The Bible, Tribulation, Revelation

What confuses me about this is Daniel 9:27 where he mentions confirming a covenant for 1 week and breaking it halfway thru . I thought the week was  equal to  7 years in biblical language.  I still have a lot of research to do and know very little compared to ya'll. Thanks to each of you for making me think beyond  the print. It's so easy to be deceived  when only looking at the surface..

Unfortunately, my internet has been down for the last two days(what else is new) and I have not been able to look at the available bible aids online. I have went back and re-read the 70 week prophesy several times in the KJV and the NASB. Many times I have read the scripture and think that I know what it means, only to read it again later and find that I missed something that changed how I looked at it.

I am going to look at the scripture in various versions right now and think on it while I am in the garden this morning before I write anything here. I do think that Scarz may have a point. I had heard this before in a lecture by a 7th Day Adventist but I didn't give it any credence because it went away from the norm. I have wondered how my views, and the mainstream views, could be so different from the Adventists views on Daniel 9. Now, I am not giving much credibility to the 7th Day Adventists at all due to their many heresies, but I remember that lecture even thought it has been at least 25 years since I heard it.

In no way was I even considering that you were a 7th Dayer,Scarz, I was just mentioning where I heard this first and how it stuck in my mind even thought I considered it heresy. I have listened to many hours of teachings by 7th Day Adventists because they are excellent in their knowledge on catholicism/vatican history. They have many hersies, one being that Jesus and Michael are one and the same.

I got up late and have to go after I finish this coffee. Its hot down here now and the mornings are all of the time that I have to work in the garden and this afternoon I have to carry my wife to the grocery store but maybe after we get back I can write down what I am thinking may be the correct understanding of Daniel 9. Verse 27 is a hard one to form an answer to if you think your present understanding just might be wrong

I went to bed early last night,before it got dark, just so I could get up and write this. Its been on my mind an awful lot the last few days because its important to the timing of the rapture and other events. I have looked at many texts on this subject, used my eSword to check word meanings from Strongs and Greek and Hebrew dictionaries. This is complicated and it hinges on not only word meanings, but on the context and I have to admit that the context order is throwing me for a loop. I go to the Septuagint when there is conflict or unclear passages due to the NT being written in Greek and it almost always clarifies the scripture. This is an unusual case, though. The LXX reads differently than the KJV and while my internet was down, I spent a little time with the NASB just reading verses 24-27 over and over and it comes down to one word in the text. Now, as I write this little piece, be aware that I am probably going to ramble around because I am actually thinking out loud and I want to see my thoughts in print, right in front of me. Here is the passage in the LXX:


26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

See the word? The troubling word is "with" in verse 26. I have looked at many other versions concerning these 3 verses, but I don't trust them at all except for the Geneva Version and I find the Wycliff translation really interesting. Verse 27:

²⁷ Forsooth one week of years shall confirm the covenant to many men, and the offering and sacrifice shall fail in the midst of the week of years; and abomination of desolation shall be in the temple, and the desolation shall continue till to the performing and end. (And one week of years shall confirm the covenant to many people, and the offering and the sacrifice shall be stopped in the midst of the week of years; and the abomination that maketh desolation shall be placed in the Temple, and the desolation shall continue until the performing and the end of it.


The RSV makes it plain and is clear that the first 3 1/2 weeks deal with Christ's ministry. BUT, is that correct?:


And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

 Its obvious that there are two different people in this verse, one being Christ and after he is cut off, the desolator, or antichrist.

One more from the Orthodox Jewish Version and it may be the clearest context:

²⁶ And after threescore and two heptads, yikaret (will be cut off) Moshiach [Yeshayah 53:8], but not for himself [Yeshayah 53:4-6,8]; and the troops of the coming nagid shall destroy the Ir and the Kodesh (Beis Hamikdash, i.e., 70.C.E.); and the end thereof shall come with a flood, and unto the end there shall be war. Desolations are determined.
²⁷ And he shall confirm brit (covenant) with rabbim for one heptad; and in the midst of the heptad he shall cause the zevach and the minchah to cease, and on the kenaf (wing) of the abominations is one making desolate, even until the complete destruction, a destruction that is decreed, shall be poured out upon the Shomem (Desolator, Destroyer).


 It all boils down to who the "he" is and after making my brain hurt going over these different versions,trying to read languages that I don't understand and thrashing it around in this porous old head, I may have only confused myself. Scarz, I see your point. Since the english language is derived from Greek, it would make sense that the rules of grammar should apply similarly to each. If so, the primary subject is the Messiah, the "he" would be Him since the focus and continuation is on the "people of the prince that is to come" and then it shifts back to the singular "he." If that is the case, then your view would appear to be correct. If that is not the case, then the focus would be on the "prince" and he would be the "he" who would stop the sacrifices in a  middle of a seven year period.


 I am going to put this on hold and let it play out. I can't change my views on something that I am not sure of because there are just too many variances in the many different translations. If I stick to the LXX, then it would be possible to take your stance. I will take all of this with me for now and wait.



Scarz, just saying that you are correct for a moment, antichrist could appear at anytime, without any warning. We have heard for decades about a 3 1/2 year peace but the bible says that men will cry "peace and safety" and that there will be none and that would indicate that there is no 3 1/2 years of peace and the only place where a sacrifice could be made was on the altar inside of the temple. This is all evidence in your views favor.


 I have no answer. I am just not proficient enough to sort it all out because of the variances in translations, but I damn sure ain't disregarding your views mainly because it makes sense. I found this to be one of the more interesting subjects in a long time, so thanks for that. I am going to focus on this for a while when Listening to teachings and lectures and just see what shakes out of the tree. Got to go now.

I went back to my 6th grade English class where we learned about sentence structure and how to diagram sentences and used that on Daniel 9. I can almost quote word for word the various bible versions of verses 24-27 but I just finished the breaking down the NASB reading, and there is no denying that it appears to say that the first 3 1/2 years of the last week of Daniels 70 weeks has passed and that we are in the middle of the week. By removing the verses and just reading it like a book, it seems to me that the subject remains on the Messiah and that he is the one  that shall confirm the covenant, not antichrist. The Septuagint does seem to say the same. Very good work, Scarz. Looks like I am going to have to revise a bit of my prophesy foundation. I am not finished checking, and I want to hear some really smart people lecture on this, but my question is, "how could so many have gotten this so wrong?"

The LORD God doesn't only use Believers and Followers to fulfill his will. 
 
Isaiah uses the term mashiach or messiah (anointed) for Cyrus, who is revealed as God's "anointed" in Isaiah 45:1.

Thus says the LORD to Cyrus His anointed,
Whom I have taken by the right hand,
To subdue nations before him
And to loose the loins of kings;
To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

Through King Cyrus II of Persia a pagan king The LORD God uses Cyrus to fulfill his will. God can use who he chooses to steer things in a desired direction. As scripture points out........"My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord" {Isa. 55:8}.

God delivered His people from their physical exile, sending them home through King Cyrus.

I think the US looks more and more like Babylon every day.  The old values are melting away .

bordercollie wrote:

I think the US looks more and more like Babylon every day.  The old values are melting away .

 
The USA is no doubt a big piece of the pie. Babylon The Great is a corrupt world system that has infiltrated the world. Think of Babylon in these end times as "Egypt of The OT", that now all of God's people, both Jew and Gentile, are to come out of. Moses lead The OT Exodus, while Jesus Christ is leading the NT Exodus. Both the Old Exodus and the New Exodus have one goal "The Promised Land". When "ALL" is finally fulfilled it leads to the promised land of "The New Jerusalem".

We all live in this world but we are not to be "OF THE WORLD", we are not to "LOVE THE WORLD, we are not to "LOVE THE THINGS OF THE WORLD".

1 John 2:15........"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."

John 15:19........"If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."

If anybody (Male or Female) "Loves The World" they love all the things that Babylon offers. 

Hey ya'll, I have been a little busy as of late, not to mention old. I have been so tired when I went to bed that I could not get up in time to write anything worth reading, not that I ever do that anyway. Heat,weeds and onions have kept me busy for the last week. Ya'll need any onions? I had my best crop in my gardening history this year. Massive size and it seems like every one that I set out made a big onion. Thats rare. They looked like clones all lined up in the rows. Now, I'm dealing with much needed rain as well as humidity and that means weeds. I don't have to work this hard but Joe Bidens America scares me. My wife and I can survive for years with our food and water supply, but most can't survive over two weeks. I'm convinced that we are about to see things collapse and the great reset take place which results into the anti-christ system, the Nimrodian Kingdom, come to power.

I see things much the same as most of you do. Kinda' like an overview, from a distance while factoring in all of the known facts to form a picture. I see the construction of a worldwide Babylon taking place, the seemingly total disdain for the individual and the formation of of a system of propaganda to rule over the collective.

At one time, I did not expect to see the return of Christ in my lifetime. I do now, even though I am about to be 68 years old, and I don't mean at my death,either. This stuff is snowballing down the hill at a speed that I really find hard to fathom. I can't believe how many seemingly intelligent folks have been deceived by the power brokers and the media into believing this ridiculous crap. They,without much doubt, are reprobates. A reprobate is a person without hope or even a realization of salvation. A child of their father the devil, insane and oblivious to the goodness of God. The Pharisees were a perfect example to this. Having a form of Godliness, but denying the power thereof. I am seeing a lot of "religion" but not any "Jesus" and Jesus seems to be a vulgarity nowadays.

I rambled around too much but I see the beat of Rev. 13 taking shape. From the sacrifice of the unborn to the worship of the sun hidden in the vatican, the pieces are being fitted together. Factor in the web of surveillance and control in the financial world and you get a scary picture forming by the fitted pieces,don'cha?

The British preacher has 3 very good, outstanding really, teachings on Rev 13. He backs up my position concerning genetics, as well as the return of the Watchers, about as well as I have heard. Things have taken on a supernatural element that is just hard for this ole redneck to grasp.

Daylight now, so I have to grab a hoe before things heat up.

michael371 wrote:

Joe Bidens America scares me. My wife and I can survive for years with our food and water supply, but most can't survive over two weeks. I'm convinced that we are about to see things collapse and the great reset take place which results into the anti-christ system, the Nimrodian Kingdom, come to power.

Every time I see Biden and listen to him, I don't believe he is really there. In my opinion he needs to step down as President. He says things and it appears to me he doesn't know what he just said. There is no way this man needs to be in or near The White House. I think we all understand others are running the show. They just prop him up for show, but it's time for the show to be canceled.

Examine all of the scripture that you posted here very closely. We know that the false church started with Nimrod with the Tower, so it is not the harlot church more than likely, but the false religion of antichrist. A harlot is a woman who uses her body for immoral purposes, and a lot of times for financial gain. So the harlot would seem to reason to be a church that once had the natural affections and then went through a change of heart. There is one that fits that to a "tee" and it has the elements that scripture describe down to the last jot and tittle.

Look at the vatican. Same colors, same philosophy of getting in bed with kings, responsible for the death of literally millions of believers (see Foxes Book of Martyrs), has installed a man who"stands in place of Christ" and is worshiped on a worldwide basis. The vatican is the only place on earth that is both a country that operates on religion. Roman catholicism has went from belief to apostasy, from Christ to anti-christ, in its history of despotism. Their desire is Jerusalem. Catholics are some of the most brainwashed people on the planet, on par with the Ishmaelites, and they can't see that their system is in direct conflict with what scripture says. The pope overruling scripture? Get that stuff outa' here! Unfortunately, its true.

Here is an interesting idea to ponder. The scripture points directly at Jerusalem as the focal point at the end, before the return of the Lord. SOOO,is it possible that there might be an unholy marriage between Israel and Rome, with an abomination of a pope appointed ( they all are abominations, but one worse than normal)? The popes are already worshiped by the catholic masses. Look at the practices of rituals and non-scriptual dogma. Absolutely looks like paganism more than Jesus to me.

A lot of stuff would have to change to have this scenario take place, but its fodder to chew on for a while.

Michael......I think you have not understood what I was trying to get across. Yes! it all had it's beginning at Babylon. It's not just about The Catholics.

In my opinion way too much of the focus on end times prophecy by teachers and preachers is on Rome and Europe. In my opinion the focus needs to turn in the direction eastward of Rome and Europe. That's where I see the picture has been in the past, and will be for the revealing of the man of sin......."Not Rome and Europe."

Mother Harlot is big mama,  she is not alone, she has produced offspring that have branched out into The World. Remember she is the mother of "Harlots". Tens of Thousands of false systems all lead back to Mother.

"BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

ScaRZ wrote:

Revelation 13:8........"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

Revelation 17:8........"The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is."

Revelation 20:15........"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."


I believe it points to all names have been written in The Book of Life........Except those written about in Revelation 13:8, 17:8 and 20:15. 

It certainly appears to me that these people during the years of The Beast that worship/serve and received The Mark of The Beast "From the foundation of the world never had their names written in The Book of Life". It seems pretty straightforward to me that the Lamb’s Book of Life has itself existed since the world was spoken into existence. 

I'll mention it again, I see no evidence that anyone's name will ever be "Added" to The Book of Life. 

I've been thinking and reading over and over all the verses that pertain to the subject of The Book of Life in the above post of mine. I need to go back and rethink the words I wrote.....That are colored Blue.

I should have never used the word never or the words all names have been written in The Book of Life........Except 

The written words of the verses of scripture not one time used the word "Never", this was just my thinking of what I thought it meant. Same thing goes with my use of the words "All names have been written in The Book of Life.......Except".

The verses could be taken as John viewing the open Book of Life and not seeing the names written there at that point in time......"Not that they were 'Never' there." This again is a prime example of how just a simple word can change the picture.

At this moment in time John was taken to........"the names could have already been blotted out (Removed)."

The question is........"When will names be blotted out/removed from The Book of Life?"..........Three things come to my mind.....At death.....The Judgement.....When someone worships the beast as well as his image and receives the mark of the beast.

I see a strong case that everyone's name was written in The Book of Life from the foundation of the world. There is no reason for names to be added, but they can be removed (blotted out). 

There is one thing that appears to me, when all is said and done "Believers" will be given a new name.

Revelation 2:17........"The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows except the one who receives it."

The rich fat cats who sit in the penthouse could care less about anyone but themselves. In their eyes we are not on their level. They see themselves as kings, while only tolerating the rest of us as lowly peasants. They desire more and more "Control".

Scarz, I knew exactly what you meant. My thoughts were on how Catholicism is the modern day version of the Mystery religion. Although its not precisely Nimrods religion, it has so many aspects of it that it might as well be. I did an extension research into catholicism and its history. Its goal is world domination and will do anything necessary to achieve that goal. Their Christ is not Jesus of Nazareth but Tammuz of the worship of the sun.

The Lambs Book of Life was written before the foundation of the earth. Revelation 13:8:
"all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain."


The names were written before the world was formed. Predestination at its finest. God "declared the end form the beginning" everything that happens was ordained by God at the time of creation. Pretty simple

michael371 wrote:

The names were written before the world was formed. Predestination at its finest. God "declared the end form the beginning" everything that happens was ordained by God at the time of creation. Pretty simple

Okay! Let me see if I totally get what you're saying........"There is no free will"........"Only the elect are saved".

If by using the word "Ordained"...... Your view is that God commanded everything to be in a precise order as he commanded, and that is how it would occur......Every single act and event. This would leave out free will entirely. If you are saying that......."I disagree totally".

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I enjoy Michael Heiser . Thanks for the link Scars.

bordercollie wrote:

I enjoy Michael Heiser . Thanks for the link Scars.

I say it with all my heart, Michael Heiser is the very best teacher I've ever read and listened to......."I love Michael Heiser". 

Here is another video that I just now watched and Boy! does it hit home for me.

SCARY NEWS: God Chooses Some People For HELL...Or DOES He?




Election is typically defined today as; God chooses who's going to be saved. And some people will then, therefore, state what is probably an obvious corollary; he chooses the people that aren't saved, that go to hell or whatever. So you either have predestination, or you have double predestination. And I don't care about any of that, because I think it's a fundamental misunderstanding of election. If you raise the question; was Israel elect? It's kind of a no brainer, of course, they were elect. They're chosen. And then the other nations are not chosen. Should we define then election as salvation, so we can therefore assume that because Israel was elect, the Israelites were also elect, and then they're all saved, right? At that moment, you might have some kind of suspect that we might have a problem here. And they have a huge problem because there's something in biblical history called the Exile. Election is not about salvation. Those two things are not synonymous. I think we fundamentally misunderstood this.

Knock, knock.  Hi.  Can I float this by you.  We know evil is ancient, and has 'taken over' many during the centuries.

But there is one battle that comes up consistently while following q, and that is the Jesuits vs
the Templars.  And I don't have much detail on the Templars.  We know the Good.
We know of their suffering.  We've heard terrible stories describing satanism, as well. 

The Jesuits we know pretty well.  And that reverts to the Vatican-certainly the enemy of God/Jesus/and True Israel.   And even there one could make the case that they are so infiltrated by
the rabbi's teachings and secular Israel that finding a true Jew in Israel could be difficult.

So, I saw this:


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So..the enemies of Christ that might fit under the Jesuit banner-and there will be many downstream-
who do the bidding of the Vatican.

But how many can be 'named' as Jesuit. Mohammed, Loyola, the high level Masons? 

Can you do anything with this?

I mean, that there would be an endtimes consolidation of power under the NWO, 
under secularism, are the Jesuits a unifying factor?

Thanks ScaRZ.  I suppose there's no need to identify further or deeper than what is currently 

in our faces.  But all those who warned before, that we looked at, had great insight.

From my recent post, I just ran into this dated today.

Illuminati=
Jesuits
Bilderberg
--
Fascists=socialists=antifa=Communist=Nazi=Zionists=Khazars=
Pedophiles=Pedowood/
Hollywood=satan's repto adrenochrome junkies

https://twitter.com/Rubberchic069/status/1533125216255221760/video/1

And a look back to 1949 forward, where all the same stuff was going on 

https://twitter.com/Rubberchic069/status/1533095451230101505/video/1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qno4H6zc3S0

Finally, I am able to do something that does not involve dirt but I am really not complaining. Lots of people that are my age are not able to do what I have been doing. So far, we have had a bumper crop of everything and I can't get the proverbial "7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine" out of my mind. My wife is dehydrating everything,even cabbage and potatoes and sealing them in jars. She said that if the Lord does come back and get us pre-trib, someone else who is fleeing or hiding can survive on it. She is still kinda' stuck on a pre-trib rapture, but if Scarz is correct about the first half being fulfilled already, then she may be on to something. I am much more open to both lines of thought, after looking into it with various translations, than I was.

 I am almost  caught up with the garden. Look, I used to work this garden, yard and help clean house and I did it with ease. Not now. I am an old man in more ways than one and if I am absent for a while than I am very busy and tired, or I am dead,lol. I appreciate Scarz checking on me, kinda' like holding a mirror over my face to see if I am still breathing.

 I have often wondered, as have millions of others, about the fate of the USA in prophesy. Lots of theories and speculation exist and about all of them have to twist and turn scripture to make their idea work, including me. By watching current events and having a working knowledge of scripture I think a person can see only two options: 1: the USA is the last days Babylon and leads the charge for the anti-christ kingdom 2: the USA ceases to exist in its present form. I was a #1 guy until about 2 weeks ago and then I took a real look around, read a few things and listened to several folks and I think that #2 is much more probable. The god of this world has been allowed to place his minions in positions of power throughout the government and the attacks on believers has escalated. The push for "clean energy" is laughable considering that the power grid cannot handle the increase in demand. Out there where researcher lives in Fagafornia, they have outages all of the time, as well as water shortages. What happens now after these unworkable projects become a reality? Plus, cow farts are killing us so they are destroying the beef industry. I am sure that it was a coincidence that the two largest wheat producers were goaded into a war with each other. Npw, the imbecile-in-chief decides to add 5% corn alchohol to gas making it unusable to a whole bunch of cars and farm vehicles. Oh, and that brilliant decision comes on heels of farmers in the midwest planting soybeans instead of corn due to the massive cost increase with fuel and fertilizer. Soybeans take little fertilizer compared to corn.

Remember the covid checks? That was a deliberate plan to cause an inflation jolt. It worked and now the supply chain is in crisis due mainly to fact that nobody wants to work. The reprobates created a baby that wants a government titty. Revelation 6:

"
⁴ And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
⁵ And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
⁶ And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine."


 Now, there have been wars and famines throughout history since the time of Nimrod and the Babel kingdom/religion but what it looks like now is there is something behind this push to weaken the nations into being in a position where there is no other recourse but to submit to a system of evil just to survive.( the GREAT RESET?) In order for this to happen the US must be brought down to the level of France or maybe Somalia, who knows, but the Constitution and Bill of Rights must be destroyed for the whole world to fall under the antichrist. Revelation 6:6 makes it clear that a man will toil all day just to scrape up enough to eat. That can be an illustration of of a scarcity of food due to various natural factors or it also could be due to a collective form of harsh communism. We would call that Marxism.



The situation that people should worry about the most is the forming of the Corporatocracy, better known as facism. Scarz, you said once before that you didn't follow me on the rise of Facism in the final kingdom. Now, do you see what I meant? Corporations are forcing people to accept the policies of the government or lose their jobs. Sorta' like 'causing one to accept the mark that allows one to buy and sell and EAT. Its not there yet but its damn close and actually all that it needs is the revealing of the anti-christ.


 Much more to write but I have to go out now. The dogs are dancing that dance.

Great posts  !   I needed this  encouragement , We know the evil one roams the earth and is after any weakness he finds in us.  I fight  my weaknesses  constantly and  somedays it's very hard not to let the bad get to me. 
  I  also do think that we are living in those times now.  Evil is growing  so fast even in my little once innocent piece of the world . I can  actually see it coming here... In Texas,  my niece in law is afraid to get gas or groceries now even in the "good" part of Houston . 
  We  absolutely had to do some cow work today  because of the onslaught of the high temperatures There's this little  country church with at  the most 70 members present only at special gatherings- usually about 35-40. It has services  about once a month .. Well , we drove by today.  They had a policeman there.... never ever had seen this before ... so very sad . My heart fell and I knew it was but yet another confirmation of things to come.  
  We have to put special tags in cattle ears that are being sold out of state. These tags are id tags with a computer readable ID. We are told more such tracking  is on the way. 

 I ask the Lord to put a hedge of protection around us here and to keep our eyes open . We need You.

You know what? My biggest concern in these treacherous days is not so much as to what is happening but the lack of understanding from people as to what is happening. Most folks have a general knowledge of bible prophesy ( a lot of it wrong) but to see all of the fine tuning being done in front of their noses, they simply can't put it together.

There is a lady who we give stuff from the garden. Real nice, Godly woman, but she will never be a candidate for MENSA. I prodded her a couple of years ago on the bible, and although she enters the church door every time that they unlock them, the Southern Baptist Association did her no favors when it came to knowing scripture meanings. She talks with my wife a lot and maybe thats where the question entered her mind. So, she cooks for her family every Sunday and she asked them" why are the billionaires buys up all of the farm land?" and the obvious answer that one of us would give never came up. They centered around money-making, but it had dawned on her that it would allow control of the food markets and availability. Even as slow as she is, she is getting it but so many are not and think things will just go back. Not this time, I'm pretty certain of that. So many think that they will be raptured out of here and not face tribulation and have not prepared for an anything other than a prosperous lifestyle, hell, they really don't even consider having to struggle. While I am still a pre-wrath,last trump rapture guy, the whole Daniel's 70th week alternative study got me to putting together some possible situations, based on the 3 1/2 years being past and an interval between the last 3 1/2 years, for a pre-trib rapture. I can see many types and shadows in the OT of a rapture, but its the timing of it that is debatable and not the actual occurrence of one. For the sake of so many, I hope that I am wrong on the timing.

One problem of today is that men changed the gospel from a Christ-centered one to man-centered one. Most of what is preached today is that a man can come and go as he pleases, can "accept" or reject Christ solely on his own volition. Scripture is clear that a man cannot come to the Father except by Christ and Christ said that the Father MUST draw him and that He would never cast him out. Can a man become estranged from God? Sure, I am an example of that, but God whipped my ass and came and got me. Taking an ass whipping from God is something that a person never forgets and it works to perfection. I'll not make that error again. Oh, I sin every day( its hard not to do in Joe Bidens America) but I no longer try to justify it. Living a hermit lifestyle helps a lot since I am not around idiots much any more,lol.

Hells bells!!! Its daylight and I have said nothing concerning what I wanted to say. Old man syndrome, I guess. Anyone who compares me to Joe Biden better look out, I'll come find you! Its supposed to be close to 100* today, so I have to go. I got up at 4 am in order to write a post. Instead, I wrote jibberish, but I guess theres always tomorrow. I have to use this prednisone-inspired energy right now because my pills are running out. Prednisone is a helluva' drug, just too many side effects for full time use.ha

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea (Revelation 21:1).


 Whenever I see this about the "no more sea"    It makes me wonder if it refers to people in fleshly bodies.    The oceans are such a beautiful piece of creation , that I just can't imagine Him doing away with them.   The evil  that exists in fleshly bodies on the other hand needs to be  no more.

I just have to post this: I was checking out at the grocery store and I had bought ALL of the store brand bread. We freeze it and thaw it up and it does amazingly well. The checkout girl mentioned that I must be stocking up for something bad. I mentioned that there is only a 10 week supply of wheat on a global basis. She had no idea that bread is made from wheat. Then I mentioned how many things are made as a byproduct of petroleum. She asked me what petroleum was. I have no words to express what went through my mind.