[David]

I Thessalonians 4 and 5 describe the Rapture and the circumstances that surround it.

I Thess 4 describes the events that precede the Rapture ending with 15-18 which say: 15 . . . we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout . . . and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to mee the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (15 to 17 are the Rapture)

I Thess 5 tells us when: 1 But of the times and the seasons brethern, you have no need that I tell you--proceeding on through 8 about the events of the time and then in 9 telling us when the Rapture happens: "For God has not appointed us to Wrath."

The Rapture happens before "Wrath" starts.

Revelation 6:17 says "For the great day of his wrath is come . . . . " Wrath starts after the events of Revelation Chapter 6 and before Chapter 7 which is logicial since in 7:9 we see the Raptured Church in heaven ("out of the great tribulation"--7:14); and in 7:3-8; the Jewish remanent on Earth who have accepted Jesus Christ as Messiah who had the Rapture not occured before they do so, would be Raptured.

So where are we now: Revelation 6:6: Wheat three times the price of Barley; and the oil and wine hurt not. Wheat has been three times the price of Barley one time and one time only during the church age and that was in May 1996 when the 200% penalty tax on imported cooking oil and wine, adopted to leverage the Europeans to agree to GATT; suspended when they agreed to the terms of the treaty; was finally eliminated when the treaty had been signed, thus hurting not the oil and wine.

6:2 was Saddam; 6:4 was Desert Storm.

After 6:6: As I have told you many times, the quarter of the earth is the area occupied by the Moslem Jihad--74 degrees East Longitude to 16 degrees West Longitude; 90 degrees and exactly a quarter of the earth. The war is the Jihad War now starting; famine is widespread; death from AIDs is widespread; death from the beasts of the earth comes from ebola and Mad Cow which are transmitted by the flesh of the beasts of the earth.

All exactly and precisely as set out in his Holy Word. Praise God for the precision, accuracy and guidence he has given us in his Word to know where we are in time and can be watchful.

[don-o]

So where are we now: Revelation 6:6: Wheat three times the price of Barley; and the oil and wine hurt not. Wheat has been three times the price of Barley one time and one time only during the church age and that was in May 1996 when the 200% penalty tax on imported cooking oil and wine, adopted to leverage the Europeans to agree to GATT; suspended when they agreed to the terms of the treaty; was finally eliminated when the treaty had been signed, thus hurting not the oil and wine. 6:2 was Saddam; 6:4 was Desert Storm.

Quick, please. I need a stock tip for Monday.

Buy oil or sell wine?