They don't understand.

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Oh... I get that.  I didn't understand, once, at once, and more.

We all want to be right.  And, should we live in grace, we can live well... or even not such as me but... yet... live well even in our limits.  We may even live so well we may wish to require others to live rightly.  It... seems reasonable.  It... isn't.  Until He kills the mercy, mercy is required.

Mercy, patients, and other things.  Beyond us?  Such is living in a world of sin, especially if we reject this world.  Then again, if we reject this world as even Christ did, this is not his kingdom.  If it were?  If it were, there are none who could have kept His people from stopping His crucifixion.  He said it Himself.

There will come a time, when He ends the potential for that grace... mercy.  At which time, and probably leading up to it, mercy will be, and be being, withdrawn.  I remember these times.  They are not here yet.  They will come.  And... they will not be good times.

The horsemen aren't to punish, but to buy time to save as many as possible.  I don't even think many understand that.  Even in what they do, I am certain I heard God say that death was not preferred.  Even then.  So I heard.  Believe as you wish.  That is one of very few things I have actually heard from God... if... I, or my hearing, are to be believed.  I... believe.  I fear, and fear not to believe.

That doesn't mean we should allow genocide against our people.  Or your people.  God allows resistance, up to death, to save one's life, friends, and family... civilization.  Just because some evil among us have allowed abortion, and some practice it, does not damn the lot of us, either.

It is uncomfortable, these shoes we must wear to travel this weary world of sin.  But we really do not have the right to judge or damn.  We can, if we have a right government and faith, have the ability to use these things in order to choose if some are worthy of death.  The state and church have always been the two forces with such power, as well as individuals in self-defense matters.  

But... that requires legitimacy and a real aim to justice.  Not social justice, not immoral justice, not equality of outcome.  Not even, I tell you, equality of opportunity.  That... just doesn't, and shouldn't, exist.  That gives the government far too much power, as we are seeing.  And their abuse of it is horrendous.

No.  We are in dark times.  But, to be honest, I am not worried.  Even if I were martyred, I'd be good with it.  I would attempt to avoid it, and would resist as possible.  I will fight for social security benefits, and what else I have a legitimate claim upon.  I will also fight for my life.  But I can't... necessarily... win.  Justice isn't here, especially now, or yet.

Don't worry.  Pray.  Kneel, but only to God.  Do what you must, but within what is right and righteous.  And... don't worry.  If you have no part in the death of mercy, be happy.  If you are martyred before?  Be glad.  Though, if you can avoid that, do so.  Amen.