Joel 201: What Are We To Overcome? If there’s Predestination, How much evil does God have?

We get an update on our pastor’s medical condition. He’s hanging in there.

Our pastor is gathering more information and so he reviews where we are. The hedge and the kiss of Satan are connected, but that means Judas is involved, therefore the sop and the cup are involved. And we get a scripture equation leading to Job 1:6 and Psalms 10:1. It’s the question of evil. Why does God stand back and allow all this evil. Why is He hiding in times of trouble? If predestination is real then why would He remain hidden? Why would He hide from His initiative? God is not hiding from Satan. Christ is not hiding from Satan. God hides for a reason... and it’s not predestination. Satan accuses God of predestination by claiming God put a hedge around job. But there is no predestination because we are not machines.

Gary asks a good question that should interest us. And we’re back to “Whenever there’s time and motion there is free will.” The first Adam renames the animals and the Last Adam will give all of us a white stone and new names... to Those who Overcome. What have we learned here? What did they Overcome? How do people Overcome if they were predestined. What are we to Overcome? The lies of Satan... and the lies these churches today have chosen to believe. And they hold on to predestination... and they do so willingly, lol.

Jeremiah 19:4-5 tells us that we are not predestined. Because if we are predestined this passage cannot be true. He did not predestine this evil, so how much evil do you have to remove from your doctrine if you believe God causes evil? And you have to deal with 1 John 1:3-5.

The sermon’s almost done but there’s a lot more to discuss. Thanks for listening.

Notice: This is a very in-depth and fascinating study of Joel, Daniel, Revelation, Ecclesiastes, Job, and Genesis, by our pastor Stephen A. Chronister. You’re watching Lecture Number 201 in this series. Current and past lectures can be found at www.cliffside.org in the Media page, and Podcasts are available on iTunes, https://cliffside.podbean.com/, iHeart.com, and

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Scriptures: Job 1:6, Psalms 10:1, Jeremiah 19:4-5, 1 John 1:3-5, Mark 10:17, Matthew 8:28-34