people cannot begin to fathom God.His attributes and character never conflicts.but He is Jehovah.In Gen 18 He was coming down to check out Sodom.



YES God through Providence and the intercessions of His people saved the World in 1945.MANY saints in Britain fasted and prayed for Germany to be beaten.
the Russians beat the brakes of the Krauts.as did our troops and the Allies.
Justaned wrote:Now that I think about it Hitler is a perfect example of what I think is divine intervention hindered Hitler.
Hitler unexplicitably divided his forces by opening two major fronts.
Hitler so enraged with Russia basically made his troops cannon fodder.
Hitler joined with Japan declaring war with the US.
Germany mistakenly bombed civilian targets in England thus launching the civilian bombing raids of WW2
Experts basically agree had Hitler not done some of these things Europe and quite possibly all the world woud now be speaking German. That is very subjective. Be that as it may I can see God's hand in each, very similar to how God dealt with various unrigtheous kingdoms and kings in the Old Testament.
As a restrainer the church really isn't up to the task, restraint of the Antichrist has to be on a spiritual level. Now I can believe the prayers of the saints may strengthen or encourage that restrainer but to actually be a restraint no.
It takes spiritual deception to restrain, delusion and often times mental instability all of which a spiritual being would be required.
Take America from it founding to about the late 60's the church was the moral compass. But that compass began to break down in the 1900's with the rise of prosperity in the nation. We had mobs, prohibition, rum runners, then free love, open marriages, rise of homosexuality, same sex marriage, drug abuse, prostitution, elict sex, pedophila, sex slave trade, drive by shootings, criminals using young kids to kill because they get lighter sentences, school shootings, steep rise in divorce, turn key kids, corruption in the church, the church and Christianity iself the blunt of many jokes on TV and Movies, pornography, nudity and cursing in our movies and on TV and Radio.
The church is no longer the even the strong moral compass it once was.
The church is not the restrainer, it is my belief the only thing that could restrain Satan from loosing his Antichrist upon the world is a spiritual being opposing Satan in the heavenlies. I believe it is the same type of force that caused Hitler to make so many obvious mistakes.