Most everyone is familiar with the image of Lady Justice, the allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. She is blindfolded to represent objectivity in administering justice. That means justice, in its moral application, must be applied without fear or favor, regardless of money, wealth, power, or identity. Blind justice means impartiality.

She carries in one hand a balance scale to indicate true and impartial justice is applied evenly. In the other hand she carries a sword, which speaks of the execution of justice according to the moral requirements of the law under consideration.

The sword also indicates the ultimate application of justice could be a fatal result to the offender. It reminds me of Solomon’s analysis in Ecclesiastics 8:11: “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”

But justice is of God, so you might ask how a symbol such as Lady Justice could originate from the minds of ancient philosophers who did not know God. Remember that God created man in His own image, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. No other creature was likewise created. God is Spirit, but the man He created is a physical creature, not a disembodied spirit. Therefore, it appears that the likeness of God in His creation was of non-physical qualities, such as emotion, intelligence, reasoning ability, and of course, spirit that was alive before their disobedience. Body, soul and spirit are the makeup of a man, as Paul notes in 1 Thessalonians 5:23.

The knowledge of good and evil was an element that Adam and Eve obtained by their disobedience, the moral law that was written on their hearts and mankind’s heart forever. Those philosophers and formulators of mythical gods and goddesses could understand the difference between good and evil and of justice and injustice. The connection to the justice that is of God is thus realized even though the recognition of that God was far from them.

Now we come to this: Lady Justice is being raped!

Once, years ago, I had a pickup and needed extra weight in its bed for help on icy roads, so I acquired a medium-sized plastic storage box, filled it with small gravel, and satisfied that need. One morning I went out to the pickup in my driveway and discovered the box was missing. The whole thing was gone!

The emotion that ran through me, the sense of having been invaded somehow in my most private personal being was not unlike that of a woman being raped, though that would be much, much greater, I’m sure. At least that is as close as a man could come to that kind of experience. So what is the theft of a box of gravel mean, anyway? The rape, or ravage, of justice is like that—losing that which belongs to me, or you, that which is exceedingly personal, a God-given right of life that no one else can ever own.

What are some of the current events that qualify, in my opinion, as a rape of justice?

1. The radical campus riots that deny the right of free speech to anyone with an opposing viewpoint.
2. The street riots in defiance of legal procedures based on clearly determined evidence of guilt, yet unacceptable to the rioters—the two in Missouri, for example.
3. Those of a political philosophy that demands everything is going to be their way, or it’s the highway—belligerent, “know-it-all” attitude facing truth that opposes them.
4. A former FBI director who abandons his role as an investigator and assumes the role of a prosecutor in defiance of the legal requirements, and cancels the right of the legal prosecutor to exercise her duty.
5. That same person arranges for leaked information to be done, illegally, in order that a special prosecutor be appointed, hopefully, to entangle and upset the presidency.
6. A special prosecutor who is held to be one of unbiased character, yet whose close friend is included in the investigation’s subjects, and then builds a team from only those of an opposing political party to investigate the president.
7. An assistant attorney general appears biased against the target for investigation, the president, and favorable to the opponent.
8. A Justice Department that seems to carefully postpone or ignore very clear violations of the law by those of high level prominence in the political arena.
9. The reluctance of Congressional bodies to deal quickly and harshly with those who defy them in regard to providing requested critical information, even if by subpoena.
10. A justice department that maintains and investigation in search of a crime, yet having no evidence of such having taken place.
11. A national media and a justice system that did not allow any vetting of a presidential candidate whose credentials were clearly in question, if only because of the desperate attempts to cover up or close any access to such background information.
12. A court system that allows a solitary judge to vent his particular point of view in a court order that defies constitutional precedent. Likewise, consider a judge who can refuse to hear a case because its political implications are contrary to the bias of the judge of the court. And who knows how many political prisoners are serving time in prison in our country now?

The list could go on and on with particular incidents that display injustice for the benefit of one person over another. We cannot find words to describe the injustice in the whole abortion issue. It is clearly a time of calling good evil and evil good, just as God warned us of in Isaiah 5:20:

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

Justice is of God. He is justice. The fear of the Lord that we are told to embrace as a vital part of our lives is inseparably linked to justice, for justice and mercy are the two profiles of the face of God, and if there is no respect for His justice, His judicial judgment, there is no access to His mercy.

In recent times I have come to an understanding of the problems of attitudes among prisoners who are let out on parole. Some have a defiant attitude that displays itself in not accepting any  responsibility for their actions that got them into their situation. When they turn around and take charge of their own mistakes and obey the rules, doors of relief seem to open up to them.

Solomon wrote, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil“ (Proverbs 13:8). To embrace evil, then, is an open defiance of the justice of God, the righteous judgment that His holy character demands to be administered to those who choose that way.  We cannot deny what we know is waiting in the wings for those in our nation and in the world who have chosen to embrace evil and injustice in ways described above and more so.

Solomon also wrote, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10), yet in another place, God says, “Professing to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22).

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Both Daniel and John describe a terrible beast having up to several heads and ruling over the known world for periods of time. Daniel, looking forward, tells of one having four heads when he interprets the dream of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar. John, in Revelation 13, looks backward and sees a beast having six heads plus one that is merely a shadow of some future reality. (Actually, John pictures an eighth head, which is rarely, if ever, mentioned, but it is the object of this article.)

From the earliest, they are Assyria, Egypt, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, then that future one that is, apparently, a rebirth of the Roman Empire. Daniel begins his account with the one in which he lived, Babylon. The statue pictured in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar describes these four succeeding kingdoms in terms of the decreasing values of types of metals.  

Babylon, the head, was god; its chest and arms were silver (Medo-Persia); its belly and thighs, bronze (Greece); its legs, of iron (Rome); and finally, a fifth one, its feet of iron mixed with clay and having ten toes. This final one, apparently, is that seventh head, which John said, “that is, yet is not, but will be” (Revelation 17:8).  The ten toes of Daniel’s statue match with the ten horns having ten crowns which John saw on his beast vision.  And it corresponds to the secular world’s New World Order plans. [1]

In Revelation 13:2 John says, “The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.” That refers to the previous chapter 12 in which the dragon is identified: “Behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads” (verse 3).  (In other places “diadems” means “crowns.”)

This one is the motivation and strength behind each of those seven kingdoms. He is the prince of this world and was able to offer to Jesus at the temptation those kingdoms if He would fall down and worship him (Matthew 4:8-10). According to Romans 8:19-23, when mankind fell into disobedience, the whole world did also and came under the control of Satan.         

In Revelation 12 he is cast into the earth from the heavens, and as a disembodied spirit, who do you think he would indwell in the earth? It is the one who is most receptive to him, of course, no one but the Antichrist. This is when things really begin to get rough on planet earth. That chapter describes Satan as one very angry person for he knows his time is short.

In Daniel 9:27, we are told that half-way through the seven years of that covenant, he will shut down the Jewish sacrifices and offerings in that new temple, move into it and becomes an abomination to it. In 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Paul tells us that he “opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” That is exactly what he claims to do in the account in Isaiah 14, only he meets an obstacle he cannot overcome—God Almighty!

In that context is where we are told that the Day of the Lord begins, when Jesus comes for His beloved saints in the resurrection called the Rapture, and the judgment of God upon the earth’s inhabitants in the hands of an angry and vengeful enemy of God. Looking, then, to Revelation 13, and the chapters following, we see that spelled out in the introduction of the mark of the beast that all must take if they want to survive. Otherwise, they will be killed, by that imposter’s order.

In Revelation 13:3, John makes this observation: “And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed.” Most often commentators maintain that the Antichrist, now indwelt by Satan, is mortally wounded and dies, then is resurrected to copy the death and resurrection of Christ, thus obtaining the devotion and following of the people of the earth, and the Jews. Problem is, none of those people have shown any interest in Christ before this, so why now? After the Rapture great deception comes upon those left behind, says 2 Thessalonians 2:10.

It sounds plausible, but I contend that it is not the correct interpretation. Here’s why. John sees seven heads on the beast; the heads are identified by Daniel’s prophecy as political kingdoms over the history of the world. John looks back from his position in the sixth head, Rome, and sees those heads, including the one where he stands. The prior five kingdoms are already past history; the seventh head is not yet formed, as described in Revelation 17, so “one of his heads” appears to have suffered a mortal wound. The only head that then exists is the sixth head—Rome.

The legs of Daniel’s statue are that sixth head, as John looks back to the beginning of the kingdoms, and the final section of the statue is the feet with their ten toes, yet seemingly an extension of the legs. History is clear that the demise of Rome’s eastern and western divisions did occur.

In Daniel 9:26-27, we read, “And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary…Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week….”  That link of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D. is tied to today’s current events, in that the confirmation of a covenant that allows the Jews to rebuild their temple is, at this point, a future event. And the legs of Daniel’s statue are separated from its feet and toes by many centuries before the resurrection of the Roman Empire is again in place. It is the sixth head of the beast, Rome, which is mortally wounded, then resurrected again with its feet and ten toes in current history coming to pass.

The driving motivation of the leftist ideology  is to have a New World Order and a one-world government, which is that seventh head that is to come. That resurrected mortally wounded head is said to have the adoration and worship of the world fully captivated, according to Revelation 13:4. The Satan-indwelt Antichrist and his religious partner, that second beast, will see to that. It has been the longing heart-cry of the Marxist-Communist-Socialist-Liberal-Progressives to have a state-controlled population of which the “elite” can enjoy being “more equal” than those other “equals,” who worship the State which gives them everything. (That is, until “they run out of other people’s money,” as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher so beautifully stated.)

After the Rapture of the saints, the Antichrist rides out on his symbolic white horse, appearing to bring peace, but “conquering and to conquer,” as Revelation 6 reports. It is in Revelation 17 that we see how he stays behind the front of the New World Order, the formative entity for the seventh head, until he can no longer work through it, and he fully assumes control of the world as the eighth head of the beast.

Now it is a person, not a kingdom, and he is headed for perdition.  The context of Revelation 17 includes reference to “the woman who rides the beast, pointing to the religion of the false prophet or second beast told of in Revelation 13:11-17. Our concern is to follow the trail of the beast, so that matter of partnership is left to the details of John’s vision. We look now to Revelation 17:10-13:

^“There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.

“The ten horns which you saw are ten kings (toes or regions) who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.”

The demise of this ten-region New World Order is told in Revelation 17:14:

“These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.”

That tis a preview of the final confrontation at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ following the war of Armageddon, when He conquers the beast and false prophet and they are “cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone” (Revelation 19:20).

Conclusion: There will be a New World Order and a one-world government, but they will be formed in God’s timetable and not according to the wiles of “flesh and blood.” He will be glorified in His justice, righteousness and holiness before the whole universe. It is quite remarkable that the last quotation in the Bible is this:  “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”

End Notes

[1] (Ten Toes, ten regions) http://nuclearsuntan.blogspot.com/

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