AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World

The Ten Commandments
out His blessings, His promises, and His covenant with His people!
Our God is the Eternal—the Self-Existent One. Throughout His
Word, God’s name is connected with His attributes—His power, His
eternal existence, His mercy, His faithfulness, His wisdom, His love.
Notice how the prophet David connects God’s name with His creative
power: “O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all
the earth, who have set your glory above the heavens!… When I
consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the
stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of
him, and the son of man that You visit him?” (Psalm 8:1–4). Here
God is pictured as setting His glory above the heavens. Then David
proceeds to show that God has created the heavens, the earth and
man. No wonder God’s name and office are to be respected!
In our everyday speech, many of us are damning the very name of
our Creator and our God! We are using our breath to curse and damn
the name of the very One who gives us our life and the very breath
with which we curse His name! An expression used with terrible frequency
is asking God to “damn” someone. Poor men and wealthy
men alike give ready tongue to this vile oath—and often think they
are proving their “manhood” or getting away with something by doing
it! Yet it would be hard to find any normal human being anywhere
who would like to see this phrase carried out with respect to others in
all of its terrible meaning. Using this expression is trifling with the
name of our God—asking Him to do something that He has never
intended to do. God never “damned” a person in the way many seem
to think! This idea is an awful heresy! God’s work is the work of salvation,
and God will deprive no one of eternal life, except that one who,
by his own volition and will, rejects God’s way. God says: “On this one
will I look: on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles
at My word” (Isaiah 66:2). The very same may be said about the
deep respect and godly fear we should have for God’s name—which
directly represents God’s character, His Word and His purposes.
Should You Swear?
Men today are accustomed not only to profane swearing and
invoking God’s name to back up their oaths, but there are also
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