Good is Good and Evil is Evil

Think about how many times Moses went to Pharaoh and showed him the power of God and how many times Pharaoh rejected him! Imagine if that happened today. Wait a minute! It happens all the time! Often people just refuse to accept what God does.

On the other side of the coin people talk about what God is doing when He isn't even involved at all. In Exodus 4, Aaron cast down his rod in front of Pharaoh and it became a serpent. Not to be outdone or out-miracled, Pharaoh's magicians threw down rods and magically turned them into serpents. Their magic was a false show. Aaron's serpent  gobbled up the other serpents!  The Bible talks about disguised angels of light and lying signs, miracles and wonders. We can be deceived by such things. How can we tell?  Jesus Christ told us in the New Testament that people will be known by their fruit.

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

When a tree grows and produces fruit eventually, the fruit cannot be hid. In Mark 11:14 Jesus spoke about a fig tree (also called the people's tree) that didn't even produce buds, saying: "No man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever." Despite the leaves, branches and roots, there would be no fruit. This would have been hard for him to see from 'afar off' unless he had gotten up close to look, which he did (Mark 11:13). Jesus was referring to those who had rejected him as a God's son. 

Fruit represent the good things of God. Good is good and evil is evil. It is God's Word that determines which category something belongs to, not man nor his actions however disguised they may be.