QUOTE: CadyandZoe
... The following excerpt from the US Declaration of Independence might be instructive.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
Dear C&Z,
I couldn't agree more that that period of history, but we now face a different circumstance. I would propose that we must Resist Tyranny and Exercise our Liberties as best possible, but we CANNOT overthrow our governments by violence as though we were back in the late 1700's.
Rev. 13:10 makes it clear that THEY WILL PREVAIL and WE MUST ENDURE.
And where I find in Scripture that we entered the 42 month (not the falsely assigned "
seven year") Tribulation in 2018, we should indeed anticipate that these final ~11 months will see day by day increasing terrors to ourselves, our communities, and our nation. So it seems the best "remedy" is to prepare our households for when we can't buy or sell by:
#1. Getting out of cities. (Rev. 18:4)
#2. Stocking food, fuel, and necessities, including those items required to protect your family. (Lke 22:36)
... and if a person were wise, they might
pre-pay some two months toward their utilities, so that the government might not cut them off on that "
day 1".
I hope and expect to see you both on the "other side"!
Bobby Jo