Friends: I have reflected upon the following verse for many, many years trying to determine if I can discern when the beast would arise. Revelation 17:11: "And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition." This is usually equated to the Roman Empire, or the Pope who will succeed the ten kings and become the dictatorial head of the Revived Roman Empire -- with which I don't disagree, and at the moment don't have an opinion either way. But it just struck me as funny the parallelism that suggests a connection of meaning through an echo of form: Our new president was part of a previous presidential administration, then he wasn't for 4 years, and now he is again. I don't want to jump into any conspiracy theories, this is all just food for fodder. The thing about conspiracy theories is that they are just that, unfulfilled theories until they manifest themselves as reality and truth. Unfortunately, we have been provided with a bunch of "intelligence" and "insider information" lately that didn't occur like we were informed it would. We held out every last bit of hope until the final hour for it to come true (and hoped, and begged, and prayed for it to come true) but it didn't. In my opinion (and probably many others), justice has not been served as it should have been. We were open-minded and led astray by "intelligence" that we, as mere minions in society without inner access to this data, could never corroborate on our own. So, without looking away from God, we gave credence to earthly insight and were disappointed by man/woman again. We are like mushrooms in the dark only being fed certain information that Big Brother wants us to hear, and there are too many siblings in the Big Brother fraternity for us to know who is Godly and who isn't. I don't know where I am going with all this, but I feel like I already went there. Bottom line: God is in charge, nothing happens without His approval, and Jesus Christ is still coming for us sooner rather than later. Keep looking for our Blessed Hope (JESUS!!), Humbly Most of the people who believe(d) in Q are of good hearts and only want good people to stop being wronged and the bad people to face justice. We want our nation back! We really want Jesus on the throne and to live under His rulership, but until such a time we want to live and work and play under godly precepts and principles. We felt like the 45th president was at work to recreate these things in our society. We are all disappointed that nothing came of the expectations we had (or wanted to have). But I think, in the end, God wants to have all of our focus and faith to be placed in His Son because, lets face it, without trying to sound like a cliché, we were all born for this very time and I believe we will have the greatest opportunity to witness for Christ and lead others to Him, but we first need to be prepared by God for this amazing mission. That means placing our faith totally in Jesus and not man. This is a time like no other and there is more than enough writing on the walls to tell us where we stand on God's timeline. I sadly believe that the America we knew and loved is forever gone and we can and should only look forward to our redemption. No more time for "setting up shop" here as we are destined to be gone soon. Every believer, both bold and timid, will be used in extraordinary ways, ways we might not understand or even see until we are before the Bema Seat, but extraordinary, none the less. Let's all stay in submission to God, pray that our Father in Heaven will prepare us for this service, strengthen us, heal our distress over what is going on in our world, and lead us to be used in mighty ways for His Kingdom and His glory! Can you imagine anything more wonderful! Now is the time! That day has arrived!
