“…I am meek and lowly in heart…”  (Matthew 11)

“You are with [M]e or against [M]e…”  (Matthew 12)

 

So which is it, Reader?  Is the Lord Jesus meek and mild or mean and wild?  Methinks the answer is simple.  To those that love Him and are loved by Him, He is meek and mild.  To those that oppose Him and His message, He is mean and wild. In Scripture we see a Christ that is tender and loving to those He loves and we also see a Christ that is harsh and hard.

This is true or tyhe Old Testament God and the New Testament God.  It is often asked by unbelievers how the God of the Testaments can be so different.  It has also been said that the God of the O.T. and the God of the N.T. are two (2) different Deities.  The Old Testament hard and hateful.  The New Testament God is all loving and kind.  What have you to say, Reader?  Have you ever wondered this?

As I said, the answer to the second (2nd) question regarding the two (2) testament Gods is the same as the Lord Jesus.  To the people of God in the O.T. God was good and He is just as good in the N.T.  In the O.T. God would put His people into captivity when they sinned against Him, but just like in the New, He chastened them in order to bring them about.  In The New, we read time and again that god chasens those He loves and if He chasens not, He loves not.  Nothing is changed.

Another point…Read the Psalms. Read the words of David and various other Psalmists.  Are not the Psalms a book of love to the O.T. God?  If the God in the O.T. was so aweful, why did the saints remain loyal to Him?  Certainly the saints drifted but did they not always return? weren’t they always accepted?

In the Old, we find God speaking roughly to those that offered up false worship and lip service and praise, “Ye offer polluted bread upon [M]ine altar..ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now to the governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of Hosts.  “But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even [H]is meat is contemptible.  Ye said also, Behold, what weariness is it! [S]hould I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.”  (Portions of Malachi 1)

In John2, we find the Lord Jesus, entering the temple or the house of prayer.  In this house of prayer He finds, again, God being mistreated and corrupted.  Do we see the meek and mild in John 2?  Not so much.  We find the Mean and Wild completely overwhelm all that are polluting the temple.

We find tables being overturned and both men and animals running for fear as the mean and wild Son of God uses a scourge made up of small cords.  Do not think for a second that He was out of control.  While man and beast run for cover, Christ commands the caged doves to be set aside with care.  If the lord had been out of control, the doves would have flown freely. The dove is the offering for the poor and He would not deny them their offering.

It is certain in the book of Revelation, our Lord Jesus is mean and wild to His enemies. However, in His letters to His churches, there are Words or comfort, and consolation as well as Words of chastening. However, after the end of the church-age in Revelation four (4) it is all warning.

In Revelation nineteen (19), there are Words such as, “His [E]yes were a flame of fire…[H]e was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood…out of [H]is [M]outh goeth a sharp sword, that with it [H]e should smite the nations: and [H]e shall rule them with a rod of iron: and [H]e treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and and wrath of Almighy God.”  (Portions of Revelation 19)

Through out Revelation, the people of god sing songs of praise and worship to the God of wrath.  For those that love the God of Revelation, they are loved.  To the enemies of the Wrathful God of Revelation, they find an Enemy…an enemy like no other.  They find an Enemy that is mean and wild!!!

Reader, which will you find?  It depends upon which you know today, hear and now.  If you find the mean and wild, so shall you find then, lest you come to know the meek and mild and take His yoke upon you.  Lest you submit and serve Him, He will not be your Saviour, but your vengeful and eternal Enemy.

I know words like the last paragraph bother a great many persons and people, that is not my problem..it is their problem that should be taken up with the Lord.  I am fully ready to defend my teaching and belief, are they…Methinks not.

Godspeed.