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We all know now, I hope, that Jesus Christ fulfilled the Daniel 9:27 prophecy....completely!

However, there may still be a few who are holding out for the remaining 3.5 years of "tribulation" to come. This one is for those who are of that opinion.

UNDERSTAND ALL THE EVENTS THAT ARE TOLD WILL HAPPEN DURING THE SEAL, TRUMPET, AND VIAL JUDGMENTS...including the 42 months of the "reign of Antichrist, image of the beast, receiving the "mark of the beast", the pit opened and demonic warfare, the battle of Armegeddon.....etc. And there's so much more with natural disasters as well!


Can all this POSSIBLY happen within a 3.5-year time period? Some of us are not using COMMON SENSE to figure this out.


This is a short piece I copied to explain what I mean:

If you believe in the traditional literalist interpretation of the book of Revelation, there are some serious issues you are going to have to face. Teachers like Hal Lindsey and scores of others tell us that the whole book is fulfilled in the brief span of 1260 days, or three and one half years.

They tell us that in the days of the Great Tribulation there issues a world-wide famine from which one billion people die, believers are martyred in incredible numbers, a nuclear war takes place, one third of the world’s vegetation is destroyed, one third of the world’s oceans are turned into blood, one third of the world’s drinking water is so polluted that to drink it kills people, horrible locusts (maybe helicopters!) plague the world’s unbelievers for a solid five months, and then 200,000,000 Chinese communists, with perhaps Japanese allies, march on Israel, and on their way they kill nearly one billion more people.

By the time these armies reach Israel, the world’s oceans have all been turned into blood, the world’s drinking water, all of it, has been turned to blood, as the blood of a dead man; there is a world wide epidemic of ulcers and skin cancers under a global heat wave. There is no fresh water to drink anywhere on the planet, and there is going to be a great run on Coca Cola, but even the stores of bottled drinks give out.

Then, while there is no water, and no food, and no health, and no ability to work or earn a living, we’re going to have this great battle of Armageddon involving 200,000,000 invading soldiers!

Now the scene gets even more bizarre! With billions dead or dying, with war and famine and disease and trouble and torment everywhere, if you take the mark of the beast you are given the liberty to buy and sell! Buy and sell what? I ask. There’s no water, it’s all blood. There are no trees, no grass, no agriculture; there is world war, devastating earthquakes, broiling heat, and nuclear destruction; and while these 200,000,000 soldiers are attacking Israel, there are 200 pound hailstones falling on them!

I’m not trying to be cynical, friends, but it seems to me that anyone with one eye and half sense could see that the logistics of this scheme transcend absurdity — they are impossible! There is no geographical space for 200,000,000 soldiers with tanks, trucks, airplanes, supplies, and all the rest in the valley of Megiddo — not counting the armies of Russia, the United States and their allies who are all supposed to gather there.

Hear me, my brother, my sister — it ain’t going to happen! These armies can’t fight — there is no geographical space in all of Israel for so many people to even stand properly. So we have a problem!

When you calculate the effect of all these events, if they are literal, and all happen at the same time during three and a half years, you really have a contradictory, unreasonable, illogical, ridiculous absurdity.

May the blessed spirit of truth help all who read these lines to think soberly, and righteously, and spiritually about what is portrayed here!

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Arlene

ARLENE,ARLENE!
Thank you so much for the great laugh!! Your article is so funny! The way you worded it and how absurd it all sounded was just such a refreshing moment of comedy!! I have been having a very rough week, and just today the sky turned dark at 2pm and then we had a hail storm the likes I have never seen with lifesaver size hail that lasted almost 20mins!! I thought this was it we are out of here as Jesus is coming!!

So, it really did my heart good to laugh out loud....you really have a way with words!

Just wanted to say thanks....loved your post.

Patti

Well, Patti....

You just made my day as well!!

I was just about to shut things down for the night, and I took one last look at anything I had to reply to....and there you were with your lovely words!!

Actually, I meant it to be exactly as you took it! A bit of the ridiculous mixed into a serious subject. That's the way my mind works sometimes (wry humor), and too often people think I'm just being a stinker....

People take me the wrong way when I do this, so I've been told to tame down my "adventurous" and humorous side. So, I've been more on the serious side lately. However, this time I couldn't resist....and I ran with something I read by J. Preston Eby...

Thanks for laughing with me!! Sometimes if we can't laugh, we'll cry! Life is that way....

Arlene