BLINDED MINDS

   But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should shine unto them.  (II Corinthians 4: 3-4)
   As discussed in a previous blog, the god of this world in which we live is Satan and he has, indeed, blinded the minds of them which believe not through his power of deception, working through the teachings of government, religion, and philosophies to keep God out of the minds of people, to persuade people that God is not on His throne, and to convince people that Christ did not arise from the dead, and that Christ has no power, and that Christ will not return to the earth, which the Lord said He will do.
   But Satan has also persuaded people to believe that the New World Order is not a bad thing, that a global government will not come upon the earth, that there will not be a global church, and that there will not be a False Prophet, nor an Antichrist.  Therefore, because of Satan's deception, people continue the lives they are living, along with the beliefs they have entrenched in the minds, and they do not want the truth as truth is, but the truth they are living is all the truth that matters to them.  They live in their little Camelots, where their little worlds are perfect and undisturbed, and hand in hand they go, skipping down the Yellow Brook Road to live happily everafter.
   The Gospel of Christ, however, has been preached for the past 2012 years, people around the world have heard of Him, and even people in churches and Christian religions have heard of Christ, yet Christ, to many church-going people, is no more than a part of their religious atmospheres, in which Christ is about as meaningless as the pews they sit on, for the people standing in their pulpits mean more to them than the Creator of the universe; and the words their ministers speak to them mean more than the Word of God.  They do not believe that Christ arose from the dead, and neither do they believe that Christ will come to earth again.
    Even with all of the information they do not believe about Christ, they do believe, however, that Jesus was a baby in Bethlehem.  But to trust in Christ for their salvation?  Never!  They believe that their religious devotion to their systems of belief is sufficient to save them and to take them to heaven.  To them, all Jesus did was usher in Christmas, a time when we can hang colorful lights and give and get presents, then put baby Jesus back in a box until the same time next year.  And as for Easter, they have the bunny rabbit and colored eggs.
   Where, then, is Christ to most people in the world today?  Where is Christ to people who go to churches and Christian religions? the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should shine unto them.
   The truth of the matter is this:  many, many people in churches and Christian religions today are spiritually blind and they do not know it because of the deceptive power of Satan; for even if they read the truth, they still do not want the truth, even the truth about God, from the Word of God. 
   The Holy Trinity is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  So if people do not believe in the Son, what is their belief?