Bible Study Seattle

How do we understand evil? Cui bono – who benefits? Sometimes there seems to be a beneficiary but sometimes not. How do we understand those who would randomly kill people? Those who push abortion or transgenderism? Is there something bigger going on? What’s one of the first things Jesus will do when he returns? Raise the faithful? Is that happening right now in heaven (unseen to us on earth)? Would this concern Satan? Might he reason that this faithful army will have something to do with his demise? Has Satan seen a rise in the faithful commensurate with the rising world population? Would shrinking the population slow the production of saints? Why do so many of the powers-that-be want to reduce world population? It’s all tied together. They are doing what their master wants. “Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?  If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” Genesis 4:6-7

Speaking to the Pharisees, Jesus says, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.   Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.   You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.   Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!   Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?   Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.” John 8:42-47