johansen wrote:
not knowing the day or the hour refers to the fact that you have to stay up all night to watch a lunar eclipse so you figure out what the time is exactly.
Er... Anything is possible. I interpret it to mean that because you can't know when, you better be prepared 24/7.
And how do you prepare?
Not by spreading rumors and speaking ill of others. Not by minding the mote in your brother's eye and ignoring the beam in your own.
Not by being a "...whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful..."
You see - the Bible deems "whisperers and backbiters" just as bad as people "without natural affection".
Whisperers are those who speak ill of people in secrecy, backbiters those who do it openly. And it has nothing to do whether you believe this ill you speak is true or not.
"The acts of the flesh are obvious... ...hatred, discord... ...dissensions, factions"
You just keep repeating things like "sexual immorality" and "idolatry", but you keep forgetting that hatred, discord, dissensions and factions are just as bad.
In the end it's totally irrelevant if Obama is the antichrist or not, if he's Muslim, if he's gay, if he's Communist, or alien or a lizard person or what ever you want to believe.
Because it has never been about Obama.
It has always been about you. YOU need to take care, YOU need to heed, YOU need to mind YOUR salvation.
"And why call you me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"
"Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity."