The last couple years Ive been realizing more and more that man's nature is pure egocentric and evil. While many accept Gods authority and pursue politics only as a means of helping their fellow man, unfortunately, the desire of free men in our society to politely resolve debate has slowly [boil the frog] drifted towards evil.
For every decent heart of man, there are countless souls who desire to enrich themselves without regard to Gods rules. Evil is never content to 'live and let live', the definition of evil is to destroy by any means necessary.
As such, I believe that the last couple hundred years has been simply an exercise to prove that man doesnt/cant have mans best interest at heart overall, and that evil triumphs whenever man allows it go go uncontested. the resistance slowly eroded as more lure of the 'easy life' crept into the system. evil has become more emboldened as an institution [clinton inc for example] and now its almost an overt action against free men comparable to an evil hearted 'individual' personally assaulting us. IMHO that is the point where the battle must be engaged.
The battle will come eventually, like alot of people, I would rather face it today with the tools still available than have my kids do it later with no teeth [less God graces them with victory ] against even greater odds.
The fact that the fight is a repeat of our history just reinforces my idea that He has a sense of humor about mans folly, that we cant see the forest for the trees...
Don’t know how I missed this one. Good post, Gilbo_3!