The Bible documents that the followers of Jesus of Galilee were vigorously pursued to answer questions pertaining to the charge of conspiracy for promoting revolution and treason against the government of Rome. To avoid prosecution one of the apostles – Peter – denied three times that he was part of the spiritual revolution of Christ.
“Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man.”
To be charged with conspiracy, the prosecution doesn’t have to prove a defendant’s involvement in a perceived affair. On many occasions individuals have been incarcerated, for simply taking a photograph with someone deemed “suspect” by the authorities.
How fortunate for Peter that he was able to avoid the charges against him – temporarily at least. Why? Because it was Peter’s word against his accusers – no one had a photograph of him with Jesus
Today, how freely we put our images, lifestyles, passions, habits and desires on these social media outlets. If your character is Christ-like, then it’s understandable – no fear – but if your behavior is unrighteous and Satanic, I would be very, very afraid.
Why? Because not only is the Creator of the world watching you but Uncle Sam is watching you too.
Considering the past practices of this country against groups and individuals deemed “anti- establishment, outcast from society, strange or different,” we should be more conscious of the character we display on these social media outlets.
In 1985, following orders from a collaboration of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, a bomb was dropped from a helicopter on a house occupied by the MOVE organization. The explosion ignited a fire in which 11 people died, including five children. In addition 60 homes were destroyed. To this day Philadelphia is known to many as “The City That Bombed Itself.”
In 1969, Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BBP), was killed, as he slept, in a raid by a collaboration of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Hampton was “deemed to be a threat,” perhaps because of his brokering of a nonaggression pact between Chicago’s most powerful street gangs.
In response to the death of Fred Hampton, the “Weather Underground Organization” (WUO), an all-white clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, issued a “Declaration of War’ against the United States.
The WUO believed that “doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is itself a form of violence. If you sit in your house, live your white life and go to your white job, and allow the country that you live in to murder people and commit genocide, and do nothing about it, that’s violence.”
“Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man”.
That’s what Peter said. Well, I sure do know the Man. Furthermore, I’m in a conspiracy with Him to seek and to save that which is lost. Who are you in a conspiracy with?
