with much less mistakes and therefore final version...:The presidential election 2016 as another example of theactual "Laodicea time" = the rapture is very very near !(very interesting article in a worldly swiss newspaper fri 10.22.2016= letter II)_________________________________________________________Dear brethren of Five DovesThis is brother Daniel from Switzerland. My mother tongue is Swiss Germandialect but I speak and write English quite well and so I hope You will easilyunderstand the following:The christian church in America seems to undergo now the very same changingto more and more being a Laodizea church as I can watch it here in Switzerlandand in the whole rest of Western Europe too:I grew up in a small village of 16'000 inhabitants in the East of Switzerland. AndI made a personal committment and experience of conversion/being born againwhen I was 18 years old. At that time in the 70-ies and 80-ies already in such smallvillage there were about five different churches and in the small pentecostal churchI attended, there were four regular meetings every week: monday evening prayermeeting, thursday evening bible study, saturday evening youth group and onsunday the Service. And beside those public meetings there was the additionalspiritual power of all faithful church members leading indeed a committed christianlife with prayer at home, bible study and quiet time on regular daily basis and ofcourse much more personal time spending in prayer and quiet time than usingthe computer, reading newspaper or looking television. And at that time therewas no internet, no mobilphone and only about 8 tv programs (3 from Switzerlandin German + French + Italian and 3 TV channels from neighbour country Germanyand another 2 from neighbour country Austria in German language too).And how is it today: there is cable TV, about 250 programs available here in alleuropeen languagues (including Albanese, Russian, Turkish and many more), Internetand mobilphone everywhere and if You ask a christian to give an honest answertoday "how much time in the week do You spend with prayer and intercession and withbible study and quiet time compared to the time you sit at the internet or at the cableTV?" most have to admit "Well, it is not any longer as it was before. Yes it is true, Ispend more time with Internet and TV than with bible study, prayer and intercession".And in the village of my youth there are not the churches as they were before, no moreprayer and spiritual breakthrough power, no more summer camp tent evangelism as itwas before. And when you try to find another committed believer to start together a regularprayer meeting to restart to fight for spiritual renewning and breakthrough in the wholeregion, You find almost nobody among the so called "born again christians" to be interestedand almost everybody has a lazy excuse why this is not possible and what actually is muchmore important.... And when You enter the church congregation there is rock music at theplace where there should be pure worship of the congregation of the renewed and committedbelievers !And I realize here more and more that there is only a very small remnant among the christianswho is still committed and faithful: Fullhearted commited to the Lord in the hidden places ina strong and regular prayer life, committed in regular fasting and committed in giving money forthe kingdom of God. And those three points (prayer life + fasting + giving money into mission andkingdom and for the poor) are exactly the three points which Jesus Himself teached in the sermonton the Mountain that it should be done and that it should be secretely done.And I realize that in revelation the rapture probably is in revelation 4,1 "..a door was openedopened in heaven and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talkingwith me; which said Come up hither..."And take note of the cleverness of the students and the worldly sport athlets and at the same timeof the stupidity of the majority of the christians:The nearer You are to the exam, the more You should be fit and most of the students and athlets doact exactly like this: the nearer there is the exam the more they prepare and learn and the morethe athlet intensify his training to finally be the winner at the time of the exam or of the sport event.And take note now of the stupidity of the christians: at that time in the 70-ies and 80-ies they wereall very committed and also speaking a lot about the soon return of the Lord:But today 30 to 40 years there is the objective fact that for 100 % sure we are exactly 30 to 40 yearsnearer to the return of the Lord but most of the christians today behave as if the Lord does notreturn so quickly....But the very soon day of the rapture will definitively prove that they are wrong = therefore the Biblecalls them "the foolish virgins"This is going on here in Europe and now I read a very interesting article in a worldly swiss newspaper ="Tages Anzeiger" = one of the four biggest swiss newspapers, mainly read in the aerea of Zurich (biggest cityof Switzerland) = see letter II, text in translated english + original text in German.In this article a worldly journalist describes very exactly that in America the very same takes place amongthe christians as it happens here.And the conclusion to me in all this is = The rapture can take place any second now, we are fully in theLaodicea time, see the christians here in Europa how they all sleep but see also the christians in Americaand how they do not any longer have the same spiritual breakthrough power as they had it before.There are 2 other interesting verses in revelation 4,4 + revelation 6,11:In revelation 4,4 it is written "....clothed in white raiment..." but later in revelation 6,11 there is written"...and white robes were given unto every one of them..." and just before in revelation and in the wholecontext mentioned a worldwide christian persecution = revelation 6,9 "...under the altar the souls ofthem that were slain for the word of God and for their testimony...".There is a difference among the ones who had from the very first moment white robes revelation 4,4 andthe ones who only received white robes as they entered Heaven after the persecution, revelation 6,11The rapture is so near and can take place any time now.Let us be among the small amount of the ones with the spirit of overcoming and comfort us with thosewords and the ones with the spirit of overcoming are the wise virgins and who will make it into the raptureYour brother from SwitzerlandDanielSee letter 2 = text in the wordly swiss newspaper friday 10.22.2016 (my english translation and the originalgerman text)