[Smittie]

That's the bad news. The good news if you're a believer in Jesus Christ, is that this will surely hasten Jesus' return for His own before the end of the world when God judges the world. We will be spared the horrors of God's wrath that will be poured out on the earth. And seven years later, we'll return in triumph with Jesus who, as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, will rule the earth as the Prince of Peace. He'll do it right and show that what man could only do for a couple of hundred years every so often throughout the history of mans fairly miserable record, He will do for a thousand years. Can't wait. Be ready - He's coming soon.

That's the quandary we find ourselves in. I just wish we would've been raptured before having to watch our country destroyed. Hopefully, we'll be able to hold on to most of our freedoms until He calls us home. Come Quickly, Lord Jesus!

[PapaNew]

I too hate to see our freedoms being violated and want to fight to keep them. But one way or the other, I think God wants to teach us that we ARE free, seated with Him in Heavenly places far above all principality and power. Paul the Apostle had more freedom is his life, more intimacy with the Father, and more influence throughout the ages in a Roman prison than most people who are naturally free in America.