I don't do charts, or complicated (at least to me) mathematical analysis. I value and commend these analytical approaches, but I'm not gifted with those same abilities. What I typically do as a fellow watchman is render bible studies, themes on Christianity and comments on world events.
World news events have ramped up sharply of late. Today's news headlines have me convinced that we truly don't have long to wait for Jesus.
Some time ago, I wrote a piece titled "Brinkmanship." The opening lines were...
These last few years may someday be called the years of brinkmanship. Everywhere we see it. China goading Japan. North Korea goading South Korea and the United States. In the Middle East everyone challenging each other so far without a major eruption.
We even see brinkmanship in economics and politics. Everywhere we look we see the game of brinkmanship being played. But the worst game being played is on the field between God and man. You can almost hear the shouts of "Let's push God as far as we can!"
According to the very definition of brinkmanship, it is a dangerous game. On every field of play someone is likely to push someone else past the point of no return. Someone will burst the bubble and it seems likely to happen on a number of fronts simultaneously.
I read several news articles this morning which have me convinced that the dangerous game of brinkmanship has brought the world to the point of no return. There is no going back to normalicy. I just don't see how the current situation can drag out for any appreciable time.
Here's the opening line in an article posted this morning (4/2/13) on Rapture Ready News...
...Something Has Central Banks Terrified
"This is all because of the one quadrillion dollars in derivatives that are in the financial system."
One quadrillion dollars. That's 1,000,000,000,000,000 dollars. I'm not using bold print, or exclamation marks. One quadrillion dollars is so colossal it just doesn't need them. I could give you a dictionary definition of a derivative, but the easiest way to think of this investment term is a wager on something that in itself may have no intrinsic value, but is linked to something that presumably has. Then you can also have derivatives of derivatives. Think of it like this; You bet that in my lifetime I will hit the lottery (bad bet). That is an exaggerated example of a derivative. You placed a bet that my wager would pay off. This is essentially the system used by banking institutions and brokers. Would you instruct your children to gamble their future lifetime earnings on my hitting the lottery… and not only that, but betting the earnings potential of all their descendants down through the next 7 or 8 generations? It is foolish to even imagine such a thing. Well basically the world bankers have bet the futures of the population of the entire planet down through multiple generations based on the assumption that things will continue to go on as they always have… and they keep pushing the stakes higher.
Take all your of your IRAs, paychecks, stocks, savings and gold and pile them up as a wall to protect you from an F5 tornado. That's how much good it will do.
Some watchers have grown weary. Sad to say that some have simply stopped watching because Jesus hasn’t come yet. Most of the world assumes that everything is just going to continue. My assertion is that the storm flags are out and the sirens are wailing. The wind is howling and that house sailing past you… is your own.
2 Peter 3:3-4 says…”3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” NKJV
They are saying the world is just going to continue as it always has… even as they stand on the brink.
YBIC
Bruce Baber