Many times in our lives, this principle will be put to the test and failing it if pretty serious. The Bible tells us that we must be able to recognize evil and deal with it. God also tells us that if we can't see it, even the "elect" will be fooled. Evil has entered our churches, our government, our culture, and we can't seem to make up our collective minds as to what to do with it. The AntiChrist will take over and persecute the "Church" ( meaning the REAL church) and the other "church" will believe they are doing God's will.
I think the reason abortion and sodomy are such large subjects today is we must be able to agree on the most "in your face" basic tenets of God's Will, or we can't possibly agree on ancillary questions. We have already folded on fornication and adultery and lying. You know everybody does that./sarc
I don't think Jesus will recognize most churches when He returns and His people will be slaughtered by well meaning people that think they know what God would want them to do. The rise of "believers" that accept sodomites and baby killers is most disturbing and I can't imagine what is taught in the pulpit that would fool the people in the pews. Not reading and studying the Bible is destroying Christianity today. When Obama said Jesus covered homosexual marriage in the Sermon on the Mount, there wasn't even a peep from the peanut gallery. This country is lost. I'm afraid God has said "Ichabod" and has left the US. We send missionaries to other countries and I believe they are needed here.
I wholesale agree with you.
excellent points.
And, we don’t really know emphatically with great clarity what the verse about
THE RIGHTEOUS TAKE IT BY FORCE
really means.
Could mean aggressive prayers
and declarations
Could mean more.
I said nothing remotely related with that.