God told us a lot about the end of this age, putting parts of the puzzle into most every book in the Bible. He did not want us to be ignorant of that time. And He told us that even tho no one would know the day or time, we would know the season.
The things He speaks about – sexual immorality, atheism and polytheism, a wholesale turn of the people away from Him, love growing cold, right and wrong trading places in the world … every generation since Christ ascended has thought they were seeing it, and to a degree they are right. Think about the arrogant farmer, God told him his rapture was to be that night. God’s Word is eternal and reverberates thru time, that’s what’s behind history repeating itself. So what comes in the end is nothing new … it’s just on a larger scale than ever before.
There’s a large and well-known group of people who are being used to advance these conditions. They abandon personal responsibility and enable the lazy, they promote the indiscriminate killing of the unborn, they push government control over the population. There’s no doubting who has a hand in their activities, only the true enemy of God could be driving all these towards the same end at the same time.
Someone ought to step up and stop them!
Except you can’t.
Go back to what God says the world will end up like – God, Who wants us to not be ignorant, tells us repeatedly that in the world, they win. Let me say that again, God wants us to know that in the world, THEY WIN.
But someone should step up and stop them!
So there arises an opposition party, who claims God’s Name and opposes abortion and enablement and the loss of freedom. By god they’re stepping up to stop the godless horde. We ought to join them, and do all we can to …
… Prevent the world from ending up the way God says it will end up.
If that ain’t a fruitless effort I don’t know what is.
But here’s the insidious part … while group 2 has you expending your effort to fight a worldly battle against abortion enablement and the taking of freedom, they also have you turning a blind eye to the myriad of God’s Truths group 2 themselves are promoting.
Mammon worship.
Self-idolatry.
Lies, hypocrisy, and deceit.
The abandonment of the sick, poor, and truly needy.
See, abortion is worse than all of these, so we can turn a blind eye and let these slide while we engage in worldly work to stop that one thing (or those three).
Except no, we can’t. To play ignorant about the violation of His Truths, in the face of God’s effort to ensure that we are not, is just … well, I don’t know what word to put on it.
God does. He calls it “deceived”. And that too He warns us repeatedly about; people coming falsely in His Name to deceive even we elect, and draw us away from His Truths.
Not all of them. But by getting us to throw out the bathwater, satan is also getting us to throw out the baby.
So then we are to do nothing? Abso-God-lutely not. We are to direct our efforts to the right place. We cannot expect to change the course of the world. But we CAN change the course of individual lives. Instead pf preaching at the podium for our elected officials to do something about baby killing, why don’t we spend those 3 hours at a clinic, offering coffee and an ear (not a judgement but an ear) to those who are considering it. If we talk to three people and one turns back, then we’ve done more than all the time before agenda-driven pawns will ever accomplish. And you’ve accomplished God’s Truth, instead of wasting time in the matrix.
And all that time you spent storming the buildings? That’s time better spent storming your knees. Knowing that one engages the battle in the spiritual, and the other is straining at gnats.
The Jews thought their Messiah was going to be a political figure who’d save them from godless Romans.
Are you looking for a political figure to save you from godless liberals?
You’re looking in the wrong direction.
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