Spring or Fall?
 
I have noticed some trends in our watching. First I have noticed that God’s ways are not our ways. If we (you and I) say that something is going to happen “soon,” or “very soon,” or even “very, very soon,” we tend to mean an understood amount of time that should take place quite momentarily from the time that we say it, correct?
 
God, on the other hand says soon, very soon, very, very soon, and even someone recently said that Jesus told them “NOW!” and yet here we still are waiting for NOW to BE, correct? (Reminds me of that song by the Smiths from the 80’s called “How Soon Is Now?”)
 
I have noticed also a trend regarding the seasons of Spring and Fall, that we seem to get excited as each approaches and then in turn look ahead to the next as the one we are in passes by without incident. In other words, we get excited about Spring as we see it approach and we pick out possible dates and as those dates draw close, the excitement level seems to peek at a certain point about two to three weeks prior to the selected date. As we approach that date and usually before we even reach the date, we begin to see a trend toward the Fall just in case the Spring date doesn’t happen once again, right?
 
I have been watching like this since 1982, so I have gotten good at this roller-coaster ride of heightened anticipation and let down that we at the Doves have made into a science, it seems. For a long time (in the beginning of my watching years) I was only mostly watching for the Fall, for various reasons. But then Marilyn Agee et al got me to look at Spring as well, along with many of you.  Right now we have many looking at this Spring season that we are now in. However, there is the Pentacodes guy who says we need to look at the Fall of this year, right?
 
Here is what I was just wondering… What if they are both correct? Since God’s ways are not our ways and His timing is different than our timing, could it be that now that we are actually in the correct year, finally, the Spring and Fall are so close together in God’s way of looking at them, that when He says, “Rise up my love my fair one and come away, for it is now Springtime etc…” That He is calling us to come away, right then, but we actually will be here still until the Fall, when He actually shows up suddenly and we are then taken because we knew that He would be here? What do you think?
 
Barry Amundsen