There was a man who was suing a police department because a police dog bit his child. There was no real evidence of this but there had to be an investigation.
The police chief was concerned about the accusation against his favorite dog so he went to visit the dog and see if he would be capable of biting someone.
The police chief's emotional attachment to the dog assumed the dog could not have done this.
The DCPI for the police chief was unnerved by the fact that the chief had gone to visit the dog. The chief did not understand why the DCPI was upset at that maneuver.
Then the DCPI explained himself; since he was the man in charge of media perception he was concerned about how it would look. The police chief enquired further as to why this was a problem.
The DCPI explained how this would look in the media: "police dog bites boy, Police Commissioner visits dog."
Had the Police Chief thought things through and allowed the investigators to do their job he would not have followed his feelings and visited the dog.
Our culture is rampant with emotional outbursts of rage because people are not stopping to reason through things. They are not open to discussion to come to a consensus because everyone has been taught; "if they feel it, it must be true."
If the people who have been trained to believe feelings carry more weight than the truth they are easily manipulated by others, even the powers that be, can make them feel better about going over a cliff.
The people will feel safe as they plummet to their destruction. This is what will be happening during the tribulation. The antichrist will do lying wonders, not real miracles but illusions that the people love to see causing them to base their decisions on what they think they see and hear.
I recall a demonstration on the internet in which a man had placed a half of a banana in the dirt with half of the kiwi fruit. The man was showing how a "banana kiwi" could be grown if they were placed together touching their cut parts.
Many people believed this foolishness and some actually attempted it only to end up with half of the rotten banana and half of the rotten kiwi fruit.
I showed the video to someone and they were going to go home and try it. I explained that it was impossible. The person loved the idea of growing a banana that would look like kiwi on the inside. I could not convince them it was not possible because they wanted to believe it. Even though basic knowledge of science would prove this was silly, they preferred to believe something that was not true.
This is what we can expect in the tribulation. The antichrist will defy basic intelligence and claim things that are not true but because the people like to believe it and they have been trained to follow their feelings instead of truth, they will be led over the cliff into Satan's dominated world, the tribulation and after that hell.
2 Thessalonians 2:8-10
8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
9 that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved."
Those who refuse to listen to the truth will be sucked into the vortex of wickedness thinking they will be safe. In the first three and a half years they will feel safe, there will be peace and lying wonders to entice the people to take his mark, "666" on their hand or forehead.
After that time the next three and a half years will be the most terrifying the world has ever seen. Even the leaders of the earth will try to escape the evil unleashed but they will not be able to. Only those who have trusted Christ during this time will be able to be protected by God.
You see, this man who claims to be Christ will be the devil inhabiting a man's body. Sadly many people who think they are Christians will follow this false Christ. Those who love to elevate and worship men and leaders will take the mark of this man pledging allegiance to him as their god.
There will be some people, mainly the nation of Israel who will become born again during this time. These are the ones who will be martyred and some protected by God. Everyone else who takes this mark of the beast will go to hell with him when it is over. The beast and all his followers will go into the lake of fire forever.
Revelation 9:3-10
3 Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.
6 And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.
7 The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.
8 They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.
9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.
10 They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months."
Revelation 6
The First Seal—Rider on White Horse
"6 Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.”
2 I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer."
The Second Seal—War
3 When He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come.”
4 And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.
The Third Seal—Famine
5 When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.
6 And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
The Fourth Seal—Death
"7 When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come.”
8 I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth."
The Fifth Seal—Martyrs
"9 When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained;
10 and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
11 And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.
The Sixth Seal—Terror
12 I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;
13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.
14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;
16 and they *said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
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