while noodling all of the events of these days, a verse captured me no, not the promises of tribulation ..we are experiencing birth pangs...maybe, it will all be fully played out during the tribulation. it's connected to the verse peace and safety.
1 Thesslonians 5 1Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. Matthew 24 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. How in the world can we expect the rapture when business is bust, people are locked down, riots and protests are all around us? When churches cannot openly hold a service, and sing? we have been neutered, made irrelevant, blamed for everything that is wrong, and we don't even open our mouths to protest. I get that people ARE asking for peace and safety, whether bending knee to mere men, or calling for an end to police killings of people of color, or saying protesters are just bringing in a summer of love ( how did that work out? 3 shot.2 dead People of color) And then my attention went to actual events in people's lives they are still selling and buying houses, still drinking their wine.literally, it;s like quite a "thing" to share your drinking habits online still getting married. One couple even had a major show devoted to their pandemic wedding (I am referring to Bindi and her new husband). we are getting used to celebrating online, and not actually seeing or touching people There is a whole class of people from big business, to politicians, to people of means, whose lives and wealth really aren't affected by any of this, and they are all over the world So if you hold both pieces of the mystery in your hands, people carrying on like nothing is wrong, and people in uproar calling for peace and safety ... we are there. maranatha |
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