I am mainly a lurker, although I have sent in a couple of posts.  My family and friends humor me and feel I am too focused on the Rapture.  Sometimes I feel like the Lone Ranger.  I read the newspaper and I see the Signs of the Times.  God began impressing "signs" upon me back in 1976.
 
I am not talking just about the Signs of the Times, but signs in our lives and in the lives of others.  Signs point us in the direction God wants us to go.  The Bible is our roadmap.
 
I was also thinking today about my hobby which is genealogy.  In recent months I have questioned why I am continuing to look for information about my grandparents and great grandparents.  If I believe Jesus is coming soon, to whom will all of this information I have collected matter?  To answer that question, nobody will care.  It is one of those collections that will be burned up and destroyed eventually.  And I have that glorious hope that each one of these people whom I loved will be in Heaven to welcome me home.
 
We have to look at the things of this earth as sheer folly, foolishness, in the light of Christ's return for us.  There are days I feel He is so near.  No, I have not had any dreams that I can recall in recent days or months.  But I have a peace that passes understanding.
 
I am concerned about the salvation of my daughter-in-law who is Hindu from Nepal.  I pray for God to open her heart to understand His gift of Salvation and to understand her need to accept Jesus as her Lord and Savior.  I pray she will understand He is God and not just one of the many found in the Hindu religion.  Pray for Shweta and her cousin, Shebetcha.
 
Thanks for all the postings and the insights.  I have to admit all the math is beyond me.  I praise God for the ability of some of you to compile it and study it.
 
I do not pretend to be a prophetess.  I have prayed for a discerning heart.  I watch the news with great interest.  Much of it appalls me but I see it as part of the prophecy.  These things will occur before the End of Time.
 
I remember in the 1950/60s there was a belief that man would become increasingly good.  We would rise above pettiness, cruelty, racism, prejudice, etc.  As Christ was preached throughout the world, mankind would improve their lot.  Hasn't happened.  I am a social worker, a rare conservative Christian social worker.  What I have witnessed during the performance of my job has shocked me and made me realize beyond a shadow of a doubt that man is inherently evil and his/her thoughts are evil.
 
"Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in this earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart."  Genesis 6:5-6
 
"This is an evil in all that is done under the sun:  that one thing happens to all.  Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead."  Ecclesiastes 9:3
 
I am sure God is grieved with us.  I thank Him for his wondrous gift of Salvation.
 
 

 God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.