Of Dogs and Parked Cars

Unaware that we live in a universe at war, atheists make no connection between those on the side of God and the attacks / temptations which those people must endure.

Both the Old and Newer Testament are to a large extent documents detailing that war. They describe the relentless push of good against which even the gates of hell will not prevail. The battle is not against original sin but for original glory. 

The battle has been won. satan, evil, those on the side of evil and those who remain in belligerent opposition to their Creator are on the verge of being banished from God's Kingdom. All that's left is giving one last opportunity for God's enemies to surrender. Interestingly, this opportunity for God's enemies to come to salvation, to find and receive life, will come at the cost of multitudes of lives of God's people. (See Revelation 6:10,11). 

The birth of Jesus was in fact an invasion deep into enemy territory. Demons, sickness, death, violence, abuse, hypocrisy, war involving Israel and the Church - these are not peripheral to the world. 

In point of fact, the world is peripheral to the war against Israel and the Church. 

Every attempt to push back poverty and sickness, every move to end war within the home or between nations is a battle against evil and a move toward the kind of world that we all desire. 

satan has come to steal, kill and destroy. Those on the outside know nothing of temptation. In fact they experience so little temptation that they think they’re good people.

Just as dogs don’t bark at parked cars, satan has no need to disturb the comfortable delusion of goodness to which atheists cling.