Speaking of anger, there's a good anger and a bad anger. It's ok if someone who has no values nor integrity when they are being held accountable for things that are right become angry. The sin nature resists that which is good. No one's perfect, but that's just the problem (All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory.) Many don't share truly righteous values, and many sincerely believe in what is wrong. They fight for it to the death even. Many can't even see straight anymore about what is really right and wrong, but praise be to God, the Bible is the authority of everything good and right, and if you read it it becomes more obvious. I know in this age exactly what is right and wrong will be argued until Jesus comes back, but are we way beyond recovering from twisted ideologies both as individuals and as a people? Possibly, because all those ideologies are about to manifest in bigger ways then they already have. The wages of sin is death. Is there a possibility that it can be stopped? Yes, if the real problem is dealt with CORRECTLY in your own soul. I do know that Jesus himself honed in on the real problem which is inside our souls. It was when he came into his Father's house, the Temple, and he saw everyone buying and selling and tricking and deceiving themselves and others. When he saw this he acted in righteous anger...which is actually love if you can see and believe it. Jesus saw the real problem, and in correct timely anger he overturned the tables and forced everyone out proclaiming, "My house is to be a house of prayer and you have made it a den for robbers!" Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-17. No doubt there is corruption everywhere, but more precise, what about our lives? Our bodies are to be a temple for the Holy Spirit to dwell, yet we have corrupted ourselves with idols, and we deny the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ completely! The Lord wants to clean house for true righteousness and true change for eternity inside our minds and hearts FIRST. He then takes care of the rest. Jesus is the only answer! He is the only one who can deal with the deep problems in our lives and nations. If we don't wake up to that and acknowledge it we are outside of his eternal protection of salvation. Maybe if we ask him to clean up our acts as a people/our nations, and turn over our lives in righteous tough love the attention of God will turn toward us. Holy Spirit please convict us of our sins! Then in our sincere repentance through prayer and faith he promises to restore our souls with forgiveness through Jesus, and even possibly our land according to his will. If there is going to be anger, let's be angry about and deal with the right thing first: the idols in our hearts, and the complete shunning of Jesus in our lives. Then let's pray God puts the good leaders into office who fear him and who God will honor. At least your soul will be saved no matter what happens in the world. There will continue to be terrible things that happen in the world, because of the complete absence of repentance of those who continue in the ways of the world. And there will continue to be a rise in natural calamities. Death may come unjustly, without mercy, without sense, naturally or even accidentally, but I plead with you as Jesus did, do not die without repenting of your sins and receiving forgiveness from Jesus Christ first. Perishing in eternity is not what anyone really wants. Being right with God and enjoying him forever in his eternal paradise is what people truly want deep down.
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.”
1 John 3:1-10 ESV
“There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."” Luke 13:1-5 ESV
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