Now if you have found it within yourself to actually have read this far, rather than merely scanning for headlines, you certainly have not found the aforementioned to be "tiring," but rather such has served to hold your interest to this point, an introduction as we continue the study of America in Prophecy, as we now look at
"Untimely Figs."
December 22, 2012
Our emphasis here is to see the past with clarity, not so much for seeing the future as it would apply to worldly gain, but to a confirmation of the truth of the promise offered by the Scriptures as we realize the truth of our present condition.
This confirmation is to offer hope, not to serve not as joy by which we see others as less than ourselves, dismissing their persons, and ourselves to be content with their destruction while we hope for a better condition than what we have, but to calm us as we tremble at where we actually exist, to help us understand, that while we would rather stay as we are, and forsake any further joys to our own inheritance. This calming to our souls combats the temptation in that such forsaking might spare this world from that which makes us "tremble," enabling us with understanding to embrace the truth, for sake of the same.
Calm us from hoping against the truth, as we realize that which had to be noted to the 7 churches of Asia, that no matter how much we harbor hopes against coming darkness...no matter how much we would be rather tempted to embrace fairy tales to avoid the truth of that to come, with maturity, we embrace the truth of our times, not embracing this coming darkness, not gleefully wishing the same upon our neighbors, but noting the times as they truly are and understanding such "MUST shortly come to pass."
Hal Lindsey offers the following statement:
"This is a difficult question, mostly because it has such a difficult answer. I love my country, and I'd love to find references to it in the last days. But it isn't there."
Mr. Lindsey is incorrect, as YHWH was as much aware of America to this timeframe as GOG and Magog. I wonder how Mr. Lindsey's statement would have served in the promotion of his best selling book in the 80's "THE LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH." My library is packed away at the moment, but I believe it is in there, I certainly know I owned the book, and recall many references to Scripture being applied to America in God's Prophetic timeline as Mr. Lindsey saw such at that timeframe. The book noted many events of present concern during America's Cold War with Russia, at a time when everyone was tense from childhood on, to be concerned of someone "pushing THE Button."
Mr. Lindsey offers a single page online, much less in volume than his "Late Great" Cash crop series of books. You can read his offering of America in Prophecy in about 5 minutes to see an opposing viewpoint of this subject.
http://www.rapturealert.com/americainbibleprophecy.html
During the 1970s, the rapture became popular in
wider circles, in part due to the books of Hal Lindsey,
including The Late Great Planet Earth, which has
reportedly sold between 15 million and 35 million copies
and by the movie "A Thief in the Night" which based its
title on the scriptural reference 1 Thessalonians 5:2.[12]
Lindsey proclaimed that the rapture was imminent, an
idea that he based on world conditions at the time.
The Cold War and the European Economic Community
figured prominently in his predictions of impending Armageddon.
Other aspects of 1970s global politics were seen as having
been predicted in the Bible. Lindsey suggested, for example,
that the seven-headed beast with ten horns, cited in the
Book of Revelation, was the European Economic Community,
a forebear of the European Union, which at the time
aspired to ten nations; it now has 27 member states.
In 1995, the doctrine of the Pre-Tribulation rapture was
further popularized by Tim LaHaye's book series, Left Behind,
which sold tens of millions of copies and was
made into several movies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture
Note the author of the aforementioned wikipedia article seemingly has
overlooked certain facts which would reveal William Miller, while credited
as having set a date for "the rapture" never did, he did note significance
upont the timeframe but it was those in Joshua Himes Camp of publishers who sensationalized the Teachings of William Miller and set a date publcly in opposition to William Miller's views on the same matter. Such an article as the one above does however note that in the 70's as the truth of The Feminine nature of the Holy Spirit was being presented by Lois Roden and shortly after promoted by other denominations...the world was such in a place to embrace aspects of the truth, but then reject the less appealing aspects of the same to formualte and embrace "watered" down versions of the truth. As I said, I have owned Mr. Lindsey's best selling book, seen the movies in the "Distant Thunder" series including "A Thief in the night." And I witnessed many buy into the same notions. I recall quite clearly Mr. Lindsey's writing in the mid 80's offering quite a different view of whether or not America could be seen in Bible Prophecy.
So here we are, some of us, know the world has been Deceived of the person of David Koresh, we know we have witnessed the world being exposed to lies, propaganda and cover up in the matters of David Koresh and his followers in 1993. Some you, are only now just considering this for the first time, that perhaps there was more to what went on in Waco in 1993 than you could have ever imagined, and that in such, the Government spun media tried to cover up what went down there. Those of us having done actual investigation into these matters, We likewise realize
the same of the actual person of David Koresh and note our present timeframe and the events we ourselves have seen unfold before our very eyes. What transpired in Waco in 1993 was greatly due in part to the U.S. Govt acting on Rumors and hearsay, and in such violating it’s own laws of using it’s military against it’s own citizens. The Delta Force were involved from the beginning of the matters, I lived in Fayetteville NC, where FT Bragg, home of the Delta Force is located. IT’s a much smaller town than one would think. Trust me, they were involved weeks before the actual raid at Mt. Carmel on February 28th ever went down. But consider for a moment the rumors that the GOVT acted upon, and consider a prophecy in Malachi, of an event to transpire just prior to the GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD…Malachi chapter 4, one prophecied to be sent with a mission, one who would succeed by his mission in TURNING THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN….and the Life and Death of David Koresh did just that, for the accusations placed against him, were of such nature to revile all who heard them, whether they were true or not, for not term such as “CHILD MOLESTOR” will do so much as any other to turn the hearts and minds of the populace at large, parents everywhere including fathers, no term sets off alarm bells so quickly as that term, a term which in 1993 for 51 days, turned the hearts of parents, of Fathers across the world, to their own Children.
The event was more significant than this world could have ever realized in that timeframe.
So again the question to which we asked as we considered on July 26, 2008 in the Study on America in Prophecy
(A Study Which we will re- post here on this board Next week)
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