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This is just so wrong!!
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Well I think that saying God allows everything that happens pretty much ends any discussion about anything that ever has happened. But just because God allows everything that happens doesn't make it any easier to deal with all the Evil that people have to deal with everyday. Is it alright if I ask God to perhaps not allow so much Evil to happen and perhaps give us lowly peons a break once in awhile?Conquest in the early days, lineage later on. Big picture: God has allowed it.
> Excellent question! God allows kings, queens, emperors, pharaohs, etc. to rule and have authority. Even tyrannical rulers in the Roman Empire were allowed to exist to carry out His purpose and will, whether they even realized it or not -
Pro 21:1 The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He wishes.
Acts 4:27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.
1 Peter 2:13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to a king as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by Him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. 15 For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.
Rom 13:1 Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2 Therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
John 19:10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?” 11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above.”
1Pet 2:17 Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
> It doesn't mean rulers are necessarily just, kind, and fair. Consider Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar from the Bible as examples -
Exo 7:3 But I will harden Pharaohs heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. When Pharaoh will not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.
Jer 27:4 Give them a message for their masters and say, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Tell this to your masters: 5 With My great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please. 6 Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him. 7 All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him.
> Christians will disobey authority if it conflicts with God's Word, such as being forbidden to preach the gospel. Other than that, God has been clear that we're to be obedient -
Acts 4:18-20 And when they [rulers and elders] had summoned them [Peter & John], they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking what we have seen and heard.”
> The takeaway is that if God wants a ruler, empire, or nation gone, they're done and over according to His will. Nice to know no matter how insane things get, He's still in control.
He is a compleat predator who attacks even his own offspring... Evil.
I get what you're saying, and life isn't easy to understand. I think of the U.S. as an example. It's still free to some extent, but when the government is corrupt and working behind the scenes to keep evil in power, voting seems pointless. I'll continue to vote and be a good citizen, but it's really out of my hands. I fervently pray God will intervene, but I also accept God allows suffering in order to bring people back to God. There is also the possibility that God is done with the U.S. Not much help, I know, but I trust in God's ultimate justice in His time as well as His ultimate righteousness. I'm not saying it's easy, but all I can do is be patient and wait, and that's really the point: To rely completely on God.Well I think that saying God allows everything that happens pretty much ends any discussion about anything that ever has happened. But just because God allows everything that happens doesn't make it any easier to deal with all the Evil that people have to deal with everyday. Is it alright if I ask God to perhaps not allow so much Evil to happen and perhaps give us lowly peons a break once in awhile?
touching his daughter like this , that's inappropriateHe is a compleat predator who attacks even his own offspring... Evil.
What we don't seem to realize is that we, the people (the lowly peons) get exactly the leader we deserve.Well I think that saying God allows everything that happens pretty much ends any discussion about anything that ever has happened. But just because God allows everything that happens doesn't make it any easier to deal with all the Evil that people have to deal with everyday. Is it alright if I ask God to perhaps not allow so much Evil to happen and perhaps give us lowly peons a break once in awhile?