Watching May 9th Be encouraged In history : 1502 – Christopher Columbus sets of from Cádiz for his fourth voyage 1540 – Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California. 1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. ( the enemy is about to try and steal our crowns) 1873 – Der Krach: The Vienna stock exchange crash begins the Panic of 1873 and heralds the Long Depression. ( 1873? That's 153 Big Fish Years ago!- & we're about to crash) 1901 – Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne. 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.). -/ that was 100 years ago! & allegedly, the North Pole points to Heaven!-/- 1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast. The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported. 1950 – Robert Schuman presents the "Schuman Declaration", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union. ( everything is about to crumble) 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill. ( Enovid? Covid? All these "Ovid" killers!) 2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries. ( we're waiting for something to end. AND begin) 2020 – The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression. ( Great Depression? It's knocking at the door) -- It's Victory Day in the Soviet Union -- It's also Saint Christopher's Day It has been speculated that the medieval artistic representations showing St. Christopher physically carrying the infant Jesus led to the development of the best-known legend about the saint today. This legend makes its debut only in the 13th-century compendium of hagiographies known as the Legenda aurea (Golden Legend). The Golden Legend recounts that after converting to Christianity, St. Christopher devotes his life to carrying travelers across a river. One day he is asked to carry a young boy across a river. During the crossing the boy becomes increasingly heavy to the point that even the able-bodied Christopher is struggling to continue the journey, even more so since the water level of the river has also started to rise. After reaching the river shore, the boy reveals himself to be Jesus. "Carrying travelers across a river" Now, he's Global Rapture Watchers ---- All Glory, honor and Thanks be to God and the Holy Ghost Praise Jesus