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Are you Lucy telling me, (Charlie Brown?), to common and kick the ball - you won't pull it away at the last minute or delve us into another off-point, horrific contention?

Suffice it to say, you got it wrong again there, metmom, and, again, it is off point from this discussion which is about our current dispensation of God's grace offered to all and why the message of God's unstoppable Tsunami of Salvation will be a "compelling" (urging) to come in (Luke 14:23) because the time is so short before he takes his own out of the earth to Heaven to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb and all hell breaks loose here on the earth. God wants to rescue as many as he can before it all comes crashing down - very soon IMO.

At the risk of allowing more grief, I'll venture this: the soon-coming tribulation is a change from the millennia of God's mercy to a relatively short time (seven years) of God's wrath upon those who have continued to refuse Christ's free gift of salvation. But God calls it "a strange work" because God is Love and his mercy "rejoices over judgement". Nevertheless God is also a Judge and this horrific time is coming very soon IMO.

21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. 22 Now therefore be not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Isaish 28:21-22.

All the more reason for us to jump in the flow of God's Tsunami of Mercy and Salvation and do our part as ministers of reconciliation to bring in as many as possible before "that great and terrible day of the Lord."