Not the verses but the words I quoted, which were yours, not HIS.
You seem to be lacking in grace, Star Traveler, and overflowing in zeal and a delight for pointing out the sins of others. You strike me as spiritually immature. It is easy to cry for fire and brimstone - punishment and the iron rod to restrain evil, but it takes faith to trust in the Holy Spirit’s ability to work within the freedom GOD has granted us in this secular representative republic we live in.
You said — “... but it takes faith to trust in the Holy Spirit’s ability to work within the freedom GOD has granted us in this secular representative republic we live in.”
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It certainly takes a *lot of faith* to trust in something that the Holy Spirit says won’t happen, that’s for sure. It’s clearly pointed out that sin will abound all the more, that soon the Holy Spirit will be pulled back and let sin run rampant and that government will act (soon to come) in the favor of the Antichrist and will no longer restrain evil and punish the evil-doers. That’s what I hear, from the Bible, that is going to happen.