Can you feel it coming?
Do you sense something ominous in the rattling of the dying summer leaves, shaken by a cold ill wind from afar?
Is there a strange, irrational anxiety quivering deep inside your bones, which you can't quite explain or articulate?
Dogs and cats can feel an impending earthquake which we humans hardly ever have a clue about until the disaster hits. When they start acting strangely or run away for no apparent reason, the Old Ones konw that we are being warned.
By the color of the sky, the scent of the wind, and the motion of the sea Ancient Mariners knew of an oncoming storm in time to make preparations, as best they could, for the expected, imminent tempest.
If you follow the alternative media and even some of the more popular social media, you probably have sensed that many of us share this sense of uneasy anticipation. It might even surface in the idle chatter at the bar or tavern; I wouldn't know as it's been a long time since I've hung out in those places.
Something seems to be bearing down on us... but what is it?
Rumors abound; economic collapse?
Invasion from without or insurrection from within?
EMP shutting our electrical grid down for years?
Some deadly plague against which we have no cure?
Global nuclear war decimating the human population, leaving much of our planet uninhabitable for centuries to come?
Will the Yellowstone Caldera finally erupt, wiping out about a third of the US population and covering the Northern Hemisphere in a blanket of ash, imposing a deadly winter of several year's duration?
How about the "Big One" striking California or the New Madrid fault zone?
Is a massive asteroid going to impact Earth - as they have in the distant past - creating an "extinction event"?
We probably don't want to contemplate the possibilities too intensely; the human psyche can only handle about so much!
We hear about a lot of people these days "prepping" - storing months if not years of long term storage food, guns, ammo and medical supplies, digging underground bunkers, or buying "bug out" property in remote, hidden areas hoping to endure a prolonged time of hardship.
How can they know what to prepare for?
Can anyone predict with any reasonable degree of accuracy what the future will bring?
Actually, several people already have - thousands of years ago. They were known as "Prophets", and back in their day they were expected to establish their credibility within the context of their contemporary time period.
If they predicted or "prophesied" something that didn't come to pass, or something major occured that they'd missed, they would become known as a "False Prophet". False Prophets were not well tolerated, and were typically killed by their own community.
In order for a prophet to succeed, they needed to have a direcct, psychic connection with YHVH, the God of the Universe who knows all things past, present, and future.
Besides being our Lord and Savior, Yeshua H'Moshiach ("Jesus Christ" to most people) was a Prophet of considerable renown - even recognized as such by the Muslim faith tradition.
One of His Apostles, St. John, carried on His tradition, and perhaps his greatest prophetic work is the Biblical Book of Revelation.
It is a book of profound mystery, which Scholars have been trying to interpret over the past 2000 years or so since John wrote it. It joins a host of other prophetic clues spread throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.
I've read several accounts from credible Theologians who claim that over 2/3 of Biblical prophecy has been fulfilled, or has come to pass throughout history. What are the odds of that happening by chance?
Most of such prophecy yet to be fulfilled deals with the "End Times", which many Christian Scholars are quite sure we are on the verge of if not entering in to.
Global political, economic, meteorological, astronomical and tectonic "signs of the times" are already unfolding all around the planet.
We have been warned.
It is a time of profound, unprecedented turmoil and change which many of us will not survive.
Our preps and bug-out bags may not be of much use to us in the end.
If the Bible is a reliable guide as to what to expect, the warning signs we need to look out for, and what we might be able to do in order to prepare for it, wouldn't it make sense to examine what it has to say?
This Sunday Pastor Ed W. at the Greene Christian Community Church in Greene, Maine is going to start an expository series which few Churches seem willing to take on; prophecy, with a focus on Revelation.
It may be unpopular because it is so highly controversial... but we're going to, with the guidance of the Scriptures and the Holy Spirit, dive right in.
The time is right... the time, by all indications, is short...
and we don't want people tumbling into the prophecied time of "Tribulation" unaware and unprepared.
If you're in the Central Maine area this Sunday, please feel free to join us at the little country Church on Rt. 202 between the local IGA and cemetery.
Greene Christian Community Church
We get going around 10-ish and run until Pastor Ed runs out of steam (usually sometime before 1 pM).
If you can't make the fellowship, stay tuned to the Church Facebook or my page for links to the You Tube videos we try to record of the services.
Either way - Please Join us as we discover what to expect in the oncoming storm - and how to survive it.
Do you sense something ominous in the rattling of the dying summer leaves, shaken by a cold ill wind from afar?
Is there a strange, irrational anxiety quivering deep inside your bones, which you can't quite explain or articulate?
Dogs and cats can feel an impending earthquake which we humans hardly ever have a clue about until the disaster hits. When they start acting strangely or run away for no apparent reason, the Old Ones konw that we are being warned.
By the color of the sky, the scent of the wind, and the motion of the sea Ancient Mariners knew of an oncoming storm in time to make preparations, as best they could, for the expected, imminent tempest.
If you follow the alternative media and even some of the more popular social media, you probably have sensed that many of us share this sense of uneasy anticipation. It might even surface in the idle chatter at the bar or tavern; I wouldn't know as it's been a long time since I've hung out in those places.
Something seems to be bearing down on us... but what is it?
Rumors abound; economic collapse?
Invasion from without or insurrection from within?
EMP shutting our electrical grid down for years?
Some deadly plague against which we have no cure?
Global nuclear war decimating the human population, leaving much of our planet uninhabitable for centuries to come?
Will the Yellowstone Caldera finally erupt, wiping out about a third of the US population and covering the Northern Hemisphere in a blanket of ash, imposing a deadly winter of several year's duration?
How about the "Big One" striking California or the New Madrid fault zone?
Is a massive asteroid going to impact Earth - as they have in the distant past - creating an "extinction event"?
We probably don't want to contemplate the possibilities too intensely; the human psyche can only handle about so much!
We hear about a lot of people these days "prepping" - storing months if not years of long term storage food, guns, ammo and medical supplies, digging underground bunkers, or buying "bug out" property in remote, hidden areas hoping to endure a prolonged time of hardship.
How can they know what to prepare for?
Can anyone predict with any reasonable degree of accuracy what the future will bring?
Actually, several people already have - thousands of years ago. They were known as "Prophets", and back in their day they were expected to establish their credibility within the context of their contemporary time period.
If they predicted or "prophesied" something that didn't come to pass, or something major occured that they'd missed, they would become known as a "False Prophet". False Prophets were not well tolerated, and were typically killed by their own community.
In order for a prophet to succeed, they needed to have a direcct, psychic connection with YHVH, the God of the Universe who knows all things past, present, and future.
Besides being our Lord and Savior, Yeshua H'Moshiach ("Jesus Christ" to most people) was a Prophet of considerable renown - even recognized as such by the Muslim faith tradition.
One of His Apostles, St. John, carried on His tradition, and perhaps his greatest prophetic work is the Biblical Book of Revelation.
It is a book of profound mystery, which Scholars have been trying to interpret over the past 2000 years or so since John wrote it. It joins a host of other prophetic clues spread throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.
I've read several accounts from credible Theologians who claim that over 2/3 of Biblical prophecy has been fulfilled, or has come to pass throughout history. What are the odds of that happening by chance?
Most of such prophecy yet to be fulfilled deals with the "End Times", which many Christian Scholars are quite sure we are on the verge of if not entering in to.
Global political, economic, meteorological, astronomical and tectonic "signs of the times" are already unfolding all around the planet.
We have been warned.
It is a time of profound, unprecedented turmoil and change which many of us will not survive.
Our preps and bug-out bags may not be of much use to us in the end.
If the Bible is a reliable guide as to what to expect, the warning signs we need to look out for, and what we might be able to do in order to prepare for it, wouldn't it make sense to examine what it has to say?
This Sunday Pastor Ed W. at the Greene Christian Community Church in Greene, Maine is going to start an expository series which few Churches seem willing to take on; prophecy, with a focus on Revelation.
It may be unpopular because it is so highly controversial... but we're going to, with the guidance of the Scriptures and the Holy Spirit, dive right in.
The time is right... the time, by all indications, is short...
and we don't want people tumbling into the prophecied time of "Tribulation" unaware and unprepared.
If you're in the Central Maine area this Sunday, please feel free to join us at the little country Church on Rt. 202 between the local IGA and cemetery.
Greene Christian Community Church
We get going around 10-ish and run until Pastor Ed runs out of steam (usually sometime before 1 pM).
If you can't make the fellowship, stay tuned to the Church Facebook or my page for links to the You Tube videos we try to record of the services.
Either way - Please Join us as we discover what to expect in the oncoming storm - and how to survive it.
