Those who place their trust in what they can see and touch as well as physical miracles will be fooled by the antichrist.
When we must see an unusual miracle to have faith we have little faith. Those who have strong faith have no need to see anything, they believe anyway and trust Christ anyway.
There are miracles all around that many miss because they are looking for something unusual. Take the tiny seed of the great fir tree, that falls in the ground and grows to a tree 300 feet tall merely from feeding off the nutrients of the ground. This is a miracle because God made that seed and that tree. I have seen these tall trees and it is amazing to enjoy.
The forming of a baby in the womb having been joined seed to seed so tiny only a sophisticated microscope can see it. Within 5 weeks the heart is beating and the baby grows for the next nine months into a baby that lives in that water until God brings it forth in His timing.
These things are miracles that many people miss because they are accustomed to them from a small child.
God holds the planets together with His hands, the scientists cannot pinpoint what is holding them together because it is a miracle of God.
Romans 10:17 "Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ"
God never said faith comes by seeing!
Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."
Those who must see with their eyes to have strong faith have a weak faith. Those who read the Word of God and believe Him will obey His word as He gave it because they have no need to add human wisdom to what He said to have a sense of proof.
When we love Christ and have great faith we will believe His Word and obey His Word even if we never see profit for ourselves or even if we do not understand it all. We will be able to die to defend it as well as lose everyone around us to follow Christ.
John 20:28-29 "…28 Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Those who have a weak faith will need to see unusual miracles and will need to have proof of God's principles as "working for them." Those with great faith may see nothing but hardship and trials but will still believe and obey God even when they are treated disrespectfully for their faith in God's Word.
If we cannot follow the Bible as God gave it and must have the approval of men to maintain that faith then that faith is not faith at all but compliance to men and their traditions.
We live in an apostate age now when many scriptures are taken out of context to make them say what men like to hear. Those who point this out in discussion will be treated with contempt and ignored.
2 Timothy 4:3
"3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;"
Many principles and commands of God have been distorted and the new ideas fabricated to justify saying what God did not say, even lying against His Word with claims that He said things He never said.
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
"But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them."
Luke 21:15-17 "15 For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death. 17 And you will be hated by everyone because of My name."
Matthew 10:21
"Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death."
In our country those who hate us do not put us to physical death, but they wish they could and will attempt to turn others against us, a form of emotional and spiritual death through passive aggressiveness. They exclude, ignore, gossip, and demean hoping to create an emotional wreckage in us but they will not be able to do it because Christ in us makes us strong.
When we know this is happening now we can take great comfort in the fact that it has nothing to do with hatred toward us, but that it is hatred toward God Who lives in us. They think they are hurting us but they are harming themselves as they grow more bitter, angry, and in spiritual turmoil every day.
Those who hate us think they are targeting us but they are coming against God Who lives in us, when we remember this we can see them with pity, pray for their salvation, and avoid them allowing God to work on them His way in His timing. It is vital to remember we are not responsible for making others understand or somehow force them to hear us, this is the job of the Holy Spirit.
We cannot change the heart of anyone nor can we get them to understand the things of God, it is something God has to do His way and in His timing.
The best thing we must do is be the person God is making us and feed on His Word every day.
There is great joy and comfort in knowing that we are only responsible for ourselves and obeying God as the Holy Spirit leads.
Micah 6:8 Our responsibility is "to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.".
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