Jerry Hunt is under God's judgement

The news this morning is dominated by the folly of Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary.  It appears that he has been doing naughties with his e-mail account.  I'm not really interested in the finer details of what he has done but I do see a spiritual lesson here.

A short while ago a Christian radio station was attempting to put out an advert defending the Christian faith.  Due to the climate of persecution against Christians that exists in this country, at present, this was opposed by Hunt on the grounds that the advert was "political".  As a result of this evil man's intervention the case was won by opponents of the Gospel.  However, God is not mocked. Hunt is now is trouble; or, to put it another way - the man is toast.  (If he doesn't repent he will be toast in another way when he dies!)

The lesson of this whole episode is clear - if you come against God and His people then He will answer you.  In the case of Saul of Tarsus God's answer was to convert him.  However, in many other cases God's answer is to judge by taking revenge upon the wicked.  We see this in many ways in the annals of history.

The Bible says, in Psalm 2 "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing.  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His annointed saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us"  This is a clear reference to people rebelling against God but what is His answer?  In verse 4 we read "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord will have them in derision".

When people oppose the Lord and His people they think they will get away with it - but God will have the last laugh, and so will His people.

Jeremy Hunt may yet come to repent of his wickedness in opposing God, I hope so for his sake but, for the time being at least. he has been brought down by his own evil and vile intentions.  As the Bible says "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God"   Hebrews 10 v 31