I have been and still are very concerned about terrorist attacks during the Olympics. Floating the Olympians down the river is a very stupid idea. The 2024 Paris Olympic opening ceremony is the most ambitious yet. Now this. Israel is warning of a potential attack on theirs athletes! Israeli officials have issued warnings about heightened efforts by Iran to target Israeli athletes at the Paris Olympics, set to begin on today. Previously, Tehran had called for the expulsion of Israeli athletes from the games. This is a developing story. We will keep you posted! In the meantime, please pray for the safety of all! I am very, very concerned.
BBC News:
France’s sports minister has labelled the acts of sabotage on the country’s high-speed rail network as an attack on the “the athletes’ Games,” in an interview with French broadcaster BFMTV.
“These Games are for the athletes who have been dreaming of them for years and fighting for the holy grail of standing on the podium and someone’s sabotaging that for them,” sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra says.
She adds that the Paris 2024 Olympics “have been prepared for so carefully by hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens for almost 10 years”. More Here
Iranian hackers threaten Israeli athletes at Paris Olympics in new cyber campaign
Why so much Evil?
“So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts” Eph 4: 17, 18.
The Scriptures call the mind of the natural man “blinded” 2 Cor. 4:4, “depraved” Romans 1:28, “corrupt” 1 Tim. 6:5, and “unspiritual” Col. 2:18. The natural mind thinks from a humanistic, sin-debased viewpoint. The viewpoint of the flesh directs its thoughts. The sinful mind is under the control of Satan and can never please God because it concentrates on things of the world and not things of the Spirit. The natural mind walks the road of hopelessness and self-destruction.
The phrase “dead to the world” appears in the Bible in Galatians 6:4, which says, “I am crucified to the world”. John Piper says that this phrase means that when someone trusts in Christ, their old, unbelieving self dies. The new person is characterized by: Trusting in Christ, Enjoying the life of Christ, and Living by faith.
Bottom line: Stand firm in God’s grace as a living hope in a dying world. Peter encourages suffering Christians to stand firm in God’s grace because of the living hope of the cross and resurrection that they have received through the new birth.