Posted on 05/03/2009 6:15:12 AM PDT by spacejunkie01
Last night I watched Hal Lindsey (www.hallindsey.com). He does a 30 minute show on one of the Christian channels and it's all based on current news and how it relates to the Bible. His show last night, in particular, was about 'EMP's'--electro magnetic pulses. He said that many of our enemies are training and planning on inflicting an EMP on us, where they launch a rocket 180 miles above the US and the gamma rays obliterate our entire electric grid and every single electrical component we have.
Of course he connected the fact that Obama is doing away with our Missile Defense Shield.
His tag line is something like, todays news and yesterday's prophecies.
Anyway, I really thought if Fox News was bold, they would use this or something like it to replace the Beltway Boys or some other 1/2 hour slot. There is a HUGE amount of interest in this nation right now about end times and what the Word of God says is coming our way.
Thoughts? If this is a dumb post just say so, or delete it admin mod.
That isn’t a bad idea.
1) Yes, the founders did it. But they also did it without 300+ million people in their country. We’re never going back to an 18th century agrarian economy. We would need about 280 million people to just sit there quietly and die for that to happen.
2) An EMP is only practical from a nuclear weapon. Then, as always, MAD applies, so nobody will do it.
Probably not a good idea to bank your news network’s accuracy on a guy who predicted the world would end in 1988. Then again, they do hire Susan Estrich.
If you truly watched this show is just a way to take current events and line them up with Biblical prophecy. I think it is very dangerous what Hal is doing in some instances. What it does is get people in a state of “fear” and what does the Bible say about “fear.” “Do not be anxious about anything.”
By the way TBN made sure Hal does not say any derogatory about Muslims in his news (Best-selling author says Christian network tried to muzzle his views on radical Islam —http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48163 )
Naaah, the amount of suffering and death in the US would be far too staggering. And if you think the current regime is bad now, wait until they are placed in charge of rebuilding society after an EMP. They’ll round up the Christians into gas chambers.
That’s my biggest beef with Hal. He has been setting dates, or almost setting dates for some time. He shouldnt’ do that.
As to those who cast stones at his marriages, you do not know what caused his marriages to break up. Hal may not have been guilty of anything other than bad judgment. Or, perhaps like many men, he is married to his career and they couldn’t take it. Or, perhaps he is guilty of something. We simply don’t know and those who like to harp on his marriages in a self-righteous way sure are impressive folks, being without sin themselves.
I try to evaluate what is being said. Not necessarily who is saying it. If a person has proven themselves untrustworthy in some aspect, I will take that into consideration.
The peace and quiet from having no gadgets and gizmos would indeed be nice, but it might get awfully noisy before that moment arrives.
Once the electronics and cell phones go off-line, there won’t be any more food or fuel deliveries. Cars and trucks have onboard computers that might get fried by EMP, which would halt all transportation. (Besides EMP, imagine anything that would stop trucks from rolling ... oil embargo, sunspots, plague, mega-tsunami, super volcano, nukes ... and you arrive at the same nightmare scenario.)
There also wouldn’t be any delivery of medications, so imagine half a million fellow citizens in your region suffering Prozac withdrawal ... hoo yeah!
All those hungry people in the cities and suburbs won’t politely sit there and starve (damn rude of them), so they’ll be headed to farm country for lunch.
So, yes ... your farm would be nice and quiet. After a feww months. But not so much until then.
He will still criticize them.
I don't ever remember Hal Lindsay predicting a day or time the world (as we know it) would end. I do know that something "changed" in 1988.... and Reagan leaving office was definitely a big one. No one ever again... filled his shoes adequately.
It’s funny that you say that because I feel the same way. VERY conflicting. On the one hand I absolutely LOATHE obama and on the other hand I LOATHE Obama....haha just kidding.
On the other hand I totally feel this is necessary to get us back to where GOD wants us. The use of an EMP on the US would take us back to the beginning of the 1900’s! Think about that!! At this point, that has such appeal to me as we’d truly go back to the basics.
Fox does have Dick Morris. Lindsey’s predictions have been more accurate than Morris’s.
That's not quite true. The events he predicted didn't come when he said. I haven't heard him say the world will end.
The Pentagon has been preparing for such an attack for years now.
I personally think an EMP attack would not be as successful as some imagine.
I certainly don't think it would be carried out by the Iranians.
2 Peter 3
3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."
I think the Bible has been warning of the "end" for about 2,000 years. Hal is only repeating what the Word says. Have you actually listened to him?
If I am correct....Hal predicted the rapture to happen in 1988 or end times. Hal Lindsey is a false prophet .. In Biblical days he would have been stoned....
I agree with you on all.
As a native Texan, I especially knew exactly what we were getting with 43. He had the nickname “shrub” among true Texas conservatives for a reason.
All the EMP would do is destroy the banking system,food and fuel distribution,medical care above the local herbalist,cripple modern police,degrade the military,wipe out personal and business communication(the post office UPS,Fedex are all highly computerized,cause air crashes and the cancelling of 99% of air traffic,knock out TV and radio except for a few that have old tube sets,providing the power grid didn't go off as well.
Persons wishing for a return to old tyme simplicity forget all the old tyme hardships !
A good list. I was making toast when you reply came up, good grief I wouldn’t even be able to that.
Sometimes I just wonder about people and where there heads are. I think that many suffer from cranial rectomitus.
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