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Greatest I am;54482 wrote:If on His return Jesus says the same as in the past for Gays, slaves and women then we are in trouble. He played to the rich in these areas.
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DL
God is a merciful God; if He was not then there would be no human beings alive right now.
God hates sin, but He loves the sinner, but He expects the sinner to repent from his or her sins when He shows them mercy. The world is the way it is because human beings have been deceived by Satan.
2 Corinthians 4:4 (ASV)
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in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.
Revelation 12:9 (NKJV)
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the
Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
When Jesus returns Satan will be restrained or prevented from deceiving the nations.
Revelation 20:1-3 (ASV)
1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a little time.
Once Satan has been bound for a 1,000 years as the scripture says, the world will be at peace. Nations and individuals will come to know God and want to obey Him.
Micah 4:2 (ASV)
2 And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem;
