Someone here just pointed out to me recently, how can you fully understand love, if you do not fully understand hate? I do not hate my enemies any more than I hate the bears in the woods. Neither do I have any intention of allowing the bears into my home so they can eat the children. It is now a time of great evil stalking the land, yet our culture has encountered this very same evil before, and survived it. Some of our old ways are time tested and proven, and our current times are serving only to reinforce the value of those lessons. Previously we would look around and say, oh maybe we don't need to pay attention to those old ways, but now we look around and say, oh maybe we really really do need to do exactly that. There are some of us who spend our whole lives rather distant from God, then we come back much later on towards the end, laughing, and say, "Yup, you were right all along." For me, I learned the lesson, but I also insisted that I see it for myself first hand, with my own eyes, and not just because someone told me it was this way. I was given an entire lifetime to do just that. Now I am 100% convinced beyond any doubt, for I have seen it, and it is true. I have never been stronger than I am now.