Randy (24 Sep 2007)
"I start to wonder IF we are looking too soon for things to happen, and then I see this......"


 

I haven't posted in a few months.....have just been watching and wondering....

You know, so many 'sound" arguments have been made for the rapture, and dates have come and gone........  Then I/we wonder.....how about THIS Rosh Hashanah.....or NEXT Pentecost......and so on and so on......

So, I keep watching Five Doves......but trying to "re-focus" ( at least a little) on the needs in THIS life.....smile....... but always continuing to watch......

Over the past 10 years, God has certainly made the case (at least in my mind) about the imminency.....the soon return.....the Rapture...... it just makes SO MUCH SENSE TO ME.......it can be the ONLY conclusion from scripture.....that's my view anyway.....we'll see.......soon.....  (??) 

And, all of the news coming out of Israel...the middle east....and elsewhere.....everything certainly seems to be lining up........

So, I come to the conclusion that it either must be soon (within 14 months) or it will have to take more time (a few years??) for the world to REALLY fall into chaos.......

And then I read 2 articles like these, below.....and wonder.....how soon??????
It could be REALLY soon...  (??)


From an article on www.Watch.org
Bin Laden's problem then is not really tiny Israel or global warming or mortgage interest rates, but an all-powerful and free West led by the United States. It alone has the military and economic power to stop radical Islamists. Plus, we bring the more powerful message of political freedom. And American popular culture, with its informality and egalitarianism, is sweeping the globe, seducing far more adherents than does rote memorization of the Koran.

So, despite bin Laden's bragging, America remains the big stumbling block, the stronger horse. The United States alone ensures that bin Laden stays a sick man babbling in a cave — and not a Muslim caliph in flowing robes, with billions of dollars in oil under his feet and weapons merchants lined up at his palace door.

Sound absurd? So once did the notion of a crater in Manhattan and $80 a barrel oil.
(So.....America MUST be "removed" from the picture....... hmmmmmm....) !!



And then this from the NY Daily News............

Israel to Syria: Use chem weapons & we'll wipe you off map


BY MATTHEW KALMAN in Jerusalem and BILL HUTCHINSON in New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Thursday, September 20th 2007, 4:00 AM

Israeli officials vowed to wipe Syria off the map if it is attacked with chemical weapons like one that reportedly exploded in July at a secret Syrian base staffed with Iranian engineers.
Politicians in Israel said yesterday they were not picking a fight with their neighbor, but pledged to forcefully retaliate if chemical warheads come screaming across its shared border.
"We will not attack them first. But if they ever use these weapons against Israel, then we must be clear — it will be the end of this evil and brutal dictatorship," Yuval Steinitz, a right-wing member of the Israeli parliament, told the Daily News yesterday.
Sparking shock waves across the Middle East was a report in Jane's Defence Weekly about an accidental explosion at a top secret Syrian base in July.
Citing Syrian intelligence sources, the report claimed a team of Iranian and Syrian engineers were killed July 26 while trying to arm a Scud-C missile with a mustard gas warhead.
Syrian official news agency, SANA, reported that least 15 Syrian military personnel had been "martyred" and 50 others injured in the blast near the northern city of Aleppo on the Turkish border. It claimed the early morning explosion was caused by the high temperatures.
The SANA report mentioned nothing of Iranian personnel killed in the mishap.
Jane's said dozens of Iranian workers were among those who died when a fire in the missile's engine triggered the explosion and release of a toxic cloud of lethal chemical agents banned under international law.
U.S. intelligence sources played down the report saying they've seen no credible evidence  chemical weapons were involved in the Syrian accident.

Soooooo.............which is it?  Soon.....or very soon??  I just can't walk away from what I've learned over the past 10 years.  I've read the last chapter of the Book.......and I know what comes next........  YFIC....

Randy