All Things in Context
The Holy Scriptures are purposely intra-harmonious (which in itself, is miraculous). With that, the Scriptures interpret themselves.
That is why pulling a text out and away from the rest of the Scriptures - and ignoring or dismissing how other Scriptures would bear-on and temper the meaning of a lone, chosen Scripture - is often a mistake.
To try to seal-off, at the closing of this tour, all of the God-defiant and rebellious, antichrist, pro-atheism, pro-violation of God's laws, pro-UN idolatry, Jehovah-offending, Christ-offending, TRUE worshiper-offending, spiritually harmful and destructive work done unto the masses - by tossing out the likes of, "There is no fear in love, but perfect love throws fear outside..."- doesn't work. It does not cover for or make up for any of the spiritual falsehoods and misguidance that were internationally, mass media taught and exemplified.
God had a whole lot more intentionally recorded for mankind regarding FEAR than 1John 4:17,18. For instance, there is this - which in itself should have prohibited, by conscience, every one of those mass-media-ed, anti-God "Raised by Wolves" performances:
"The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard is: FEAR THE [TRUE] GOD and KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE OBLIGATION OF MAN. For the [true] God himself will bring every sort of work into the judgment in relation to every hidden thing, as to whether it is good or bad." (Ecclesiastes 12:13,14)
Vital Scriptural Truth is No Secret/ "COEXIST" is NOT of God
Ode to the LIE that People Have the Power
I think it was the eighties
I was with my babies,
And a man knocked on my door
quite urgently.
He was no Jehovah's Witness,
[Like me]
But a person in distress,
With a newspaper-like roll
Under his sleeve.
"You've got to help this!
We've got to save us!
Your donation's wanted now,
You must act, please!
Because our leaders
And congressional seaters
Are working Satanism
Against you and me!"
I tried calming him with Scriptures,
But he wouldn't listen.
His agenda was pre-set,
Focused on men.
He thought people had the power
To oust the Devil -
But his control is over
the whole world system.
I offered God's solution -
That HE had the power,
and not only that,
but it's His promised plan -
To rid the world of Satan
and his henchmen
They won't get past His Day
Of Armageddon.
After that, man's kingdoms
will all be gone
With only one Ruler
Over the globe.
God's own Son will be
Earth's perfect King then,
And make it back into
a peaceful home.
Sadly, that man
Didn't want to hear truth then,
That the CURE would take
Power greater than man's.
But we must "arm" ourselves
with GOD'S WORDS, and obey them,
Stand-up for and share them
To fight Satan.
So, no, mister, no
Man alone can't fix this -
But I wish you'd listen
To the ONE who CAN.
Maybe then you'd find peace
Working WITH God,
Learn His truth,
And help others to understand.
People have the power?
What have they done?!?!?
I'll put my trust and hope
in God,
to fix what's wrong.
In the meantime,
How about A DIFFERENT SONG,
Like, PEOPLE GET RIGHT WITH JAH,
'Cause it won't be long.
AND YOU JUST HAD TO PERFORM YOUR MASS ACT OF WORSHIP TO SATAN, SLANDERING JEHOVAH and HIS TRUTH - TRUE BELIEF IN HIM and HIS WORDS, AGAIN
That's not a musical performance of any good worth.
Instead, it is a pile of sonic excrement -
Deathful and destructive spiritual LIES, SLANDER, and CORRUPTION
Sculpted into the shape of a UN idol.
THE WORST THINGS IN THE WORLD ARE "JUSTIFIED"
BY THE VERY KINDS OF LIES AGAINST JEHOVAH/YAHWEH
(and Jesus Christ)
and HIS OWN SCRIPTURAL TRUTH
THAT YOU - and others doing the same - SPREAD (you, even by way of musical [and so attached] mega-mass-media, to the world).
THAT IS 100% PART OF THE PROBLEM,
NOT THE SOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO COMFORT FROM GOD COMES TO PEOPLE WILLFULLY VIOLATING HIM (and so hurting - NOT helping - one's fellow man, in the way that matters MOST, which is SPIRITUALLY)!!
[Important] Suggestions - If Anyone Really Cares at All
So long as it seems you all are planning to hold your Paris concerts (despite that it sure seems risky to many people), a few thoughts - which you can ignore, as usual; or perhaps heed, so as to not to hurt and damage the true scriptural hope that grieving and distressed people need:
1.) Don't do your usual God-blaming/God-slandering, belief-in-God-slamming/discouraging, tour-featured "Raised by Wolves" number. Again, in NO WAY was Jehovah/Yahweh - or His scriptural truth or BELIEF in that TRUTH - to blame for the death and violence enacted by WICKED HUMAN BEINGS who REFUSED to OBEY God's scriptural truth (TRUE BELIEFS).
Again and again, God has repeated His orders to mankind to NOT kill. So, when people evilly violate God, DEFY his commands, and murder their fellow human being(s), BLAME THEM (and blame Satan, for how he urges humans, through spiritual lies, etc., to rebel against God). Neither the Creator, nor his Son, nor God's scriptural words, nor having belief in them deserve to be mass-media maligned, blamed, and shown hate because some human beings chose to satanically kill others.
2.) In fact, as you have gone through your usual performances of raised by wolves, YOU ENCOURAGED STRONGER AND FURTHER GOD-REBELLION - YOU WERE "RAISING" more WOLVES.
THE WORST THINGS IN THE WORLD ARE "JUSTIFIED" BY ANTI-WHOLE-SCRIPTURAL SPIRITUAL LIES AND GOD REBELLION (Satanism - with all of its various fronts).
ALL of the recent tragedies of violence have been caused by people
VIOLATING AND DEFYING TRUE, SCRIPTURAL BELIEFS.
IF ONLY THE CRIMINALS/TERRORISTS HAD LISTENED TO AND OBEYED THEIR MAKER'S OWN SCRIPTURAL WORDS - IF ONLY THEY FOLLOWED THOSE TRUE BELIEFS - THOSE HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE TRAGEDIES *WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED!!!!!!!*
So, STOP DECRYING ALL "BELIEFS" by intentionally FAILING TO DIFFERENTIATE TRUE, LIFE-HELPING/LIFE-SAVING BELIEF IN GOD'S OWN SCRIPTURAL INSTRUCTION FOR MANKIND - AS OPPOSED TO - the spiritistic, destructive, killing, injustice-breeding, life-ruining, anti-God, antichrist, anti-conscience, evil-promoting, and mind-messing SPIRITUALLY FALSE BELIEFS based on the LIES of demons and Satanic propaganda (which encourages acts of wickedness in rebellion against God).
3.) LET PEOPLE BE COMFORTED by any TRUE SCRIPTURAL BELIEFS that they DO have, have heard of, are learning, and/or ARE HONEST-HEARTEDLY searching for - DON'T DISTURB THEM OVER THIS, or TRY TO DISCOURAGE/ ROB THEM of that SOURCE OF HEALING and ONLY TRUE HOPE FOR THEM by again cutting-down BELIEF in God (and so also what His words teach) in general.
People need the TRUTH from Jehovah, including the resurrection hope He offers - for them to be able to see their dead loved ones again. People also NEED to KNOW the scriptural TRUTH that God will soon be bringing these terrible times of wickedness, violence, wars, hunger, sickness, pain, misery, homelessness, poverty, crime, injustice, etc, TO AN END - by HIS OWN DIVINE OVERHAULING of this whole wicked world system (which is currently under the Devil's manipulative control). HE will replace the current world system with HIS OWN heaven-based Kingdom government for earth, and His Son will be ruling over all mankind, as the King of that government.
With God's limitless power, plus His Love, Justice, Wisdom and more, HE will be TRULY ENDING, (permanently, for everyone on the planet) the aforesaid kinds of problems now plaguing mankind and marring daily life for everyone. His Scriptures PROMISE that He will do so; His own name, Jehovah/Yahweh, or, "He Causes to Become", promises that He will carry that out.
PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE this POWER,
Only the Creator of mankind, heaven, and earth does.
(And atheistic "science" offers NOTHING of any lasting value, true hope, or comfort to mankind. In fact, it heartlessly attempts to destroy true hope, hope which can fortify people; and it also has the effect of eroding or defunctionalizing person's consciences - which can lead them to be open to doing INHUMANE, heartless, and atrocious acts against their fellow men. I.e., NO, people are NOT mere animals, whose main engagement in living should be survival as the "fittest". The ghastliness of that most dishonest and Creator-defiant and ingrateful way of thinking is too much to even dwell on - it's just grotesque, perverse, love-lacking, and wrong - and breeds evil. Romans 1:18-32.)
There is just no substitute for scriptural truth - belief in that - for comfort, hope, and healing wounds of the heart and mind. So please don't run it all down again. Whole-scriptural, spiritually TRUE beliefs are what people NEED. Atheism doesn't help, and FALSE [anti-whole-scriptural] religion doesn't help; but TRUE beliefs DO.
And quit promoting that all the world be Sodom and Gomorrah. Also, quit trying to persuade the masses to transfer their BELIEFS and their spiritual drive into supporting an idolized institution of man and a counterfeit "kingdom of god" instead of the Universal Sovereign Jehovah the Creator, His King-Son Jesus Christ, and the TRUE, perfect, rightful, heaven-based, scripturally-described Kingdom of God as being mankind's hope for the future. Rebellion against God begets more rebellion against God - and that's NOT what the world needs more of now, is it.
Everyone needs truth and reconciliation (to God). That brings comfort, and that brings peace.