Thanks Ezekiel, you have my head spinning, the magnitude of evil behind all of this is mind blowing. Consider also that the horrors of 70 ad were visited upon Israel roughly forty years after the advent of the Messiah. It is as though the LORD gave the next generation an opportunity to redress the sins of the previous generation...read and weep everybody!
Consider how many ostensibly on the side of right and life, might also be fully dependent upon the continuation of this abomination.
How many derive their livelihoods from operating organizations set up to fight the battle? No battle, no income. Same as with the military-industrial complex.
Bad actors cloaked in good. Easy for them to hide behind righteous endeavors. Nobody could dare suspect or question. But when all is revealed, we shall see who is who.
On a lesser level of influence corruption, consider the pundits who rail against the Establishment, writing books, making the talk show rounds explaining why gun control is bad, why big government is dangerous, why the welfare state degrades a man's self-worth. The statements are all true but come on, those guys have been making the same arguments for decades. I came to the same conclusions as a teenager. Nobody really seems interested in going beyond to actually doing anything about it.
Over and over. Broken record. It's their livelihoods. Like the pols, how many end up meeting with their ‘enemies’ at the same cocktail parties at the end of the day?
No battle, no cocktail parties, no exotic vacations. Gotta wonder what the real motivations are for this dog and pony show.
President Trump is a man who came along expecting an actual return on investment, voted into office by citizens who desire the same. Yeah, oh geez now what. The entire world system of smoke and mirrors is out gunning for him.
More irony is that he has more money than the corrupt pols could ever hope to attain from selling their [illusion of] power and influence. And he has real power, unlike those who murder their rivals to get ahead. He is knowledgeable of their degenerate mindset and all tricks of the trade.
Is it really any different than of Moses being sent down into Egypt, to be raised in the palace? Who else qualified to overturn the established order, to rip it out from the roots.
Acts 7
21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22 And Moses was learned in **all the wisdom of the Egyptians**, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
“Trump.” God's mastery of irony and retribution wrapped up in one word, one man. Shocking what is going unnoticed in real time.
It's also a grace period, a red flag warning to religious establishments and their established doctrines, the sanctity of which nobody is allowed to question. Many words of wisdom are bought and sold, yet no one becomes any wiser. Quite the opposite.
It's why the simple message to become kinder is totally lost in the religious swamp, as people beat each other over the head in heated doctrinal exchanges. To become kinder is even a delightful pun on becoming like children [in order to enter the Kingdom].
Kinder - those who attend kindergarten.
It's even called a garden. Apologetics is big business full of the wisdom of the wise, so a kindergarten is the last place people would go to seek access to the Kingdom.
There's always someone to come along and say don't be ridiculous, who ever heard of the word 'kindergarten' in 1st century Judaea. Well who cares, we are reading these words *now*, when they make sense in our own language for this time. Like God wouldn't know how to work a pun while transcending languages and ages, to say what He's been saying all along anyway.
Matthew 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
Deep swamp = abyss