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▌INTRODUCTION. Who does not want to be on the ‘right side of history’? The question is, how can we know the ‘right side of history’? The Bible gives ample pointers, for instance:
| The Righteous vs. the Wicked. The Bible makes a clear distinction between the Righteous and the Wicked.
"For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; but Jehovah upholds the righteous … The hope of the righteous is gladness; but the hope of the wicked shall perish … When the righteous increase, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.”
[Psalm37:17; Proverbs10:28; 29:2MKJV].
| The Fear of the LORD vs. Evil. The Bible equates the fear of the LORD with wisdom and knowledge:
“And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to depart from evil is understanding! … “The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
[Job28:28; Proverbs1:7MKJV].
| Light vs. Darkness. When contemplating all the government corruption, state capture and fraud among prominent politicians and business-people, one wonders what has happened to the moral fabric of our society and the time-tested Judeo-Christian values so cherished by people (even by atheists!) during more prosperous times. Jesus Christ has explained the reason for it lucidly:
“And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil … For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed … But he who practices truth comes to the Light so that his works may be revealed, that they exist, having been worked in God.”
[John3:19-21MKJV].
| Wheat vs. Tares. Often people may wonder why the evil are not removed from society more expeditiously, or more effectively. The point is that men often are imperfect judges of character and may do the wrong thing. Again, Jesus Christ explains by using the parable of the unsuspecting farmer:
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way … But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”
[Matthew13:25, 29-30KJV].
▌THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT. History is scheduled to ‘one day’ culminate in (what the Bible refers to as) the Great White Throne Judgment. Wrote John, the ‘beloved disciple’, in exile on the Isle Patmos on the future of the righteous and the wicked:
“… After these things I looked, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kin-dreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands … And I saw a great white throne, and Him sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And a place was not found for them … And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death. And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire … But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abo-minable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorce-rers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
[Revelation4:7:9; 20:11,14,15; 21:8MKJV]
▌THE VALLEY OF DECISION. The day Jesus Christ was crucified He was joined on the hill of Calvary (Golgotha) by two ‘evildoers’ who were also being crucified on either side of Him; whereas the one evildoer was mocking Jesus from his side of the middle cross, the other one chose to show compassion. That feeble gesture of compassion prompted Jesus to react with an emphatic:
“Today thou shalt be with me in paradise.”
[Luke23:39-MKJV].
Why? Because that evildoer had wisely chosen, after years of devotion to alife of crime, for once in his life to be on the right side of history. Are you on the right side of history? 
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