This then IS Armageddon
The Devil works in devious ways, and where you think he is, he is not, and where you think he is not, there he is. So, we, sheep that we are, are always unprepared for the wolf stalking for who he might destroy.
We "sheep" are tripped up by our own "goodness" such that we are perpetually caught unawares. Take the verse everyone knows that goes, "Be ye harmless as doves...." Yet what ordinary Christian can finish that sentence, or interpret it properly. The second part of the sentence is even more important than the first, because it is so often ignored, but Christians like the silly sheep they are, just keep on ignoring it. The second half of the sentence reads, ".... and as cunning as a serpent."
Serpent? The Devil? Are we to be as cunning and deceitful as the serpent in the Garden of Eden, as the devil? Well, God says we should. Christians recoil in horror at such a commandment. But, if we are to be saved from the wrath of the devil in the here and now, and the wrath of God to come, we must pay attention to what the Bible clearly says. It is our only hope.
In the realm of children, which is nothing less than our whole lives, we are living in a fairytale world of our own imaginings, living and dying without a clue. Wake up, our children ARE us, "If you have seen the Father you have seen the Son, and if you have seen the Son you have seen the Father." That says it all.
When we die, which we do regularly, (every 70 years everyone on earth dies, that is 6 Billion people die every 70 years, and that is about 100 million every year,) all we leave behind is our children. Every other single achievement and honor is left behind, and buried with us. Only our children survive us on to the end of the world.
One hundred million people die every year from all causes. If we had no more children in 70 years humanity would become totally extinct. The entire future of humanity, not to speak of America, is contained in the wombs of women, and increasingly they are able to make the decision on how they will dispose of that power. Benjamin Franklin was 18 out of 20 children. Today he would never have been born.
We are all here because ""a baby had a baby" so to speak. The Virgin Mary is said to have probably been about 13 when Jesus was born. Certainly men in his time were full men and able to marry and have kids at 13. That is what Bar Mitzvah is all about, and girls did not even have a set time when they became women, but it surely was younger than 13.
This is the culture that produced Jesus, and indeed all of us as well. Now, the devil has hit upon a sure way to destroy God's creation, which has been his goal all along, and that is the simple expedient of birth control . A little tiny harmless pill that promises free sex for everyone, any time, and any place, at any age, and no consequences or responsibilities is the weapon his is using to effectively destroy us, who are God's creation.
This little pill etc, even makes women rape proof, and incest proof, at least from the consequence of pregnancy. It make men bullet proof as well. They can misuse any woman's body to their hearts content and pay no price because no child equals a free pass for them. This little devil's pill (and its avalanche of helper look alikes) allows sex to be totally divorced from marriage, children, responsibility, and even God.
Our birth rate is going through the floor because "everyone" wants it to. Business wants workers with fewer dependents so both husbands and wives have to work for them. Government hates people, period, as they consider them to just be a nuisance. I have heard many pastors talk about how couples with few or no children give more to the church than couples with large families, so guess what they favor. Our enemies both at home and abroad want us to have few or no children because they want us dead and that is one way to accomplish that. And the devil for sure wants us all dead. We were not made in his image, so we are not his children, and he doesn't even want us as his slaves. He just wants us all dead to prove God wrong in creating us in His image in the first place.
The tax rate on young couples with children is much higher today than it was 50 years ago, even adjusted for inflation. In fact every demographic group in this society is better off now than 50 years ago, except young marrieds with children. Old people are far better off, and the young, (what we have off them) are better off, and certainly lawyers and doctors are better off. The only part of our society that is not better off, comparatively, is young 20 somethings, especially those married with children. Mothers today have a far lower status than they had 50 years ago, and so it goes on item after items. We see society, government and the churches waging war on the family. We have senior discounts, but where are the discounts for young families?
The government has written thousands of new laws designed to make children a liability. It is surprising anyone is having any children. Safety seats for children and 1000 dollar fines for not using them sound fine, but who has to pay for the expensive child seats and who has to pay these draconian fines for forgetting us use them, and who has to spend a portion of their lives just fitting kids in and out of them. I just mention this one thing, but there are literally thousands of laws (most all written by Democrats for obvious reasons) that have this sort of impact on young families and make children a liability instead of an asset to the family.
If we want to defeat this army of Satan arrayed against us, with a knife at our throats, we are going to have to become "cunning as a serpent," and stop being excessively harmless as a dove.
The Devil works in devious ways, and where you think he is, he is not, and where you think he is not, there he is. So, we, sheep that we are, are always unprepared for the wolf stalking for who he might destroy.
We "sheep" are tripped up by our own "goodness" such that we are perpetually caught unawares. Take the verse everyone knows that goes, "Be ye harmless as doves...." Yet what ordinary Christian can finish that sentence, or interpret it properly. The second part of the sentence is even more important than the first, because it is so often ignored, but Christians like the silly sheep they are, just keep on ignoring it. The second half of the sentence reads, ".... and as cunning as a serpent."
Serpent? The Devil? Are we to be as cunning and deceitful as the serpent in the Garden of Eden, as the devil? Well, God says we should. Christians recoil in horror at such a commandment. But, if we are to be saved from the wrath of the devil in the here and now, and the wrath of God to come, we must pay attention to what the Bible clearly says. It is our only hope.
In the realm of children, which is nothing less than our whole lives, we are living in a fairytale world of our own imaginings, living and dying without a clue. Wake up, our children ARE us, "If you have seen the Father you have seen the Son, and if you have seen the Son you have seen the Father." That says it all.
When we die, which we do regularly, (every 70 years everyone on earth dies, that is 6 Billion people die every 70 years, and that is about 100 million every year,) all we leave behind is our children. Every other single achievement and honor is left behind, and buried with us. Only our children survive us on to the end of the world.
One hundred million people die every year from all causes. If we had no more children in 70 years humanity would become totally extinct. The entire future of humanity, not to speak of America, is contained in the wombs of women, and increasingly they are able to make the decision on how they will dispose of that power. Benjamin Franklin was 18 out of 20 children. Today he would never have been born.
We are all here because ""a baby had a baby" so to speak. The Virgin Mary is said to have probably been about 13 when Jesus was born. Certainly men in his time were full men and able to marry and have kids at 13. That is what Bar Mitzvah is all about, and girls did not even have a set time when they became women, but it surely was younger than 13.
This is the culture that produced Jesus, and indeed all of us as well. Now, the devil has hit upon a sure way to destroy God's creation, which has been his goal all along, and that is the simple expedient of birth control . A little tiny harmless pill that promises free sex for everyone, any time, and any place, at any age, and no consequences or responsibilities is the weapon his is using to effectively destroy us, who are God's creation.
This little pill etc, even makes women rape proof, and incest proof, at least from the consequence of pregnancy. It make men bullet proof as well. They can misuse any woman's body to their hearts content and pay no price because no child equals a free pass for them. This little devil's pill (and its avalanche of helper look alikes) allows sex to be totally divorced from marriage, children, responsibility, and even God.
Our birth rate is going through the floor because "everyone" wants it to. Business wants workers with fewer dependents so both husbands and wives have to work for them. Government hates people, period, as they consider them to just be a nuisance. I have heard many pastors talk about how couples with few or no children give more to the church than couples with large families, so guess what they favor. Our enemies both at home and abroad want us to have few or no children because they want us dead and that is one way to accomplish that. And the devil for sure wants us all dead. We were not made in his image, so we are not his children, and he doesn't even want us as his slaves. He just wants us all dead to prove God wrong in creating us in His image in the first place.
The tax rate on young couples with children is much higher today than it was 50 years ago, even adjusted for inflation. In fact every demographic group in this society is better off now than 50 years ago, except young marrieds with children. Old people are far better off, and the young, (what we have off them) are better off, and certainly lawyers and doctors are better off. The only part of our society that is not better off, comparatively, is young 20 somethings, especially those married with children. Mothers today have a far lower status than they had 50 years ago, and so it goes on item after items. We see society, government and the churches waging war on the family. We have senior discounts, but where are the discounts for young families?
The government has written thousands of new laws designed to make children a liability. It is surprising anyone is having any children. Safety seats for children and 1000 dollar fines for not using them sound fine, but who has to pay for the expensive child seats and who has to pay these draconian fines for forgetting us use them, and who has to spend a portion of their lives just fitting kids in and out of them. I just mention this one thing, but there are literally thousands of laws (most all written by Democrats for obvious reasons) that have this sort of impact on young families and make children a liability instead of an asset to the family.
If we want to defeat this army of Satan arrayed against us, with a knife at our throats, we are going to have to become "cunning as a serpent," and stop being excessively harmless as a dove.
