Beast System Rising
Just a few years ago, it was difficult to gain an accurate picture of how the final global system would come into existence. Now, with the construction of so many data centers, it has become far easier to see just how the beast system is taking shape. I’m quite certain the Antichrist is alive now, waiting for the right moment to rise to the top and take charge. Of course, the ten “kings” need to rise first and I expect once enough data centers have been completed and are up and running, they’ll finally step out of the shadows and take their place as rulers. Once this happens, Antichrist will rise up, take out three of them and gain supremacy. How and why? Because he will be fully empowered by Satan.
What is Hell?
But in hell and eventually the Lake of Fire, which burns into perpetuity, the constantly burning fire will torment, but not purify. The reason it cannot purify the souls housed there is due to the fact that those individuals will continue sinning in eternity. The unrighteous person does not stop sinning once this physical life is over. They will continue sinning even after they arrive to eternity. The fires of the Lake of Fire/hell, will never be able to refine or purify those sinners there because of their continued sinning throughout all eternity.
His Will Remains
Thank God for His compassion, His pity, His love. Without it, this world would be an absolutely horrible place to live. Yet, God continues to hold out His arms beckoning people to come to Him in spite of their rebellion. He does this with Israel. He does this with other nations and He does this with individual people.
Staring Me in the Face
Here’s what I’m saying…we actually can see the character of our Lord in other believers to a small or great degree (depending on the person), if we will look for it. Sometimes, it stares us in the face for 40 years without us knowing it. While I’ve always loved my wife and will continue to love her, I’ve simply not noticed that Jesus lives within her and is expressing His character through her to other people and me. I’ve always seen her as pleasant, sweet, loving and attractive. Yes, she is those things and some of those things may be due to her own innate personality. However, it seems ultimately very clear to me that since she is a believer and Jesus does live within her because of the Holy Spirit, He is clearly expressing His character through her personality. He wants to do that with every believer. Some of us offer more roadblocks to Him unfortunately.
Much Ado About Prophetic Events
There were also numerous times when God said that things would happen “soon.” Isaiah is filled with words from our Lord that appear to indicate things will occur “soon,” and yet, in some cases, hundreds of years if not a few thousand years passed before His Words were fulfilled. When we hear “soon” from someone, we think not long in coming. Yet, from God’s perspective, “soon” may not mean that. He talks about the Millennial Kingdom and the blessings for the nation of Israel as happening “soon,” but we are still waiting. From His perspective, the timing is His and His alone to determine and it is compared to eternity not time as we understand and live it.
Privacy Is Dying Thanks to AI
There’s something happening that most cannot see because it is hidden under the surface. Artificial Intelligence (AI), is more and more included in the design of too many things: cars, appliances, telephones, TVs and too many other things to list. People are using AI to help write their papers or books. AI is being used as part of company coding that unfortunately, has had some very negative effects, which we’ll get to in a minute.
We are losing freedom in huge steps due to the Internet, which can be hacked. Yet most of us are completely unaware that this is the case. The reason? Because we do not see any real physical signs of the digital prison being built. Oh sure, when we go to stores, we see those cameras but we tell ourselves those are to stop shoplifters. They do work for that purpose, but they go well beyond that purpose too. Maybe we no longer see the cameras.
No One Knows…
Certainly, to be clear, things are ramping up and each day brings us one day closer to the Rapture and/or the start of the Tribulation (if you do not believe the Rapture precedes the Tribulation). However, we cannot know the day or hour of those events. We can know the times and the seasons but that is all. That still should not pull us away from the God-given task at hand, which is to live lives that glorify Him and we do that by dying to our own self will and reaching out to the lost.
I Was Perplexed…
Now with Trump setting his sights on Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and a few others because of what DNI Gabbard has brought to the surface, the Democrats/RINOs need to switch things up to redirect everyone’s sight to something else. Their idea is that they must once again attempt to show Trump in a bad light. Even if it ultimately fails, they will have succeeded in derailing the Trump Administration from doing all they are setting out to do.
Forgiveness How To
If God is love (He is), we who call ourselves believers, Christians and followers of Jesus must also live lives of love. It all starts and ends with forgiveness. If we cannot truly forgive, we are simply not loving others.
God did not have to, but He chose a way to forgive those who come to Him in faith through His Son’s sacrificial life, death and resurrection. That forgiveness granted to us is permanent, unfailing and results in our true justification before Him. How can we call ourselves believers and followers of Jesus if we cannot forgive (love), as He forgives us?
Absolutely Free
If God literally lives within us, then why aren’t we living a life of power that enables and compels us to be imitators of Jesus in the way He lived, by loving God and loving others? Doing the Father’s will was what He loved and He considered it food (John 4:34). What does that mean except that He was so filled with the desire to fulfill every aspect of the Father’s will, even when it meant sorrow, pain, discomfort and ultimately, death?
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