BELIAL, The Wicked Ruler

Chapter 14 12 T HE M IND OF B ELIAL : L AWLESSNESS AND R EBELLION

There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counselor. Nahum 1:11 The Jerusalem translation says, "From you has sprung one who plots evil against Yahweh, a man with the MIND OF BELIAL." Nahum is prophesying judgment against Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire. The king of Assyria was actually plotting against the Lord. The Taylor translation says, "Who is this king of yours who dares plot against the Lord?" This is the spirit of Antichrist. Psalm 2:2-3 says, "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us." There you have it, the ultimate goal of Belial—TO CAST OFF RESTRAINT. The Church is a restraining force in the earth against the filth and ungodliness Belial desires to flood upon the earth. The Amplified Bible says, "and cast their cords (of control) from us." These are the spirits of lawlessness and rebellion. Where there is no law, people run wild. Our entire judicial system was founded on the Judeo-Christian ethic found in the Bible. In other words, the Bible is the foundation of our legal system. A society that rejects the Bible as its moral authority will eventually have problems with its judicial system. Belial hates the restraining power of the Bible, the Holy Spirit, and the Church. This is why he attacks them so viciously.

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