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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SOROS who wrote (14093)	9/25/1998 4:33:00 PM
From: Marconi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18691

Hello SOROS: Concerning matters eschatological, I profess to be a Christian, meaning God condemns me for my sin, but Jesus Christ is God's Son and the Messiah. God's Spirit works the miracle of faith in my heart to enable me to believe this truth revealed from God both through the sacrament of baptism and through God's Word (the Bible). The sacrament of communion strengthens my faith as well as regular worship and reading the Bible and considering what God is asking of me. A life submitted to God's will is a blessing, not anything of merit contributing in any way to salvation. Based on that footing, I would confess there are only two times in the world. Before the promised Messiah, and afterwards. I believe Revelation speaks of the years A.D. We can expect an increase in wickedness in the world, the turning of love toward fellow man to cold heartedness, and other wickedness so much so that if it were possible even the believers would be caught up in the apostasy. God promises that He works all things for good for those who love Him. The trials and tribulations do not harm the believer who is walking in faith, but allow a refining of the believer by God to something even more precious in God's eyes. In this context, I believe it is folly to attempt to map world events onto Revelation in order to arrive at an estimation of further things to come. Christ could return at any moment now, as all things have been fulfilled. In the spiritual sense, the one religion of the world is self-justification to God. The one government of the world is Satan and all of his influences, all things ungodly. The currency of this world is money, not faith, and the love and accumulation of it often without regard to actual need or love for fellow man. God's kingdom is not of this world, which world at the last moment of time, God promises to destroy by fire, and has already prepared a perfect heaven for believers, and judge the unbelievers to join the fallen angels in hell, a place God made to punish the devils and no man because God would will that all men come to faith. The devils have already received their judgment by God and know the time is short. I believe Revelation is a comfort to believers and speaks of God's wrath toward the wickedness of this world and unbelievers. I do not believe God's Revelation is an investment tool by any measure. In Christ's love, m