Ecclesiastes 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. If we cannot learn from history, then we should learn from the Bible or vice verses.
Returning home, I was asked to speak at the church of my upbringing. I spoke emphatically of my hatred for the path that the organized church was following. Many churches had accepted government funding and had become becoming pawns of the government. Christianity was acting contrary to the teaching of the bible, it sought to embrace the pomp and pageantry of idolatry as it struggled to serve two masters. Scriptures were being redefined in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the rules of political correctness. I spoke with righteous indignation and with the conviction of Jesus in Revelation 2:6, "But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate". At the close of my speech, I was informed that Christians do not use the word hate.
In many bible study groups, the students are drilled into how to separate the sin from the person, thus enabling the student to say I hate the sin but I love the person. There appears to be a contradiction somewhere in this, in the scripture a sinner is a person who sins. How is a person separated from sin? Once a person is separated from sin is he still a sinner? What are we trying to say when we say, "I love the person, but I hate the sin?" The sin of syncretism and the rules of political correctness have spawned an impotent form of the gospel, a gospel whose confronting message has been subdued. Stepping away from the fight for the faith and embracing an order of idolatry, entertainment, pomp and pageantry, maybe we have has chosen the wrong war to fight.
If there is a thing that history teaches us it is we must be careful in selecting our wars. As a veteran of the Vietnam war, I can attest to the winning of many battles, yet we lost the war. Why? The objective of pacification was deemed irrelevant because it was unobtainable. It could be augured that the president chose the wrong war or type of war to fight. Desert Storm was a redemption of honor, but what followed afterward by the next president was a failure to learn from past history. There are many battles being fought thru out this nation today, the battle over the use of words, the battle over flags, battles over monuments, etc, win lose or draw these battles will serve no other purpose then to intensify and bring to the surface an unquenchable hatred. When hate is brought to the light of day and examine, like a plant it grows. Love and hate are two of the emotions that exist within the heart. No laws can control these emotions and they cannot be eliminated. The controlling factor is the one we feed.
After satan and his angels corrupted the world, the creative or restoration works of God required that he either destroy the world and start over which he chose not to do, or created opposites to offset the works of satan. Genesis 1:2 states that when God began his work darkness was upon the face of the deep and God spoke in verse 3 and said, "let there be light". From that moment forward, opposites were created to interface a natural and spiritual world. He separated the waters and called the dry land earth and the waters he called seas. Each opposite he created he looked upon it and declared it to be good.
When Eve succumbed to the temptation of the devil and partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil this displayed a type of hatred for the laws of God. The Tree of Life an opposite or The knowledge of God demonstrates or profess God's love for his creation thus we have the expression of love and hate. This love and hate relationship manifested itself when Cain slew his brother Abel.
We can conclude from these examples that in a physical world in order for the day to exist night must also exist. In Revelation when a new Heaven and a new earth is brought forth, there will be no night, Revelation 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. If love is to exist in a natural world the opposite of a spiritual world, then hate must exist also. The prospect peace can not exist in a physical world if the prospect of war does not exist. Thus in the words of the preacher, "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" Ecclesiastes 3:8.
As a nation of diverse people, we are engaged in many battles, laws are being enacted that are contrary to the nature of God. The conscious among the growing population is strained. Man in his attempt to circumvent God is seeking to enact laws that are supposed to infuse love and eradicate hate. This is an impossibility, the laws of opposites must prevail. Mankind seeks to impose his will upon other, thus creating a platform for hatred and war. He speaks of a utopia existing outside of the will of God, a one world order ruled by man, in a natural or physical world, this is an impossibility.
Returning home, I was asked to speak at the church of my upbringing. I spoke emphatically of my hatred for the path that the organized church was following. Many churches had accepted government funding and had become becoming pawns of the government. Christianity was acting contrary to the teaching of the bible, it sought to embrace the pomp and pageantry of idolatry as it struggled to serve two masters. Scriptures were being redefined in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the rules of political correctness. I spoke with righteous indignation and with the conviction of Jesus in Revelation 2:6, "But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate". At the close of my speech, I was informed that Christians do not use the word hate.
In many bible study groups, the students are drilled into how to separate the sin from the person, thus enabling the student to say I hate the sin but I love the person. There appears to be a contradiction somewhere in this, in the scripture a sinner is a person who sins. How is a person separated from sin? Once a person is separated from sin is he still a sinner? What are we trying to say when we say, "I love the person, but I hate the sin?" The sin of syncretism and the rules of political correctness have spawned an impotent form of the gospel, a gospel whose confronting message has been subdued. Stepping away from the fight for the faith and embracing an order of idolatry, entertainment, pomp and pageantry, maybe we have has chosen the wrong war to fight.
If there is a thing that history teaches us it is we must be careful in selecting our wars. As a veteran of the Vietnam war, I can attest to the winning of many battles, yet we lost the war. Why? The objective of pacification was deemed irrelevant because it was unobtainable. It could be augured that the president chose the wrong war or type of war to fight. Desert Storm was a redemption of honor, but what followed afterward by the next president was a failure to learn from past history. There are many battles being fought thru out this nation today, the battle over the use of words, the battle over flags, battles over monuments, etc, win lose or draw these battles will serve no other purpose then to intensify and bring to the surface an unquenchable hatred. When hate is brought to the light of day and examine, like a plant it grows. Love and hate are two of the emotions that exist within the heart. No laws can control these emotions and they cannot be eliminated. The controlling factor is the one we feed.
After satan and his angels corrupted the world, the creative or restoration works of God required that he either destroy the world and start over which he chose not to do, or created opposites to offset the works of satan. Genesis 1:2 states that when God began his work darkness was upon the face of the deep and God spoke in verse 3 and said, "let there be light". From that moment forward, opposites were created to interface a natural and spiritual world. He separated the waters and called the dry land earth and the waters he called seas. Each opposite he created he looked upon it and declared it to be good.
When Eve succumbed to the temptation of the devil and partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil this displayed a type of hatred for the laws of God. The Tree of Life an opposite or The knowledge of God demonstrates or profess God's love for his creation thus we have the expression of love and hate. This love and hate relationship manifested itself when Cain slew his brother Abel.
We can conclude from these examples that in a physical world in order for the day to exist night must also exist. In Revelation when a new Heaven and a new earth is brought forth, there will be no night, Revelation 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. If love is to exist in a natural world the opposite of a spiritual world, then hate must exist also. The prospect peace can not exist in a physical world if the prospect of war does not exist. Thus in the words of the preacher, "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" Ecclesiastes 3:8.
As a nation of diverse people, we are engaged in many battles, laws are being enacted that are contrary to the nature of God. The conscious among the growing population is strained. Man in his attempt to circumvent God is seeking to enact laws that are supposed to infuse love and eradicate hate. This is an impossibility, the laws of opposites must prevail. Mankind seeks to impose his will upon other, thus creating a platform for hatred and war. He speaks of a utopia existing outside of the will of God, a one world order ruled by man, in a natural or physical world, this is an impossibility.
The path of political correctness and the elimination of hate is a narcissist's armor of self-delusion. In 2009, President Obama signed into law, The Federal Hate Crime bill under the pretense that this bill would help to eliminate hate. From the date of the signing, a continuous effort has ben made to suppress all forms of hate speech. The definition of hate speech is ambiguous at best because it is based upon perspectives that are usually flawed. The narcissist believes that we can make this thought, this process the truth just by repeating the phrase one billion times to shout down the facts. Rather than bringing about a hate free environment, our world and communities have become a tinder box waiting to erupt, consuming all of us.
From the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation hate has existed. When God restored the earth to its present and natural state he did not destroy the hate that the devil created, not did he destroy the devil. Man in his natural state will always be presented with a choice, it is a part of the test to see if we are capable of reigning with him in the new heaven and earth. We are constantly faced with the option to choose. It becomes a simple paradox when we realize that the devil tested Job and even the son of God.
There are two types of knowledge referenced in the scripture. The problems of humanity are brought into focus by the vast knowledge of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This knowledge has overshadowed the knowledge of God. Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased. This increase in knowledge has caused the Knowledge of God to falter, Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
There are types and degrees of hatred the same as there is with love. Understanding the types of hatred a key to living with hatred and Understanding The Word of God.
Psalms 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. God hates the character and ways of the wicked, and the feelings of all righteous men are in harmony with his.
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. Observe here, Malice is folly and wickedness. 1. It is so when it is concealed by flattery and dissimulation: He is a fool though he may think himself a politician, that hides hatred with lying lips, lest, if it breaks out, he should be ashamed before men and should lose the opportunity of gratifying his malice. Lying lips are bad enough of themselves but have a peculiar malignity in them when they are made a cloak of maliciousness. But he is a fool who thinks to hide anything from God. 2. It is no better when it is vented in spiteful and mischievous language: He that utters slander is a fool too, for God will sooner or later bring forth that righteousness as the light which he endeavors to hide, and will find an expedient to roll the reproach away.
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. Love is the great principle of harmony; it disposes men to cover the faults of their neighbors, and deal leniently with them.
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
The product of uncontrolled hatred is wars. Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Clearly the bible speaks of wars and rumors of wars, thus we cannot escape this prophecy.
From the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation hate has existed. When God restored the earth to its present and natural state he did not destroy the hate that the devil created, not did he destroy the devil. Man in his natural state will always be presented with a choice, it is a part of the test to see if we are capable of reigning with him in the new heaven and earth. We are constantly faced with the option to choose. It becomes a simple paradox when we realize that the devil tested Job and even the son of God.
There are two types of knowledge referenced in the scripture. The problems of humanity are brought into focus by the vast knowledge of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This knowledge has overshadowed the knowledge of God. Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased. This increase in knowledge has caused the Knowledge of God to falter, Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
There are types and degrees of hatred the same as there is with love. Understanding the types of hatred a key to living with hatred and Understanding The Word of God.
Psalms 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. God hates the character and ways of the wicked, and the feelings of all righteous men are in harmony with his.
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. Observe here, Malice is folly and wickedness. 1. It is so when it is concealed by flattery and dissimulation: He is a fool though he may think himself a politician, that hides hatred with lying lips, lest, if it breaks out, he should be ashamed before men and should lose the opportunity of gratifying his malice. Lying lips are bad enough of themselves but have a peculiar malignity in them when they are made a cloak of maliciousness. But he is a fool who thinks to hide anything from God. 2. It is no better when it is vented in spiteful and mischievous language: He that utters slander is a fool too, for God will sooner or later bring forth that righteousness as the light which he endeavors to hide, and will find an expedient to roll the reproach away.
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. Love is the great principle of harmony; it disposes men to cover the faults of their neighbors, and deal leniently with them.
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
The product of uncontrolled hatred is wars. Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Clearly the bible speaks of wars and rumors of wars, thus we cannot escape this prophecy.
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