How can we help our kids navigate a chaotic and unstable world? How much should we share with them? Here are my thoughts about preparing our children for tribulation and persecution.

It was at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
Genesis 8:6 TLV

The word for window here is khalon and not arubah as in v2. It is still interesting that the windows of the ark are opened as the windows of heaven are closed. This points to the way in which God shelters his people from the full force of his wrath. It rains down around them, but they are hidden by their obedience to his instructions.

This is from November, 2022.
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Don't presume that God won't judge you because you haven't experienced his wrath yet. His kindness, forbearance, and patience are meant to lead you to repentance. Romans 2:4

That God's forgiveness is for a purpose implies that if your refuse to use it for that purpose, he will revoke the offer, as he did with Pharaoh.

Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
Romans 2:3 ESV

If you treat God spitefully by preaching obedience and practicing disobedience, how much more will God judge you than the unrepentant sinner?

Some people loudly condemn their own sins in others because they believe it will make them seem innocent or at least signal the right virtue to God and man so they might avoid judgment, but God doesn't care nearly so much about your words as he does about your actions.

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Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Romans 2:1 ESV

This doesn't prohibit pointing out that something is sin. It's about being humble and recognizing that you are accountable to the same standards as everyone else and about not denigrating someone else because they are a sinner for doing the very same thing that you do. We are required to make a distinction between right and wrong and to teach others to do what's right. Just be sure that you are doing so in humility and gentleness, with the full understanding that you are guilty of sin too.

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"If a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; the owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead shall be his."

Ex 21

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