Posted on 10/24/2015 2:42:28 PM PDT by lee martell
I occasionally listen to George Noory, on a radio show called Coast to Coast. This program used to be hosted by Art Bell. It features a dialog about paranormal experiences, UFO's, debates about green, evolution and religious issues. Every so often, so often, a guest will come on the air saying we are 'in the last days' before the apocalypse. Most recently, there was talk of The Shemitah; a belief of events starting with the appearance of a Blood Moon, that eventually lead to the end times. The end of the shemitah year was on Sept. 13th. The date passed by uneventfully, with neither Israel or the U.S. shown to be in any great peril.
I used to really keep up with those 'ending dates', a small part of me expecting something to happen. The last time I really fell for it (privately of course, as I would never voice an expectation that some would say borders on 'nutty') was during the summer of 1993; the summer of the Hale-Bopp Comet. The comet was discovered by two men simultaneously. Alan Hale, an astronomer in California and Thomas Bopp, a construction store manager who was a stargazer as a hobby discovered what some call the last Great Comet of the Twentieth Century. Great Comets are sometimes seen as harbingers of doom,i.e. the Great Comet of 1861, which appeared just before the Civil War, or the 1811 Great Comet, said to have come just before Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The Hale-Bopp had no major wars associated with it, but it's appearance coincided with a peak of general interest in celestial phenomenon and a popularity of paranormal talk shows, such as Art Bell's Coast to Coast. Many UFO buffs began the suggestion that there was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following in the tail of the Hale-Bopp Comet.
How about you, do you, or does someone close to you spend an inordinate amount of time living in the past or living in a state of waiting for the future, where the grass is always just a little bit greener than what we seen today?
Unfortunately, some took this speculation as literal fact. Enter the California cult named Heaven's Gate: a group based on UFO idolatry and ideation. Heavens Gate was led by Marshall Applewhite. In March of 1997, as Hale-Bopp was at its most prominent in the sky, 39 members of the cult committed ritual suicide, believing their souls would ascend to the UFO supposedly trailing the comet.
The news of this tragic event made me stop and think. Why was I so 'eager' for there to be an 'end times' scenario? What was I wanting to avoid or get away from? Had I given up thinking that I would find happiness in this physical existence? This was a healthy meditation for me to have. Since then, though I follow some celestial events and do listen to Coast to Coast (except when they spend too much time discussing Hell), I think more for myself. I try to live for the present, and take more time when listening to others. I try to find something of value in everyone I encounter. No, I don't always succeed, but I consider this a worthy goal, an uplifting approach to enter each day.
Thank you. You have an unbreakable will to recover, survive and live.
You know how it goes. As soon as you stop looking, bam there it is...
Well what with the Earth being square and all there are many ends or beginnings or something something.
I rarely ever listened to either, but I get the distinct impression Noory is humoring his callers most of the time. I remember one time he was discussing sightings of elves. Yes elves. One caller very sincerely described how he woke up paralyzed, and out of the corner of his eyes could see elves scurrying about his room. One eventually climbed onto his bed, and walked up on his chest and looked him in his face. Noory, in a completely serious voice stopped him and asked, “Was he wearing shoes?” I was laughing too hard to hear the answer.
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
Comes from boxing for four years :) And great big fat Italian family!
God bless you and yours,
If I thought Christ was going to return to this earth
tomorrow; I’d plant a tree. - The Antichrist has to appear
on this earth first before the Day of the Lord. - I’m
praying to be able to escape all these things that must
soon come to pass and to be able to stand before Christ
when he returns. Occupy!
The world came to an end between September 21 - 29, 996 AD. 1000 years after the birth of Jesus.
All since then has been an illusion of Satan.
Thank you. Yes, stories about watching elves in the room makes driving at night under the stars really fun. Too funny.
#ElfLivesMatter!!
God sent his prophets and His Son to warn those of no faith that He was coming to clean up our mess. For those of us who know His voice we look forward to His coming. The last days are the last days that man and Satan rule this world. My place of peace is thinking about the time He rules with us. It is going to be better than the American dream.
As for listening to false prophets, ignore them. They are heading for great punishment. Read what the Messiah, Jesus, said about the last days before His rule in Matthew 24.
Love God and your neighbor as yourself and ask for the faith to overcome the turbulent times we are seeing. Maranatha!
Good advice!
Comet Hale-Bopp was visible in 1997, not 1993...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp
For the liberals, the world will end on January 20, 2017.
Amos 9:10-15
10
“All the sinners of My people will die by the sword,
Those who say, ‘The calamity will not overtake or confront us.’
The Restoration of Israel
11
“In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David,
And wall up its breaches;
I will also raise up its ruins
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12
That they may possess the remnant of Edom
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Declares the Lord who does this.
13
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When the plowman will overtake the reaper
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
When the mountains will drip sweet wine
And all the hills will be dissolved.
14
“Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel,
And they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them;
They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine,
And make gardens and eat their fruit.
15
“I will also plant them on their land,
And they will not again be rooted out from their land
Which I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.
It is like proverbial watched pot. The world would end while your watching. The Bible says so.
I turn off coast to coast when he has his vitamin selling sponsor as a “guest.”
If not for modern American medicine I’d be dead four times over.
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