Willie Robertson

The kingdom is not pulling in.

The kingdom is going out.

And so I think that if you try to make rational sense and you try to think about, well, why would they persecute the church?

Why would they do that?

And you're trying to make a rational argument for it.

There's not really a rational argument.

It's that that's what evil does.

Evil doesn't care about human flourishing.

Evil cares about the consumption and the consolidation of power of

over somebody else and all of a sudden the world doesn't become a place to be cultivated and wealth to be cultivated it becomes a pie that you got to get your share of and that seems to be the core thread throughout all of scripture and all of humanity of how we delineate between evil and good god's kingdom and the kingdom of the world yeah and it's not just successful uh countries either because i've been to on the continent of africa enough times to see the same human nature

We've all experienced this.

I went to the Final Four last year because I'm a big Florida fan.

And Fred, my son, got one out of the five kids, he got one that likes the Gators.

So I was like, you get the reward.

I've never taken any of my kids to football games or basketball games because they're all fans.

Yeah, so, well, we went to the game, and I was so excited because we're at the Final Four.

I mean, like, we're one of, I mean, not many people can make it to that game, right?

Look at all the fans, and we're there in the stadium, and I get in my seat, and I'm up there kind of in the nosebleed section, and I got up there, and the first thing I did was I looked down at Section 106, and I thought, that's where I need to be.

I literally, I could not, like the whole time I'm just like, I got the wrong seat.

Gosh.