Dear Doves,

 

   We read in The Scriptures about common activities in the days of Noah and the days of Lot. What are those combined activities? They are eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, buying and selling, planting and building. The last 2 are seasonally specific. In the times or days of Lot was a conflagration, a firestorm, which ignited and destroyed the 5 cities on the plain, including Sodom.The people, save 3, were burned to death. The theme for the days of Noah was water: with rain, deluge, flood, and drowning.

   Back to the seasonally specific. Right now is November-like weather for south of the equator while north of the equator, there is much planting and building in May. All over the U.S.A. bedding plants for fruits and vegetables are being planted and seeds are being sown. Exterior work with concrete, carpentry with wood, siding, and roofing are being done. It is a RARE AND SHORT SEASONAL TIME FRAME when all these stated activities are being done all over the earth, at the same time as late spring or late autumn depending on which hemisphere. Could bulbs be planted so late and some building done in these days of November-like weather for those south of the equator? YES. What does all this imply? Does it mean the time of The Blessed Hope is near, before destruction by fire, as in the days, the times of Lot? "Summer is near, even at the door (gates)" applies to the days ahead approaching when the gates to summer open on 6-20-2013. The clues linked to expected activities of the days of Noah, and especially the days of Lot, give us a global composite of THIS time of the year approaching summer for some and winter for others. Banquets, parties, feasting, eating and drinking, engagements, marriages, honeymoons, buying and selling, planting and building. Generational expectations, life going on as usual, as before, so again. "As the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the son of man be."

 

With Love and Shalom,

Jean