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Sorry didn’t complete that sentence= meant to say that - no one who knows Jesus (who belongs to Him) should be surprised to see Him doing everything He can do to bring in as many souls into His Kingdom BEFORE His beloved Bride is Raptured up to heaven to be with Him during the awful times that will occur on this earth during the Great Tribulation!

I believe He is doing just as was promised in Revelation 14 (though I didn’t know til now this was speaking about this time BEFORE the Great Tribulation - and, who knows, it may also refer to the great harvest of souls that will happen even during those terrible times that will occur during the GREAT TRIBULATION - the day of God’s Wrath - that has been long promised all throghout the Bible - especially by Jesus Himself (as told in Matthew 24, for instance).

Revelation 14 (second half of that chapter): Note the information about Jesus and the angels involved in a great Harvest - where Jesus is seated on the clouds and is putting in His sickle to reap a huge harvest of souls...could that be what is going on with all these “unusual” clouds and the other “sky events” and all these disasters and the unusual weather - all of it!

Revelation 14

6Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. 7He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

8A second angel followed and said, “Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”

9A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, 10he, too, will drink of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name.” 12This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God’s commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.

13Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”

The Harvest of the Earth

14I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one “like a son of man”[a] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” 16So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

17Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” 19The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. 20They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.