I have felt the things we have in common outweights what we do not. .
We have every reason in the world to have a kind Christian spirit toward one another, to hate sin, and error - and to have a "Love of the truth" instead of complacency as Paul reminds us in 2 Thess 2.
2 Thess 2:
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains
will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the
lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who
perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Matt 24:
20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here
is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe
it. 24
For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.
26 “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out;
or ‘Look,
He is in the inner rooms!’
do not believe it. 27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
29
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the
Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and
they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Rev 13:12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence,
and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13
He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14
And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted
power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak
and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
So God presents it as a "knife edge" difference between saved and lost where if possible Satan "deceives the very elect" -- and people perish because they did not receive a love of the truth so as to be saved.
Lot's of people saying to themselves "peace and safety" -- when in fact ALL the virgins in the Matt 25 story are "asleep" - and only 5 have the oil needed for the sudden event.
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There is an alternative though... just "ignore all those scriptures and anything like them" we can tell ourselves a nice story about how it is none of our concern to pay attention to such warnings in the Bible ... and all will be well.
"peace and safety - then sudden destruction"
Matt 24:
37 But as the days of Noah
were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and
did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
1 Thess 5:
. 2 For you yourselves know full well that
the day of the Lord is coming just like a thief in the night. 3
While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4 But you, brothers
and sisters, are not in darkness, so that the day would overtake you like a thief;