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Thread: The battle between good and evil

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    Quote Originally Posted by dtknowles View Post
    Devils advocate thought. If evil wins a single soul has not evil won?

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    Satan is wining. This is his domain, he rules the earth. Revelation is pretty clear on the rise of evil and we MAY indeed be in the end times.

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    May?? Is there any doubt???


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    The end times have been coming for centuries, a century from now they'll still be coming. What we see today has been seen many times in the past.

    If I'm wrong, I'll admit it.

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    OK, when in the past have we seen what we are seeing now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ioon44 View Post
    OK, when in the past have we seen what we are seeing now?
    At one time, the Roman Empire was the greatest power on Earth, much like the US is today. It experienced all the things we see today, pandemics, riots, lots of wars. It apparently failed for the same reasons that the US is failing today. I may be wrong, but I think the prophesies about end times was just getting started around that time. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they had their own version of doom and gloom, mankind seems to need the fear factor.

    As a young boy, I heard the same prophesies from the elderly people around me.....the end is here.....they heard those things when they were young, from people who heard the same when they were young and yet, here we are today. Now, granted, the ability of man to utterly and completely destroy the entire planet is in place and has been for some time, yet even the more radical countries seem to understand the results of hitting that button.

    There have been riots since man organized in groups. Crooked politicians are the norm for that profession, always have been. Pandemics come around on a regular basis, the yearly flu affects millions in the US alone, not much new there. There have always been nasty things trying to kill us. Wars and rumors of war have been with us ever since man learned how to beat his neighbor with a stick......nothing is new, and sometimes these things occur at the same time. When they occur together such as now with crooked politicians supporting rioters in a pandemic, well, that's when the beating with sticks is needed......even politicians settle down if beaten with a stick.

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    All that is still not what we are seeing now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ioon44 View Post
    All that is still not what we are seeing now.
    Explain "what we'r seeing now"? I don't see anything happening now days that hasn't been going on since man was ejected from the garden.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thundarstick View Post
    Explain "what we'r seeing now"? I don't see anything happening now days that hasn't been going on since man was ejected from the garden.
    Point by point, I believe you're right. BUT ... the difference today is the scale of social degeneration of "good" vs. "evil" that has drastically shifted away from good in one lifetime. My great-grandchildern will grow up in an immoral, ignorant and crude society that's vastly different from mine. World communications technology has finally reached the point that so-called "liberals/progressives" finally have enough influence over the world's people to implement Satan's plans.

    As useful socialist idiots, modern idealistic progressive's planned social corruption by political power and PC thought control is rapidly moving the world towards social anarchy and then, eventually, despotic rule under the "one world" government of anti-Christ. Meaning this time IS much different from anything the world has yet experienced.

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    Perhaps your rite, but God's in charge and don't discount his will!

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    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Sir Edmund Burke

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thundarstick View Post
    Perhaps your rite, but God's in charge and don't discount his will!
    My rant was/is in recognition of what God has planned and told us about as opposed to those who say, in effect, "Behold, all things continue like always so this worsening mess doesn't mean anything to be concerned about." (2 Pet 3:4)

    To those who can't/won't see the significance of the signs of these times (Mat 6:3) I say, "...even so, come quickly Lord Jesus" (Rev. 22:20).

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    Revelation 20:1-3.

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    I think the biggest difference between the Roman Empire and the United States is that the Roman Empire began as a group of pagans who used intelligence, technology, and sheer brutality to control the world.

    The United States began as a group of Christians who used the concept of freedom, personal responsibility, and hard work to spread freedom and influence throughout the world.

    Now the US has abandoned it's Christian roots and morals and is imploding directly because of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Idaho45guy View Post
    The United States began as a group of Christians who used the concept of freedom, personal responsibility, and hard work to spread freedom and influence throughout the world.

    Now the US has abandoned it's Christian roots and morals and is imploding directly because of it.
    Absolutely. BUT, while the country (government) has connived to distance us from the "faith of our fathers", all is not yet lost. God has - once again - sheltered a remnant for himself; this forum is proof of that! (1 King 19:18)

    The Great Serpent is vastly more powerful than we but Satan isn't nearly as strong as our Messiah. As a group, Satan's forces have once again knocked others of God's people down but none of us have really been whipped as long as we struggle to stand back up and limp again into our assigned place on the bloody battlefield fields of spiritual warfare.

    No matter what life-pains you have suffered, I pray all of you find yourselves blessed by Jesus in a true worship service tomorrow.

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    As far as end times having arrived, I think I'll wait and watch things. When I see the current craziness in the US happening worldwide, that'll be a signal that times are indeed getting somewhat dicey.

    If I should see believers and patriots actually get off their butts and do something besides whining, moaning, and trusting in those they elected to fix things......well, when I see that, I'll be pretty sure that end times are indeed upon us......until that happens, it's really just another day in Paradise.

    I'll admit to not knowing, but does the bible instruct believers to assume a passive position against evil? Are believers simply to believe, while watching the sword come down on their heads?

    Are they to adopt a defensive position as opposed to an offensive position?.......seems like a good way to be surrounded real fast. It's all well and good to gird loins and beat some plowshares back into swords, but neither is of much use without the will.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadie View Post
    ....If I should see believers and patriots actually get off their butts and do something besides whining, moaning, and trusting in those they elected to fix things.....
    I understand your well expressed feelings and absolutely agree with your frustrations about the current situations but I really don't know what specific and legal "something" you think Christians and patriots can or should be doing.

    I don't know what we can legally do that matters except vote against Democrats; I've understood that and done it all of my adult life but I've often been out voted. So, I wonder, excepting your understandable frustrations, what are you now doing about changing the way things are and how might we help you accomplish something more productive????

    IMHO, voting - rightly - seems to be the key. As I see it, rich RINOs dominate the GOP establishment (but, thank God, they don't own all of it) and they're just Democrats in disguise anyway. Truth is, establishment RINOs only help a different flock of America's wealthy sheeple but the alternative is to vote for Dems and their establishment (super-wealthy) parasites and I've never been able to make myself do that ...

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    Patriots and believers should be doing everything legal that they can. It's legal to peacefully protest, yet there are few to none occurring. It's legal to assemble and let leaders know that they're not doing the job they were elected to do. This doesn't happen.

    This brings up another point. It's legal to do these things.....despite some governors rulings that it's not.....yet virtually all believers and patriots will obey that illegal ruling. It may have been noticed that the Left doesn't obey such rulings.

    What happens when the rioters descend on their homes and the governors rule it illegal for the home owner to defend that home with firearms? Do they break the "law" and defend it, or do they exit their homes on their knees, while confessing to their privilege and sins against those rioters?

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    Evil has the upper hand.
    People are, by nature, selfish, greedy, power/attention hungry, vain.
    It is so easy for Evil to grab hold you.
    Evil will say, promise, even grant anything to coerce you to fall into their camp.
    Looking at the way things are these days, how can we not see Evil is growing.
    It's not that religion is failing, it's our moral compass that is way off.
    In my opinion, morals have gone down the toilet in the past 10 years.
    Many, many people attend church with the idea they are doing correct because they go to church.
    So they have it in their minds everything they do is good.
    All is forgiven every time they go to church and are granted forgiveness for their sins.
    Then they can start all over again for a week.
    Many churches these days don't help, by changing their morals, just to attract more people.
    People are attracted to winners.
    We all want to be on the winning side.
    Sometimes the euphoria of thinking you are on the winning side, makes you forget right from wrong.
    When this happens, Evil is taking over.
    Yes, Evil is winning the battle.
    It's to be seen if Evil will win the war.

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    There absolutely has to be a spiritual component to things going on these days. There is no other explanation.

    Just today, I had a coworker who is a great guy, very smart, very conservative, but former Mormon and struggling spiritually, just announce on Facebook that he's no longer supporting President Trump due to the George Floyd thing. I have/had much respect for this guy who is former Special Forces and was contemplating becoming a law enforcement officer.

    Now he's posting a bunch of BLM crap and woke content. He went from a respectable, conservative, intelligent person to a raving leftist loon literally overnight. It makes no sense.

    Then another friend I've known for decades, a decorated state trooper, super nice guy, devout Christian, and pillar of the community announce that his wife of 31 years, a sweet, kind, smart Christian woman, is divorcing him.

    You could not find a more stable, picture-perfect family and example of the ideal husband/wife team than these two. Then out of nowhere, she starts spewing crap about wanting to find herself and go on her own journey.

    There is some pretty strong evil out there and it is infecting people's hearts and minds. It's absolutely terrifying.
    "Luck don't live out here. Wolves don't kill the unlucky deer; they kill the weak ones..." Jeremy Renner in Wind River

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