And one other thing; they've been living with indoctrination, radicalization to be blood thirsty.
I don't know if you saw the video of the Islamic terrorist who invaded Israel that October who called his mother to proudly brag about the elation that came with killing 5 (?) Jews with his bare hands. The enthusiasm in his voice is what one would expect if he won the lottery!
What can be done for these poor souls whose minds have been thoroughly brainwashed to be agents of darkness?
That's a hard question. And the answer isn't that easy either. Sometimes we get caught up in the whirlwind too. We're all being "tried" or manipulated in a lot of different directions.
The ones getting hit the hardest are the ones that don't know God. Their moral judgement is seared. They have no foundation.
I watch these protests a lot. And there is definitely a chemical or spiritual imbalance or both.
I watched a video the other day of a daycare/kindergarten school having the children draw protest signs that said "F" Ice.
We're talking 5-6 year olds. And because the weather was too cold to go outside, they marched around the classroom chanting.
But you have to go one step back and see who is training them and why?
You have teachers, nurses, doctors, psychiatrist, even the parents all complicit. And I ask myself, How long has this been going on?
And I wonder why I escaped. And the only answer I have is that I was brought up with a knowledge of God.
My parents weren't religious, although mom made us go to sunday school. we didn't talk about God, but now and then dad would put the record Jesus Loves Me on and I never questioned who Jesus was or why he loved me.
Not until I was around 17 did I get curious enough to go to church and see what it was all about.
I didn't spend a lot of time in school. I used to ride the subway back and forth and go downtown Boston and just hang out at the Boston Commons Park until school was over. I dropped out at the end of 7th grade. But those days we were going through the bussing and the problems that came with that. I grew up in a white town. You never saw a black person. There were boundaries. The blacks had their own parts of Boston. Everybody knew who's turf was who's.
Anyway, I missed out on the early stages of indoctrination. I didn't make it to HS. I got my GED.
I took 1 year of Liberal Arts College and I didn't always agree with the "professors" . I was in my mid 20's and most of the class was just out of HS. They hadn't had time to live outside the classroom so it was easy to tell them the world was this way or that way.
They had no experience.
Today they are beginning in Daycares for crying out loud.
I don't think we can fix them. They are nurturing that behavior. They don't know what Love is because they have only been taught Hate.
This is the time we have to shine. The world is in blackness and we are the stars.
Our duty is to love one another. We love them because we know they are lost. But sometimes you just want to slap em a bit and tell them to wake up. But they can't because they haven't been taught how.
Our strongest weapon is prayer. And if you look around a bit you will see there are other stars. Andd those stars are beginning to gather.
You see arenas filled with teenagers getting baptized and finding Jesus. The numbers are growing daily and God is adding to the church.
We are in the gathering.
Those that go in the barn and those that don't.
Our calling is to try and save some of those lost souls before the door closes.
But they won't hear if no one speaks. They won't know unless someone teaches.
And the funny thing is, they say the same about us. They see us as enemies.
I always think about, not much talk about devil's in the OT but as soon as Jesus makes himself known, those devil's start coming out of the woodwork.
Not too sure what the future or the Kingdom will look like, but I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of stars. And as they are gathered together they become brighter than the sun.
And God saw the Light that it was good.
It's easy to want retribution. The hard part is finding mercy.
Prayer.
We're almost on the other side. Things are going to get emotional and irrational and chaotic for a little while.
This is a time of trial for us as it is for them. Everybody fighting to save themselves, when the only answer is Jesus Saves.
You Shine

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