Posted by Rick on March 20, 1999 at 22:33:05 {MWSZV6.08fSjY}:
Let's put aside H2O for a moment. This is what I personally think, and it won't sit well with those who believe people are entitled to do anything no matter how depraved, immoral, illegal or murderous. I came to the realization today. That realization was first best described as heartbreaking feeling but then then the heartbreak faded.
That realization is, that even though the Watchtower Society is wrong that only Jehovah's Witnesses will be spared through Armageddon, that there are people in our government, in corporations, or acting on their own today who are corrupt and evil beyond our comprehension. God must destroy them. Until they are all dead, the world will never be a safe place to life.
No, I'm not talking about anyone in the Watchtower Society. They were instrumental in encouraging the young lady, now a sister in the faith, into igniting an interest in my heart at a youthful age for reading the Bible and learning about God's plan. I would have never gained this interest without her.
Those who God must destroy, whom I'm talking about, are a world full of criminally minded people who have no conscience. They are amongst the dedicated people in our government who work against the interests of freedom to sell us out; they are the bloodthirsty dictators of many countries; they are the murderers and rapists filling our prisons to overflowing.
There are so many of these individuals that without God's intervention as promised in the Bible, mankind will likely become extinct in a very short period of time. Many of those who deserve death at God's hands control the world's natural resources, and are ruining this earth in exchange for currency and power. They destroy the earth for generations to come for what? Beautiful estates. Shoveling expensive foods into their gut. The genocide of future generations for a few brief years of wearing expensive clothing and sitting on their fat behinds on leather automobile seats. Like the kings and their courts in the dark ages, they keep shoveling that expensive food into their fat guts while the masses are left in hopeless living conditions. It never changes.
They are the ones I dearly look forward to seeing God kill at Armageddon as he has promised. Those who defend them and are appalled at my comments, would have defended Hitler if he had lived and won the world war. They would have equally been shocked if I looked forward to Hitler's death, as I do the deaths of all the wannabe Hitlers at Armageddon.
Unlike many who take the law into their own hands, Christians who are true to God will wait until God puts the truly evil individuals on this earth to death as spoken about in Revelation.
Many of you talk about this event as being terrible, because you assume the Watchtower will dictate who lives and dies. The fact is they don't dictate that. No matter what the governing body says, only those truly evil and deserving of death will be slaughtered by angels as foretold in the book of Revelation.
Just because you're not one of Jehovah's Witnesses doesn't mean you're deserving of death. No matter what anyone tells you, or even what you've read (or misread) in a Watchtower publication, there are good hearted people from every religious belief. There are Muslums in the Middle East who have good hearts, in the hundreds of millions or more, who are probably good hearted people. God will not destroy them because they aren't Jehovah's Witnesses!
The Bible speaks of the knowledge of Jehovah being abundant in the earth during the days after Armageddon, and the millenium in which Jesus Christ establishes his Kingdom on earth. That will become a time where the abundance of God's knowledge will teach those who are not believing the truth, perhaps including we as Jehovah's Witnesses, the real truth. Mankind will learn to live peacefully amongst themselves, beating their proverbial spears into plowshares, learning peace and not war.
I closing, when I speak of those deserving death at God's hands through his angels at Armageddon as foretold in the Bible's book of Revelation, I'm talking about those greedy, self-serving individuals who have turned this world into a pitiful failure. Those who murder others in the name of all sorts of justified reasons. Those who rape women and children. Those who destroy lives pushing drugs. Those who exploit third world countries for economic gains. Those who ruin the environment for future generations. Those who murder children and even the helpless disabled if that's what it takes to cover their error or further their cause. Will I feel sorry when God puts them to death, or sorry they might not receive a resurrection? NO. I will feel no remorseful than, for example, a man who sees the murderer of his parents in cold blood in a robbery put to death in the electric chair or by lethal injection. Why would anyone mourn the deaths of those who hate them and take pleasure in bringing others suffering and death?
Before we criticize Armageddon, why don't we define it? Why is it, incidentally, that I predict Norm, with all good intent, will find this posting appalling? Why would anyone defend those who commit murder by expressing disapproval when someone says how relieved they will be when those people no longer exist? Do those in this category feel the death penalty is barbaric? Should we tolerate murder as just one of those unpleasant aspects of life, but protect the murder's rights and freedoms to kill? I'm being somewhat facetious in asking this, but I've seen in the past people express outrage when others have expressed the sentiments against evil as I just have!
Ironically, those people are quick to condemn Hitler and would spit on his grave, but when others express outrage against all the Hitler clones in the world like I just have, this is somehow "appalling." Maybe I'm mistaken, but just thinking ahead of some types of replies it seems this topic might get, and wondering why? Am I one of the few who feels this way? Does anyone else share my sentiments, and will those who don't tell me what is wrong about my sentiments just expressed?
Rick