The bigger picture is Christ is building His Kingdom regardless of what evil people plan or do.
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"God wins" isn't just a slogan from Q, it's the whole theme of the Bible. (And how the devil has tricked the church into not fighting)
The verse "Sit at My right hand while I make all your enemies your footstool" (God to Jesus) appears more times than any other verse in scripture making it God's favorite Bible verse.
A few hundred years ago the Scofield Reference Bible was published. It was the first Bible to have notes in it that explained eschatology (the study of end times) and it pushed a rather new and unpopular view that was not even remotely the predominate view of Christians and our founding fathers,
This view was caller "Premillennial dispensationalism" Basically that the destruction language in Revelation wasn't about the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD by Rome and that the tribulation for the world didn't start then. It also taught about a rapture of the elect which was not what Christians believed prior to this Bible being widely adopted and used at seminaries and by preachers.
That end times view is very much at odds with scripture and historical Christianity.
Historically Christians believed that the gospel spreads through the world and the world is restored to the garden by the blood of Jesus. Every head bows and every knee bends and every lounge confesses that Jesus is Lord.
The Bible tells us in the last days it will be like the times of Noah. Now you probably know that the ark represented Jesus and salvation (one door, those in Him are saved) but ask yourself who was swept off the earth when the flood came. The wicked. Those in Christ were left but on an Earth that had been cleansed and remade of the evil and corruption that was covering it. That was foreshadowing of the full work of Christ that would come later.
There is no rapture. Only the wicked will be swept away and burned like the chaff mixed with the wheat. The rapture is the greatest lie the devil has ever told. It has Christians not fighting and building and taking dominion as we are instructed by God. Instead many Christians today almost celebrate when things get worse from the sidelines of culture because they think that's a sign that Jesus is coming back soon.
Want to learn more and change the way you see the world? Want to be encouraged and light a fire inside you? Learn the REAL Biblical eschatology that will change the way you interact with the world. Here's a playlist of sermons, discussions, history lessons and debates on this view and comparison to other views like Premillennialism, Amillennialism, this view I'm talking about, Postmillennialism