As the world rises up in desperate rage against the police departments of our world in a broader sense, calling out for their defunding and in some cases abolishment, we are seeing the work of the great conspirator. Make no mistake, Satan’s aim is to ensure sin rules the day, and to remove any and all obstacles to it, while encouraging men, women, and children to reject God and embrace their depravity.

I believe in conspiracy theories. I think you should too, if you are a Bible believer. To be clear, I believe in one giant conspiracy theory standing behind every example of godlessness, wickedness, chaos, fear, and division in the world today. A conspiracy theory can’t survive without a description of the conspirator behind the scenes pulling the strings. I believe in one conspirator behind all of these things, and it isn’t a son of Adam. That might disappoint some, who immediately point the finger at one man, or one group, or one political party. To the disappointed I would say, the Bible will lead you to a clarity the counterfeit theories of the world could never provide. This is what the church and the world needs in this hour. We need a biblical analysis of what we are seeing, feeling, and experiencing together in this great national unrest.

I can’t quite remember who said it or wrote it first, but there is a helpful way to understand what is going on in our world today in the systems or institutions God designed according to the Bible. I’ve heard it said there are three primary institutions: the home, the Church, and the state. God designed and ordered each of these in the Scriptures and declared them to be under His control. His design includes authority structures and how man is to relate to each of them based upon his relationship to each one in any given moment and under various circumstances. Moreover, God gave each of them a means of restraining or correcting evil/sin, which is the part that I believe can be of the most help to us in these days.

He gave the home the rod to be used in loving, corrective, restorative, and grace filled discipline (while the biblical term “rod” may sound abusive in of itself to those unfamiliar with the Bible, that connotation is not reflective of God’s good and loving design, but rather another example of Satan’s effort to pervert and destroy that design. True discipline within the home is never abusive, nor administered in a sinful way when it is biblical). Proverbs 22:15, “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.”

He gave the Church the keys, which represent the authority and responsibility of the local church to administer loving, corrective, restorative, and grace filled discipline. Matthew 16:19, “And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

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