if you know how to read it.

Right there is part of the problem - The implicit assumption that there's something wrong with someone or that someone's not "special" enough to understand God's promise. We are all His children and don't need our relationship with Him dictated by whether or not we "know how to read it." Humans who loved God lived for hundreds of years before they had any access to written material - to think their relationship with God was somehow sullied because of that says nothing about God and everything about humans.

I don't trust a book written by humans to determine my relationship with God my Father. Maybe it will play out as written - or maybe that book is playing us. All I know is that things will work out as God intends and that I don't believe for one second that we're just supposed to let this evil run rampant because that's the plan written in a book written by fallible humans.

And I know you and others will come back at me, criticizing and shaming me for not blindly believing a book assembled by the ancestors of the very people who have enslaved us for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. I love God and I love Jesus, but I'm seriously beginning to think that many Christians are using this as a reason to do nothing. I also think it's interesting that so many of the people proselytizing are the last people who would inconvenience themselves to show God's love to others.

EDIT: I believe the Bible is historically important, does tell us about God and Jesus Christ and parallels much of what we;re seeing today. I simply don't trust a book assembled by humans that encourages people to do nothing because this is all prophesied and nothing can be done to change it. If that's the case, let's all pack up anf go home because nothing we;re doing will make a bit of difference.