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“Our Brother’s Keeper”

“And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in a field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Able thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?” Genesis 4:8,9

This verse is the true spiritual answer of the nations, especially America, in response to the question of why Ukraine isn’t being given more support.

I, like most of you have only watched with horror for the past month as the Ukrainians are bombarded in every conceivable way as Russia continues its sadistic onslaught against them.

President Zelensky constantly pleading for help and it is great and I am thankful to God for the weapons that have been given them, but they need more, they need nations to fight with them and for them.

I, also like many the world over, respect him and have watched with amazement as he truly has reflected the absolute courage and leadership, and compassion for his people as  the great king David, those are the same qualities that we read of being what made King David such as great leader.

It is also no shock that the world has even declared it to be a “David versus Goliath” situation and that is so true, God places leaders exactly where he wants them and Putin, who is a literal Goliath with a side order of Pharaoh, met his match when taking on the Ukrainians because they were not just going to lay down and die and bow down to the beast.

Putin embodies qualities of Goliath, in the fact that he methodically moved troops closer and closer and yet denying with every breath that an invasion would be soon coming. The sheer size of his army and arsenal levied against such a smaller opponent.

You can literally see the comparison as you read a passage such as this, as Goliath mocked David’s youth and size and arrogantly overestimated his own.

“And when the Philistine looked about and saw David. he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.

And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and a spear, and with a shield: But I come to thee in the in the name of the of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.” 1 Samuel 17:42-44

You know it’s the devil when the devil calls the other guy the devil. I want to give you a verse and go from there.

Revelation 13:11;” And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”

All the world sees what is really going on and I admire those in Russia who have stood up, even at the risk of horrifying consequence, but there are truly those that really believe Putin is a good guy, that he is really doing a great work, sending troops off to war, ridding Ukraine of Nazis, and saving little children and the elderly virtually from another Holocaust.

I even heard one report of a Ukrainian man who unsuccessfully tried to tell his relative in Russia the truth of what what they were suffering, only to be met with a comment to the defense of Putin, in which the relative even referenced Putin as “a god”.

As if accusing a Jewish man who had family die in the Holocaust of being a Nazi wasn’t proof enough of who is really doing the talking that is coming out of Putin’s mouth, it became crystal clear when he decided to quote scripture, I must admit, I almost “fell out of my chair” with that one.

I absolutely could not believe the audacity and not to mention the fact that it just echoed the age old stunt of the devil trying to twist scripture to make himself sound right and mislead those who would listen, think about how he deceived Eve and think about his trying to tempt Jesus, he knows his scriptures, he knows them better than we do!

The whole world watching as apartments, hospitals, bombed and pregnant women injured, children killed, shelters fired on, people running for their lives and others unable to run, being forced to hide, with no water, no heat, their entire lives destroyed, the images are heart breaking.

One in particular that just shattered my heart, this tiny little boy, just walking with his little pack on his back, all alone in the the exodus of people. and he was just sobbing and sobbing, absolutely alone and I wish to God I could have teleported and got that child and hugged him and rescued him, and God only knows what happened to him or all the other children that has had to leave on their own.

Another image, an elderly man fleeing his house, with only what he could carry on his back, no shirt, just pants, and a hat and a jacket revealing his bare chest in the freezing cold, Where was he even to go? How would he even start over?

A pregnant lady on a stretcher being rescued only later for her and her unborn child to die, knowing that only six weeks ago this lady would have been doing what all of us do as expectant mothers, rejoicing, making everything beautiful, decorating with all the darling newborn items, planning for the greatest moment of her life, the moment of bringing another precious person into the world, those plans were destroyed by the Russian forces and Putin and his soldiers are covered in that blood.

And finally, the image of the young mother with her child in her arms wailing uncontrollably as they were being rescued and a young soldier was helping her, and as she sobbed, he turns his head and the look of compassion mingled with sorrowful hopelessness at what to do for her spoke volumes.

And for Putin to stand there being cheered on, flags flying in his support, to say that no greater love than this to lay down his life for his friends is just sickening beyond words.

He can profess to be whatever he professes to be since he has evidently decided he is a “Christian” but whatever he professes does not change the fact of what is really inside of him.

He is as cold as Pharaoh and it mirrors him so much that I truly believe that his heart is so cold and so black that he is so delusional and arrogant that he is quite willing to take on the whole world.

And would just as soon every living thing on earth die as to retreat, every nation is so afraid of dealing with him that we do tap dances to make certain he does not misunderstand what we are saying, I really respected President Biden for not backtracking his controversial remarks, (that’s one of the only decisions that I agree with, other than him not going along ridiculous plan to defund the police)

Coddling Putin is in no way going to make him anyone’s friend, it only gives him that much more resolve to threaten and strike fear into the heart of the world.

Old Goliath antagonized Israel for forty days, it’s miracle grow for monster egos.

Even doing an amateur profile on him, just based on what the world sees of him, you see all you need to see, famous for dating models, posing bare-chested on his horse, playing with cheetahs, hanging out with Steven Segal and rich buddies, and add in the ultimate bad cop attitude  and it is quite clear what he wants to project.

Take that give it an insane amount of power and relentless control and throw some major nukes and it paints quite a chilling picture.

He can’t stop, he has Pharaoh syndrome, he himself won’t allow it, because it would mean admitting defeat, it would mean admitting that this war was a bad idea, and that is exactly why he has just become more aggressive and more brutal.

Pharaoh did not care what anyone thought or how anyone felt, or take one moment to consider mercy, he was cruel and heartless, calling for the slaughter of the babies and having Egypt built on the blood of the Hebrew slaves.

He really believed that he was a deity and answered to no one.

But oh, how wrong he was! As he was already merciless, God continued to harden his heart, he had the audacity to attempt to fight God himself, knowing all these plagues were coming on Egypt straight from Jehovah God.

When he did finally let the Hebrews go, that “He-Man” machismo kicked back in and he just had to pursue them to the Red Sea and we know how that ended, he and his army destroyed, drown in the Red Sea.

With the mindset much like Pharaoh, but to the infinite extreme at the end of it all, there will those who are so deceived that they will believe that they  can do battle with God himself.

Revelation 17:12-14:” And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power, and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is the Lord of lords, and  King of kings; and they that are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”

I wanted to use the verses from Revelation to establish where all this is headed and the fact that Putin is just the warm up.

This war is unlike any other, the whole world is united in praying for Ukraine and they ask for those prayers as they fight with all they have and you can literally feel the urgency and the importance with those prayers, as the entire world watches.

No one wants World War three, but unfortunately, Putin doesn’t care what we want, he has his agenda and it is not a question of whether or not we will have World War, it is when we have it.

The things that are happening are just leading up to the inevitable. The Bible is written and what is to happen, will happen and there is no changing that.

The only thing we control is how it ends for us, we can be saved and escape the judgments and the horror of dealing with life as it all unfolds or be left here and refuse the mark of the beast, those who do not go in the rapture can only have eternal life by refusing the mark of the beast and dying for the faith, but they will live forever with the Lord, but those who deny Christ will face unimaginable judgment and eternal damnation.

I know that sounds harsh, but we are so out of time and time waits for no one,

Even laying aside the fact that we are in the end of days, we have no promise of tomorrow and any of us could die at any second, we have to be serious about eternity

In the meantime, I pray that things will change that those who fight to reinstate Godly laws back into the land that He has given us will win and that there may be a reprieve, but at the moment we are all still all about whether or not a dude can slap on a little lipstick and compete against ladies, at this rate, all sports will have to have weight classes, and specifics to make it fair again, but it is ridiculous.

So many states still having to hash it out of whether or not slaughtering babies is a great ideal and thankfully many states stepping up and fighting this atrocity.

Add to that our never-ending battle of whether or not, again, it is a fabulous idea to subject children to horrendous hormone therapy and sex change operations, yeah, they can call it, “gender reassignment” all they want but God himself choose the gender for us all.

I suppose, a country so powerful really couldn’t take a chance on giving in to the request of a no fly zone,.

How could we possibly take a chance and stick out our own necks to be our brother’s keeper, when we can give them just enough to say we have helped without having done all that is really in our power to do.

Like I said, no one wants to see major war, but it is not whether or not we fight, it’s just a question of when.

I haven’t written anything new since “Wars & Rumours of War…” , I have been revisiting posts that I felt would be encouraging during this time. To be honest, I have been having a Jeremiah moment, I am not in any way shape or form comparing myself with Jeremiah, but sympathize with his emotional state as he said this from Jeremiah 20:8 ” For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil…”

Unfortunately, that is about all there is to say concerning the state of our present world, but we must have hope in the world that is to come and to know that good really does win in the end!

All these things are leading up to the war that ends all wars, rather when the Lord puts an end to it.

Blessing to you until next time! keep praying and Keep Watching, and Keep believing for miracles for not only those in Ukraine but all in the midst of the battle today in these last days!

Φλογιζω NBJ/ Rev. Nina Brown Johnson 2022

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Smoke Rising

“And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon (DESTRUCTION) but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon (DESTROYER).” Revelation 9:11  

How much hatred are we witnessing at the moment? We are now fighting, killing, hurting each other for NOTHING more than political VIEWS and PERSONAL choices and there is the secret.. VIEWS and CHOICES, and ALL under the umbrella of PEACE and free speech and rights and yet in those “peaceful” protests, things become nasty, and things become deadly and tempers flare fast becoming fury, whose fiery fuel now ignites what were once dying coals of hatred and prejudice and the smoke of his soon rising bellows up out of that pit.

The greatest deception of all is that any of this is in the name of peace.

There are groups I especially detest.. with an absolute passion, ones who think they they are “supreme” and groups who feel that somehow they are superior to any other living being, they learn that hate and it is passed on from generation to generation and the spread like the disease that hatred truly is.

BUT I understand that the line between assertion and aggression is a line rarely negotiated well by humans and a line that without divine guidance, and direction will lead to DESTRUCTION.

We have crossed the line as society in saying that we want peace and we want our rights respected, and even DEMAND that, but we can not demand respect and we can never force anyone to agree with us or change their heart of hate, only God can do that and once we are met, not with an understanding compassion for our views, but rather met with hatred and violence and counter-protest, no matter the subject, then that rejection to our demanded rights will only intensify and breed MORE hatred.

And that is EXACTLY what the enemy wants, that is the precise design of plan.

This teaching SHOULD apply to everyone, Christian or not, Jesus said in part of His teaching in Matthew 7:6 …..Cast not your pearls before swine, lest thy trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you and what that means is precious things and things of wisdom and if you throw them out in front of a brute beast who has no caring about them OR their worth, all that will happen is those pearls will be trampled, driven into the mud by their rushing hooves and then they will attack you.

They DON’T suddenly have a change of heart or see a different point of view, they still only trample, tear, and DESTROY.

This verse cross references to Proverbs 9:7,8: “He that reproveth a scorner (scoffer) getteth to HIMSELF shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot ( ONLY HARMS HIMSELF)

Reprove NOT a scorner, lest HE HATE THEE:

Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.”

As you see if we try to change the thinking of someone who is dead set in those thoughts and have no DESIRE to change because they think that they are right and everyone else is the problem, they will only hate us and attack us further.

ONLY someone who is ALREADY wise can be reasoned with and no amount of reasoning is going to take place in the middle of a riot with mob mentality because you can not separate people long enough to ever discern WHO may be open to a different view.

And I can guarantee you that no changes are going to take place in the minds of those already angry and belligerent, this is why “anger RESTS in the bosom of fools”, anger makes us crazy, and it makes us do and say things we may not otherwise, therefore allowing IT to make “fools” of us.

And when we allow the hate and wickedness of others to spew out onto us in turn CAUSING us to equally HATE them, that destruction is par for the course and satan is a mastermind at taking something in the name of justice and using it to produce the SAME effect in people whose hearts were ONCE in the right place.

But HATE IS HATE, WHETHER WE HAVE A “RIGHT” TO HATE OR NOT.

At the end of the day it is still the same emotion and it still leads to destruction for everyone involved. no matter whose side they are or were on.

Ephesians 2:2,3: “Wherein in times past ye walked according to the course (age) of his world, ACCORDING TO THE POWER OF THE PRINCE OF THE AIR, the SPIRIT that NOW WORKETH  IN (works through) THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE: (Children referring NOT to actual children, but those who belong to, or “born” of disobedience to God’s word)

Among whom also we ALL HAD our conversation (conducted ourselves) in TIMES PAST in the lusts of our flesh and OF THE MIND: and were BY NATURE children of WRATH, EVEN as others.” 

The prince of the air he is referring to, that works in all this hate IS the same old devil, that Jesus told us, without doubt came only to DESTROY. 

And we are doing the job for him and maybe we need to take stock as humans, so we really have to ALWAYS be right?

Are our views the ONLY views? Are there things we say that we really don’t have to say? There are times to stand, but there are also times we can fall into the trap of “lusts”, desires of OUR MIND to be right, and even when we ARE right we still need God’s word as guidance:

Matthew 5:9: “Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.”

Point blank, children of God or children of disobedience and wrath (anger) but we ARE the children of “who”, better thought of as “what” we yield ourselves to and what we have allowed to be birthed in us and we know that hate is taught.

Babies are born perfectly innocent, perfectly equal, but hate can also be spawned by becoming a little to “close” to what we view as hate in others.

Deadly territory  and well worth guarding yourself against. God will reign victorious and until His return there will be no peace on this earth, but you can have peace through Him in your life. 

You can do much more good by using that peace and PRAYING for the compassion of the “haters’ to be stirred and that God would open their eyes to truth, than you can ever do by exchanging angry words with them, because all this is accomplishing is ushering in what WILL be loosed from that pit.

As hatred starts rising from hearts, and minds as  a small puff of black smoke, darkening, and choking as it grows bigger and bigger, forming itself more until it forms wings that will wrap around mankind and this world in the last days darkening hearts, and souls and who do we blame then?

Φλογίζω Σαλπιζω nbj 2017

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Original post: 08/20/2017 Revisited for series 07/28/2019

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O Jerusalem 2 “Pots calling….”

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the Morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst WEAKEN THE NATIONS! 

For thou hast said in thine heart, I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD:

I WILL ALSO SIT UPON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION in the sides of the north:

I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS; I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.” Isaiah 14:12-14 

You know, it is such a hoot when the UN keeps accusing Israel of being the worst human rights violator in the known universe. I was having my morning coffee, listening to international news on the radio and one story was about a survivor of last years Rohingya atrocities. 

Which had included beatings, gang rapes, village burning, and of course mass executions with people thrown in graves with acid to literally “burn the faces off the bodies” all of this PROVEN by a sim card from a survivors cell phone that he had smuggled wrapped in plastic and taped to his leg, when he fled from the horror.

If you need a glimpse of the true extent of these crimes and their true prevalence in the world, just check out some RELIABLE sources on the subject, Reuters has a site dedicated only to human rights violations and awareness.

So pardon me, while viewing the world as largely polluted and corrupted, perverse, and repulsive due to the proverbial stench of human trafficking, slave labor, oppressed women and enslaved children, chained and neglected, and never forget “laboratory” animals,and as I have said a million times, the list goes ON and ON…. so again, pardon me, if I find the accusations against Israel by the UN, in the NEXT news story I heard, just a trifle  BIASED, to say the very least.

Actually my first thought was to roll around on the floor and laugh hysterically at the mere fact that two stories back to back, one of brutality beyond brutality and another of a country refusing settlements on their OWN GOD-GIVEN land and yet they were DEEMED the greater of the evil.

Kinda like… “Hello, Pots, are you seriously calling those kettles black?”

Also VERY reminiscent of the conversation between the Lord and Jeremiah.

 Jeremiah 1:13 ” And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething (boiling) pot; and the face of it is toward the north.” 

And we certainly have one set on the stove right now. And man, it is just about to boil completely over.

So back to WHY, and I really want to take this opportunity to ask a question to anyone who made be reading this with skepticism and debate as to the REALITY of the fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

If you question any of this, I want to challenge you, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH and ASK yourself a couple of questions.

Number one being WHY, WHY would the majority of the world’s countries be so vehemently AGAINST the TINY nation of Israel?

WHY would one people be so hated, so persecuted THROUGHOUT HISTORY?

WHY the accusations that THE well documented facts of the Holocaust NEVER EVEN TOOK PLACE?

WHY have leaders been even KNOWN to echo the VERY words of the Bible, with the statement that they wanted Israel WIPED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH?

WHY? WHY has there ALWAYS been such turmoil and hatred aimed at one TINY little country?

Well, our answer is found in the above verses. Satan’s LAST attempt at an IMPOSSIBLE overthrow.

Revelation 12:7: ” And there was war IN heaven: Michael and his angels FOUGHT AGAINST the dragon (one of Lucifer’s many names), and the dragon fought and his angels, And PREVAILED NOT; NEITHER WAS THEIR PLACE (dwelling) found any more in heaven.

And the great dragon WAS CAST OUT, that old serpent, CALLED the Devil, and Satan, WHICH DECEIVED THE WHOLE WORLD: HE WAS CAST OUT INTO THE EARTH, and HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM.”

The reference to HIS angels, his demons that are STILL very active, are the third of the angels of heaven who chose to rebel against God, thus becoming demons on earth.

The Bible gives us many pictures of his attempted overthrow, he was very beautiful and was a protecting angel, one of the three arch angels, he was also the angelic worship leader, which his instruments actually CREATED inside his body. 

But this great beauty brought him a great fall, he became filled with pride and self-will and no longer wished to serve and honor the very God who CREATED him, but in his arrogant pride felt that he should be worshiped above his own master. 

As his MANY names listed above, he is The prince of the kingdoms of Persia, The Pharaoh, The Assyrian, The great cedar,(Daniel 10:3) (Ezekiel 28:12-19) (Ezekiel 31:3-18) and of course, Isaiah chapter 14,  The bright star (angelic being) whom Jesus beheld him as lightning from their presence in heaven, as he was cast to earth  (Luke 10:18) during that great war.

And as he is  referenced so many ways in the Bible, you can see also the mirroring of his image in so many in THIS world, just as Jesus so often told those of his day, that they could not “hear” him because they WERE of THEIR father, the devil.

So as he was thrown from heaven he sought to control this earth and as Jesus referred to him as the “prince of THIS world” when the time came for his arrest, death, and sacrifice to establish absolute power over the devil, death, and hell.

Paul referred to him as the “god of THIS world” (2 Corinthians 4:4) as he spoke to those in the world who are spiritually blind and reject God’s truth because they have believed the lies of the devil. 

And I do want to stress that he is NOT a prince nor is he a “god” but those who refuse and reject the truth are actually accepting him as such.

People often want to argue the point of his power BUT the truth is he is still a very powerful being, he WILL NEVER have the power of God! 

But a human should never mistake him for an adversary that they can defeat, through their own strength (such as so-called “ghost busters” and paranormal researchers, and any wannabe exorcism specialists, such as those told of in Acts 19:13-16) ONLY THE TRUE God, The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, The I AM THAT I AM, Jehovah God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, have that power!

And we ONLY have power over the enemy and the works of darkness BECAUSE God dwells in us and HIS power works within us and our lives.

And if you see that differently, you can complain to me in person and I will give you scripture to prove this.

But the BIBLE warns us to “BE ON GUARD”, “BE DILIGENT” “BE SOBER” because OUR adversary walks about SEEKING whom he may devour” that is telling us to watch out for him and his snares.

And to argue otherwise is like saying to someone, “Hey, be careful when you leave your house because a wanted serial killer was spotted.” WITHOUT giving them a DESCRIPTION of that person and TELLING them the area that they should avoid.

It would be useless information to them.

Same deal.

So I said all that to get to this… He TRIED to overthrow the throne IN heaven.

He TRIED to make all the angels worship him.

He then TRIED to establish his kingdom on earth but Jesus overruled that plan with His resurrection.

The last place that he has in his ATTEMPT at his IMPOSSIBLE overthrow IS Jerusalem. Because God has CHOSEN Jerusalem as His special place (read part one to help understand this O Jerusalem….. “ROUND ABOUT” and NEW JERUSALEM will be the crowning jewel of FUTURE earthly reign of Jesus Christ. I hope to get into that, Lord’s will, when part 3 comes around.

But until then LOOK at this for what it is… as God said in the scriptures above, the enemy has “weakened the NATIONS” the latest accusations against Israel (they are but a drop in the bucket) are all leading the nations to that great and faithful day.

And we need to be aware of what is “cooking on the stove” and be especially AWARE of who is truly stirring that pot.

Φλογιζω Σαλπιζω ΝΒ 2018

 

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Smoke Rising

“And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon (DESTRUCTION) but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon (DESTROYER).” Revelation 9:11  

How much hatred are we witnessing at the moment? We are now fighting, killing, hurting each other for NOTHING more than political VIEWS and PERSONAL choices and there is the secret.. VIEWS and CHOICES, and ALL under the umbrella of PEACE and free speech and rights and yet in those “peaceful” protests, things become nasty, and things become deadly and tempers flare fast becoming fury, whose fiery fuel now ignites what were once dying coals of hatred and prejudice and the smoke of his soon rising bellows up out of that pit.

The greatest deception of all is that any of this is in the name of peace. There are groups I especially detest.. with an absolute passion BUT I understand that the line between assertion and aggression is a line rarely negotiated well by humans and a line that without divine guidance, and direction will lead to DESTRUCTION.

We have crossed the line as society in saying that we want peace and we want our rights respected, and even DEMAND that, but we can not demand respect and we can never force anyone to agree with us or change their heart of hate, only God can do that and once we are met, not with an understanding compassion for our views, but rather met with hatred and violence and counter-protest, no matter the subject, then that rejection to our demanded rights will only intensify and breed MORE hatred.

And that is EXACTLY what the enemy wants, that is the precise design of plan. This teaching SHOULD apply to everyone, Christian or not, Jesus said in part of His teaching in Matthew 7:6 …..Cast not your pearls before swine, lest thy trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you and what that means is precious things and things of wisdom and if you throw them out in front of a brute beast who has no caring about them OR their worth, all that will happen is those pearls will be trampled, driven into the mud by their rushing hooves and then they will attack you.

They DON’T suddenly have a change of heart or see a different point of view, they still only trample, tear, and DESTROY.

This verse cross references to Proverbs 9:7,8: “He that reproveth a scorner (scoffer) getteth to HIMSELF shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot ( ONLY HARMS HIMSELF)

Reprove NOT a scorner, lest HE HATE THEE: Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.”

As you see if we try to change the thinking of someone who is dead set in those thoughts and have no DESIRE to change because they think that they are right and everyone else is the problem, they will only hate us and attack us further.

ONLY someone who is ALREADY wise can be reasoned with and no amount of reasoning is going to take place in the middle of a riot with mob mentality because you can not separate people long enough to ever discern WHO may be open to a different view.

And I can guarantee you that no changes are going to take place in the minds of those already angry and belligerent, this is why “anger RESTS in the bosom of fools”, anger makes us crazy, and it makes us do and say things we may not otherwise, therefore allowing IT to make “fools” of us.

And when we allow the hate and wickedness of others to spew out onto us in turn CAUSING us to equally HATE them, that destruction is par for the course and satan is a mastermind at taking something in the name of justice and using it to produce the SAME effect in people whose hearts were ONCE in the right place.

But HATE IS HATE, WHETER WE HAVE A “RIGHT” TO HATE OR NOT.

At the end of the day it is still the same emotion and it still leads to destruction for everyone involved. no matter whose side they are or were on.

Ephesians 2:2,3: “Wherein in times past ye walked according to the course (age) of his world, ACCORDING TO THE POWER OF THE PRINCE OF THE AIR, the SPIRIT that NOW WORKETH  IN (works through) THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE: (Children referring NOT to actual children, but those who belong to, or “born” of disobedience to God’s word)

Among whom also we ALL HAD our conversation (conducted ourselves) in TIMES PAST in the lusts of our flesh and OF THE MIND: and were BY NATURE children of WRATH, EVEN as others.” 

The prince of the air he is referring to, that works in all this hate IS the same old devil, that Jesus told us, without doubt came only to DESTROY. 

And we are doing the job for him and maybe we need to take stock as humans, so we really have to ALWAYS be right?

Are our views the ONLY views? Are there things we say that we really don’t have to say? There are times to stand, but there are also times we can fall into the trap of “lusts”, desires of OUR MIND to be right, and even when we ARE right we still need God’s word as guidance:

Matthew 5:9: “Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.”

Point blank, children of God or children of disobedience and wrath (anger) but we ARE the children of “who”, better thought of as “what” we yield ourselves to and what we have allowed to be birthed in us and we know that hate is taught.

Babies are born perfectly innocent, perfectly equal, but hate can also be spawned by becoming a little to “close” to what we view as hate in others.

Deadly territory  and well worth guarding yourself against. God will reign victorious and until His return there will be no peace on this earth, but you can have peace through Him in your life. 

You can do much more good by using that peace and PRAYING for the compassion of the “haters’ to be stirred and that God would open their eyes to truth, than you can ever do by exchanging angry words with them, because all this is accomplishing is ushering in what WILL be loosed from that pit.

As hatred starts rising from hearts, and minds as  a small puff of black smoke, darkening, and choking as it grows bigger and bigger, forming itself more until it forms wings that will wrap around mankind and this world in the last days darkening hearts, and souls and who do we blame then?

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Original post: 08/20/2017 Revisited for series 07/28/2019