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BIT & COIN: Merging Digitality and Physicality
What are we really dealing with now? In the words of RDN @rdnxyz, it is not a technological problem, a cultural problem, a mental problem, an economic problem, or a political problem. “We are in the midst of a Religious conflict.”
I agree, except that I would call it “Spiritual conflict” rather than “Religious conflict”.
Everything is ultimately spiritual. The visible (physical) is temporal, but the invisible (spiritual) is eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).
Man is created as a unique interface between the physical and the spiritual. This unique role is of central importance to God’s plan for the entire creation. The enemy of God has thus made it a point that man must fail to fulfill the designed purpose of his very existence.
However, in time (in contrast with eternity), there is the battle in the heavenlies (Revelation 12:1-12), and there is also the transitory battle on earth (Revelation 12:13-17).
In the latter,
“the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.”
(Revelation 12:16)
This did the earth, to protect the children of the woman.
The earth, as a system of order, although corrupt beyond repair (and therefore eventually must be replaced by a new one), protects the part of humanity that God wants to be protected.
Although the earth’s protection is only temporary, it is indispensable.
As far as our lives are concerned, we are the children who need protection. As far as our services are concerned, we need to ensure that the earthly system is in order.
For this reason, we not only pray the heavens upward but also till the earth downward.
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