Hi Everybody,
Last
night I watched The Hal Lindsey Report and some things
Hal said really got my attention. When I heard
what he had to say and then connected the dots (so to
speak) I came to a realization that we are so much
closer to the rapture than I had ever imagined.
Kingston
Technology has just announced that they have developed a
thumb drive with a capacity of 1 terabyte. To put that
into perspective, as Hal pointed out, a megabyte of
storage is sufficient to hold 256,000 standard
typewritten pages of information. This would be
a stack of paper 85 feet tall. Wow. A terabyte is 1 million times more
than a megabyte. In
other words, a tiny little storage device no larger than
a man’s thumb can hold the equivalent a stack of 8 1/2
by 11 inch papers 16,000 miles high. This blows my
imagination. “Wow”
times 1 million.
The
International Space Station orbits about 240 miles above
the earth. A
single tiny storage device no larger than my thumb can
hold all of the written data on a stack of papers 67
times higher than the orbit of the International Space
Station.
The National Security Agency is building a
storage facility in Salt Lake
City, Utah,
that will have an area of 1 million square feet. How many
tiny little thumb drives can the government store in a
building that is 1 million square feet in area?
Actually,
the above question is not really a fair one. Our
government’s computers are significantly more efficient
than a simple thumb drive. Therefore, the quantity of data is
considerable larger.
Please
continue to bear with me here for a moment. I am going to
make a point in a moment and tie this all into the
rapture. Patients
is a virtue.
Hal
Lindsey went on to say that this new facility in Salt
Lake City is predicted to
reach “multiple yottabyte” capacity by 2015. A yottabyte
is the largest named classification data storage
capacity. A
single yottabyte of storage capacity can record all of
the written data on a stack of papers that is 16
quadrillion miles tall, which is roughly equivalent to
the distance light would travel in 3 years. As you know,
light travels at 186,272 miles per second, and can
travel about 7 ½ times around the world in a single
second.
Please
keep in mind that the prediction by the Washington based
think tank that came up with this estimate said
“multiple” yottabytes of data can be stored in this
single facility of 1 million square feet located in Salt
Lake City. The
NSA also has a similar facility at Lackland Air Force
Base in San Antonio, Texas,
that is 1.3 million square feet. In addition,
the NSA has another data storage facility at Fort
Mead, Maryland,
that appears to be 5.8 million square feet, according to
a 2009 report in the Federal Register.
If
many multiple stacks of printed material that are 3
light years tall can be stored in a single storage
complex in Salt Lake City; then how much information
could be stored in all of these facilities combined? Also, how
many other huge data storage facilities are out there
that I do not know about?
Now I am going to say something very profound: The United
States Government
did not spend the incredibly huge amount of money
that this cost, or the incredibly huge amount of
time it took to develop and build all of this, if
it did not intend to use it.
In
light of my profound statement, let’s take a look at a
statement by Ira Hunt, the Chief Technology Officer of
the Central Intelligence Agency:
We fundamentally try to
collect everything and hang on to it forever – Ira Hunt. Chief
Intelligence Officer CIA.
Maybe
we need to believe what this man said. He certainly
has the credentials to make such a statement.
I
didn’t think much about it at the time when Fox News
broke the story about Edward Snowden revealing the huge
data collection being conducted by our government. Of course,
our government is collecting data. That is what
spying is all about.
I almost began to believe our government’s
response about only looking at phone numbers of calls
made to terrorists.
Our President assured us that nobody was
listening to our phone calls or reading our e-mails. When I
watched the latest Hal Lindsey Report I realized how
foolish I have been.
The incredible amount of data being stored by
these people can mean only one thing: Our
government is building a data base on every single human
being on the planet that contains every single bit of
data about each and every person. The man who
controls that will know the content of every phone call,
every e-mail, every post on every social web site, the
detailed banking history, the medical history, the names
of the friends, the names of the acquaintenances, of
every single human being. The man in charge of this database
will know who owns the weapons and where the weapons are
located. He
will know the name and location of every person who
opposes him. He
will know who the Christians are and where each is
located. He
will know where each and every dollar of the economy is
and he will control who can and cannot spend each and
every dollar. This
sounds more and more like something straight out of the
Book of Revelation in the Bible, rather than a work of
fiction about something way off in the future. It is real. It is in the
here-and-now. It
is already in place.
Just
imagine the vast amount of satellite imagery, with
resolution so precise that it can read documents being
held by people standing on the ground, that is being
photographed from space of the entire surface of the
world and being stored “forever.”
When I first started to study eschatology a few
years ago a large portion of end times prophecy seemed
like it was still far off in the future. I can
remember how Turkey
and Egypt
were on friendly terms with Israel,
how the world economy was stable, and there were no
signs to speak of in the sun, moon, and stars. The weather
was behaving itself, earthquakes were rare, volcanic
eruptions were even more rare, animals were not dying
off in mass, and there were no strange apocalyptic
sounds come from the earth. I remember when the government
was not stockpiling hollow point ammunition, and the
Department of Homeland Security didn’t exist; much
less purchase 2,400 tanks or hundreds of checkpoint
booths with bullet-proof glass. I remember
when homosexuality was still a bad thing, and
certainly nothing to be proud of. The verse
in the Bible where Jesus said that the last days would
be like ‘The days of Noah” seemed out of place and
didn’t make a lot of sense.
I
remember when the world’s food supply was not under
attack on every possible front. I don’t
remember reading about so many horribly evil and
disgusting acts occurring in the world. And finally,
I remember when few people knew what an RFID chip was,
and the idea of every human being having an identifying
mark of some kind that would not allow to buy or sell
without it seems so incredibly far off in the future –
like science fiction.
Now it is all here and it is in place. We just
absolutely have to be within days of the rapture. I cannot see
how we can get any closer to the conditions described in
the Bible as being in place in the last days, and I
absolutely believe that Jesus will come for His bride
and rescue her before the tribulation begins.
Below
is a link to the episode of Hal Lindsey that I told you
about:
http://www.rapturewatch.net/apps/videos/videos/show/18003219-hal-lindsey-report-6-21-13-
Carl Worline
Oaktree3168@aol.com