I used to
greatly fret over the unrighteousness I see on this earth.
Then God
showed me the following.
II Peter 3:13 we,
according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein
dwelleth righteousness.
That
righteousness we so desire will be in the "new heaven and new
earth".
***
I still hate
the evil of this world, but now I live in the joy of the Word which frees me
and separates me from that evil.
And I know God
will judge both the evil and the good. Everything will be set right by God one way or
another according to HIS purpose.
***
For me ...
Live in peace.
Live in joy through the Word God has given.
***
A woman who is
a Catholic visited me recently.
God did not
have me speak anything spiritual to her.
She is
constantly troubled because of what she sees people do. But she chooses to associate with those people.
And they trouble her.
Now I try not
to do that.
I don't want to go through problems
needlessly, when I can not help correct the problem.
God has
brought me to a place of great peace and joy as I have followed
Him, what HE says, The Word.
***
The
Catholic church people who are so upset right now have every right to be upset
because of the child abuse coming from the priests in the Catholic church. This is a terrible thing.
Some
will likely see all they can do about it is to come out of that church group
and remove their families from that church group, for no matter what the
leaders might say, the structure itself of that church group is the problem because
it is not set up by the Bible and therefore this sets the stage for the
perverts in the ministry.
There
are many rules in the Catholic church which are opposite from that which we
read in the Bible.
The
rule where their ministers cannot marry is doomed to failure for that is not
God's rule.
The
apostle Peter in the Bible was married and had children.
Matthew 8:14-15 And when Jesus was come into Peter's
house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And HE touched her
hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
Another proof in Bible of Peter being married.
Peter said he was an apostle & elder.
I Peter 5:1 The elders which are among you I
exhort, who am also an elder,
The qualification for elder is as follows:
Titus 1:5-7 For this cause left I thee in Crete,
that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders
in every city, as I had appointed thee: If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not
accused of riot or unruly. For
a bishop (elder) must be blameless, as the steward of God;
Elder and bishop are same thing in Bible. Requirement was to be married and have
faithful children.
***
To marry is normal for most men.
We even see
the following instruction in the Bible:
I Corinthians 7:2-4 to avoid
fornication, let every man have his
own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The
wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the
husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
***
For
a church to set up rules opposite to the Bible is to court disaster.
For
a church to be set up where their ministers cannot marry is a natural attraction
for those men who are sexually perverted.
Fornication
and adultery take place among many ministers in the protestant churches but I
don't think I've ever heard of child abuse in a protestant church, although it
probably has happened.
Antichrist
is also working in protestant church groups as doctrines are changed from the
Bible. (Neither could we sit in
those groups in peace.)
These are
problems of the end times as we draw nearer to the return of Jesus.
Jesus warned
us about this:
Matthew
24:12-13
And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that
shall endure (in the Word of God and in faith in God,
The Word) unto the end, the same shall be saved.
***
The church
groups will crumble, the ministers will crumble, the
Word of God will never fail.
We just have
to fix our faith on the Word of God, the
Holy Scriptures, and hold fast to The Word from God.
If we follow
traditions of the church group, we will fall with them.
But it is the
Word of the Lord, The Word of God, that endures forever.
To try to sit
among them when their way is not set up by the Bible will not work. To stay there will only trouble us and we will
never be able to get them to go in the way of the Bible.
All we can do
is come out from them
and live in peace and try to structure our lives by the Word God brings to us
by HIS Spirit.
It would seem
to us that God would want us to go to church. But when that
church group fails to do scripture and goes another way, it is antichrist.
We can't stay
there when their way is opposite from specific scripture.
It will get
increasingly terrible toward the end, especially in the churches as they fall
away from scripture and set up other ways.
This is
ordained to happened before the return of Jesus.
II Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for
that day shall not come, except there come a falling
away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(churches will
fall away from scripture... this allows antichrist to move into the church group
and the end-time apostasy to reign in the church group, opposing scripture)
Who opposeth
and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God.
***
The
church members who refuse the love of the truth of the scriptures and delight
in the doctrines that are being set up in the apostate churches will have a
very fearful end when Jesus returns.
II Thessalonians 2:7-12 For the mystery of iniquity
doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of
the way.
And then shall
that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His
coming:
Even him,
whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders,
And with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all
might be damned who believed not the
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.