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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2017 12:57:09 GMT -6
... And people in the USA, unless it has had some sort of direct impact on them personally ... *crickets*.... Then out of nowhere hubby asks me something like... "Hey! When does this season of Walking Dead start?" ... What more do people need??? (Face, meet Palm!) I get it tiffanybw. I've actually found myself getting irritated and then having to step back and recognize that some simply don't see. I don't think it necessarily means they don't love the Lord. But, I'll be bringing up something about a hurricane, or fire, or Israel, or the sign that hasn't happened....ever. And they just smile, and continue their conversation about what's for dinner, or how they can't wait to go camping in October, or whether they should get a new job. That's in my own family! The family I have brought up to honor and love the Lord from their babyhood. And it includes my wife. And then I feel that tinge of doubt. And I say to myself, "Yeah, and they are all about to proven right. Their complacency will be rewarded by nothing changing." I have never bought on to any of the "end times" predictions throughout my whole life. Never even considered them as important dates or events to notice. But this is different. Something very different is happening at this time and I try to tell them. And they still just dismiss it. Oh, they are polite and appreciate me sharing and "let" me be the spiritual head of the house and all. But.. ehr! ahhh! man! Look alive already! I keep saying I just wish God would do something that wakes them up. Ya know, like an eclipse, or record hurricanes, or strange earthquakes, or record fires, or Israel bombing Syria, or 5 different anniversaries occurring this year, or the UN Peace and Safety conference, or the Cern Awake project, or a sign in the sky for pete's sake. But no, he just wants us to take it on faith. |
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Post by sawdy on Sept 7, 2017 13:18:22 GMT -6
I have never bought on to any of the "end times" predictions throughout my whole life. Never even consider them as important dates or events to notice. But this is different. I keep saying I just wish God would do something that wakes them up. Ya know, like an eclipse, or record hurricanes, or strange earthquakes, or record fires, or Israel bombing Syria, or 5 different anniversaries occurring this year, or the UN Peace and Safety conference, or the Cern Awake project, or a sign in the sky for pete's sake. But no, he just wants us to take it on faith. 110% agree with you on both of these points. I also have never followed "end times" stuff until this year. Gone are the days that I can sit and discuss nonsense like what happens on "House Hunters". Now it is all I can think about, but not in an obsessed way. I don't think I'm obsessed, I just relocated all my time wasting "entertainment" activities to reading about signs. As per your humorous take on signs, I frequently sing throughout the day Scott Clarke's song about signs. The signs are all there, like clues in a puzzle or detectives case that are all coming together, yet rather than do the work, they would rather watch the end result in a "make believe" apocalypse movie where someone else solves some clues to save their family. It is a good song to sing: *edit- how fitting that I am talking about singing in my 100th post. |
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Post by MissusMack08 on Sept 7, 2017 14:14:43 GMT -6
I have never bought on to any of the "end times" predictions throughout my whole life. Never even consider them as important dates or events to notice. But this is different. I keep saying I just wish God would do something that wakes them up. Ya know, like an eclipse, or record hurricanes, or strange earthquakes, or record fires, or Israel bombing Syria, or 5 different anniversaries occurring this year, or the UN Peace and Safety conference, or the Cern Awake project, or a sign in the sky for pete's sake. But no, he just wants us to take it on faith. 110% agree with you on both of these points. I also have never followed "end times" stuff until this year. Gone are the days that I can sit and discuss nonsense like what happens on "House Hunters". Now it is all I can think about, but not in an obsessed way. I don't think I'm obsessed, I just relocated all my time wasting "entertainment" activities to reading about signs. As per your humorous take on signs, I frequently sing throughout the day Scott Clarke's song about signs. The signs are all there, like clues in a puzzle or detectives case that are all coming together, yet rather than do the work, they would rather watch the end result in a "make believe" apocalypse movie where someone else solves some clues to save their family. It is a good song to sing: I'm totally obsessed, 😆 |
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Post by mike on Sept 7, 2017 20:08:07 GMT -6
Does anyone have information about how the Virgin Islands have made it through the hurricane? 95% of the French part of Saint Martin is destroyed as is the island of Barbuda. Currently still at 175 mph and Bahamas water is in the 80's so it may strengthen |
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Post by mike on Sept 7, 2017 20:20:48 GMT -6
I have never bought on to any of the "end times" predictions throughout my whole life. Never even consider them as important dates or events to notice. But this is different. I keep saying I just wish God would do something that wakes them up. Ya know, like an eclipse, or record hurricanes, or strange earthquakes, or record fires, or Israel bombing Syria, or 5 different anniversaries occurring this year, or the UN Peace and Safety conference, or the Cern Awake project, or a sign in the sky for pete's sake. But no, he just wants us to take it on faith. 110% agree with you on both of these points. I also have never followed "end times" stuff until this year. Gone are the days that I can sit and discuss nonsense like what happens on "House Hunters". Now it is all I can think about, but not in an obsessed way. I don't think I'm obsessed, I just relocated all my time wasting "entertainment" activities to reading about signs. As per your humorous take on signs, I frequently sing throughout the day Scott Clarke's song about signs. The signs are all there, like clues in a puzzle or detectives case that are all coming together, yet rather than do the work, they would rather watch the end result in a "make believe" apocalypse movie where someone else solves some clues to save their family. It is a good song to sing: *edit- how fitting that I am talking about singing in my 100th post. SK, I love this post! I am sorry to hear that your family won't hear this, but I love the end of this post. I immediately thought Luke 16:30-31 " And he said Nay father Abraham: but if one went until them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." Not saying this applies to your family, but how true is this. I mentioned to my boss around 1:30 today that it seemed Irma was definitely hitting south FL. I showed him where on the map he has on his wall in the office. We talked about that a little as this is amongst the strongest ever, then Harvey and the 1 in a million yrs storm, then I said half of the west is on fire. Then I said "maybe that eclipse actually meant something, like a warning." The look I got was like I completely crazy! I mean really! Read the end of what you said out loud and people are so numb to this that they think you're crazy?! "C'mon man!" |
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Post by barbiosheepgirl on Sept 7, 2017 21:47:58 GMT -6
Mom and I were at the hospital to meet with the kidney doc, and I brought my computer in case we were to be waiting for awhile. I tried to get on guest wifi and check in on unsealed. Really? Mom has a deal going on with an organ and all we care about is what's the latest at U, and planet J is making a move now...full moon, hurricanes, fires, Syria, debt ceiling news, NOKOnuk. big sigh....
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Post by MissusMack08 on Sept 7, 2017 23:00:41 GMT -6
tonight's update
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Post by tiffanybw on Sept 8, 2017 7:30:51 GMT -6
I have never bought on to any of the "end times" predictions throughout my whole life. Never even considered them as important dates or events to notice. But this is different. Something very different is happening at this time and I try to tell them. And they still just dismiss it. Oh, they are polite and appreciate me sharing and "let" me be the spiritual head of the house and all. But.. ehr! ahhh! man! Look alive already! I keep saying I just wish God would do something that wakes them up. Ya know, like an eclipse, or record hurricanes, or strange earthquakes, or record fires, or Israel bombing Syria, or 5 different anniversaries occurring this year, or the UN Peace and Safety conference, or the Cern Awake project, or a sign in the sky for pete's sake. But no, he just wants us to take it on faith. The last part,  ! Ha, ha! I agree with you and feel the exact same about the times we are in. I have never bought into any of the "end times prediction stuff" in the past either. Even now, it's not the actual signs that I'm buying into, that I am having faith in, or trusting in. All the signs, they are definitely compelling. No doubt about that. And I love digging into all of it, researching it, learning more about it. Never in my life has the Word of God been so alive! Not about that though, but about Him! I have my up's and down's like everyone else... but for the most part what I feel is; such excitement, longing, and the feeling that when I look at everything going on around me, just that it feels as if there is some sort of screen or barrier between me and "the world". I've never felt that before. It's like an overwhelming sense that this is not my home, and something in me is telling me that a big change is about to happen, that God's Children who know Jesus... that we are not going to be here that much longer. I honestly don't know and it's difficult to explain, other than saying... It is Jesus, and Him I completely buy into, Him I completely trust. And The Holy Spirit. Nothing else is real. Everything else seems so temporary and I feel so strange because as I look around me and even at my family (who I LOVE dearly and they are my biggest struggle, that I want so badly for them to also have the same thing happening to them that is happening to me). I have prayed and prayed about it and still do. So far, the answer I've gotten, that I feel being spoken to me when I talk to Jesus... is this... and not like word per word Jesus told me but just what I feel in my spirit: Just Trust Me. It will be ok and they will be ok. They are mine too and as much as you love them, I love them even more; and I know them better than you do. And so... just Trust Me. And I do. I do trust Him. With my family, and with all of these signs, and with everything. I don't trust them (my family), I don't trust me, I don't trust the signs, I don't trust in dates. Him, only Him. I don't know and it feels so different than I've ever felt before. Of course I've given things to the Lord before, have given everything to Him. But something feels different. And not in a bad way, in a good way! I don't get depressed like I used to, or anxious like I used to. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I never worry, because I do. But when that starts up in my mind, I feel His Peace, and I feel Him tell me as I stated above. I just KNOW in my heart that He has totally got this... this world... my family... and everything! It's why I don't get also, Christians who really condemn us for talking about the signs all around us and especially the Revelation 12 one. Because... it's not that I trust that. In fact, I pretty much know that whatever I am feeling, whatever I think will happen, whatever... I guess the words to use are doctrine... whatever one(s) I believe in or other people believe in, just that none of that matters. The ONLY thing that matters... believing in Him! And trusting that things will happen, and just as He says they will. So, pretty much, not to decide in my own mind what the answers are; not for me to "declare" anything at all and to believe that "this is the way it is". Just to believe Him. Then, by believing in Him, everything else falls into place; including the beliefs of my family, how cavalierly or not they take things. Or my mom, who I worry about so much lately and pray for a lot. Our relationship, it is nonexistent currently, because she has disowned me, wants absolutely nothing to do with me, declares me devil possessed, even has told family members including my own children than I am trying to kill her and poison her... and just REALLY OUT THERE stuff! I've prayed and prayed and asked Jesus what to do about it. When all of it started... just that it was because I called my mom out on a lot of things, a lot of sin. I now realize that I shouldn't have done it. I didn't then though. And I was hurting badly, had been hurting badly for pretty much my entire life. Also angry, with a right to be, absolutely righteous anger. But what wan't right about it was how I went about things. Because I was hurting, because I was angry, I said things... they were true and I wasn't lying... but the condition of my heart was I was wanting her to see how I was "right" and she was "wrong", and then for her to acknowledge and apologize for both past and present; also I wanted her to feel some of the hurt that I was feeling, and so I said things with intent to hurt (more so after I didn't get the reaction I was looking for from her). And just that... my mother doesn't believe in it being possible, her being "wrong" about anything. I knew that already so don't know, guess I was expecting a miracle. What Jesus has done for me though, He is just so amazing! He uses ALL for good, even my wrongs! Because my mother completely disowned me... for the first time in my life I wasn't living my life trying to please her and get her approval and love. And so what happened... I actually developed my very own relationship with Jesus that was just me and Him and didn't include what my mom had to say about Him. Because of that, I've grown just so close to Him. And as of now, I feel led, to just pray for her, and for The Holy Spirit to convict her heart. And that what is most important is not me, not my relationship with her, but is the condition of her heart. Because she does love Jesus, does believe in Him. But she doesn't trust Him. She thinks she can do something to lose her Salvation, that the reason she is the way she is... because she is so afraid to be with sin, to be "wrong" about anything. Because for her, that means that if she is not perfect that she has lost her Salvation. Her mom was the same way with her, and my grandmother the same with her mother. They can't ever approve of anyone and they judge everyone. The reason they do it... because they have never completely trusted in Jesus. They trust themselves and that it is about what "they do" that makes it whether Jesus loves and accepts them at any given moment. If she could just realize that it isn't like that, that she can not "do" anything to lose salvation and that everyone... herself, her husband, her children, and everyone is with sin and wrong... and just give that to Jesus. But so far, she hasn't. And not for me to judge her heart, but I fear for her. Because she is one of those Christians I talked about in another post I made, who truly believes they know Jesus. But they don't, because they are trusting in themselves and their own works instead of trusting in what He did for them on the Cross.  So for now, I am completely leaving things as they are unless Jesus tells me different. I know He Will convict her because He DOES think she is good enough and He loves her and He died for her and her sin. She is going to "get it", that believing as she does that she has control over whether she keeps or loses her Salvation... just that that is not Salvation at all. That is works. And she does believe that Salvation is by grace through faith and not by works (or says so but just doesn't realize the contradiction that exists). She loves Jesus and she will come around. And He loves her and so He won't stop until she does come around!  Went off track! But yeah, not about signs, not about doctrine or any other thing. It's about Only Him! And it is Him, through The Holy Spirit that leads me to believe (and all the signs are just confirmation) that the time is now! God Bless everyone and it is off to work with me unfortunately. Wish I could stay here all day lol! |
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Post by tiffanybw on Sept 8, 2017 7:36:58 GMT -6
110% agree with you on both of these points. I also have never followed "end times" stuff until this year. Gone are the days that I can sit and discuss nonsense like what happens on "House Hunters". Now it is all I can think about, but not in an obsessed way. I don't think I'm obsessed, I just relocated all my time wasting "entertainment" activities to reading about signs. As per your humorous take on signs, I frequently sing throughout the day Scott Clarke's song about signs. The signs are all there, like clues in a puzzle or detectives case that are all coming together, yet rather than do the work, they would rather watch the end result in a "make believe" apocalypse movie where someone else solves some clues to save their family. It is a good song to sing: *edit- how fitting that I am talking about singing in my 100th post. SK, I love this post! I am sorry to hear that your family won't hear this, but I love the end of this post. I immediately thought Luke 16:30-31 "And he said Nay father Abraham: but if one went until them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." Not saying this applies to your family, but how true is this. I mentioned to my boss around 1:30 today that it seemed Irma was definitely hitting south FL. I showed him where on the map he has on his wall in the office. We talked about that a little as this is amongst the strongest ever, then Harvey and the 1 in a million yrs storm, then I said half of the west is on fire. Then I said "maybe that eclipse actually meant something, like a warning." The look I got was like I completely crazy! I mean really! Read the end of what you said out loud and people are so numb to this that they think you're crazy?! "C'mon man!" Yep! I know the look as I get it a lot. lol The scripture you referenced, so so true! I think the best we can do is pray and then trust Him with them. (Though definitely we are doing right by sharing. We plant the seeds and they are the soil and decide what to do with it, whether to nourish it or to let it die.) And so after sharing... PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!!! |
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Post by brad on Sept 8, 2017 8:06:05 GMT -6
Here is a quote from latest fox news warning:
A hurricane watch has been issued for the east coast of Florida
north of Jupiter Inlet to Sebastian Inlet and for the west coast of
Florida north of Bonita Beach to Anna Maria Island.
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Post by brad on Sept 8, 2017 11:23:03 GMT -6
Hurricane Jose Now a category 4 Hurricane with 150 mph winds....
First time ever recorded 2 cat 4 storms at the same time!
Record rainfall from Harvey...
3 Hurricanes going at the same time...
8.1 earthquake hits North america...
Biggest evacuation ever underway in florida....
All happening in the 33 day window from the eclipse to the sign!
And the scientists say "Nothing to see here..... Just Global warming"!
It's not global warming.... It is God warming up for the Great Tribulation..... Why is the world just refusing to see the obvious....? Come Lord Jesus COME!
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Post by mike on Sept 8, 2017 11:25:25 GMT -6
brad - Holy! I mean really nothing to see here. The eclipse was such a pretty coincidence
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 11:38:45 GMT -6
Yeah brad , take it easy - eclipses happen every 18 months or so around the world. EDIT: thought I better make it clear I am kidding since not everyone knows me on this forum |
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Post by watchmanjim on Sept 8, 2017 11:45:01 GMT -6
Guys, Steve Cioccolanti just pointed out that Hurricane Harvey began its formation below the Cape Verde Islands--right near the area where the August 21 eclipse ended!
I verified this on Wikipedia and also found out that Hurricane Irma, and Jose, also began in the same location! (speaking roughly, but still!)
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Post by mike on Sept 8, 2017 12:48:07 GMT -6
Guys, Steve Cioccolanti just pointed out that Hurricane Harvey began its formation below the Cape Verde Islands--right near the area where the August 21 eclipse ended! I verified this on Wikipedia and also found out that Hurricane Irma, and Jose, also began in the same location! (speaking roughly, but still!) I had the same thought a few days ago but didnt Harvey form before the eclipse? I mean I do find it "ironic" that the eclipse ended right at that spot, where most of the major hurricanes (in August, Sept., Oct.) generate from. EDIT - Harvey started off the African coast August 13th...I just dont like exaggerating the facts to fit a "narrative". The Lord is providing and will provide enough evidence to prove what he needs to. (Not directed at you Jim). Guess my point is the eclipse occurred after the storm was already formed. Although we knew the eclipse path ahead of Harvey it wasnt there yet. |
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