For each, there is evil and good. For each their choice, day to day, their own. My ways are ways of charity to the repentant, and full justice to those who seek not forgiveness, who refuse the call of the Father. For each, there is their own way, and they will not be taken from the choice. For each man knows the right and evil, and the selfless and arrogant know one from the other, both with sneer of the chasm. Evil is the choice of death, and the selfish starve themselves in gluttony. Those who follow the way of good, seek for others and fill themselves, but both must bow for escape. For even in the good man there is evil, and in the evil there lies also a source. Both must come to My cross, but the battle of the latter is far greater, for sin’s claim is for destruction, and the draw back of the selfish is great. You must pray for your enemies, even if clothed in stench. Many will perish for lack, as you too once would have perished. Call out on their behalf, for this is the way truly of the selfless, for I too suffered for they who rejected, and My love for the unjust allows repentance of the greatest sinner. There will be a day of reckoning for every evil, and all who choose that harbor. The day comes soon, and with the wrath of a Holy and just God, but to they who turn away from their wicked ways, My Father’s call will bring them to Me, and will wipe clean their iniquities, and in the Day of Reckoning they too shall rejoice. If you are My follower, do not hate those who hate, but pray for those who persecute, that while there is still time, they may repent, that their days left will be of good, and their eternity with the repentant of God.
Matthew 5:43-46 (CSB) – “You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
Isaiah 2:12 (NASB) – For the Lord of armies will have a day of reckoning against everyone who is arrogant and haughty, and against everyone who is lifted up, that he may be brought low.
Daniel 4:34, 37 (NASB) – 34 “But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever; For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
37 “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just; and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”
Bottom Line: Imagine what could happen in the governments of the world if evil men and women came to repentance. If only a handful of those on the wrong side of the isle answered the call of Jesus Christ, what would happen? Nebuchadnezzar was the notoriously evil king of Babylon. The Bible describes him as the Destroyer of Nations, and it was King Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed the magnificent temple of God built by Solomon. Yet, look again at the proclamation above that Nebuchadnezzar made once God moved to “restore his sanity”. How did it begin? It began with Daniel. In reading the account, even with the evil reputation and former deeds of Nebuchadnezzar, not to mention it was Nebuchadnezzar who captured Daniel in the first place, Daniel treats the King much differently than we would expect. This kind of treatment, along with the hand of God, brought one of the most evil men in history to repentance, and we assume, to a very different way of leading. Change for our world may start in the same way, with us. Jesus said we should pray for our enemies. We may want to do that.
