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RJR_fan,

I agree with you that many prophecy teachers interpret scripture incorrectly and merely make things more confusing.

However, evil does not triumph. In the end, believers are rescued and evil is defeated. I am not happy about suffering through evil, but I take great encouragement that our Savior will return soon and make things right. If I did not believe that to be so, I would be very disheartened at the state of things in the world today.

Blessings.

When Soviet Communism fell, it was a major setback for the doomsayers and fortune tellers. Their hatred of God and disregard for His mercies emerged then. Rather than humbling themselves before the Great Deliverer, admitting that no enemy was a match for Him, and that all proud adversaries to His Kingdom must fall -- these miserable and contemptible miscreants immediately scurried around, desperately seeking other antichrist candidates to cower/grovel before.

At this point in history, there are two global enemies to the gospel: Islam, and America's state religion of secular humanism. Both have an appointment with God behind the woodshed of history. I fear that the contemptible ingrates who ignored His victory over communism will provoke His wrath. Perhaps, in annoyance at fatalistic doomsayers, He will destroy our reigning ideology first.

Wise Christians undermine secular humanism by refusing to participate in the American state church. They refuse to render unto Caesar that which is God's -- the children entrusted to their care. Their kids don't show up in public schools, those kiddie penal colonies.

Wise Christians also pray for the fall of Islam, and study Arabic, Turkish, or Farsi so that, when that day comes, and a billion people wonder what to do next, they'll be ready with answers.

Foolish Christians continue reading their tea leaves, using God's Word for a ouija board, and always seeing therein the message that pleases Satan most: that God has ordained the world-wide triumph of evil.

Forgive me if I decline your kind invitation to become an unpaid cheerleader for the devil's team. God is at work around the world. I want to be in on what He is up to. Not contaminating His people with fatalistic despair and impotence.