickedness and clean up the mess this world is in today?”The
reply of the inspired Word to this
wicked excuse for continuing in sin, rebellion, and denial of
God’s
realityis,“Because sentence
against an evil work is
not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of
men is fully set in
them to do evil,” Ecclesikastes 8:11.Since
Almighty God is the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, He chooses
His own time to
do battle!He
is neither greatly
impressed nor bound by the challenges of puny unbelieving
mankind!Read Isaiah 45:5 and
45:22.
This is truly
the time of “the
prospering of the wicked,” yet it will be short
lived, for the inspired
Word explicitly states, “For the turning away
of the simple shall
slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy
them,” Proverbs 1:32. The
real truth of the matter is that
the Lord God is allowing the “atheistic fools” in
the world
today, whose wicked hearts are set against God, just enough
“rope to hang
themselves.”In a
short time it will be “atheism”
that will cease to exist on the face of the earth!Now I will
give the Scriptural PROOF for
having made this statement, 1 Thessalonians 5:21.
The Great
Unveiling…..
The
last book in the Bible is called Revelation
or The
Apocalypse.The
Greek word from
which the title is derived literally means, “the
unveiling.”Any
reader who seriously
studies this book can see that it is literally the unveiling
or revealing of
the Lord God to humanity as the end of this present ageapproaches.Any reader who
believes the inspired
prophecies of God’s Word knows that the terrible Tribulation
period set forth
in the Book of Revelation is staring humanity in
the face right now.
Now look at and
carefully study Revelation
6:12-17.This
records the
opening of the “sixth
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seal” on
the little book or scroll during the coming Tribulation
period.The
inspired Word states that when this “sixth seal” is
opened, there will
be on the earth “a great earthquake,” and in the heavens
above the earth “the
sun” will become “black as sackcloth of
hair, and the moon” will
become “as blood,” 6:12This
earthquake will be felt world wide, shaking the entire earth
as modern man has
never previously known.It
will be so
powerful that it will literally move every mountain and island
[islands are only the
tops of mountains sticking
up above the surface of the seas] out of their present
positions, 6:14.At the
same time these events are
occurring a great asteroid shower will be falling upon the
earth from out of
the heavens, 6:13.These events alone
should be enough to terrify every human being still alive on
the earth at that
time.But even
these events are not the
whole picture!
Either
in conjunction with or immediately
following these events, the entire sky will simply open up and
roll back, 6:14.In other
words, the entire upper atmosphere
or blue sky above the earth will suddenly part revealing the
blackness of space
which we normally see only at night.But when this occurs, men on the earth will see far
more than the
blackness of space.They
will be enabled
to look up and actually and literally see God Almighty
sitting on His throne
in the heavens above the earth, and the Son of God standing
beside the throne
ofGod.However, it
will not be a lovely sight for
the unbelieving wicked upon the earth.Rather, there will be nothing but rage and condemnation
on the face of
God Almighty and upon the terribly angry face of “the Lamb,”
6:16.Folks,
when the Lord Jesus came down
to mankind some 2,000 years ago, He came as the tender, lowly,
meek, “lamb
of God” filled with love and compassion for
mankind.But
when He is seen on this occasion He will
be seen as the angry “Lamb” and the
“mighty Judge” of
mankind, coming to avenge Himself on the wickedness and
unbelief of Christ
rejecting humanity.
When the wicked upon
the earth look up into
the heavens on this occasion and see God Almighty sitting on
His throne and the
angry face of the Lord Jesus Christ standing beside Him, every
person on the
earth will finally KNOW that God is real, for they
shall see Him for
themselves with their own eyes.When
this event occurs, “atheism” will instantly vanish from the
hearts of men and off
the face of the earth forever!There
will not be an “atheist” left on the earth, for no man
will be able to any
longer deny the reality of Almighty God.Those
former “atheists” will
run
screaming in utter terror to the rocks and the mountains,
hysterically crying
out to “the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us
from the face of
Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb,”
6:16.Compare
Isaiah
2:12-22.From that
day forward, not one human
being will ever again claim to be an “atheist.”“Atheism” will
have been
vanquished from the earth by the unveiling of God
Almighty and His dear
Son for all mankind to see for themselves.Glory to God!Hallelujah!Praise
the Lord!Thank
you Holy Father!Thank
you precious Lord Jesus!
However,
I do not want any reader to
misunderstand!Just
because Almighty God
is revealed to unbelieving humanity on this occasion does
not mean that
these people will turn to the Lord for salvation.Some may!Most will not!As
it is written
in the Scriptures, “the devils believe, and they tremble.”In other words, they KNOW God is
real, yet they refuse to
believe on Him or call upon Him for salvation.Satan and all the fallen angels KNOW that God is real,
yet they still
hate Him intensely.Just because the God
of Heaven reveals Himself
to these wicked people on this occasion during the Tribulation
does not
mean that their depraved wicked hearts are going to turn to
Him in faith at
all!“Atheists”
are people who
hate God, and just because it is suddenly revealed to them
that they are wrong
about the reality of God, does not mean that their hatred for
God will
lessen.Rather,
this is a prime example
of the total depravity and wickedness bound up inthe unregenerated
heart of fallen
mankind.Read
Jeremiah
17:9-10.
No need to
wait!
If
any professed “atheist” is
reading
this, you don’t have to wait until that terrible revelation
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of
God occurs to know that He is real.All
you have to do is humble your own heart and in simple, humble
prayer ask Him to
reveal Himself to you.If it is really
the sincere desire of your heart to know if God is real, the
Lord God will hear
your prayer and He will answer.Read Romans
10:13 and believe what the inspired Word
says.Read Romans 10:17,Jeremiah
29:13, and Psalm
34:18.You
can know the reality
of the living God right here and right now during this
present
life.I and
many other true
believers are living proof
of this truth!
There
was a time in my life when I heard
the truth of God’s Word proclaimed by a faithful “man of God,”
believed it, and
called upon the Lord for salvation, and the Lord God
graciously heard my prayer
and saved my soul from death and hell; the penalty of sin.Today I
gratefully and thankfully confess
and serve Him as my Savior, my Lord, and my God.Because of His
saving grace, I am bound for
Heaven and eternal glory.Dear reader,
I would so much like to meet YOU in glory some day very SOON.Please don’t
disappoint me!Read
again John 3:16-18
and 3:36.I
write
this study in tears, praying that the Lord God will use it to
speak to your
soul today.I
care for your soul, and
my precious Lord cares even more, Ezekiel 18:23.Take
heed!
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