Raven wrote on Jul 19
th, 2019 at 8:53pm:
Yadda wrote on Jul 18
th, 2019 at 9:07am:
Men will hate God's WORD.
Amos 8:11
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
It's not that men hate god's word, it's more that "witnesses" are trained to be so annoying.
Its more, imo, to do with almost everyone [humankind] being lost, and 'into the world'.
Or should that be, they are 'into the [things of this] world', and, lost ?
Truly, the 'things of this world' are a strong distraction to our consciousness.
In my experience, individuals will either gravitate to seeking something better than 'this', or, they simply 'immerse' themselves, in 'this'.
Predestination ?
predestination = = the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others.If that applies, then "Witnessing"
can't won't really achieve anything.
Should we expect, to see a sows ear change, into a silk purse ?
Harvest.
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Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,