A Big Picture
Let’s think this through. Assert the moral authority of your heart over your mind. Your heart knows the truth.
The root nature of blasphemy is a personal insult to Jehovah. Whether raising up man or pulling down God, the point of blasphemy is that He is no better than His creatures, that the moral flaws of every lesser being are simply a reflection on God’s own moral flaws. Regardless how you proceed, it’s a personal insult, poking God in the eye. It’s telling Him, “That ain’t necessarily so!” – as if you know.
From our fallen position, this appears likely the crux of the argument that Lucifer and his allies are making against Jehovah on the divine council. It is certainly the crux of every sin in this world; the word “sin” itself is explained fundamentally as arguing with God.
It is utterly necessary to assert from your spirit into your human awareness what God has said. Not in the sense that the mind is given that revelation in a package that it can handle, but that the mind is commanded to be subject to the convictions written by the finger of God on your soul. It is not so much the content of revelation, but the calling, the unconditional, a priori subjection to revelation that is the whole point of redemption. God restores what we lost in the Garden. The root nature of the Fall was seizing the revelation and demanding it be subject to human reasoning. Redemption is restoring submission to revelation.
Jesus is that revelation personified. We submit to His feudal lordship. It’s personal.
On the one hand, every human sorrow arises from the failure of making Him Lord. It’s a personal insult, saying that God cannot justify His demands. On the other hand, there is a certain amount of human sorrow that is built into our mortal existence, but also there is a great deal of human sorrow that arises from doing everything wrong from inside this mortal condition.
We are permitted a sort of symbolic peek into the situation in God’s divine courts. All we get is enough to make sense of certain trends in our world. It’s not enough to calculate with precision the specific choices humans will make under the leadership of the elohim, but it is enough that we are not surprised by any of those choices. We cannot possibly comprehend the interplay between God and His divine satraps, but we do have a good idea of what sort of boundaries He draws for them.
There is an inexplicable, ineffable plan at work for God to expose the error of His elohim counselors. The prophecies may not always be sharp and clear about the specifics, but they do make clear the general trend of God’s invisible hand. He is on record opposing the arrogant, and that includes the opposition alliance on His heavenly council. His methods will never make sense to us, but He has pointedly given us some clues, just enough to play our role.
So, the biggest mistake we can possibly make is asserting that some value we hold as humans is from God, when His revelation makes it clear that such values are not His. Do you realize that God will not hesitate to direct genocide through His servants? He certainly wiped out the race of giants that His councilors had raised up. By the same token, we should hardly be surprised when those elohim come up with a way of raising up a new batch of them, sometime, somewhere.
We have no clue what God’s plan is behind the scenes, and why He tolerates their truculence, but we do have clues about the mere fact He does seem rather tolerant of all this. We are warned not to assume He won’t allow some horrors to exist, and for lot longer than we like, but that His tolerance is part of a wider plan we cannot comprehend. We also have some clues that, in the end, He will embarrass His critics in such a way that they will be silenced once and for all. It has to do with demonstrating His truth conclusively.
We also know that our role as His children in this fallen world is primarily a matter of being His witnesses, His demonstration, His evidence toward that conclusion. We are Exhibit A, as it were. Somehow, the insane discontinuity between His few servants and the majority of those who reject His lordship is itself the primary evidence of His claims in His own court. It’s not just our obedience, but our obedience in contrast to the disobedience of everyone else.
If just a few of us can truly surrender to His Covenant, we become the evidence of His justice.
There’s more.