The armor of god

a reply to: pennylane123

A lot of misconceptions mingled in with some well informed
posts here. One thing I keep in mind is God lives outside of
time.

If God has a plan and all that happens works toward it.

Then God doesn't have to intervene. Everything will work
towards his will. The curse of death is upon us by our doing
not his. Most don't understand this world is a creation of ours.

Nothing close to what God intended. I think it's sad that we
chose to go it alone. Against and without the one true oracle.

God has permitted us to do this to ourselves. Simply because
we asked for it. You think he didn't know this would be the result?

This evil crap Godless world? In much the same way a child having
a tantrum and the parent just walks away until it's over. God has
stepped back and let us have our way.

That's how I see it anyway. How I make sense of God instead of
just writing him off in ignorance.

a reply to: pennylane123
Chapter and verse numbers are not part of the original text. You can't get any genuine interpretation out of them.

originally posted by: BukkaWukka
a reply to: CriticalStinker

Check out the 12 apostles - a mixture of drunks, fighters, thieves, etc.

You mean ex-

originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: network dude
I feel like God would try harder at uniting people, which isn’t the pulse I’ve been getting the last few cycles.

But alas, I’m as mortal as they come.

And your answer is:

Matthew 10:34-36
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household”

originally posted by: network dude

originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: network dude



I get that, and I think if God had his druthers, he'd rather Trump wasn't such an ass, but he is.

Jehu was quite the ass too! You gotta read that story. Its worth your time.

a reply to: visitedbythem

And Trump is a beacon to bring people to raise their swords. For he is the hand of God.

Just like ancient rulers of world powers were at the right time in history so could Trump be, I think of Emperor/General Titus,(Rome) Nebuchadnezzar,(Babylon) Cyrus The Great(Persia) all pagans but they had a role to play in God's purpose.

I was amazed in the 2016 election how Trump won, everything they threw at him turned to ash and was ineffective, the media and everybody else believed their own propaganda. To me it seemed like something divine was afoot.

I am thinking now God might have let Trump lose in 2020 because he wanted him around and in power between 2024-2028.
If that is the case Satan understands and knows this, he is going to try and stop it, and so a chess game of moves and counter moves has been taking place, since Satan controls this present world system he has tremendous power to influence things.

But ultimately if God wants Trump back in power because he wants him involved in accomplishing something related to biblical prophesy, he is going to win and nothing will stop that, doesn't mean Satan isn't going to try to stop him with many different tactics.
Trump and America may very well have a final role in how the biblical prophesies get fulfilled at the end of the last days and the start of the tribulation, if that is true he will be like those other ancients rulers of world powers I mentioned at the beginning of this post.
We live in very interesting times

originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: visitedbythem

And Trump is a beacon to bring people to raise their swords. For he is the hand of God.

Beacon men are careful, quick, and kind!

Beacon takes a load off your mind.

No, Trump is not the hand of God. That hand of God turned his head though, and he knows it.

Imaginary swords, eh? LOL, ok! Seriously though, that was funny! Thanks friend.