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“And now I [Gamaliel] say unto you…if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought” (Acts 5:38).
While Gamaliel was the one voice that brought some common sense into the Jewish counsel, everything he said was not strictly true. What he said about God’s work not being able to be overthrown was true, but everything that is “of men” does not always “come to nought” (nothing). Men have started false religions, such as Buddhism and Islam, and both have flourished in this world. Both religions have many followers today. Violent and immoral men have risen to power in this world, and have managed to prosper. In His ways with this world, God sometimes allows wrong things to go on; they do not always fail.
However, we know that in the end, truth will triumph, for God is over all that goes on in this world, and will eventually deal in judgment with sinful men. But for the moment, evil may go on, and God may not immediately interfere.
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