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  1. Matthias

    The happy thread

  2. Matthias

    The happy thread

  3. Matthias

    The happy thread

  4. Matthias

    The happy thread was dead. Long live the happy thread!

    * I grabbed the first word that came to mind - The Jackanapes. (That’s kind of weird, but there it is.) *
  5. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    “Cure Thy children’s warring madness …” (“God of Grace and God of Glory”) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/g/o/d/g/godgragl.htm Can you hear the hymn playing in your mind? Killing our enemies isn’t the cure for warring madness prescribed for us by God and the Messiah.
  6. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    I lost one of the best friends I’ve ever had in Afghanistan. He came home alive, but he was dead. I’ve shared his story elsewhere on the forum. Ask him if “ground force invasion” is the solution to evil and he’ll be quick to tell you that it isn’t. He killed evil (he wouldn’t talk much about it...
  7. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    You know cutting the head off isn’t the solution. The only way to achieve true victory over evil is confronting it with the gospel preached by the Messiah and the apostles. Anything else is just a stop gap that doesn’t achieve the goal. That argument hasn’t persuaded you yet. So let’s turn...
  8. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    @Riven. Is war / killing our enemies good or evil?
  9. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    ”Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” - The Sermon on the Mount How are the sons of God to make peace? (Not the way I was taught / learned in ROTC and in the Baptist Church I was raised in.) They are to make peace with the gospel of peace (Ephesians 6:15), not...
  10. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    Governing righteously. You want good government? The Messiah’s government is better than good. Teaching people to beat their swords into ploughshares, to live life abundantly and in peace with God and their neighbor, as God intended mankind to live. It’s my destiny as a disciple of the...
  11. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    “We must do something to stop those evil people with their weapons of mass destruction. We’ll do it by unleashing our weapons of mass destruction on them before they unleash theirs on us.” When I was in Air Force ROTC (50 years ago), we had a saying which gave us great pride and courage: “Do...
  12. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    “God either can’t or won’t deliver me from the rule of evil without me taking up arms and killing my enemies.” That’s unbelieving Israel and the unbelieving world. The God of Israel has been dealing with this attitude even from before the creation of the heavens and the earth.
  13. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    Good news. Gospel. A change in management is coming. Which is to say, the Messiah is coming to properly manage the world with his management team, the saints. There will be no real change in management until that happens.
  14. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    I hate to spoil the surprise by waiting for tomorrow morning but the purpose wasn’t for self defense. It was for … *suddenly a shot rings out * ... Missed me. See you in the morning. I’m glad to see you posting again.
  15. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    The wasteland will be restored. I really do hope and pray you will be there. If you are and you haven’t become a disciple of the Messiah, you’re the kind of person that I’m looking forward to reigning over.
  16. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    We can thank the devil for that. Yes. The good must do something, but within the framework of the Messiah’s teaching / commandment regarding how his disciples are to respond to the rule of evil. Yes. For what purpose? Jesus himself goes on to say.
  17. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    That’s a two-way spiritual problem. Employing weapons on enemies always inflicts harm on them. We learn from those who have done so that it also harms those who employ the weapons.
  18. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    Yes. Those are the people whom the Messiah and the saints will be ruling over. Restoration will happen when the Messiah and the saints are ruling on the earth. No. I’m nothing more than a disciple and minister of the Messiah. Thank you. You’ve established a possible scenario for my...
  19. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    There is a complete end of unbelieving Israel, just as there is a complete end of all unbelieving nations. When I need to. This is one of those times.
  20. Matthias

    The Iran situation

    The earth will be greatly depopulated in the event of a nuclear war but there will be survivors. The Messiah and the saints will rule over what’s left of the nations in the kingdom of God on the earth.