Treacherous, Rash and Conceited

Joe Soptic

It wasn't just the blatant lie that former steelworker Joe Soptic told that was reprehensible, it was the method that he used to tell that lie.

And what was that method? He exploited the memory of his deceased wife to (1) make money for himself by promoting a vicious lie that was intended to (2) benefit President Barack Obama's reelection campaign by slandering Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Soptic claimed that Mitt Romney's Bain Capital closed his steel plant in 2001 which not only cost him his job, but his health insurance as well. As a result, according to Soptic, his wife eventually died of cancer because he lacked health insurance that could have saved her life.

Soptic's sob story turned out to be a lie. Yes, his wife did indeed die of cancer, but that occurred in 2006, four years after she was diagnosed with the disease in 2002. When she was diagnosed with cancer in 2002, she was employed by a company that provided her with health insurance. As for Soptic's claim that Romney closed his steel mill, that also turned out to be false. Romney left Bain Capital in 1999, two years before Soptic's steel mill was shuttered by Bain in 2001.

Certainly, liars have been around since the dawn of history and the Bible tells us that "all men are liars." (Psalm 116:11) In fact, the Bible also tells us that the destiny of liars is eternal damnation in hell. (Revelation 22:15) And the Bible tells us that the spiritual ruler of all liars is Satan himself who Jesus Christ described as "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." (John 8:44)

Biblical prophecy reveals that in the last days, the world will become exceedingly wicked. This is how the apostle Paul described what people will be like in the end times: "People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--having a form of godliness but denying its power." (2Timothy 3:2-5)

Joe Soptic certainly fits Paul's description of a godless, end-time person. Not only is he a liar, he's also a brutal, slanderous and unholy person who loves money so much that he was willing to throw his deceased wife's corpse under the proverbial bus just to do the bidding of Barack Obama's political assassins. Unless he repents--and quickly--of what he just did, Joe Soptic may very well meet a similar or even worse fate than what befell his wife. And that's not a curse or a threat--that's a reality. 

Certainly, Joe Soptic can be absolved of his sins by confessing them to Jesus Christ and asking the Lord to forgive them. And Christ certainly will. And certainly, those who work for the Priorities U.S.A. Super Pac that enticed Soptic to lie for Barack Obama in that detestable ad they produced, can also repent of their sins by confessing them to Christ. In fact, they should and soon because to use a man's deceased wife as an election prop is so vile it's beyond comprehension. What isn't beyond comprehension is the divine judgment that these people just invited upon themselves. And you can bet it's coming.