Parable of the Wheat and the Tares -- How is Wickedness increasing?
We know from the parable of the wheat and the tares that wickedness is increasing in the world. This has also been confirmed by many prophets and apostles. But what exactly does that mean? How is the world becoming more wicked? There are two ways that this is happening: 1) Wickedness is becoming more widespread among the people, and 2) Wickedness is increasing in depravity, in how many people are being harmed or killed, in the lies that are told, and in how much money is being stolen. The most wicked are in secret combinations and as they seek to take over the world, everyone will be forced to join them or fight against them. That, of course, brings the battle between the righteous and the wicked to a point. God's kingdom on earth, will not bow to the kingdom of the devil on the earth -- meaning that the Lord's church will not bow to the wicked. The secret combinations will surely try to make them bow down to them. This brings into sharp f...