The MOST Holy One of Israel, JAHVEH, shows mercy to whomever HE wishes to show it, dear 'Keet (peace to you!)... and my Lord said that HE judged no man (folks judge themselves, actually)... so who am I to judge them? I am curious, though, given my Lord's words to those who DO such things... and these men do do them, as well as lead others to do them... what their plan is. Seriously.
I'm thinkin' the plan is "There is no God and is it our fault these people are suckers? They love it, so we give it to them...", per Jeremiah 5:26-32; 6:13-15 (from the NWT, 'cause that's the Bible they use and how it's stated there is uncannily appropriate, so. Actually, here, let me show you:
“‘For among my people there have been found wicked men. They keep peering, as when birdcatchers crouch down. They have set a ruinous[trap]. It is men that they catch. As a cage is full of flying creatures, so their houses are full of deception. That is why they have become greatand they gain riches. They have grown fat; they have become shiny. They have also overflowed with bad things. No legal case have theypleaded, even the legal case of the fatherless boy, that they may gain success; and the judgment of the poor ones they have not taken up.’”
“Should I not hold an accounting because of these very things,” is the utterance of JaHVeH, “or on a nation that is like this should not my soul avenge itself? An astonishing situation, even a horrible thing, has been brought to be in the land: T he prophets themselves actually prophesy in falsehood; and as for the priests,they go subduing according to their powers. And my own people have loved [it] that way; and what will ? YOU ? men do in the finale of it?”
“For from the least one of them even to the greatest one of them, every one is making for himself unjust gain; and from the prophet even tothe priest, each one is acting falsely . Andthey try to heal the breakdown of my people lightly, saying, ‘There is peace! There is peace!’ when there is no peace. Did they feel shame because it was something detestable that they had done? For one thing, they positively do not feel any shame; for another thing, they have not come to know even how to feel humiliated. Therefore they will fall among those who are falling;in the time that I must hold an accounting with them they will stumble,” JaHVeH has said."
Which is, of course, why the admonishment to... "GET OUT OF HER, MY people!" So I hope every "prophet and priest" in her who come HERE will HEAR... and get the sense of this).
They don't believe there is a God, dear one (as some here who still "serve" in her, although not all... openly admit). Or if they believe there is, they don't believe He sees them.
I just want to hear them say it.
Again, peace to you!
A doulos of Christ,
SA