Bible Discussion Thread

What can one say really . My blood runs cold . Nevertheless If the Lord through Paul had not in his great mercy given us this crucial warning for just this moment of history I truly believe hopeless chaos and unrestrained evil would have triumphed already. Imagine what the world would be without Gods word . It would be a kind of desperate hopeless thrashing in the darkness. What a miraculously small thing to be so immense. A few words in black and white but so powerful that the vast evil we now see so clearly in its full horror, encompassing the entire planet, trying to crush every life and destroy every soul is, for every believing Christian, undone by Gods word. In this chapter world encompassing evil and the machinations and plots of the insanely powerful are humbled in the presence of Gods' foreknowledge and power. It is very very bad right now and we all know its going to get a lot worse, but we read this chapter ( and others of course) and we don't have to despair. I always understood before the evil really came down hard that in this chapter Paul was speaking of things God had allowed him to know. It is that for sure but now that the rubber has well and truly hit the road doesn't the spirt of Jesus come through incredibly strongly. The minimal necessary, disclosure, is utterly enough. That's pure Jesus. I don't know if that makes senses to anyone else but to me in this present desperation I feel strongly in this chapter the mildness and the strength of our Lord that doesn't have or need missiles or laboratories or underground cities. Paul can confidently afford to put everything we need in a few paragraphs and wham bam enough said. But for all of its brevity there no minimizing the magnitude of the evil either. Jesus is gentleness mildness and some serious wrath. I have not expressed things all that well but Forgive me my sins Lord and hold America in your hand we know the deal is going down. PRAISE to the Lord God almighty.