There are traps all over the place.
“A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself;
The simple pass on and are punished.”
Proverbs 27:12 NKJV
Deliberating
Warning
Vulture In Flight
They’re not as scary up there, but they are “eyeing” the dead and the dying.
“that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
2 Thessalonians 2:12 NKJV
An Uphill Battle
Need more patience to endure an uphill battle.
“But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.”
Luke 8:15 NKJV
Subtle Subversion
Though the sun means energy, to say “God is energy” is foreign to Scripture.
Scripture talks about God’s “power and great glory“.
“There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.”
Revelation 22:5 NKJV
Palliative “Peace”
The only peace I can “imagine” is not the one John Lennon sang about,
but the one Jesus Christ offers.
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
John 14:27 NKJV
Related read: That Dreaded Place
Blossom In The Truth
You can’t blossom in the faith if you hold on to falsehood.
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.”
1 John 4:1-3 NKJV
What Awaits
“Happy Hour” will end at the appointed time.
“The Lord is known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.”
Psalm 9:16 NKJV
Extinction
It takes divine intervention to counter a plot for genocide.
“And in every province where the king’s command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.”
Esther 4:3 NKJV
The Lowly
“All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.“
John 16:1-3 NIV
Icicle
“Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.”
Mark 13:13 NIV