This WAS going to be part of a longer reply on another comment about “whether we should be enjoying the show or not”, but I thought it might be more salient as a separate post. Hopefully many will see this and get SOME degree of “comfort” from it.
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(1) Either Trump and the Patriots are divinely inspired/directed (directly guided by God) or they’re not.
(2) If not, either Trump and the Patriots are making intelligent moves with a plan/goal or they’re not.
(3) If not, either Trump and the Patriots are just “winging it and getting lucky” or they’re not.
(4) If not, either you have faith that God is in control or you don’t.
(5) If not, either you believe in an afterlife without (your personal) suffering or you don’t.
(6) If not, it’s all chaos, eff it, “Let’s Go Brandon!”, watch it burn and enjoy the show!
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Personally I subscribe to points 1 through 4; that if all else humanly possible is failing/to fail (that maybe this is the Armageddon of the Bible), that ultimately God is in control and, if you are a repentant sinner, your suffering and worry will end and the world will be made right again.
I don’t know if we’re in the end times or not (every generation has had theirs, right?); from what I know of Revelations, there are still signs we’ve yet to see (whatever “100-pound hailstones could be” and “the anti-Christ declaring himself God from within the rebuilt temple (??)” as a couple). But even so, come Lord Jesus.
So either this is the “IT” put forth in Revelations or it isn’t.
If not, it’s it’s a human-led “golden age” or it isn’t.
If not, we’ll just go back to pre-COVID normal, but with a bunch of super-bad people removed, human trafficking significantly reduced, and awakened such that we should never become complacent and detached from our governing bodies ever again.
If not, ... well... hope you like owning nothing and being happy, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Kinda just a mind ramble. Hopefully coherent enough to get the point across and ease your mind a bit.
God bless and happy post-Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas frens!!!
-RJ
God is in control. GOD WINS!!!
Thats the good news. The bad news is that when he wins, it's the end.
The end of the beginning, some might say.
It would depend on to which side before the throne of judgement you find yourself (Matthew 25:31-46).
True. There is the mater of very precise "like clockwork" solar micro-nova. This being a 12,060-year reoccurring "return of the sun". Could be some luck involved depending on which side of the planet you are on when the fire and brim stone starts to fall.
It doesn't matter how it ends, either way, if you're a true believer in Jesus Christ, you WIN either way. Amen.
Yeah. And I hate to keep using the phrasing, but...
It’s either the end of the world and things will get worse before they get better (Revelations) or this is a potential human initiated golden age and Revelations is still afar off.
If the Bible is truth, and I believe it is, the end times WILL occur it’s just a matter of when (which we DON’T/WON’T know, but there will be signs of the season).
What is "Revelations"? Do you mean the Book of REVELATION?
Yes, this one. Good work :thumbsup:
We could get a situation like Egypt's and the world's, (by extension) 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of famine. (or 7 years of freedom followed by the Anti-Christ) Genesis 37- 50.
That either / or does show up often, doesn't it? (Law of non-contradiction)
All this covid nonsense, build back better and all the Marxist narrative is going to fall apart in 2022. This whole thing is going to crumble next year.
Deleted akin to “Why not stop at 1 or 2? Pick from a Chinese [food] menu.“
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I more a buffet person myself; like to (repeat) experience flavor.
I’m with you, I’d like it to be 1 or 2, because that’s be the most awesome - deliberate actions, guided or not, in this silent war - because it means an intentional ass-whooping for the bad guys. However, I’ll take it down to the “backup” plan that if all else humanly possible fails God is in control.
“Fear not man who can only destroy the body, but fear the Lord that can destroy both the body and soul in Hell.”
Deleted comment something like “what will you do when you find out the contrary and who’s going to be the one telling you?”
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You mean as in “God is not in control and therefore nothing of the Bible is to believed” or something else?
If the former, we’re all in no worse position, really, because it would’ve been fantasy and delusion - the reality was always there - we’re all gonna die. Religious faith and doctrine being merely a human construct to try to get us all to treat each other better, or at least to behave above the level of animal instincts (not saying I’m learned on ALL religions just that .. we’re either higher than animals or we’re not).
Don't you think that God puts us on this earth with free will to make our own decisions and, therefore, doesn't interfere?
I believe that God is not a grand chessmaster playing a game. God is an observer who will give advice if asked (to those who can hear).
We should all be asking "what should I be doing to get the outcome that I desire?"
As the great man said, "Ask not what your country (or God) can do for thee..."
If you are waiting for God to do something Himself, you might be disappointed.
Recall the joke about the man waiting for God to rescue him from a flood.
The punchline of which was “I (God) sent two boats and a helicopter.”
God often works (most visibly?) through human agency. Trump, The Patriots, et al at our current time and place.