WHY IS THERE SO MUCH EVIL IN THE WORLD ?

 

Are Christians of this world ? “They are not of this world just as I am not of this world” John 17:16

Are Christians a new creation in Christ ? “If anyone is in Christ they are a new creation”  2 Corinthians 5:17

Are Christians scattered and extremely few in number ?  “Many will try to enter and will not be able” Luke 13:24   “Many are called but few are chosen” Matthew 22:14

While Christians are told to obey the laws, pay taxes and pray for nations and their rulers are we told to participate in any government directly; to actually acknowledge these leaders as our leaders and participate directly in human governments ?

Is Christian citizenship  in earthly governments and nations or is it in heaven ?  “But our citizenship is in heaven”  Philippians 3:20

Are we ambassadors or are we citizens of the nation in which we happen to be living ?  “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ…..”  2 Corinthians 5:20

Why should Christians pray for leaders, pay taxes and obey laws ?  1 Timothy 2:1,2 “so that we may live peaceful and quiet lives”

Is the reason given in 1 Timothy 2:1,2 an obligation to vote and take part in politics ?  

In ancient Israel and in the church was there ever voting ?

Voting is choosing between two children of the Devil who will be your leader.  

The democracies, dictatorships , monarchies or republics of this world are not the kingdom of GOD.  GOD appointed  a king to rule over the church, Jesus Christ . Can you serve two different rulers ?  The church is a holy nation of its own, separate from all other nations.  1 Peter 2:9   This nation will be born at once, all at the same time when Jesus returns.  Isaiah 66:8   Galatians 4:26   Romans 8:22  

Some Satanic deceptions are more easily seen than others. Voting is a deception not easily seen.  It is a super stealthly way to deceive because the sin of it is not mentioned directly in the scriptures but is definitely there in principle.  Satan uses voting to make people think they are doing something good when the results prove otherwise.  Look at the conditions present in the nations of earth , are they all positive?  Have they ever been ? Satan wants people to think they make the world a better place by voting when scripture says things will wax worse and worse.  Voting is the same as when Israel rejected GOD as king and wanted a human ruler.  

This is exactly what you do when you vote.  

Christians are to cast all their cares on GOD,  1 Peter 5:7  not to earthly rulers. Matthew 6:25-34   Philippians 4:6,7   Psalm 37:5   Proverbs 3:5,6

GOD is the only one Christians should look to for comfort in all our troubles not governments of men. 2 Corinthians 1:3,4,5  

In the U.S. the political system we have has not produced any increase in moral values in the people but has rather legalized and accepted sexual perversions, abominations like abortion and watered down justice and oppress the people with debt and taxes.  All this by the hands of those they voted for to be their leaders.  

To continue to vote for things that never happen and make nothing better but worse while expecting things to be better is insanity, it is useless repetition.  2 Peter 2:17,18,19  

If you practice, participate, vote, run for office or support candidates then you have rendered yourself a servant to obey these things.  Romans 6:16 

A true Christian should think like this.  1 Corinthians 6:12   Galatians 5:13 (voting is of the flesh)   

A servant of GOD is free, but don’t think your free under human rule living under Satans government, you are only free if you serve GOD.  1 Peter 2:16

Is voting a thing of the flesh or of the Spirit ?

Will there be voting in the kingdom of GOD ?

Did you vote to become a Christian, did you choose Jesus or did GOD choose you and bring you to HIS son ?  “No one can come to me unless the FATHER who sent me draws them…”  John 6:44

Many people think they do a lot of good by voting but what I see is evil.  Look around you, do you see abundance of good or evil ?  Even a combination of both is unacceptable to GOD.   Voting is what got us to where we are, didn’t you vote for those leaders that brought us here ?  Then you are just as responsible for all the evil as they are.  Whatever you take part in you are part of.  Take part only in the kingdom of GOD.

This to a mature Christian is very easy to understand, to a babe not so easy.  It’s as simple as light and darkness.  This world, all that’s in it, is darkness, the kingdom of Satan.  GOD and Christ are light.  GOD had called us out of the darkness and into HIS light. What fellowship has darkness with light ?  2 Corinthians 6:14   Ephesians 5:6-11   1 John 1:5-7  1 Corinthians 10:21   Voting is walking in darkness, voting is the table of demons as is anything that is in this world.  James 4:4   Romans 12:2   1 Thessalonians 5:5  

Even though GODS kingdom is not on the earth yet we saints are still citizens of it.  We can’t have dual citizenship.  Many people think GOD appoints the leaders of all nations but GOD would not appoint a Stalin, Moa Zedong , Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Putin, Ayatollah Khamenei, Hitler or Pol Pot .  In reality Satan has the authority to appoint all world leaders and influence them.  

Luke 4:6  “I will give you authority over all these kingdoms and nations, for they have been given to me and I can give it to whoever I wish.”

 Even Jesus called Satan the prince of this world and Paul called Satan the god of this world.  Satan places in power anyone that you might vote for, not GOD. GOD is the one who allows Satan to do this, Satan said, “it has been given unto me” , GOD is the only one who could have given it.  Satan is the god Adam chose over the one true GOD because Adam chose to obey Satan rather than GOD.  The result of this choice has produced every evil in this world.  

ARE YOU A JOB ARE YOU MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE JOB MADE ?

A new Christian is a babe and is full of excitement over the things GOD has taught him.  These babes in Christ often make the same mistake Job made.  Job was righteous only in the law. Job thought he could offer sacrifices to cover the sins of his children.  A babe can do the same.  All of Jobs righteousness was of the law and was filthy rags.  God used HIS law and Satan to teach Job what true righteousness is and it is the righteousness of GOD by faith. 

Hear me babe in Christ, your conversion process is only the beginning of your new life in Christ and you have a long way to go .  Even the mature Christian has a long way to go but has traveled in the way longer than you have and as a result acquired more than you.  Job learned the lesson of the schoolmaster, the law, that his righteousness was of himself and not GODS by faith.  If a babe tries to use their personal conversion to influence their families or friends so as to lead them to conversion then they are doing just what Job did when under the law.  GOD alone determines when anyone will be converted.  When a babe tries to be a preacher to their family the family views the babe as a self righteous bible thumping finger pointing Jesus freak.  I know this for a fact because I made this mistake myself with my family.  If it is not their time to come to the light then they will remain in darkness.  A babe is thinking they can convert when only GOD can.  The true righteousness that GOD gives to the babe is the babes only and cannot be transferred to another.  The only way your loved ones will ever see what you have seen is if GOD calls and chooses them, draws them to Christ.  

The babe will have arguments and perhaps outright fights with their families and friends if they try to “convert” them.  A man’s enemies become those of his own family.  All the babe can do is let their light shine to your family by how you live not by the words you speak.  Light makes no sound but your actions, the works of GOD in you , will speak volumes to your family in the day of visitation, the day Christ returns.  What the babe is trying to do is actually against what GOD is doing.  GOD is not willing that anyone should perish but rather come to repentance, and only GOD grants repentance , you can’t.  Would you want GOD giving HIS spirit to your loved ones who would not repent ?  If they do not repent then they will perish.  Yes babe, you did repent, but will they ?  Only GOD knows when, so let it in HIS hands.  Babe, back off hounding your family and friends but rather just love them, let your light shine to them as a witness to them in the day of visitation that GOD was truly with you.  Only speak of spiritual things to them if they ask, then only give enough to answer the question, not a sermon.  

Remember the only teacher is GOD through Christ, not GOD through you.  Job came to not just hearing GOD but to where his eyes “see” GOD.  A babe in Christ has heard but yet needs to “see” that only he heard, no one else did.  GOD is working with you, babe in Christ, not your family.  This is your personal salvation that you work out in fear and trembling not your family.  All I have as family in this world are my sister and my daughter and both are unconverted and in the past I tried to convert them, my sister is my bitter enemy because of this but thankfully I realized what I was doing when it came to my daughter and I stopped.  I still have a good relationship with my daughter only because I stopped.  Therefore to all babes in Christ that are doing what I did, are making the same mistake Job and I did, stop, it may not be to late, just love them and in that way let your light shine.  

UNITING THE WORLDS CHURCHES

 

Worldly Church Unity

There are some who believe that the churches of Christianity should unify regardless of doctrinal differences.  Are you able to envision Catholic and Protestant unification? The only way , apart from the return of Christ, this will happen is by human effort under the Satanic rule of the antichrist. 

 This unity will be because most all groups will accept antichrist as God. The false trinity doctrine is common almost all groups as they have no problem with God being a man. Their other differences will be resolved by the antichrist who is expert in twisting scripture and lying. All of these groups may have to eat a little crow but all will accept whatever antichrist tells them.

 Those who support the idea of unity use ten dollar words and carnal thinking , not being able to see that all of worldly Christianity is of the devil anyway.  They say that unity provides a way to learn from each other.  There will be one big happy Christian church serving the God man, the antichrist .  No wonder Jesus said few would be saved.   The antichrist religion is a return to the law.  This is why the temple is rebuilt and the sacrifices offered again. This is described in the book of Revelation and by Paul in 2 Thessalonians.  This deception will be very similar to what former members of the Worldwide Church of GOD  and it’s splinter groups experienced.  It is a very powerful deception because it uses scripture combined with lies to actually deny Christ and his fulfillment of the law.  It put law over grace.

The whole world except for GODS elect saints will be deceived by this beast, this man of sin, this antichrist as Revelation 12:9 plainly says;

“So the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old called the Devil and Satan WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD, he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him.”

You see before Jesus returns everyone on earth except GODS elect will be worshipping Satan.  There isn’t going to be a unified false Christian church that is in the truth of GOD, but one that is drowning in the lies of Satan.  If you are in any of the world’s churches the you will drown with them.

THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON

 In this parable of Jesus the prodigal son represents the Gentiles and the other son is Israel.  The loyal son kept working (in the law) for his father (GOD)  while the younger (Gentiles) wanted his inheritance and squandered it on riotous living, (living outside the law) .  This symbolizes Israel under the law while the Gentiles, while still under the law, did not not keep the law.  When the prodigal son repented and saw himself not worthy of his fathers love he returned and the father had a celebration for him that made the other son jealous.  This is how the Gentiles were called even though uncircumcised and  law breakers, and were offered salvation symbolized by the celebration showing how the father recognized his son’s repentance while the other son became jealous and remained under the law thinking his carnal work in the law earned his father’s favor.   The calling of the Gentiles provoked Israel to jealousy.  

Romans 11:11  “I ask again, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery ?  GOD forbid but rather because of their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles to provoke jealousy in them.”

Israel operated on the assumption that GOD was pleased by their faithlessness and own carnal works in the law that wasn’t of faith and only generated self righteousness.  The Gentiles that never worked in the law found grace because they were willing to repent and received GODS spirit and hope of salvation.  

All humanity is born a prodigal son or daughter that needs to repent and realize that GOD extends HIS love and mercy upon all who will in faith believe.

The elect of GOD were once prodigal sons and daughters but now have been drawn close to GOD by the blood of HIS son, Jesus Christ.  This is because in this current evil age most people, the vast majority of them, are deceived by the Devil to believe in the false ministers of this world.  They follow men, not GOD and Christ.  They yet remain prodigal sons and daughters and children of their father the Devil. All that the false churches of this world do for them is make them two fold more a child of the devil than they were before. 

ANTISEMITISM

 

Do you hate or dislike Jews ?  This mental condition is called antisemitism.  It is the same thing as hating or disliking black people or any other racial group.  Idiots hate or dislike people sometimes for no other reason than they are an idiot but sometimes for reasons that are baseless and lies invented by people who do have hatred in them for a particular race of people.  

There are people who say either the holocaust never happened or wasn’t as bad as history records.  I would suggest to these types of people that they do some research.  There are extensive records by the Nazis, literally millions of pages of documents, that thoroughly document this genocide of the Jewish people.  Physical evidence remains to this day in the concentration camps, death camps, with gas chambers, crematoriums and mass graves; undeniable evidence of industrial scale mass murder.

The testimony of survivors, allied liberators, civilian observers and the perpetrators themselves have given comprehensive accounts establishing the fact that mass murder on a scale never seen before in modern times occurred at the six Nazi death camps; Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka.  There were other camps that used forced labor like Dachau and Buchenwald.  A consensus among historians places the number of Jewish people killed at six million.  

People have asked why did the holocaust happen ?

In Deuteronomy 28:1-68  are the blessings and cursings that GOD explained to ancient Israel.  The blessings were contingent upon Israel’s obedience to everything that GOD commanded them to do. If Israel was disobedient there would be curses put on them.  Deuteronomy 28:1-14 contains the blessings but from verse 15-68 are the curses.  I strongly recommend that you read Deuteronomy and pay careful attention to what it means. 

In Deuteronomy 28:46 “These curses will be a SIGN AND A WONDER upon you and your descendants FOREVER.”  

Yes, GOD was extremely angry at Israel for their disobedience and not for just a few by many times Israel went after other gods and committed horrible atrocities and rebelled against GOD.  These curses did fall upon Israel and the history of the people of Israel is fraught with danger and persecution.

Leviticus 26:1-39 has another account of the blessings and cursings.  Near the end of this chapter beginning in verse 40 to 45 GOD gives hope to the Israelites who repent of their sins against HIM. 

Leviticus 26:45 “But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations that I might be their GOD. I am YAHWEH.”

GOD has not forsaken Israel and has future plans to resurrect all of them, bring them back to mortal life again in the second resurrection so they may have their first opportunity to truly know their GOD and HIS son Jesus Christ.

Ezekiel 37:3 “Son of man, can these bones live ?

Ezekiel 37 is the account of the valley of dry bones where GOD resurrects the whole house of Israel. 

Ezekiel 37:11 “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.”

At this future day GOD will convert Israel by giving all of them HIS Holy Spirit and they will finally know GOD.

Ezekiel 37:13 “Then you my people will know that I am YAHWEH….”

Ezekiel 37:14 “I will put MY spirit in you and you will live…..”

If GOD ALMIGHTY is willing to forgive and heal the people of Israel, the Jews, then perhaps you should reconsider your hatred or dislike of the Jews.  You know, you are no better than the Jews, because all people have sinned and deserve death.  What happened to ancient Israel serves as an example to ALL PEOPLE that GOD is a merciful and forgiving GOD and not just to the Jews, a tribe of the Israel but to all Israel and gentiles alike. 

1 Corinthians 10:6-11 “Now these things happened to them (Israel) to show us that we should not lust after evil things as they did. And not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. Nor let us commit sexual immorality as some of them did and in one day 23,000 died. Nor let us tempt Christ as some of them tempted GOD and were destroy by serpents nor complain as some of them who were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happen to them (Israel) AS EXAMPLES, written for our benefit upon whom the ends of the ages have come.”

No one should think more highly of themselves over other people because you are in the same boat as they are.  You are just as much a sinner as they are. You deserve punishment just as they did. BUT just as GOD intends to show Israel mercy in the future HE may show you mercy now if you show mercy to others.  

James 2:13 “Because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”

If you, Jew hater, want GOD to be merciful to you then you need to be merciful to all people just as GOD is merciful to all. 

Hate is the opposite of GODS love. Did not Jesus say, “love GOD and your neighbor as yourself” ?

Now, there are people on the internet and television that are antisemitic and are engaged in slander against the Jewish people.  They talk about the “protocols of the elders nod Zion”, they lie about the terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, they support known terrorist groups that not only hate and desire to destroy Israel but also the United States or any nation that will not submit to Islam. They deny the severity or the actual event of the holocaust.  These people do not understand secular or biblical history and invent conspiracy theories that have no foundation in the facts.  In order to understand just what did happen, the truth of things, a person must have a very strong foundation in both biblical and historical knowledge. For me to go into these things would require me to write volumes of articles covering various aspects of the truth of these things.  I do have some articles on this blog that touch on certain topics but I will not attempt to write an all inclusive book about all of them.  

The best advice I can give to anyone who is antisemitic is to do much study and research from many sources before you form an opinion.  People that are antisemitic have the ideas of only one side forming their belief but a wise person has honestly examined many before forming their belief. 

WHAT WOULD AN ALIEN FROM ANOTHER PLANET THINK ABOUT HUMANITY ?

 

If a being from another planet that was highly advanced and intelligent came to Earth what do you think this being would think about us humans ?

In a similar manner a true Christian, one of GODS elect saints, who is not spiritually of this world, would view humanity as illogical, emotionally driven children of the Devil .  The visiting alien would no doubt leave Earth disappointed and disgusted but GODS elect saints are still on Earth.  We can’t leave.  We are physically present but spiritually disconnected from the world.  We see humanity as GOD sees them.  It’s not a pretty sight.  Lust and greed over possessions, power and animal like behavior of many is so prevalent.  The lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life is their passion.  

The elect of GOD are called out of this world and it’s ways.  Their calling and choosing by GOD separates them from the world.  GOD leaves us here on Earth as ambassadors to demonstrate of HIS way of life to humanity, shine as lights in a world of darkness. We are to demonstrate GODS way of love to GOD and neighbor.  It is extremely rare for a carnal worldly person to even discern this power of GODS love in HIS elect due to the love of many waxing cold. 

In Malachi 4:6 GOD inspired Malachi to write the following;

“He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with utter destruction.”  Malachi 4:6

What this verse is saying is that if humanity doesn’t respond to GODS will of love and righteousness HE would destroy the earth.  But we know because of prophecy that in the end GODS will, will be done. 

There will of course be some who will be incorrigible, unrepentant and rebellious that will be totally annihilated in the lake of fire but the vast number of humanity will be spared to give them the same hope of salvation that the elect had a thousand years before them.   

As ambassadors the elect are citizens of the kingdom of GOD now and their names are written in heaven.  They are empowered by GODS spirit through Jesus Christ to live the way that pleases GOD.  They have nothing to do with human governments, or other things carnal people hold in high esteem as these things are an abomination to GOD.  The GODLY love is shed abroad in their hearts by GODS spirit indwelling them and they do no harm, break no laws and live in peace with all people as much as it depends upon them.  GOD teaches the elect HIS ways and truth through Jesus Christ and they have no human ministers.  They are scattered to the four winds not knowing the presence of other elect outside their own small fellowship.  They are not trying to preach the gospel to the world.  

It’s sort of a shame that the alien visitor did not come across one of GODS elect because if he had he might have had hope for humanity but he would still leave to return to his home world and report to his superiors about a very strange people he encountered on a small planet called earth.

GOD AND JESUS MAKE THEIR HOME WITH US

 

 

John 17:3  1 John 3:24  1 John 4:12,13   In John 17:21KJV “that they all MAY be one as you FATHER are in me and I in YOU that they also MAY be one in us.” 

John 17:23 “I in them and YOU in me that they MAY be made perfect in one”

The FATHER and Christ dwell in the elect saints. They make their home with us.  Then just as the FATHER dwelt in Christ and did all the works, the healings, the raising of the dead, calming the storm and walking on water and everything else that people saw Jesus, were actually done by the FATHER. John 5:30  John 14:10  John 7:16  Even all the words Jesus spoke were his FATHERS words.  

This same thing is now done in the elect saints because GOD and Christ dwell in us.  Now, “that they MAY be one as we are one”, the word “may” indicates a condition to becoming “ONE”. 

 Salvation requires that the elect submit to GOD and Christ willingly and not quench or grieve the working of GODS spirit in us to do the works of GODS love. This is related to the parable of the talents.  If we do not love we will not be yielding to the spirit and we have buried our talent, the gift of the spirit in us.  If we submit to the spirit so that GODS work of love flows through us then we gain more talents, we grow in the spirit, we do not quench or grieve the spirit. 

GOD invested HIS spirit in us at the cost of HIS sons life and HE expects a return on HIS investment.  There is no excuse for not growing in the spirit because GOD will do all the works in you if you cooperate with HIM.  Philippians 2:13  Noncooperation is a bad thing, cooperation is a good thing.  Do the good thing.  Never allow yourself to become lukewarm like the Laodiceans. 

 GOD will, out of the blue, place you in a situation where you can apply HIS love to your neighbor and when this happens respond with that love.  You cannot plan these events, GOD does, and in this it is known that the works were not your own works but GODS works.  You can’t plan for something that you have no idea is coming.  It seems that in the minds of the unconverted, in their churches, that they do the work of planning charitable things and thinking their works please GOD but they can’t because it was their works not GODS.  

When the FATHER and Christ dwell in you GOD has planned out the works,  Ephesians 2:10  notice, GOD prepared good works IN ADVANCE for us to do, so if GOD planned the works in advance how are we to know them until they come upon us by surprise ?  Christ and his FATHER desire to make us one with them, the “may” then is conditional upon us yielding to GOD. 

For myself and all of GODS elect I pray that the word “may” will be “will” in the day of Christ Jesus.  GOD, who began this work of HIS love in us is able to complete it at the return of Jesus.   Philippians 1:6  because, Philippians 2:13  Our part in all of this is to respond to GODS love by loving HIM back and submitting to HIS will, if we do this our calling and election will be sure.