DESPOT

Despot

 

Grk. despotes, des-pot'-ace; from G1210 and  posis (a husband); an absolute ruler ("despot"):--Lord, master.

Although used in America in a negative sense, the Bible uses this term to describe Jesus Christ by His own half-brother Jude 4 as well as the apostle Peter in his second letter in 2 Pet. 2:1.

Jude 4; 2 Peter 2:1; Here He is called a Despot by Peter, the Master. What a serious thing to be under the authority of Someone Who can upset everything in our lives without consulting us, and by a word can mark for us the moment of our departure! That is the government of God. We may say He is Lord and Master and then fail to talk with Him daily and look at His word to find direction from Him but we only fool ourselves to think such nonsense. God is absolute monarch wherever He is King at all. His government is autocratic. He does not consult with us as to what He shall do with us, where He shall send us, what He would have us to do. Moreover, His government is an imperative government. He never permits us to make compromises with Him for a single moment. He speaks the word of authority and has every right to. He marks the path without ever consulting us, and having done so, our only relationship to that government is that of implicit, unquestioning, immediate obedience.

Psa. 148:8-11 says "Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children." All under the control of the Despot and are to give Him the glory.
But they term it Mother Nature. Fools.

 

Samuel's mother understood this as we read her poem in 1 Sam. 2:5-10:

"The Lord killeth, and maketh alive:
"He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich:
He bringeth low, He also lifteth up.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,
He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill,
To make them sit with princes,
And inherit the throne of glory."

The song moves on:
"They that strive with the Lord shall be broken to pieces;
Against them shall He thunder in heaven:
The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth;
And He shall give strength unto His king,
And exalt the horn of His anointed."

He is the only One Who deserves and has earned the right to lead people in Bible Truth for He is that Truth in Person. See previous article. He is the only One Who has the right to show men what He meant when He gave these words to all those who wrote His instructions down that the Father gave Him in the various books of the Bible. See John 12:49. These two men knew Him well especially after the resurrection as the Holy Spirit finished the internal work they needed to comprehend His words as those words returned to their minds in flaming truth.

But look at what Peter noticed in his words of warning to all of us: "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." And today that warning has been almost entirely disregarded as a fairy tale. We have a multiple generation of people who after 12 years of public and private education believe we have evolved from a state of slime to an educated species that determines our own set of morals. A person who believes God alone has that right and trusts His leadership is fortunate that they don't put people on crosses anymore although some countries put these people to death as they did the Despot. And isn't it funny that it was the Gentiles who were handed the task from the men in the fancy religious robes that didn't want the Despot telling them how to interpret scripture. The whole crowd took part.