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It seems to comes under the category of civil disobedience. just quietly disregarding what you don't agree with, can have the greatest impact. Sometimes just leaving speaks more eloquently. it seems no one has noticed the noise... maybe the silence will speak louder.

Job 37:5-6 God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend. For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’; Likewise to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength. New King James Version

O horrors! It's that awful topic of the Sheldon clan again! I'm not referring to the book per se but to the mental images of those awful events that are now floating up to our conscious thinking.

the evidence i see of faith is a kind heart, that does what God tells them to. you don't have to be religious... God speaks to people everywhere, and some hear and obey and some do not.

Galatians 3:16-17 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, "And to offsprings," as of many; but it says, "And to your offspring," that is, to one person, who is Christ. My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. (NRS) This verse seems to say that Mount Sinai came 430 years from the day the promise was made to Abraham. But that cannot be. Exodus 12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years-- on that very same day-- it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. (NKJ) It looks like the Children of Israel left Egypt on the anniversary of the day that Jacob entered Egypt with all his family. I had been taught that it was the anniversary of the day the promise was made to Abraham. Hmmmm. I'm learning myself here. Wonder where my teachers got the idea that it was also the anniversary of the Covenant of promise to Abraham. Need more research. Maybe the 430 years was from the day the Covenant of promise was "ratified by God" . And God "ratified" His promise with a sign - that of saving Jacob and family in Egypt, through Joseph. Reminds me that God made a promise to Adam/Eve that He would crush Satan's head. He ratified that Covenant (4000 years later) by the death and resurrection of Christ -- this "sign" so that human beings could know that the promise WILL be completely fulfilled.

The second coming of Christ is a promise long delayed. The return of all Israel from the nations; and their return to the Messiah is long delayed. The establishment of the Kingdom on earth is long delayed. In God's mercy, the appearance of "THE" Antichrist is long delayed; in accordance with Peter's epistle: " The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)