Cheaters Are Disqualified from the Race. Your Sins Will Find You Out.
If a person or group is found cheating in a race, can they still be the winner? Here’s a group of runners sneaking through the bushes. These runners were actually caught on video by a traffic camera, which showed hundreds of entrants running through bushes to cut 1 to 2 miles from the full half marathon distance of 13 miles.
It is a maxim of Law that cheaters are disqualified from the race. You don’t have to prove how extensive the cheating is or how much it impacted the race. The fact that a participant cheated, disqualifies them from the race. They automatically lose.
Witnesses need to come forth and claim that cheating took place. And if the evidence shows cheating occurred, the cheater is disqualified. The person cheating can’t claim that it is too late to object. When the cheating is discovered, days, months, or even years later, he or she forfeits the race and the prize is taken away.
A well-known road bicyclist was banned for life and stripped of all his victories and prizes. He lost seven Tour de France titles and one Olympic medal because he cheated by using illegal performance-enhancing drugs. It took years to finally document the cheating, but once caught, this famous cyclist was declared a loser.
What do you do when you know there has been cheating, but those who could reverse the outcome won’t act because they are being bribed or blackmailed. Perhaps their lives are being threatened. This often delays the reporting of the cheating. But there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed.
On a hundred yard dash, a false start automatically disqualifies the runner.
Even if he or she was the fastest runner. They forfeit the race. They lose because they didn’t play by the rules.
The cheater is always guilty because they climbed over the fence instead of going through the gate. When you cheat, in a big or small way, you forfeit the right to win the prize.
If anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 2 Timothy 2:5
Some cheating is obvious and visible to everyone. Other forms of cheating are more difficult to identify. The defrauder gets the reward. But later, when the pieces are put together that they cheated, the prize is taken away and they are disgraced.
Social media sites keep track of likes and dislikes. These counts can be exploited by adding or removing totals so that the real count is unknown. If it is discovered that the tallies have been manipulated, the people will lose confidence in the count and will refuse to participate. It is important that the counting is conducted in a fair and reliable manner.
In the case of political races, what if you are trying to expose fakery and corruption that occurred when selecting a leader? You attempt to get your hands on the physical evidence, but you are barred. You want to look at the computer hardware and software system used to determine the winners, but every attempt is obstructed by those who have made lies their refuge.
IT specialists, mathematicians, analysts and many other experts expose the Truth - that it is highly improbable, if not impossible, for the declared winner to have actually won. The conclusion? The process must have been rigged. Yet, the courts at every level refuse to look at the evidence and legislatures turn a blind eye. What can you do when every legal means of exposing the cheating is exhausted? Finally, you realize that you are trying to establish a case for deception in a system that is already rife with corruption at every level. If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. Isaiah 59:4
The cheaters arrogantly obstruct anyone trying to audit the results. Darkness hates the light. But their lies will not stand.
You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death,
with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.
When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by,
it cannot touch us,
for we have made a lie our refuge
and falsehood our hiding place.”
So this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation;
the one who relies on it
will never be stricken with panic.
I will make justice the measuring line
and righteousness the plumb line;
hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie,
and water will overflow your hiding place.
Your covenant with death will be annulled;
your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.
When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by,
you will be beaten down by it.
As often as it comes it will carry you away;
morning after morning, by day and by night,
it will sweep through.”
The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
The bed is too short to stretch out on,
the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.
The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,
he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon—
to do his work, his strange work,
and perform his task, his alien task.
Now stop your mocking,
or your chains will become heavier;
the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me
of the destruction decreed against the whole land.
Isaiah 28:15-22
Those who are trying to fight corruption in the way their leaders are chosen, desire that the truth prevails. But they are up against strongholds of the adversary. The whole world lies under the power of the evil one. (1John 5:19) He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (See John 8:44)
When high officials cheat to obtain their office, people are torn apart. If you want to unify the people, the truth about cheating needs to be exposed. Everyone knows what cheating is and everyone knows cheaters don’t get the prize. They don’t win the race. Once people understand how the cheating was accomplished, then the truth will be known and the people will be set free.
As citizens of Heaven, our Kingdom is not of this world. We don’t directly participate in the affairs of secular governments. Our hope is that those who love the truth will leave the wicked world system and seek a better government, the Kingdom of Heaven.
Those secular leaders who came before were thieves and robbers. We no longer listen to the voice of strangers. They are only hirelings. When danger comes they flee. Jesus talks about cheaters and thieves in John, Chapter 10. He says you can tell a thief because he does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way. Those who enter through the door of Jesus find the way into true life.
Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:8-10
The chief shepherd is looking for those who hear His voice and leave the stranger:
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. John 10:16
What do you do when cheaters appear to win and the foundations are destroyed? You look for another government, an everlasting government, where the foundations cannot be destroyed. Listen for the voice of the Good Shepherd to lead you out of the wicked world into the Kingdom of Heaven.
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4
We give this warning to those who are involved in cheating: Repent and come clean. Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. And this message is especially for the corrupt rulers and judges:
Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,
And you perish in the way,
When His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.
Psalm 2:10-12
Jesus makes a further warning in the parable of the wicked husbandmen
who would not render the fruits in their season.
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
‘The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.
This was the Lord’s doing,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?
“Therefore I say to you,
the kingdom of God will be taken from you
and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.
And whoever falls on this stone will be broken;
but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”
Matthew 21:42-44
Wake up and repent. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
