[wideminded]

Death is inescapable for us all, but is dealt with only rarely by most people today. However, for people back then, it was a matter-of-fact part of daily life. Remember the old nursery rhyme?

Ring around the rosey, ...

"Many have associated the poem with the Great Plague of London in 1665, or with earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England. ...

"Folklore scholars regard the theory as baseless for several reasons: ..."

- Wikipedia

[roamer_1]

Not a student of the Prophecy, I see.

[NTHockey]

>>Not even Jesus claimed to know the times and dates of such things.<<

Denying the the divinity of Jesus is one of the oldest heresies. Jesus, the Son of God, knows all.

[politicianslie]

BIG LIES such as the 100 Years War have been used on societies throughout history. Looking back on history the truth is obvious to us now but the truth was a secret to those who lived it. Today we are living through a series of BIG LIES and our society is almost universally blinded to the truth:

STIMULUS PACKAGE: An incredible sum of money used not to create jobs and stimulate the economy but money used to bribe "progressives" and other fools to continue their support of the takeover of the US Government

GLOBAL WARMING: A scam thought up by leftists to tax Western Societies heavily for the published purpose of limiting their use of energy to suppress their green house gas production. The real purpose is to tax the capitalists so heavily that their way of life is changed forever and seemingly endless funds are generated to continue the takeover.

HEALTH CARE BILL: The population is taught that FREE HEALTH CARE for the poor and the reduction of spending by the Federal Government is the purpose for this takeover of our health care system. The real reason is another entitlement program to strangle the system.

ISLAM IN OUR SOCIETY: An Islamic Major shoots dozens of unarmed soldiers, a president convinces Congress no investigation is needed. An underwear bomber is given Constitutional rights and the interrogation stops that might reveal more plots and might save lives. If the bomb had gone off and destroyed the airplane in flight, do you think you'd have ever known the truth?

BARACK OBAMA: A radical leftist that the press debates may be taking us toward socialism when his real purpose is to destroy our system of government and remove our individual liberties. He was created in a fairytale with his real background records sealed. Criticisms are labeled racists and he is given a magical pass that excludes criticism as he is erasing all of our radical racists past history.

As the Earth progresses toward a colder period, GLOBAL WARMING is renamed CLIMATE CHANGE. As HEALTH CARE cost projections grow to show the scam, the government meets in secret sessions to ram through this radical legislation (you do know that MEDICARE is a broke, don't you?). As the first STIMULUS PACKAGE is shown to be a total failure the radical FEDERAL GOVERNMENT proposes another package with the thought that the 10% unemployment figure would be worse if we hadn't done so much earlier.

You get the point: The government controlled press controls what you think. Nuts like Glenn Beck only see some of the trees in the forest but they too are blinded by the enormity of the lie. They reason like you, this series of lies could never happen in America.

[winodog]

I thought your post was great.
I am 52 and have never really suffered, especially not for my faith.

[winodog]

This fits with the last part of your post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2424981/posts

[winodog]

This is another interesting statement. How do you reconcile this with the rebirth of Israel and the return of the dispersed Jews. Not to mention the military might that has been gathered in the region.

Yet, nothing within me believes that the world will soon come to an end, not now, nor in 2012, nor even at some distant date in my own or my children's lifetime

I am convinced that the draws close. Thanks for the convo this morning.