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The Only Way to Defeat the nwo
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We human+Beings have a very long and consistent history of listening to Satan's seductive lying voice, then believing it, giving in to temptation, and doing our own will (Satan's really) instead of God's; you only need to read the stories of Adam & Eve, Cain & Able, Noah vs. the rest of the world; and Abraham vs. the people of Sodom & Gomorrah for proof of that. Given our Free-will, God allows Satan to tempt us as much as he wants (Job 1:6-12, 2:1-10), which provides God with countless opportunities to know which voice we prefer to listen to: either God (through the Holy Spirit) or Satan (through the selfish human nature); and whether we choose to do good or evil.
Also, human memories are short, and humans tend to get complacent when everything is going great. They are more likely to relax their standards and over time forget the very foundations and principles they followed that brought them to that "everything is going great" situation. Complacency can breed the mind-set of wanting to try "new, foreign, exotic, etc." things - because "having it all" isn't enough for humans: the selfish, greedy, human nature always wants more. This also seems to foster a short-term or short-sighted perspective. Perhaps, especially to the young adults, life in the city appeared more exciting than "just watching the grass grow". The easily accessible shops with their availability, amounts, and varieties of: foods, clothing, goods, idols, entertainment, and "modern conveniences" of those times, could have been very dazzling and seductive. They probably started out just working in the cities and commuting from their farms, maybe believing the jobs would only be temporary, but then actually sold the farms and bought houses in the cities to be closer to their jobs, after it appeared the "employment" was permanent, thereby losing their independent ability to feed and clothe themselves.
Whatever the specific "carrots on the sticks" were, the Israelites were lured into leaving the land to initially work in the Egyptian government/market system as "employees". Because they had volunteered into joining the Egyptian economic system, and were receiving "benefits" from it, they were then bound by Egyptian law and required to pay the 20% "increase tax" previously established for the Egyptians by Joseph (Gen. 47:23-26). After a couple of generations of living in the cities/flesh-pots of Egypt, the Israelites lost their knowledge and experience of agriculture and would have found it difficult to return to that simpler more healthy way of life. Once they became dependent on their Egyptian government jobs, the Israelites became economic slaves, and then later turned into out-and-out slaves.
much more here..
[link to jahtruth.net]
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