To: LindyBill who wrote (14641 ) 6/3/2001 5:17:35 PM From: SOROS Read Replies (4) | Respond to I only speculate. I see many things that make sense to me. I obviously could be way off. At every point in history, there were those who thought they were the last generation. I have studied prophecy deeply, and hence, I see what I see as correct, but make no claim as to the actual truth. A lot of the timing depends on my belief that God has a sense of order. To put it in very simple terms, when the Bible says He created in six days and rested, and that a day is like a thousand years, and it speaks of a 1000 year reign on earth after the end of this world as we know it, and if you believe we are at or very near the 6000 year mark of people's existence (not the universe, but people), that leaves the 1000 year reign to be very close, so the end must be very near. Sorry for the run-on sentence. If we get past another 10 years or so, then I will throw out and re-think my timing and interpretation, because this should be sufficient time for any miscalculations in the calendar we currently use. Call it nuts, but when I see prophecies written long ago that speak of certain countries aligning and they are or have already, and prophecies about people's of the world being able to see something all at once when there was no TV, radio, Internet, etc, and prophecies about travel which could only take place now in history, and prophecies about Israel becoming a nation again which only happened in 1948 after more than 2000 years, and I won't bore you with any more -- I tend to not let my pride and human brain get in the way of "seeing" what I believe is the truth. It would be easy to do, because so much of what is written does make NO sense to me, and I think I could have designed so much better that it is in this world. So, until someone I know comes back from the dead and tells me otherwise, I'll choose to play the odds and risk nothing by believing at face value what the Bible says. Those who dismiss it with a closed mind risk a great deal, IMO. Sorry to offend or stimulate a brain cell. When it no longer offends or causes any thought, that is when a person has no hope, so I am encouraged to stir passion, even if negative. Keep thinking me crazy, but just continue to watch events in Israel, and when you see a great swell by Iraq, Iran, Russia, China, etc. against her, go back and read your Bible a little more closely. Hopefully, the USA will not be out of the picture in prophecy before that time, and hopefully, there will still be time for those who have not completely closed their minds to everything.
