IT SEEMS TO ME that the world has been overtaken by an epidemic of unrighteous rage.  Not only have I witnessed this frequently when I am out in public — such as in traffic road-rage, at cash check-outs in shops, or in restaurants when the wrong order is brought by serving staff — but also even when having dealings with people in churches or with ‘friends’ and relatives. Folks can be sweetness and light one minute (as most people feign to be most of the time without even realising it), and then as soon as something is said which triggers them and renders them unable to continue to keep up the pretence, their whole countenance changes into what really lies behind their everyday mask, a dark cloud of ugliness and <BOOM!> the bile spills from their mouths in a torrent of withering insults and sarcasm.

If you are the kind of person who is comfortable in your own skin, laid back, self-aware and you see clearly through the bullshit of this satanic world-system, you will find yourself subject to these outbursts of unrighteous rage from others. They sense your equilibrium — your quiet spiritual repose — and they despise it. Their anger is really a type of narcissism, for they are allowing their resentment of you to become abusive and to take on a form of bullying.

I expect this sort of behaviour from those who are confessedly unregenerate spiritually and not “born from above”; but it always used to come as a shock when I have experienced it from those claiming to be “Christians”. Not any more though, as I am very used to it now. This is one of the reasons that I lead a relatively reclusive life and only mix with people when I have to. One day, I will probably wind up completely in the jungle. 🙂 For this burgeoning madness of unrighteous rage, and so many other symptoms of apostasy and degeneration has increased hugely in recent years. Why should this be?

I believe that the rise in such outbursts is part of the beginning of what Jesus prophesied when He said that “the love of most will grow cold” (Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 12), a kind of psychopathizing of humanity. In fact, that love of most growing cold is said to be the result of “the multiplication of wickedness”. To vomit out an outburst of narcissistic anger on another human being is most certainly an act of wickedness. The immediate prophetic context in Matthew 24 is betrayal, hatred and the misleading of others through false prophecies (verses 9-11). It all dovetails with the coldifying of love and the burgeoning of anger. Going on an “anger management course” may give you a few little strategies to suppress your anger but they will not deal with the underlying issue, which is a spiritual one.

Let us first be absolutely clear that such outbursts of unrighteous rage provide a very firm foothold for satanic forces, as I will show below. This is very significant. Only unregenerate people or very weak professing ‘Christians’ who have made no attempt to live out their regeneracy would indulge in such corrupted behaviour. For we are admonished to “get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice” (Letter to the Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 31). The Greek word translated as “outcry” there refers to such things as bellowing and shouting angrily, making a clamour. For that is the very opposite of how we are supposed to be. As the verse in that chapter which follows on from that one states: “Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you” (verse 32). A few verses earlier, Paul makes a most astonishing statement when he advises his readers, “In your anger do not sin” (verse 26). What does he mean by that? Quoting Psalm 4, verse 4, he means that it is actually possible to be angry without sinning. There is a righteous form of anger which has nothing to do with gross outbursts against others. Such righteous anger would be that which is reserved for lambasting injustice or hypocrisy — an example of which would be the way in which Jesus dealt with the money changers and others who turned the temple into a marketplace (Gospel of John, chapter 2, verses 13-17). That is anger without sin. It is never irrational, abusive and self-serving but is God-honouring, edifying and loving. However, the unrighteous anger to which I have been referring throughout this article is irrational, abusive and self-serving. Rooted as it is in impatience and a lack of self-control, it should have no place whatsoever in the lives of those who call themselves disciples of Christ. None. Whatsoever.

Another aspect of unrighteous anger which Paul reveals in this passage in his Letter to the Ephesians, chapter 4, is that unresolved unrighteous anger provides a perfect foothold for the demonic realm in our lives. Demons thrive on certain floridly destructive emotions running rampant in our lives, such as anger, jealousy, greed, mendacity, sexual immorality and perversion, lust, and so on. So he says, “Do not let the sun set upon your anger, and do not give the devil a foothold” (verses 26-27). The Greek word translated as “foothold” here is topos, which means a place, a location, a footing, an abode, a niche, an advantage, some kind of leverage. In other words, unrighteous anger provides a ‘portal’ through which satanic forces gain entrance into our lives. If you are not a disciple of Christ, those satanic forces can run rampant in your mind and affairs and could even ‘possess’ you in a manner which is even more controlling than the background influence which the satanic realm normally exerts. If you are a genuine disciple of Christ, “giving a place” to Satan through an angry outburst cannot lead to you being taken over completely but it can still cause some chaos in your life and should promptly be dealt with.

The only way out of this incursion of unrighteous anger for the one who is not a disciple of Christ is to feel deep, deep sorrow for all the ways that your life has been an affront to God and then to vow to turn your life around completely (the process of repentance/metanoia) and give yourself to Christ as His disciple. Then your life and emotions will change bigtime in ways that you can barely imagine. If you are a disciple of Christ and you have found yourself prone to expressing violent outbursts of unrighteous anger, you should regard this as the result of a satanic attack on your weak spiritual state and shore up your spiritual defences against it. Deep, deep prayer to reveal to you what is going on and why it is happening should be your aim.

Knowing that such irrational anger is only going to increase on this planet, we should ensure in every way that we do not ourselves contribute towards it. Frankly, insofar as it is possible, I try to keep myself out of the company of such people as these, who are unable to deal with their abusive dross, for I have found them to be intransigent and unwilling to change and thus be the purveyors of a mantle of darkness and debilitation. One day, which may be not so far away, the hatred and unmitigated anger which the world feels towards genuine disciples of Christ will break out of the suppressive bonds which the pretence of civilization currently exerts, and then all hell will break loose and the real anger which the world feels towards Christ and His disciples will be revealed for what it is in a maelstrom of revelatory madness (Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 9; Gospel of John, chapter 15, verses 18-19; Book of Daniel, chapter 7, verse 21; Book of Revelation, chapter 11, verse 7; chapter 13, verse 7).

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