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For the Creator-Christ to have organized a program for the alleviation of the
conditions of an earthly society would have been equivalent to an acceptance and an

endorsement of the anti-God cosmic order that is responsible for such conditions. It
would have been tantamount to a recognition of Satan‟s government as inevitable and
unavoidable. It would put Him in the light of making the best of a bad bargain, of
admitting inability to alter causes by trying to improve effects.

A man who has the clear intention of tearing his house down and rebuilding it from
the foundations sometime in the near future, never goes in for extensive alterations on
the existing structure. Were he to engage in large scale repairs, it would belie his intent

to rebuild.

Satan himself is the author of the “social gospel” and nothing could possibly please
him better. He loves to cast the Sovereign-Creator-Christ in the role of being a

garbage-collector for his foul world-system. He loves to send his dupes around
mouthing about “the principles of Jesus,” “The social ethics of the Master,”
“world-peace,” “solving problems,” “leadership training,” and a thousand and one
empty shibboleths and pious-sounding lies that find no substantiation in Scripture or

human experience. The propagators of these frauds feel that if they can shout loud
enough that the world is getting better, or if they can just play their Pollyanna game
long enough, their dreams will come true. Wars, rumors of wars, increasing
armaments, scrapped treaties, perfidy in human relationship, crowded jails,

gangsterism, rampant immorality among the youth, indiscriminate divorce,
intoxication of stimulants, speed and pleasure, are either ignored by the
pink-spectacled spawns of hell, whether in atheistic Russia or in Modernist pulpits, or
glorified as the signs of a new emancipation from ancient shackles.

The whole idea of reforming his world suits Satan down to the ground. It insinuates
that his world is not so bad and that the conditions brought about by his government
of sin and death are remediable. There are two very embarrassing points to which this

teaching never refers, which increases his attachment for it. One is the Blood of
Calvary‟s cross, wherewith his judgment was sealed, and the other is the Coming of
Christ, when the sentence will be carried out and executed. The blood is the means,

the coming the end of his doom!

The note in the Scofield Reference Bible on the Parable of the Tares in the
mysteries of the kingdom in Matthew thirteen, calls attention to the fact that mere
unbelievers in Scripture are never designated as children of the devil, but that the term

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