Posted on 10/08/2014 6:40:00 AM PDT by george76
Amen.
I certainly think so.
Maranatha
Because we rejected Him in favor of ourselves.....
He created us with Free Will so that we would not be as automatons. With our Free Will we (Adam) followed Satan and we’re led to die.
We (Adam) were so remorseful at our mistake we cried out to Him for mercy and forgiveness. He loved us so much that He sent his only begotten Son that if we should believe in Him, we would no longer be lost and would be restored to eternal life not by anything we did, but by what the Son did and by which we are granted forgiveness by grace of the Son.
Bingo. We are living in the last days - if people would read their Bibles, they would have their answers.
You have access to the internet.
I’ll give you an example: The only thing I really care about right now, regarding ebola, is the fallout from the case in Dallas. How many are infected by him will tell us most of what we need to know about the seriousness of this threat. I don’t need to read about spain, Nigeria, etc., or the latest “possible” case somewhere.
This allows me to move on to other stories, like how fracking is going, economic news, ISIS, etc.
The fourth horseman of the apocalypse is symbolic of death and devastation. It seems to be a combination of the previous horsemen. The fourth horseman of the apocalypse will bring further warfare and terrible famines along with awful plagues and diseases. What is most amazing, or perhaps terrifying, is that the four horsemen of the apocalypse are just precursors of even worse judgments that come later in the Tribulation (Revelation chapters 8-9 and 16).
Similar curiosity about the frequent outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli a couple of years ago. Every week or so it was a new ‘crop’ or facility having outbreaks.
“There are people who want to reduce the world’s population to 500 million.”
Kind of feels like you’re beating your head against a brick wall doesn’t it.
People simply refuse to believe there really are people in powerful positions that want to wipe out all but 500 million of the Earths population.
Even if you show them where it’s carved in stone that they want to wipe out all but 500 million, they still refuse to believe it.
I don't think there's much doubt of that now.
The strange thing is that this disease will be far more dangerous in cities, effectively cleaning out the base of the Democrat Party.
I would add that there is an Illuminist aspect to your thesis, in that the Illuminati were originally an united by an eschatological thesis: the Jesuits wanted the return of Christ, the neo-pagans wanted the rise of the Phoenix from the ashes, the Muslims wanted their Mahdi, and the Sabbateans the arrival of Messiah (little did they know that despite what the Torah says, they missed Him the first time). With so many of the powerful so invested in death, we go back to the words of Messiah: the meek SHALL inherit the earth, those who depend upon G_d for what sustains them: the cowboy, the subsistence farmer, and the hunter-gatherer. That is what it means.
“Yes, and that makes me much more informed than the average CNN listener.”
I guess that’s why you said “Are there more? Or are we just hearing about them more? I don’t have tv.”
Thanks, Mom MD.
Read Genesis 1-3. Chapter 3 is where the bad stuff begins.
It’s really no more than usual. We just have a lot more “news” time than we used to have. And all the “news” sources want your attention for their advertisers, which means they go for the BIG events. And disease is always BIG, even when it really isn’t.
I remember just two or three years ago there was an odd chain of deaths of some of the world’s leading microbiology scientists. Car accidents, heart attacks, this and that. Something like a dozen of them from all over the world died within about a 12 month time period. Conspiracy theories grew speculating they were being killed to prevent them from developing cures to future diseases. Now, who knows?
Short and sweet answer ... because we decided we knew better than God did and went our own way.
Planetary defense mechanism is kicking in. Either by gods design or evolutionary development. When a dominant ape species thinks it has godly powers or becomes filled with deceitfulness, the planetary ape kill switch cleans the slate. And we are doing it to ourselves. No external help needed. It will only get worse as time goes forward. The four horseman are here and plain as day. All you have to do is look.
I guess that’s why you said “Are there more? Or are we just hearing about them more? I don’t have tv.”
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