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| The Whore of Babylon, by Albrecht Durer |
Tomorrow morning at Redeemer I will preach out of Revelation 19:11-21. I'll talk about the final eradication of evil, and emphasize:
- What "evil" is (I will define "evil")
- Why evil, given a correct understanding of, must be eliminated
- What John sees when "heaven is opened"
- What an "open heaven" means, and why we might expect it (even tomorrow morning)
I will share what "evil" is not, for the sake of clearing away some big-time misconceptions that lead to theological weirdness.
Evil is not some bodiless force that somehow gets into
people and corrupts them, like lead in water gets into a person and makes them
sick.
Or
like a poison gas. Or like tear gas.
“Good” is not some invisible force,
either.
“Love” is not some invisible force – like
“love is in the air.”
The "Star Wars" idea, fun though it is, is philosophically ignorant. There's not a "dark side" nor a good "Force" that somehow gets into people, bringing either corruption or flourishing.
Much more tomorrow morning...
