It sure is making us all think. The Christians in this area are finding security under Assad and Putin. We offer them nothing, absolutely nothing.
We had a chance to be a player in the Middle East. Obama blew it with that stupid “Arab Spring” nonsense.
Make no mistake the man is a very shrewd operator and knows precisely what he is doing.....but he's still bad.
“The Christians in this area are finding security under Assad and Putin. We offer them nothing, absolutely nothing.”
Yes, I agree, we offer them nothing, as a nation.
The thing is, God has given man (mankind)His revelation of Himself and of man’s root problem, and of His Sending His Son to set man free from the root problem so he can have eternal life, and most people do not want to hear it. (The way to life is narrow, Matthew 7:14.)
Discussion can go on “ad infinitum,” AND it has already gone on “ad nauseam,” and there is no way man can fix his world, his country, his leaders, his family, or even himself. God has spoken all He is going to speak in His Word, the Bible, which He says men will continue to ignore to the very end. (2 Peter 3:1-18).
True Christians all over the world who believe in His Son and study His Word and live in obedience to it, do not find their security in their leaders.
Psalm 2 speaks of the nations (all of them) and their rejection of their Creator and His Son, and the outcome for all those who do not take warning. Interesting that this Psalm was written around 1,000 years before God’s Son, Jesus Christ, was born. The Psalm is a solemn call to repentance and faith in the Son. It is to individuals of all nations. The deception and wickedness of the world will not be “fixed” until the Son returns to this earth to rule it. While man looks everywhere else for answers to life, they are all in the Bible and fulfilled in His Son (Matthew 5:17-18).