We are seeing Samson's sin today
God’s people kept falling back into sexual sin during the days of the Judges, and the pattern continues to this day with the constant lure of wealth, power, success, pleasure, comfort, sex, indulgence, and pornography. These same demons are powerfully at work in our culture, continuing to seduce God’s people into evil and sin.
The rise in everything from worship of the environment (as our sacred goddess Mother); to greed that worships the demon Mamon in everything from crime to skyrocketing debt; to murder of the innocents, starting with the unborn; to the mainstream acceptance of pornography, polygamy, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, transgenderism, and every other sexual deviancy, is all the work of Baal and Asherah waging spiritual warfare that manifests in our physical world.
The liberal, progressive, woke, and mainline Protestant “churches” that fly rainbow flags and celebrate tolerance, diversity, and Pride Month are filled not with the Holy Spirit but with unholy spirits. They follow the same demonic decline that we see in Judges.
Regarding Samson as the final judge in the book of Judges, his behaviour tragically mirrored the rest of the nation. A Bible dictionary says, “Samson’s actions parallel the actions of Israel in the book of Judges.
Samson’s primary weakness was his proclivity to pursue Philistine women; one of Israel’s significant faults was their inclination to worship foreign gods.”
This Bible dictionary argues that “Samson is an example of Israel’s ‘playing the harlot after other gods’ (Judges 2:17; 8:27, 32). He goes on to argue that Samson embodies/personifies all that is wrong in Israel and lists eight similarities between Samson and the nation he governs as a Judge, concluding that Samson demonstrates that the divinely chosen leaders were part of Israel’s problem rather than a lasting solution
A powerful myth of progressivism has taken root in Western culture. Based on an evolutionary concept, the myth holds that people are basically good and getting better. Subsequently, if we encourage people to feel better about themselves, they will naturally become better people.
Morally, the Bible says the exact opposite. People are born with a sin nature imputed from Adam, and apart from such restraining forces as our conscience, painful life consequences, the legal system, police officers, soldiers, and potential death, people would spiral into evil at a rapid rate.
Apart from people being saved by Jesus, filled with the restraining and renewing power of the Holy Spirit, and living under the authority of God’s Word, they get worse over time, not better.
