Well, I'm glad you had the experience Pera, and maybe you will be called on again to serve our Lord and His purposes. So proud you had the last loving words, so to speak.
Orlando, I very much appreciated hearing your story as well.
And jER, I've collected over 130 verses supporting the theme 'God will save all'... and now thanks to you... I got about 20 more from your earlier post!!
Pera, I know you know, but I'm going to show A FEW verses from God's Word, NOTE THAT
Ray has nothing to do with it, besides Isaiah 45: 7 that
INSIST evil is created/caused by God. Maybe it will help someone somewhere sometime....
Lam 3: 38
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not EVIL and good?
Eccl 1: 13
an experience of EVIL has God given to the sons of man to humble him thereby. [Concordant Old Testament]
2Sam 12: 11a Thus
saith the Lord, Behold,
I will raise up EVIL against thee out of thine own house,
Jer 4: 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for
I [the Lord] will bring EVIL from the north, and a great destruction.
Jer 18: 11a Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus
saith the Lord; Behold,
I frame EVIL against you,
Josh 23: 15a Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you;
so shall the Lord bring upon you all EVIL things,
Job 2: 10 a But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What?
shall we receive good at the hand of God,
and shall we not receive EVIL?
Amos 3: 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be EVIL in a city,
and the Lord hath not done it?
Jer 26: 3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that
I [the Lord] may repent me of the EVIL,
which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
Jer 6: 19a Hear, O earth: behold,
I [the Lord] will bring EVIL upon this people,
Judges 9: 23a Then
God sent an EVIL spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem;
2Kings 6: 33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold,
this EVIL is of the Lord; what should I wait for the Lord any longer?
Job 26: 13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens;
his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Jer 19: 3b Thus
saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will bring EVIL upon this place,
Those are just some of the shorter verses on this subject for the benefit of ALL.
Well, Bro... onward we go, AE?
AE!!!!! Spiritual kiss 2 U! You add 2 my joy!
I love our Lord, and I thank God 4 U Pera!
Janice