tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post485441420832405318..comments2023-10-07T04:07:56.527-04:00Comments on The End Time: Police restrain crowd from taking food after supermarket evictionElizabeth Pratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04341086233512507156noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post-50812839474510941532013-03-31T07:36:00.565-04:002013-03-31T07:36:00.565-04:00No, peace taken from the earth IS the definition. ...No, peace taken from the earth IS the definition. If there is still a peaceful place on earth, the seal hasn't been broken. We are not in Revelation yet, because the church is still here. Enough saidElizabeth Pratahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04341086233512507156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post-86396686627948852422013-03-31T05:58:43.860-04:002013-03-31T05:58:43.860-04:00Peace has been taken from the earth by almost any ...Peace has been taken from the earth by almost any definition. <br /><br />Starting in 1914, Peace left the Earth for good. The last major peace was from 1815, the defeat of Napoleon, to the beginning of WWI with minor interruptions of the Crimea war, US Civil War, and the dust-up in Europe of 1870. <br /><br />The elites of the world abandoned God sometime after the Portuguese started global exploration in the 15th century and largely before the French revolution of 1789. However, it was WWI that caused the masses to reject the church and God. Only twenty years later WWII guaranteed that the next generation lived with war. Post 1945 there were continuous wars and fighting.<br /><br />The United States alone spends close to one trillion dollars a year fighting wars. Drones reign fire death on wedding parties and suspected terrorists alike.<br /><br />It is likely that a fourth of the world has died from pestilence etc. Even if you disagree, and it would be difficult to find accurate numbers I think, that is the fourth seal, not the first. The rest of the Apocalypse that you quote refer to seals five and six. <br /><br />Thus, we have experienced seals 1-3 and possibly number 4, but probably not 5 or 6 yet. Chinese Christians might disagree with you about seal 5, but I agree that it will get much worse.<br /><br />I maintain most American megachurch and even fundamentalist Christians will be utterly shocked when they find out that they live in the heart of the beast. It takes a person who has studied the "longue duree" of history to see what I am explaining. With such a view unfortunately, the reality is absolutely frightening.<br /><br />I found that architecture showed me the clearest picture. Take a view at the campus of Harvard University for example. There are two buildings that do not fit the normal New England architecture. The first is the Colosseum, the Romanesque sports area built in the late 1800s, and the second is the main library - Widener - that is built in the manner of a Greek temple.<br /><br />According to Theodore White, Harvard Business School was formed in 1910 to create a managerial class to run the American led Multinationals which would soon rule the world. As it turns out, Harvard was amazingly successful - an "Empire without an Emperor" is what the US is now called on campus. Interestingly, in 1912, a ship carrying several hundred of these business magnets sunk after hitting an iceberg. A warning or judgment perhaps? One year later, Mrs. Widener built the Greek styled Temple Widener library at Harvard with a room for the spirit of her deceased son as he had drowned in the Titanic disaster. She did this in defiance of God I believe. One year later, Peace was taken from the Earth for good.<br /><br />Times will get worse certainly. However, we may be further along the timeline than some think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post-74380456501560033892013-03-30T07:15:51.911-04:002013-03-30T07:15:51.911-04:00Hi ANonymous,
We have not been living through the...Hi ANonymous,<br /><br />We have not been living through the seal judgments. The Tribulation has not begun yet. We are not living under God's wrath but God's age of Grace.<br /><br />Has peace been taken from the earth? (Rev 6:4). No.<br /><br />Has a fourth of the world died from pestilence, famine, war and beast? (Rev 6:8). No<br /><br />Have Christ's saints been martyred in a bloodbath unparalleled in the world? No. (Rev 6:9)<br /><br />Has the sun gone black and the stars fallen like shaken figs? Every mountain shaken from its place? (Rev 6:12-15). No.<br /><br />Has every person cried out that the wrath of God is here and who can stand? No. (Rev 6:16-17).<br /><br />When the world is in the heart of the beast they won't have a question mark at the end of their sentence. They will know it.Elizabeth Pratahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04341086233512507156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post-16945107668290490882013-03-30T04:24:06.355-04:002013-03-30T04:24:06.355-04:00Arguably, we have been living through the seal jud...Arguably, we have been living through the seal judgements. For example, when one counts the number of cities destroyed in WWII vs. cities not destroyed, the ratio is quite high. When twenty million Russians died and 100 million starved short of death, how is that anything but a seal of God?<br /><br />I think around 1500 is when the end times picked up speed, though we know the last days were from the time of Christ.<br /><br />So, if we have been living through the seal judgements and yet it has seemed relatively peaceful in the United States, one should ask what this means? Was not Rome the safest place to be during the Roman empire? The fact that we have relative peace does not mean necessarily that God has blessed us - it could mean that we live in the heart of the beast.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post-90576622693943636502013-03-29T02:10:43.237-04:002013-03-29T02:10:43.237-04:00Thank you for all your posts. God bless you for sh...Thank you for all your posts. God bless you for sharing your knowledge, your talent and, most importantly, your faith.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com