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There was a progress but it is in both side ways. Progress in the good way and progress in the bad way.
Let read the book of Daniel 12: 9,10
9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10 (A)Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, (B)but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but (C)the wise shall understand.
The time of the end is near just has it been said In the Bible the book of Daniel and we are at the end of time. That wat the Bible me call the time of the end it our time.
Let see the book of Daniel 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Knowledge about everything would be in grace all knowledge we have experienced. Bro ell said out of all the decades he has spent in this life that this decade is the most advanced we have our cell phone and other device and we have also progress in the past 50 years both in religion and technology.
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