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Assessing Current Events

When I sit back and take a good, hard look current events, I marvel that anyone could miss the signs of Jesus Christ's soon coming. We live in a world where the United States is considered socially backward because it takes issue with the idea of homosexual marriage.

It is a world in which a Catholic archbishop can cause headlines by referring to homosexuality as "epidemic."

It is a world where people find no contradiction in demanding that everybody else conform to their narrow views because the view of the majority makes them feel like outsiders.

A world in which the prevailing legal view is that there is a "God-given right" for the God-haters to not be offended by the mention of "God" in public.

A Houston, Texas judge ruled that a Bible in a courthouse might give the impression Houston's Harris County has a preference for Christianity. A Bible in a courthouse! Is he kidding?

Up seems to be down and black seems to be white. For the first time in the history of mankind, the main topic of debate is over a question no previous generation would even entertain. The question baffling this generation is not "where did I come from?" or, "Is there an afterlife?" That doesn't seem to be as important as whether marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Meanwhile, the Earth itself seems to be in rebellion. The Asian mega-quake that changed geography caused the planet to vibrate like a tuning fork. It knocked the planet far enough off its axis to momentarily change time – and this may only be the beginning.

There are warnings of a sudden shift in the Earth's poles, a reversal of the Earth's magnetic fields and the fear of the onset of a new Ice Age.

Environmentalists warn that global warming will raise the world's sea levels, resulting the catastrophic flooding and loss of life. Many scientists warn that the shift of mass from the concentration of solid ice caps due to melting and being distributed in the oceans could further exacerbate the Earth's wobbling axis.

Meanwhile, the sun continues to convulse, sending out massive showers of debris into the solar system, while irradiating the Earth with unprecedented doses of solar radiation. It is, according to some prominent Russian scientists, the most active period of solar activity in 8,000 years.

The past year broke all the records in terms of natural disasters. This year began with earthquakes, floods, unseasonably cold weather in some places, unseasonably warm in others, and nobody seems to be able to explain what is going on.

The economy is at once both robust and growing and teetering on the edge of catastrophe. Economists warn that it would take just one push in the right direction at the right time for the whole house of cards to come collapsing around our ears.

Meanwhile, NASA just spent hundreds of millions to launch a spacecraft designed to impact with a comet in deep space to see if it is possible to deflect a killer asteroid. Does anyone else beside me feel like he is in a Stephen King movie?

The Bible prophets describes the last days as a period of ever-increasing wars and natural disasters. Jesus, Himself, predicted that there would be wars and rumors of wars, great earthquakes, plagues of deadly diseases, cataclysmic weather changes and famine just before His return. He likened all these things to birth pangs. He said that as the time approached, they would increase in both frequency and intensity.

He spoke of signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars. He warned of the distress of nations, saying things would grow so frightening that men's hearts would fail them for fear, just in looking at what is coming.

But all these terrors are just the beginning of a period of catastrophe and death so profound that Jesus, Himself, said no time in history has ever been like it before – nor ever will be again.

Amidst all the fear and uncertainty, however, Jesus promised great hope. He said that, just before the beginning of the 7-year period, He would come again and receive to Himself all those who put their faith in Him and receive the gift of pardon He paid for with His own blood.

We see the shadows of predicted events that tell us the time known as the Tribulation Period is almost upon us. To those who understand the prophecy of the Bible that means time is extremely short. Do not put off receiving the gift of pardon that Jesus purchased for you and put your name on it. Don't get left behind. The consequences of that will be beyond anything you can imagine.

I sure wish Jesus would come Real Soon Now. Hal Lindsey's Website at hallindseyoracle.com is WONDERFUL!

Here's Hal's latest Op-Ed piece! Awesome!

When I sit back and take a good, hard look current events, I marvel that anyone could miss the signs of Jesus Christ's soon coming. We live in a world where the United States is considered socially backward because it takes issue with the idea of homosexual marriage.

It is a world in which a Catholic archbishop can cause headlines by referring to homosexuality as "epidemic."

It is a world where people find no contradiction in demanding that everybody else conform to their narrow views because the view of the majority makes them feel like outsiders.

A world in which the prevailing legal view is that there is a "God-given right" for the God-haters to not be offended by the mention of "God" in public.

A Houston, Texas judge ruled that a Bible in a courthouse might give the impression Houston's Harris County has a preference for Christianity. A Bible in a courthouse! Is he kidding?

Up seems to be down and black seems to be white. For the first time in the history of mankind, the main topic of debate is over a question no previous generation would even entertain. The question baffling this generation is not "where did I come from?" or, "Is there an afterlife?" That doesn't seem to be as important as whether marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Meanwhile, the Earth itself seems to be in rebellion. The Asian mega-quake that changed geography caused the planet to vibrate like a tuning fork. It knocked the planet far enough off its axis to momentarily change time – and this may only be the beginning.

There are warnings of a sudden shift in the Earth's poles, a reversal of the Earth's magnetic fields and the fear of the onset of a new Ice Age.

Environmentalists warn that global warming will raise the world's sea levels, resulting the catastrophic flooding and loss of life. Many scientists warn that the shift of mass from the concentration of solid ice caps due to melting and being distributed in the oceans could further exacerbate the Earth's wobbling axis.

Meanwhile, the sun continues to convulse, sending out massive showers of debris into the solar system, while irradiating the Earth with unprecedented doses of solar radiation. It is, according to some prominent Russian scientists, the most active period of solar activity in 8,000 years.

The past year broke all the records in terms of natural disasters. This year began with earthquakes, floods, unseasonably cold weather in some places, unseasonably warm in others, and nobody seems to be able to explain what is going on.

The economy is at once both robust and growing and teetering on the edge of catastrophe. Economists warn that it would take just one push in the right direction at the right time for the whole house of cards to come collapsing around our ears.

Meanwhile, NASA just spent hundreds of millions to launch a spacecraft designed to impact with a comet in deep space to see if it is possible to deflect a killer asteroid. Does anyone else beside me feel like he is in a Stephen King movie?

The Bible prophets describes the last days as a period of ever-increasing wars and natural disasters. Jesus, Himself, predicted that there would be wars and rumors of wars, great earthquakes, plagues of deadly diseases, cataclysmic weather changes and famine just before His return. He likened all these things to birth pangs. He said that as the time approached, they would increase in both frequency and intensity.

He spoke of signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars. He warned of the distress of nations, saying things would grow so frightening that men's hearts would fail them for fear, just in looking at what is coming.

But all these terrors are just the beginning of a period of catastrophe and death so profound that Jesus, Himself, said no time in history has ever been like it before – nor ever will be again.

Amidst all the fear and uncertainty, however, Jesus promised great hope. He said that, just before the beginning of the 7-year period, He would come again and receive to Himself all those who put their faith in Him and receive the gift of pardon He paid for with His own blood.

We see the shadows of predicted events that tell us the time known as the Tribulation Period is almost upon us. To those who understand the prophecy of the Bible that means time is extremely short. Do not put off receiving the gift of pardon that Jesus purchased for you and put your name on it. Don't get left behind. The consequences of that will be beyond anything you can imagine.

I have seen the movie and many poostings about it. My thoughts are listed below:
What If Jesus Had Come To Other Times And Places?

Ever since the Mel Gibson blockbuster The Passion was first announced, there has been a great to-do about it being ’anti-Semitic’.  Which is a crock. However, the stark fact is that Jesus was put to death after a verdict of guilty of the crime of blasphemy and sentence of death was handed down by a quorum of the supreme religious body in Israel at the time, the Sanhedrin.

Pilate rubber-stamped the verdict and sentence because he feared these religious zealots would start a riot, which would make the Emperor in Rome look upon him with acute disfavor. The actual execution was carried out by a detail of Roman legionaries, as is documented by the Bible.

Therefore, the responsibility for Jesus’ execution by crucifixion must be shared equally between Jews and Gentiles. So what if the Sanhedrin was Jewish? Mankind—Jew, Gentile, whatever—is the same depraved and evil scum we  have always been since the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Indeed, as one Bible scholar has said, if God does not judge the United States for it’s descent into spiritual wickedness, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Therefore, I wish to offer up a rather likely scenario about what would have happened had Jesus chosen other times and places to come to Earth.

Spain:
Fathers Loyola and Torquemada would have burned Him at the stake for heresy and blasphemy for proclaiming Himself to be the Son of God, forgiving sins, and other assorted reasons.

England:
Oliver Cromwell would have hanged or burned Him at the stake on heresy and blasphemy charges as well. And He would have suffered a similar fate at the hands of the king—before and after Cromwell’s time.

The United States:
Had He appeared here in pre-Revolutionary War America, I am confident the ‘good’ and ‘godly’ Puritans would have hanged Him or burned Him at the stake. Cotton and Increase Mather would have promptly declared Him guilty of blasphemy and sentenced Him to death. And so would any other judge at the time. Recall how the courts conducted themselves at places such as Salem, Massachusetts?

If Jesus had appeared in the USA during 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy would have hauled Him before his committee and accused Him of being a notorious Communist for advocating such radical notions as selling all you have and giving your money to the poor.

J. Edgar Hoover would have tapped every telephone in the country and sent his agents on black-bag job break-ins to try and find out what He was up to; and when those didn’t work, he’d have paid Judas Iscariot considerably more than thirty pieces of silver to set Him up for a COINTELPRO sting operation.

Had He appeared in the USA in 1993, I have little doubt that the ATF and the FBI under command of Janet Reno would have killed Him—either with a hail of bullets or by fire—we all remember how Waco turned out, don’t we? If that’s how threatened Reno and Co. felt by the existence of a false ‘messiah’, just imagine how far up the wall she and her jackbooted stormtrooper thugs have gone when dealing with the real McCoy. I can just hear the justifications now…

“He was the leader of a heavily-armed cult! He told his followers to sell their clothes to buy paramilitary assault weapons!” (Luke 22:36)

“He was undoubtedly a child molester! He told his followers to ‘suffer the little children  to come unto Me.’ And we had intelligence that he was slapping the babies! We had to attack!” (“Spare the rod and spoil the child.”)

“The only way we could save the children was to burn down the buildings with them in it!” (Remember that old ‘Nam-era saying—“The only way we could save the village was to destroy it.”?)


No; the death of Jesus at the hands of venal men concerned more for their own power, prestige, prerogatives and perquisites than anything else—including such trivialities as truth and justice—cannot be blamed on just one ethnic group or sect; we must all bear equal responsibility for putting Him to death.

And why did He come, knowing full well such would be His fate—no matter what era and locale He would come to? Because He loved us. All of us. Jew, Gentile, Greek, whatever and whoever. How can that be anti-anything?


The End

[What If Jesus Had Come To Other Times And Places?]

What If Jesus Had Come To Other Times And Places?

Ever since the Mel Gibson blockbuster The Passion was first announced, there has been a great to-do about it being ’anti-Semitic’.  Which is a crock. However, the stark fact is that Jesus was put to death after a verdict of guilty of the crime of blasphemy and sentence of death was handed down by a quorum of the supreme religious body in Israel at the time, the Sanhedrin.

Pilate rubber-stamped the verdict and sentence because he feared these religious zealots would start a riot, which would make the Emperor in Rome look upon him with acute disfavor. The actual execution was carried out by a detail of Roman legionaries, as is documented by the Bible.

Therefore, the responsibility for Jesus’ execution by crucifixion must be shared equally between Jews and Gentiles. So what if the Sanhedrin was Jewish? Mankind—Jew, Gentile, whatever—is the same depraved and evil scum we  have always been since the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Indeed, as one Bible scholar has said, if God does not judge the United States for it’s descent into spiritual wickedness, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Therefore, I wish to offer up a rather likely scenario about what would have happened had Jesus chosen other times and places to come to Earth.

Spain:
Fathers Loyola and Torquemada would have burned Him at the stake for heresy and blasphemy for proclaiming Himself to be the Son of God, forgiving sins, and other assorted reasons.

England:
Oliver Cromwell would have hanged or burned Him at the stake on heresy and blasphemy charges as well. And He would have suffered a similar fate at the hands of the king—before and after Cromwell’s time.

The United States:
Had He appeared here in pre-Revolutionary War America, I am confident the ‘good’ and ‘godly’ Puritans would have hanged Him or burned Him at the stake. Cotton and Increase Mather would have promptly declared Him guilty of blasphemy and sentenced Him to death. And so would any other judge at the time. Recall how the courts conducted themselves at places such as Salem, Massachusetts?

If Jesus had appeared in the USA during 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy would have hauled Him before his committee and accused Him of being a notorious Communist for advocating such radical notions as selling all you have and giving your money to the poor.

J. Edgar Hoover would have tapped every telephone in the country and sent his agents on black-bag job break-ins to try and find out what He was up to; and when those didn’t work, he’d have paid Judas Iscariot considerably more than thirty pieces of silver to set Him up for a COINTELPRO sting operation.

Had He appeared in the USA in 1993, I have little doubt that the ATF and the FBI under command of Janet Reno would have killed Him—either with a hail of bullets or by fire—we all remember how Waco turned out, don’t we? If that’s how threatened Reno and Co. felt by the existence of a false ‘messiah’, just imagine how far up the wall she and her jackbooted stormtrooper thugs have gone when dealing with the real McCoy. I can just hear the justifications now…

“He was the leader of a heavily-armed cult! He told his followers to sell their clothes to buy paramilitary assault weapons!” (Luke 22:36)

“He was undoubtedly a child molester! He told his followers to ‘suffer the little children  to come unto Me.’ And we had intelligence that he was slapping the babies! We had to attack!” (“Spare the rod and spoil the child.”)

“The only way we could save the children was to burn down the buildings with them in it!” (Remember that old ‘Nam-era saying—“The only way we could save the village was to destroy it.”?)

No; the death of Jesus at the hands of venal men concerned more for their own power, prestige, prerogatives and perquisites than anything else—including such trivialities as truth and justice—cannot be blamed on just one ethnic group or sect; we must all bear equal responsibility for putting Him to death.

And why did He come, knowing full well such would be His fate—no matter what era and locale He would come to? Because He loved us. All of us. Jew, Gentile, Greek, whatever and whoever. How can that be anti-anything?

The End

[What If Jesus Had Come To Other Times And Places?]

What If Jesus Had Come
To Other Times And Places?

Ever since the Mel Gibson blockbuster The Passion was first announced, there has been a great to-do about it being ’anti-Semitic’.  Which is a crock. However, the stark fact is that Jesus was put to death after a verdict of guilty of the crime of blasphemy and sentence of death was handed down by a quorum of the supreme religious body in Israel at the time, the Sanhedrin.

Pilate rubber-stamped the verdict and sentence because he feared these religious zealots would start a riot, which would make the Emperor in Rome look upon him with acute disfavor. The actual execution was carried out by a detail of Roman legionaries, as is documented by the Bible.

Therefore, the responsibility for Jesus’ execution by crucifixion must be shared equally between Jews and Gentiles. So what if the Sanhedrin was Jewish? Mankind—Jew, Gentile, whatever—is the same depraved and evil scum we  have always been since the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Indeed, as one Bible scholar has said, if God does not judge the United States for it’s descent into spiritual wickedness, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Therefore, I wish to offer up a rather likely scenario about what would have happened had Jesus chosen other times and places to come to Earth.

Spain:
Fathers Loyola and Torquemada would have burned Him at the stake for heresy and blasphemy for proclaiming Himself to be the Son of God, forgiving sins, and other assorted reasons.

England:
Oliver Cromwell would have hanged or burned Him at the stake on heresy and blasphemy charges as well. And He would have suffered a similar fate at the hands of the king—before and after Cromwell’s time.

The United States:
Had He appeared here in pre-Revolutionary War America, I am confident the ‘good’ and ‘godly’ Puritans would have hanged Him or burned Him at the stake. Cotton and Increase Mather would have promptly declared Him guilty of blasphemy and sentenced Him to death. And so would any other judge at the time. Recall how the courts conducted themselves at places such as Salem, Massachusetts?

If Jesus had appeared in the USA during 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy would have hauled Him before his committee and accused Him of being a notorious Communist for advocating such radical notions as selling all you have and giving your money to the poor.

J. Edgar Hoover would have tapped every telephone in the country and sent his agents on black-bag job break-ins to try and find out what He was up to; and when those didn’t work, he’d have paid Judas Iscariot considerably more than thirty pieces of silver to set Him up for a COINTELPRO sting operation.

Had He appeared in the USA in 1993, I have little doubt that the ATF and the FBI under command of Janet Reno would have killed Him—either with a hail of bullets or by fire—we all remember how Waco turned out, don’t we? If that’s how threatened Reno and Co. felt by the existence of a false ‘messiah’, just imagine how far up the wall she and her jackbooted stormtrooper thugs have gone when dealing with the real McCoy. I can just hear the justifications now…

“He was the leader of a heavily-armed cult! He told his followers to sell their clothes to buy paramilitary assault weapons!” (Luke 22:36)

“He was undoubtedly a child molester! He told his followers to ‘suffer the little children  to come unto Me.’ And we had intelligence that he was slapping the babies! We had to attack!” (“Spare the rod and spoil the child.”)

“The only way we could save the children was to burn down the buildings with them in it!” (Remember that old ‘Nam-era saying—“The only way we could save the village was to destroy it.”?)




No; the death of Jesus at the hands of venal men concerned more for their own power, prestige, prerogatives and perquisites than anything else—including such trivialities as truth and justice—cannot be blamed on just one ethnic group or sect; we must all bear equal responsibility for putting Him to death.

And why did He come, knowing full well such would be His fate—no matter what era and locale He would come to? Because He loved us. All of us. Jew, Gentile, Greek, whatever and whoever. How can that be anti-anything?

The End

from:LifeSiteNews.com

Swedish Woman Dies of Abortion Drug RU-486
UDDEVALLA, March 9, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A young woman has died recently from an RU 486 abortion in the Swedish west coast city of Uddevalla. The Swedish pro-life group JA till Livet has informed LifeSiteNews.com that the country's National Board of Health and Welfare has issued a report concluding that the death of the unnamed young woman was a result of the chemically induced abortion.

The woman, over seven weeks pregnant, reportedly chose to have an RU 486 abortion. One week after meeting with the gynecologist, she returned to the hospital to take three 200 mg Mifegyne pills. Two days later she returned and received two 0,2 mg pills of Cytotec (Misoprostol).

The government report indicates she was administered the drugs at 8:25 am. She was reported to have been very tired, felt sick and slept most of the time. Bleeding started in the afternoon at 3 pm and the patient received pain medication. At 4:30 pm the patient was able to return home after a "big blob" had "come out". A follow-up visit for one month later was scheduled as she left the hospital.

Two days later a nurse tried to contact the woman by phone, but failed. Six days later, the woman was found dead in her home. The country coroner's report concluded that she had died as a result of blood loss following a chemically induced abortion. The government report said, "A young woman bled to death as a direct consequence of the treatment."

The abortion pill has been the cause of numerous deaths around the world. Legalized in the United States in September 2000 the pill has been responsible for the deaths of at least four women in North America, most recently 18-year-old Holly Patterson. In 5-8 percent of cases, RU-486 causes severe complications. Danco, the drug's manufacturer, has reported at least 400 "adverse events" * since RU-486 was approved in the U.S.

*Adverse events--meaning the woman dying?


Hospital Failed to Cite Holly Patterson's Death from RU-486 as Unusual
Planned Parenthood, which prescribed the drug, also did not report the death as unusual
LIVERMORE, California, February 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The hospital where Holly Patterson - the 18 year-old casualty of a drug-induced abortion - died, failed to report her death as an unusual occurrence, state health officials reported today.

The California Department of Health Services, in a review released Tuesday, also revealed that Planned Parenthood of Hayward, which prescribed the drug, didn't educate Patterson on how to administer the abortifacient. Nor did Planned Parenthood have Holly Patterson's signature on one of the consent forms.

Patterson died last September 17th of septic shock resulting from RU-486.

In response to the report, officials at Valley Care Medical Center in Pleasanton said that they did not see anything in Patterson's death that would cause them to report it as an "unusual occurrence".

Planned Parenthood also did not report the death as unusual, arguing that she died in a hospital. But the state review said that her death should have been reported by Planned Parenthood because she was under their care at the time, and died as a result of a medication they prescribed.

Associated Press tried to contact Planned Parenthood for comment, but its calls were not returned.

In a telephone interview with AP Wednesday, Monty Patterson, Holly's father, said he was dismayed to learn that hospital and clinic officials hadn't reported her death. "We really feel that this needs public attention," he said. Mr. Patterson, who with his wife, wrote a letter of support for a Bill to suspend RU-486, said "This is not just an isolated case. We feel there are many more girls out there who have suffered needlessly."

U.S. Representative Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who along with 59 co-sponsors, proposed a new legislation last year - "Holly's Law" - to ban RU-486, said that "If airplanes were as dangerous as RU-486, no reasonable woman would ever fly. This deadly drug needs to be grounded immediately and safety procedures need to be reviewed before more women are put at risk." DeMint observed that a woman is 200 times more likely to be injured or killed from RU-486 than in an airplane crash. "People on both sides of the abortion debate should not be distracted from the fact that the health and safety of American women is being compromised by RU-486 safety guidelines that are more lenient than in France," he said.

At least three other women have died from RU-486 in North America and at least 13 have required blood transfusions due to excessive blood loss. In 5-8 percent of cases, RU-486 causes severe complications. Danco, the drug's manufacturer, has reported at least 400 adverse events since RU-486 was approved.

Read the Patterson's letter at: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/nov/031
106a.html

I sure wish Jesus would come soon!

This whole scene is getting to be one HUGE mess!
These are lovely images!

Okay, so Jesus ISN'T coming? We're doomed to endure all 7 years of the Tribulation? Okay, then it's time for me to start digging the bunker, stacking the ammo boxes and mixing up the ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer/Fuel-Oil explosive).

Lock and load!

So if Jesus isn’t coming and we face some, most, or all of the hell-on-earth that the Tribulation shall be, then we may as well lock and load, and when the Brave New World Order comes to kick down our doors, be ready to greet them warmly.

Stand up for your rights to NOT take the mark—according to Regulation 5.56.

How I wish today would be the day!

I wrote this some time ago, and my circumstances are no longer quite so dire, but I still have the same feelings I did then. I apologize if I am offending someone, but I feel I must speak this thing that is still on my mind.
Marc
__________________________________________________________________________ ___
Tithing And Giving Sacrificially
When You're Too Broke To Do So.

by Marc

Dear *****:

my late Mother, God rest her soul, once said: “The church has priced
itself out of my market.” I hope God won't hold that against her, but I find myself agreeing with that statement. Problem: how to tithe, let alone give sacrificially when you ain't got it to give!

“Sorry, *** Gas & Electric, can't pay the bill this month--had to send a tithe to my church so they could help save the heathen all over the world.” “Too bad--we're shutting off your gas and power tomorrow, then.”

See what I mean?

Now, here's my question? God owns it all anyway. Why should we, who aren't just out of money, but totally BROKE before the end of the month, get hung up on the rack of guilt because we JUST DON'T HAVE IT!? God can run off a few more tons of gold, or whatever. Just like the Bureau of Engraving does when the Fed needs more greenbacks to flood the economy with to keep a Depression at bay or something. “The cattle of a thousand hills.” and all that, right?

Now, here's another bone of mine to pick: the individual churches are often big on missions, right? As it should be. But why can't they outreach directly to us poor schmucks who are hard up and having to work far away from home?

My own example: I live in **** ***, where, thank God, I own outright my own home(I blew almost all the wad my folks left me on my house, almost all of what was left of that on my car, so they're paid for. A Ford Escort and a single-wide mobilmobile/modular/manufactured home aren't a mansion and Rolls Royce by any means of the imagination, nor am I fabulously wealthy). I had to return to *** to work and earn money.

Seven bucks an hour don't go far at all these days. In fact it hardly don't go at all. So, I am sleeping in my car and sneaking into gas station bathrooms to shave and change clothes when one of the people I work with can't let me use their bathroom to do so. The missions I keep getting referred to? Well, areas like ******* Street aren’t places you'd care to go unless you didn't mind running a high risk of getting your throat cut or your car vanishing mysteriously, never to be seen again except for the inside of a chop-shop.

It would be nice if the individual churches could establish a means of assisting poor dumb schmucks like me directly. I ain't asking for money; just for a place to shower, shave, and hey, even be able to stretch out and sleep without being referred to one of the missions that are in the war zones where you don't go unless you're properly tooled up.

Get a job in **** ***? Hey, let me cue you in on how things go here: when it's the Mormon bishop giving the invocation prayer at the opening of each city council meeting, you kinda get an idea of the power behind the secular throne; in other words, if you ain't got a skill that's in such great demand they overlook your religious beliefs, and if you ain't a Mormon, then the odds of finding work just aren't all that good.

Now, I got some other problems: my ******* state private rentacop card and gun permit are up for renewal soon. The former costs me $45 to renew for four years, the latter $50 for the ticket, and another $95 for the refresher course. Gotta come up with those so I can keep on working.

Oh yeah, and then there's my monthlies for up here in **** ***. I HAVE to keep those paid or the juice and gas get shut off and my water pipes freeze and bust(until that gets shut off too)and my VISA card payments(I lived on that until I found a job; getting that paid down is Priority #1 after the monthlies). So quite frankly, *****, I ain't got enough to tithe with, let alone give sacrificially.

If that means God's gonna hold that against me come the Judgment, so be it. If that means I won't get any crowns or rewards, or whatever, so be it. If I end up scrubbing toilets and sweeping and mopping floors in Heaven for Eternity doing all of the scut work, living with the rest of the grunts in the barracks instead of one of the mansions like the big shots & top brass, with tons of crowns, ect, so be it.  Besides, brass and big shots and I never did get along down here anyway, so up there will probably be likewise.

sincerely,
Marc

I sure wish Jesus would come, like REAL SOON NOW! Yesterday would be just fine.

Dear Symphony: How I wish Jesus would come right NOW!
This whole world sucks like the mother of all sour lemons.
Oh well...until He comes.

The date-stters puzzle me; how do they explain their way around the Bible verse that says: "But no man shall know of that day or the hour; not the Angels in Heaven, not the Son, but the Father only."

Oh well...

Oh, did you notice? No date set, but please Dear God, let it be SOON!


AND LET IT BE SOON, DEAR JESUS!

Armageddon will oxccur at the end of the Tribulation. That begins right after the Rapture, and when that is, 'no man knows the day or the hour, not even the Son but the Father only.'

How I wish Jesus would come SOON!