You say that you are discouraged after the rapture does not come on a
certain feast.

You say nothing changes.  But it does change!  How far downhill the
world has gone, and how much further into prophetic conditions for the
end, than when they were predicting the rapture for 88!

I remember 88.  My life was somewhat normal then.  And probably many of
you had at least somewhat normal or very normal lives then.  We had not
gone so far into TV pornography, on-line porn, struggles with war that
seems to have no end in sight, terrorism on our own soil and affecting
servicemen even before 9/ll (remember the Cole?), hatred aimed at
Christians who follow the Bible, news stories about which hostile
nations are stockpiling germ and chemical warfare, fear of another
economic depression, relatives ridiculing our faith, and so forth.  I
may have missed some.  But it's getting much worse than it was, and
fast!   So things have changed.

But still the world does go on, as predicted, with people involved in
everyday things, people who never give our longing for the Lord's
Kingdom a thought.  And this too was predicted.  Was it St. Peter who
predicted this, among others?  Talking about scoffers who say His
second coming has never come yet.  Yes, this was predicted in the
Bible, and it's part of prophecy.

I too am hurting that I'm not in the Kingdom, but hoping still.

Mariel