Ooh! Ooh! I know that one! Luke 22:35-38. Jesus tells his disciples "Look, remember how I sent you out with no defense to spread the gospel? Well the times are changing and now you'd better have a sword. In fact if you don't have a sword and can't get one, you'd better find something to sell so you CAN get a sword, even if it's selling off your coat."
Great, so now rather than trying to get folks saved, we gonna be stabbin them with a sword!
I think you are misunderstanding having a personal weapon for self defense only as a last resort versus "hey, let's go whack everyone that isn't Christian and take over the world for Jesus!"
Yeah, I've heard that one all my life too.
That was a cheap shot dude. I never said "Jesus is never coming back."
But, you were saying something very similar to "all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation"
We should all be living as though we are going to stand before the Lord at any given moment.
No matter how we slice this - these are OUR last days and in our lives are short and getting shorter by the day.
The early church WAS under the Roman Empire. Seriously??
Er, yeah. Read the Gospels and the Book of Acts.
Christians could have done much to counter the Nazi movement before it got so powerful.
Not in Germany, they were all following calvinism and other false doctrines
Kinda like it is here in the US now!
Anyway, you're welcome to the last word on this. I've got to agree with JTB on this. I engaged, I fired, I made my points, but with the likes of you, I need to keep making them. I also have to correct your marvelous misreading of what I wrote, and in my opinion, you've misused Scripture. Time to move on.
By all means, I'll need to adjust my priorities and pay attention to politics more than the PRIMARY mission the Lord assigned to His Church which is to win the lost and make disciples. Not!
You may not mean for it to sound like this, but that's the way it comes off as though we all gotta get in to politics because "
oh my gawd, the country is going down the tubes and we gotta stop it fast or else we're all doomed - run to the hills!"
You'll have to excuse me as I'm not a big fear guy like so many Christians are concerning politics.
Plenty of warnings in God's Word concerning the world getting darker and darker in the end times so we should all be aware of this and not be alarmed and worried as so many obviously are. It's embarrassing how some Christians act!
I can tell you this, even if Trump does get re-elected and has some really great people in his cabinet... very little will change and the world and this nation will continue it's downhill spiral.
I'd prefer Trump over anybody the democrats could possibly have as a candidate myself, but there is NO political solution that's going to make the world better. The world has become globalist and the one world government, one world religion will come forth run by the one world leader, the anti-christ
All I can say to believers like you is is that you had better wake up fast. History is not kind to such.
I'm awake, and looking at things from the Lord's perspective and not thru the dark minds of men who are scared out of their gourd at what is coming on the earth!
Luke 21:26
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Luke 21:34
take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.