brendaonline.com58 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
con·gre·ga·tionGod again is speaking to his church. We are more wicked in our churches than any place on earth.
We segregate, we kill, we steal, we lie, we break every commandment God told Moses to put in writing.
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Ananias and Sapphira were two people after being filled with the Holy Ghost lied and died. They died because they lied to the Spirit of God. You stack upon what you have stolen and God saw every move you made.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
We are all born into sin. However, born into wickedness is a spirit matter.
ESTRANGED-no longer close or affectionate to someone; alienated
As soon as you took office or came into existence, you began speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
These people will not listen to the best of the advisors. They will not take heed to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
The young lion sleeps with the lioness and proudly does so. David is asking God to stop them from having the last Word. David is asking God to remove their bite and cause them from eating those that want to do good and those that do good.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
Lord expose and remove wicked leaders and give us people who will seek your word to change our communities. Our churches are corrupt, our government is corrupt, Lord, our world is corrupt. Help us, Lord, Help us.
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Remove wicked people from the office. As wicked as our world is, it does not take many to lead us if we are lead by the Word of God.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Before the pot can gets hot, God will sweep the wicked both young and old by His severe anger.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
The people of God shall rejoice when the wicked are no more. There are so many wicked leaders until it will be enough for the righteous to cover their entire feet as in a tub. God will remove the wicked out of office.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
God will answer and man will know God is in control. Let your Word be magnified OH! Lord! Be magnified! There is a reward for the people of God. The people of God have a right to live in a world where the Word of God rules!
How to people beome wicked?
It turns out this is a question that has a quantifiable answer, supported by peer-reviewed research.
First, let go of the idea of “good people” and “evil people.” It’s a convenient fiction. All of us, every single person—you, me, the people reading this answer on Quora, the Quora admins, your friends, my friends, everyone—has the capacity to do amazing acts of good and breathtaking acts of atrocity. Evil people are not “other.” They are not different from you and I.
We are all formed of frailty and error. We all simultaneously shed light and cast shadows. Every single one of us is simultaneously good and evil.
Most of the time, if we are in safe and stable environments, we do good. We obey the law, we go to work, we don’t kill our neighbors even when they play obnoxious 80s hair metal at eleven o’clock at night.
Change the environment, create new situations where we’re jolted out of our safe and comfortable routine, put us in an environment where we are deindividuated, make us feel threatened and then name an Other as the source of that threat, and every single one of us can commit acts of astonishing depravity and evil. The people in Rwanda who picked up machetes and hacked their next-door neighbors to death, neighbors they had lived side by side with for years and invited over to dinner, they were not “evil people.” They were ordinary people who were placed in extraordinary circumstances.
Researcher Philip Zimbardo turned a group of randomly selected college kids into monsters in just six days during the infamous Stanford prison experiment.
He’s spent his entire life doing research on the pressures that make ordinary people capable of atrocity, and he’s even written a book about it, The Lucifer Effect.
It’s pretty simple. Put people in a situation where they do not see themselves as individuals, but rather see themselves as part of a team or a group. doesn’t matter what that group is. Prison guards, police officers, tribal Hutu, Aryans, Christians, Muslims, doesn’t matter. Set them apart from an other—a group that is dangerous that they have to protect themselves and/or society from. Encourage them to see that group as all the same, not as individuals. Give them a little bit of power, remove any checks on abusive behavior, and boom, there it is. The Lucifer effect.
Add an authority figure into the mix and it becomes almost impossible for people not to commit atrocity, even if they know what they are doing is wrong. It is incredibly hard to stand up and say “no” when you’re part of a hierarchical structure compelling you to abuse another group of people. You don’t want to let your side down. You don’t want the people in your group to turn on you. You don’t want to disobey. You don’t want to be seen as weak. So you go along. You might go home after you’ve committed an act of atrocity know you’ve done wrong, but that won’t stop you from getting up the next morning and doing it again. Very, very few people ever stand up and say “no.”
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