Posted on 04/14/2006 5:21:41 PM PDT by Btrp113Cav
That would be something...
Revelation 7
144,000 Sealed
1After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
2Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:
3"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God."
4Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
5From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000, 6from the tribe of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000, 7from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000, 8from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.
The Great Multitude in White Robes
9After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
"Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."
11All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
12saying: "Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!"
13Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?"
14I answered, "Sir, you know."
And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15Therefore, "they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them.
16Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.
17For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
Guess I am a pre-tribulation believer because that is just how I read it.
Related:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615802/posts
"The frightening truth of why Iran wants a bomb"
The Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | April 16, 2006 | By Amir Taheri
Posted on 04/15/2006 6:36:40 PM PDT by aculeus
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Last Monday, just before he announced that Iran had gatecrashed "the nuclear club", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disappeared for several hours. He was having a khalvat (tête-à-tête) with the Hidden Imam, the 12th and last of the imams of Shiism who went into "grand occultation" in 941."
I really like his ears. When is that season again?
Iran's busy developing rockets with MIRV...multiple nuclear warheads targeting the West and the US. (Israel's just the first step. They drool over plans to obliterate the US.)
Um, we're building another large base in the Middle East. Don't know exactly where, but supposed to be up and running in less than 90 days.
Last week Israel made a public statement to the US about Iran that seemed to be along the lines of tapping a foot. Time's a wasting, etc..
In the eyes of the world Americans are the new Jews. Easy to blame, hate, loathe, etc.. (Listen to the BBC any day of the week.)
Bush has already consulted with Congress about this, even with at least one democrat. Maybe he got what he needed.
Notice that Jimmy C. has been very quiet lately. Well, give him time and a plane ticket to the EU or wherever, and once bombs start falling he'll have plenty to say -- all of it lies.
Doesn't matter. He'll take credit for attacking Isreal and blame the Jews for any Palestinian deaths.
And most of the world (and MSM) will back him up.
Any time the West/Israel/the US back down or make conciliatory moves/statements in the face of Arab bad behavior, it encourages worse behavior. They strut around, talking big and ignorant Arab masses think they're demigods. It's Nazi Germany all over again. Same pathology.
Unfortunately, if Iran fires off the first nuke, Bush will be blamed despite democrats attempt to tie Bush's hands, etc.. The MSM will claim it's Bush's fault and hammer that line incessantly. The general dumb public will buy it or be so mad they won't care, they'll feel Bush should have whacked Iran first. Republicans will get a big black eye. (Think Kristina. The feds followed the law in terms of states having to ask for help, etc.. The public, manipulated by the MSM, didn't care, they thought the feds should have acted earlier despite the Constitution.)
Thanks for the links and reality check.
Your point?
No one takes what's going on lightly, but living under Iranian nuclear threat/extortion isn't on. They'll bomb us to kingdom come because they simply can't live with what the US represents. We don't have a choice because they're crazy.
Everything depends on the size of the strike against Iran, and hopefully, the fall of the present regime. (Syria will be told to sit down and shut up or expect the same treatment.) We're building another large base in the Middle East,(don't know exactly where), so the US is planning to stay a while.
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