Carl Emerson
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To understand this one needs to appreciate the big picture regarding the spiritual battle that prevails.
A high ranking created angel rebels and takes 1/3 of his kind with him.
He is anti-God and dedicated to destroy all good. Hating man who has been given His image and the future right to judge angelic host and to share in eternity.
He seeks to devour man and is constantly scheming against him, bringing wars motivated by evil, deceiving millions through false religions, tightening his grip on the world's commerce as a way of ultimate control.
Why is he allowed to do this - because there was a covenant made to give him dominion in the created spiritual realm before Eden, a covenant in time that he broke through disobedience. As God is faithful to His promises, this agreement plays out until judgement. So he remains with some power to act in disobedience but the cross put a 'stake in the ground' and gave the Church direct access to God's power to be a light in the world.
So from eternity's perspective the temporary suffering in this life authored by the enemy of souls is infinitely eclipsed by God's love in Jesus.
So let's not blame God for the injustices we see, when sufferings of the elect are more than compensated for though His eternal promises, and the author of destruction is to blame.
A high ranking created angel rebels and takes 1/3 of his kind with him.
He is anti-God and dedicated to destroy all good. Hating man who has been given His image and the future right to judge angelic host and to share in eternity.
He seeks to devour man and is constantly scheming against him, bringing wars motivated by evil, deceiving millions through false religions, tightening his grip on the world's commerce as a way of ultimate control.
Why is he allowed to do this - because there was a covenant made to give him dominion in the created spiritual realm before Eden, a covenant in time that he broke through disobedience. As God is faithful to His promises, this agreement plays out until judgement. So he remains with some power to act in disobedience but the cross put a 'stake in the ground' and gave the Church direct access to God's power to be a light in the world.
So from eternity's perspective the temporary suffering in this life authored by the enemy of souls is infinitely eclipsed by God's love in Jesus.
So let's not blame God for the injustices we see, when sufferings of the elect are more than compensated for though His eternal promises, and the author of destruction is to blame.
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