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[Speilb]

If your like me you have been hearing from people about the Blood Moon Tetrad.  I posted a video about it to Youtube if your interested. 

 

 

also while your on youtube if you want to meet my wife and I, the Baton Rouge Paper did a story about interracial couples and interviewed us.  They took a lot of the Jesus content out but they couldn't take it all. 

[chipped china]

I agree with you about the blood moons, and it was really fun meeting you and Bukky. I'm so glad you are posting here.
Praise the Lord! Blessings, betsy

[Meema]

Thank you for posting this, it is the first sensible thing I have heard on the topic. Let me say, I believe God still gives us signs sometimes individually for different reasons, and, for what it’s worth, I believe we are in the waning days of this age for reasons I won’t go into. What I and no one else can know is, what does that mean? My spirit feels the rising anger against a lawless generation that is not isolated to a region. It is certainly global. But God’s timing is not man’s. His patience is without bounds.

 

I don’t know what the point is, other than to sell books, for all the hype about prophesy that this is the END because, based on all the different doctrines, that could mean all manner of things. One sect believes they’ll be all caught up before tribulation, others believe mankind will become gods and fix everything wrong about human life and make heaven here on earth. They each cherry-pick Scripture to back their beliefs. What does God think, though? Do heavenly signs cover all the interpretations? If Christ came to fulfill the Law and the old covenant, why do the references to the old way still matter? Feast days? Passover? These do not apply nor matter to the New Israel. The inclusive, covenant with many. If Paul, in the first century, rebuked those who were still trying to incorporate the old ways into the new, why do we still cling to those things. The new Body is Spiritual and includes anyone whosoever will accept Christ as Savior. There is no significance to anything prior to the fulfillment. So, why would God make it matter again?

 

If I thought the promoters were truly interested in winning souls, I’d consider that they had at least good intentions but warnings of pending doom never won anyone to Christ and if it did, would that not be doing the right thing with the wrong tactic?  And, as you said, it's crying wolf and just makes people more skeptical. Prophesy, in the old testament was not for the lost. It was for the sole purpose of warning the people of God that they were about to be judged for their backslidden ways. Jeremiah stood in the ruins of the first temple and wept. God said to him, “Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great things and difficult which thou knowest not. Jer 33:3. 

 

I don’t know where I am going with this except to say that all New Testament prophecy was about being prepared - always. We are told He will come like a thief in the night, unannounced. We shouldn’t need celestial signs if our lamps are full. Those who have left their first love wouldn’t get it anyway. 

 

As far as the hour and the day, consider this: If Jesus doesn’t know the hour or the day, which He said flatly only His Father in heaven knew, then Satan doesn’t know either so he keeps trying to bring it about. Who can argue that there haven’t been all manner of fulfilled prophecy from Revelation through out the last two millennia, the rise of psychopathic antichrists, pestilence, war, rumors of war, men’s inhumane treatment to men, death, famine, devastating earthquakes? 

 

I don’t claim to know the answers. What I do know is that most are not prepared for anything disastrous, signs or no signs. Like in the days of Noah - eating, drinking and being merry. Even if a meteor slammed into earth, most people still would not see the hand of God in it. And for those who did, it would be too late anyway. 

 

I don’t need heavenly signs to know that Christ is my Redeemer, and that He is in control. So, I just keep my lamp trimmed, I see what is going on, and try to stay removed from Babylon, I know that sooner or later, based on the good news prophecy, that Christ will come to set things right, finally. 

 

Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 

 

For HIm,

Meema

[Gordy]

good to meet you.  May the Lord bless you and Keep you.