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I think we all understand the evil that exists in the world. We're seeing it at a level like we have never seen in our lifetime

before in this sort of post-Christian, anti-Christian time of corruption.

We are seeing an entire society,

an entire globe catapult headlong into gross kinds of corruption and

immorality at every level and the powers that be supporting all of that and taking aim at those who are righteous in the

culture. This is exactly what Isaiah talked about in chapter five when he said bitter has replaced sweet and everything is upside down and

inside out and overturned.

The things that we always consider to be good are now considered as evil and the things

that we're evil are now good.

So we understand manifest evil in the world.

We understand there's a battle between good and evil. We as the children of God

have been made new creations and we love righteousness and we are set against a world that is bent on evil at a level that has never been seen before

because evil men get worse and worse through history, as the Bible says.

We understand what we see and what we know and what we

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