End Time signs

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[Little Blue Nun]

And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the Ark on high from the earth. For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all the face of the Earth: and the Ark was carried upon the waters. And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth. AND ALL THE HIGH MOUNTAINS UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN WERE COVERED. (Genesis 7:17~20)

[Little Blue Nun]

Every mountain gorge was filled with water from the flood which froze and became glaciers which are still in the process of melting today! Let's look and see if there are any signs in nature which concur with the heavenly and Scriptural signs. One of the most talked about climatological anomalies of our times is 'global warming'. Believe it or not, the state of California is literally drying up. Many major rivers in the US are doing likewise. The glaciers that feed the great rivers of Europe are receding as they melt as are the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates etc. As world population in these areas is growing in leaps and bounds, the water supply for drinking and/or farming is drying up! Scientists estimate that at today's usage rates the glaciers will be gone in less than 100 years. They also say that a great deal of this evaporation and receding have taken place in the last 100 years! In other words, we are fast running out of the legacy that the Great Flood of Noah's day left to us! Having been raised in the North, I am quite familiar with the phenomenon of how quickly the surrounding snow starts to melt when the sun strikes a dark colored substance, such as an asphalt road, or a rock or pine cone or green grass. The point is that the process causes further exposure of darker colors which further accelerates the melting process and so on. The more that the underlayment of the snow is exposed, the warmer the area is and the faster the snow melts. Where the glacier has melted away, this phenomenon is sped up even more. With the population growing at the rate that it is, there is less and less water available for human necessities, for livestock or for farming and irrigation the further they are away from the source, and the more the evaporation is sped up by the increased warmth. Scientists for the most part blame this on the increase of greenhouse gases caused by the increase in use of fossil fuels... mankind's carbon footprint. The demographics of today's world situation shows that the population is growing despite the attempts to slow the birth rate, which further exacerbates the situation. The Earth's atmosphere being designed by God as it has been since the flood, has moisture coming down from the clouds in the form of precipitation, and this moisture then being evaporated and brought back up into the sky for another round trip, keeping the amount of available water a constant. One can easily see that God did not intend for the life here on Earth to last but a specific amount of time. The indication in the Scriptures is that this time would be divided into two segments just like His Creation, 6,000 years and 1000 years. He created for 6 days, and on the seventh day, He rested. In 2Peter 3:8 Saint Peter informs us thusly of God's conversion factor: "But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." It doesn't take a mathematician to realize that we don't have enough water to last us through a 1,000 years rest!!! Did God miscalculate? Heaven forbid! Man's inability to "... abstain from fornication; That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor: not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God." (1Thessalonians 4:3~5) is the real culprit. Imagine how it would be if mankind actually sought God's permission and pleasure as to children instead of taking it into his own hands as Adam did with Eve. In the writings of Saint Anna Catherine Emmerich in her book about the Blessed Mother, she gave a tutorial on the group in Old Testament Israel called the Essenes. You may have heard of them recently if you have followed anything concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls. They kept themselves apart based on the prophesy that the Mother of the Christ would come from their ranks. They sought the prophet's intercession with God to find out when they should marry, whom they should marry, and when they should come together to conceive a child. By leaving everything in God's hands, He, God, was in complete control, and He put Saint Joachim and Saint Anne together and of course, Our Lady was conceived, Immaculately, God having pre-approval the merits of the Cross of Jesus to Her soul to prevent the "original" sin from staining Her, and was born to them and became the Mother of the Christ. With this type of population control, there would never be ANY concern for water, food, or any necessity for mankind. The premise of blaming mankind and his carbon footprint begs the question. It is not the ecology and the not taking care of 'mother earth' that is the answer, but not taking care of our relationship to our God. HE IS THE CREATOR, AND WE ONLY HIS CREATURE. HE IS PERFECTION ITSELF, WE, ONLY HAVE A FALLEN, SINFUL NATURE. Wouldn't we be infinitely better off if we did it HIS way? Unfortunately, it appears that there is no correction that we are willing to take to remedy this obvious blunder! If you are a true Catholic and go by the Church's teaching, then you believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, then you must believe that the Scripture references in these statements connected to the traditions handed down to the Church through the Apostles, are also absolutely true. And of course, if you are a sola scriptura Protestant, then the scripture alone attached to these statements makes them absolutely true. Either way, we must all believe what Saint Paul said in 1Thessalonians 4:3~5. Step up to the plate and take the blame for global warming. For the complete text for this excerpt, see the above website and BMOF V.

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Some of them even connected to make words, and some sentences, but alas, none could pause for long enough to form paragraphs.

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[bigbob]

Great segue from water to fornication...

Must be a full moon.

[CaptainK]

Does a full moon obliterate paragraphs?

[Jemian]

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A strictly literal hermeneutic is foundational to the dispensational premillennialist viewpoint.

Interpreting Scripture in this manner will in fact demand such perspectives unique to dispensationalism as:
an earthly kingdom of God from which Christ will reign

a future redemptive plan for national Israel

a seven year period of great tribulation
the rejection of prophetic idiom

Dispensational premillennialism holds that a seven-year tribulation (foreseen in Daniel 9:27) will precede a thousand-year period (Revelation 20:1-6) during which time, Christ will reign on the throne of David (Luke 1:32).

Immediately previous to the time of great tribulation, all the dead saints will rise from their graves and all the living members of the church shall be caught up with them to meet Christ in the clouds (1 Corinthians 15:51-52; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17); this is known as “the rapture.” During this time of tribulation, there will be three-and-a-half years of world peace under an AntiChrist figure (Daniel 7:8; Revelation 13:1-8) who will establish a world-church (Revelation 17:1-15), followed by three-and-a-half years of greater suffering (Revelation 6-18). At the end of this period, Christ will return (Matthew 24:27-31; Revelation 19:11-21), judge the world (Ezekiel 20:33-38; Matthew 25:31; Jude 1:14-15), bind Satan for one thousand years (Revelation 20:1-3), and raise the Old Testament and tribulation saints from the dead (Daniel 12:2; Revelation 20:4).

At this time, the millennial reign will begin and Christ will reign politically over the earth at this time from His capital in Jerusalem (Isaiah 2:3). Throughout His reign, there will be no war (Isaiah 2:4) and even the natures of animals will dwell in harmony (Isaiah 11:6-9). At the end of this era of peace, Satan will be released and instigate a colossal (but futile) rebellion against God (Revelation 20:7-9). After this fated battle, Satan and the wicked are cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10), while the righteous proceed into their eternal state in the realm of the new heaven and the new earth (Revelation 21:1ff).

https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/mill.cfm

[metmom]

I sent LBN that very link a day or two ago.

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[Theophilus]

A dried up CA caused by global warming is old and busted. A drowning CA (Oroville) caused by climate change is the new hotness!

[PeaceBeWithYou]

If you want to pick cherries, try Gen. 8:20-22

20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

21The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even thougha every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

22“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”