I keep hearing that anyone who reads the bible and concludes there really is an End Time scenario and a physical return of Jesus Christ is well, evil. Wanting people to keep their eyes on heaven and waiting for God to punish their enemies, perhaps even causing wars to further the process along and backing mean old rotten Palestinian hating Israel to try and well, force God's hand
It's all rot. There is not one thing a Christian can do to hurry God's plans, He knows the timing; we only know the general season, the prophecies still unfulfilled. We do have a glorious expectation of being saved from wrath. But wrath for..whom? Who are these enemies of God? Maybe you have a guess... the god of this world, the designer of the failure of mankind, yup, Satan. And all those who follow him. Which will be a whole lot of the world once anyone standing against the one world order/worship of Satan via his own personal handpicked messiah, the Antichrist, has been destroyed, And the world will love him, they will bless him they will believe him.They will celebrate destroying Christians, Jews and anyone else who points to him as a false god. it'll be a "ding dong the witch is dead" moment, the "shackles" of morality and repentance and holiness having been destroyed. But God as always is in control, and I warn you now, His enemies will be destroyed. not fair you say? hm. you pretend He doesn;t exist, You pretend whatever you do is good. You pretend to tell a holy God his business, Look around you, right now...Hows that going for you? If you haven;t noticed the world is a little wonky, then I will spell it out for you. It is no longer just a case of mankind being under the curse of sin, with sorrow at every turn, now he revels in it, seeks whatever his ego thinks is good..for him. No matter who suffers,"every man does what is right in his own eyes."(paraphrase of Judges 21:25) No society, no civil government can stand in such a situation.Which may be why the world seeks "the man with all the answers" and follows him like the sheep follow the Judas goat. (the goat that is used to get the sheep up to the slaughter area) We Christians are meant to to teach and preach the Good News. We cannot force one person to believe...that is the work of the Holy Spirit.We do stand up against sin, against this tearing away of any human soul from his destiny of fellowship from God. We do honor and value Israel. We are astounded at seeing Israel rise from the grave after nearly 2 millenia. We know what that means..that every promise made to Israel will be fulfilled...We know the world will turn against them, yes, even our country,and that once the US is fully an enemy of God, it might not be such fun times.And that does not matter if it is tomorrow, or another thousand years from now.His word has proven true, so we trust the rest that has not come to pass,,,,,yet... will! We are not seeking to harm anyone..we are not apocalyptic Muslims who believe rivers of blood will bring back their Mahdi,and Muslims will rule the earth,( please note, there are many Muslims who do not believe these things. We need to be both in prayer and urging our government to help protect their lives from these insane groups.The lives lost in the middle east have not just been Christians and Jews,,,,) We are not those who believe that by forcing out all older forms of human organization, and raising children to respect the state only, that a utopia can be achieved,that once all of humankind is on board, we can force behaviors we deem important.We don;t think we need to evolve into part animal hybrids or cyborgs or DNA improved specimens or anything else. We like being human.Even with the suffering, even if body or mind is deemed imperfect by society;s standards, we believe all human beings have worth. We do not believe that you can mish mash or pick and choose religious belief,that Chrislam and New Age Christianity are terms of absurdity,and while we hold to our position of one God in Three Persons, we also believe in living harmoniously with our neighbors. Of all creeds and none. And we have been taught this for almost 2000 years. it wasn't unique or new to America. We don;t believe we can set up our own utopia of eye for an eye living under the Law right wing conservatism. ( despite those who use christian and conservative in the same sentence..the body of Christ is not a political group) We have been freed.. we would seek freedom for all. If this sounds a lot like the Founding fathers, guess what? you just realized another lie. That the founding fathers were not Christians. Of course they were. times and terms change, but Christ is relevant to all. We believe we are all sinners, that God had a solution for sin, a way for us to find our way back to Him. It has nothing to do with hating anyone. Somehow, standing for anything, at this time in history, has made us the whipping boys (if you don;t know, a whipping boy was a real, live boy who stood in for princes so they were not actually punished) for all our very real problems as people, as families, as countries.it diverts attention from the wealth stealing freedom stealing entities..call them corporations or governments or groups of influence, whatever you like. For those who rule by fear, it is a perfect solution. We do not believe in heroes who live through the End Times, wreaking havoc on Satan's minions, that's a movie script, and it denies the sovereignty of God. We believe, and warn, that if you live in those times and profess belief, you will die. A portion of Israel will survive, and millions will come to a knowledge of God and the saving work of Jesus Christ, but most will not survive the satanic "final solution" that a rebellious and self sanctified world will demand. We see echoes of it now, Christians are dying in so many places.....and being silenced in more "civilized" countries. It sort of puts pat the lie of us being in charge, putting down everyone else, or seeking to control the world.That others have used the name of Christ for personal power we cannot deny. Even saved humans fail, we just get up and keep trying if we truly love God and seek Him first. That's about all I can tell you to warn against false messiahs and false apostles.Look to their fruits.Those who seek personal gain are not bringing you a true message. The world is lost; we are a salvage team. Jesus has not yet returned, to set the world to rights and take his throne.But He will. |
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