CaptWalker

Well if the rapture is in fact not coming until the fall of 2025 then guess we can all relax a little bit? And also i guess so much for the "any moment" doctrine, since apparently someone has figured out almost exactly when it will occur? So might want to give the masses who believe in that a heads up about it, since apparently we are not even that close yet?? But seriously though the way i see it...as long as law enforcement officers are still pulling you over and giving tickets for such trivial things like expired tags, there is just something about it all that i find very hard to take seriously, at least at this point. But i almost wish i were a part of that "any moment" crowd, so then i could just ignore any courts summons or paying traffic fines(or much worse in my case) and simply use this as my excuse for doing so, you would think anyway?

Always wondered about those houses right next door to some churches and if those people actually went there? Or if maybe the Pastor or a member stopped by and inquired about that?

I guess i would travel maybe a couple 1000 miles or so if i felt like God was leading me to become a part of a certain congregation or ministry...but doesn't seem like too many people are willing to relocate just for that purpose? Unless of course you have no job, no family and no future, and after leaving you will have no home. Almost like Matthew-13:12...?

OR...you could possibly just skip all the obscure scripture interpretations and date settings/calculations and simply start from 1948 when Israel became a nation again and 70 years from that, or maybe 80(Psalms-90:10)? But i prefer around 77 myself...just saying.

I believe Adam and Eve were originally able to use the full power/potential of their mind, and their are a still a few who can come pretty close to it at times but i am pretty sure they are getting it from a "source" that you don't want to mess around with. Since why would God give only a select few this ability, and unbelievers for the most part? Unless anyone knows of a Christian psychic or medium, maybe something along the lines of Moses and those magicians or Daniel being able to interpret a dream that no one else could? But Moses was just being obedient to what God told him to do and Daniel had the gift of wisdom, not sorcery.

While i do agree it is most likely demonic in nature, and people who gain acess to "familiar spirits" as well, but i would think that the reason most of them have not accepted this challenge is probably because Mr.Randi is requiring documented proof, which many of these cases cannot provide since how can you prove something than cannot be seen and is usually only between the individual and these spirits. He would literally have to accompany some of these people on there investigations and see it for himself, and even then could say it wasn't good enough for him to believe, since after all a million dollars is not something anyone is going to give up that easily. But either way i do believe these are not ghosts but evil spirits that these psychics are getting in contact with.

Another question i had along this line was about people who may not even be Christians who have somehow developed or been born with a certain "gift" where they are able to use their mind-power to do things that just can't be explained, such as through the psychic realm or maybe remote viewing, Google it if you are not familiar. But one show in particular called The Dead Files has this lady who goes in to these locations at the beginning of their "investigation" and starts picking up on all that is going on there as far as any ghost/spirit activity. And at the end the other guy starts disclosing what has in fact been happening there and it usually always turns out to be almost 100% correct. So does this lady and people like her really have that psychic ability to see such things or is there something else a bit shady going on here that is not completely on the up and up so to speak?

I would agree with all that...and for me personally the "Seek first the kingdom..." has always been the hardest for me to do. And also having an "ongoing sin" hasn't helped much either, but am beginning think that this "sin" and the place i am at are one in the same, meaning i will not be able to completely overcome it until i have left where i'm at now...which i strongly feel is not in God's will. And sometimes no one else can tell you that except God/Holy Spirit, so it's probably better at times to not even ask and get some bad advice...but not referring to your comments, just saying.

I think i would rather be woken up by coyotes or loud booms or anything other than the weird people i live with walking around upstairs doing stupid crap at 2 or 3 Am...but i never even imagined there were people out there who could actually go back to sleep 3 or 4 times after getting woke up...wth??? Because after one time i am pretty much awake the rest of the night/morning, period. But it is good to know that at least some Christians are getting a good nights sleep...

I have heard before that we humans use a very small percentage of our brain/mind potential, which I have always had a tendency to confuse with FAITH? And sometimes am not sure if i should be striving to use that brain power or leaning more on God's help and the Holy Spirit alone...but it seems like Christ was saying it's ALL on you/us as to what will be done in our lives? And if what we long for doesn't come to pass then it is ALL our own fault, period...unless of course it just wasn't His will, but there will no doubt be those(word of Faith) people who ignore that possibility and still put the blame on YOU alone. Either way i do realize HE paid the ultimate price on the Cross and so i sometimes feel like i am falling a bit short in doing my part by using my own mental capacity to actually BELIEVE...unless maybe i am just trying too hard...idk??

I personally believe the GREAT tribulation/wrath will begin at the sounding of the 5th Trump, in Revelation chapter 9. When those who have taken the "mark" will be tormented and they will want to die but not be able to. But also believe the real warning we should be looking for is when everyone is saying "peace and safety"(1st Thess-5:3) which could very well be something that is broadcast on many news networks, but just guessing at this point?

Well not sure just how significant it is but i have heard that 1948 is the year when the official "countdown" to the very end really began. Since that is when Israel became a nation again and also in the 6 day war of 1967, which is another very big "prophetic" event in my opinion, but also one that seems to get swept under the rug and forgotten. Either way i do believe we will know when the Anti-Christ is here and it will be at least 3 and 1/2 years from that point, and so any rapture event will not happen until then. Meaning it will at the very least be a pre-wrath event but in my opinion will go much further into the great tribulation. But of course this is a subject where it seems almost everyone is already pre-convinced by what they have been taught and/or learned(or think they have) from studying bible prophecy, period.

I like the Matthew-3:2 and any other BIBLE verses/Words you have to share...but I have never personally bought in to any of that AA crap and it has done me no real good, but that's just me. And I even had an ex-alcoholic tell me to eff-off simply because i wasn't interested in attending their "meetings" which seem to me more like joining some Masonic lodge, and wouldn't surprise me at all if they both were affiliated...but just saying. Have a nice day...

But the only problem is trying to figure out who to tithe to? And then there's another reason for someone to criticize you because you didn't tithe to who they thought you should...but that's ok because it seems like all you get nowadays when asking for simple advice are people jumping at the chance to put someone down and make themselves feel better, i suppose?

Point taken...and i will definitely take it into consideration as i already have, and of course pray about it...and whatever God tells me is the right or wrong decision, that is what i will either choose to do or not, period.

I'm not really sure what you mean since who said i was upset? I am long over that since this happened almost 2 years ago, but it is still a great inconvenience for me. I was only pointing out some of the things that have happened since then that have caused me more problems, but am not saying i am not to blame. And there have been a few times where the police actually overlooked it and let it go. So i am very thankful for that and give credit to those officers for using their own judgement and giving me a break. And one of them even told me that is was the individual officers discretion whether or not to write a ticket, so i'm assuming this is normal procedure for some minor offences? And furthermore i am always open to anyone's advice or opinions and any grievances i may have are not directed at anyone for trying to help or else i would have called them out by name or quoted them. Maybe i just come off the wrong way when it sounds like i'm complaining but am really just getting some things off my chest since no one else i know seems to even want to hear about it or just makes light of it. And i guess i am taken aback a little bit by some of these comments since no one as of yet had actually told me i shouldn't really be driving(at least in person) but just not as much. But again i thank anyone for their advice and i do take it all seriously, it's just that right now i'm having some problems taking my own life that seriously, but all i can do is pray. Godspeed-

Well it may be true that i am blessed in the eyes of God, if for nothing else than the gift of wisdom and discernment He has given me because it certainly was nothing i got on my own. But i have never been blessed in a monetary sense, and the most i have ever made in a year is well below average and most menial laborers make as much or more. But i do believe i am blessed with all the mercy and provision God has given me and keeping certain bad things from happening that easily could have. And i try my best to not look at those things around me but i just can't help but notice it, and all the injustice in the world. But I have always had a live and let live attitude, but when i am minding my own business and someone starts messing with me then that's where i draw the line, and that includes law enforcement. I just don't think being given a ticket for an expired tag falls under the category of "to protect and serve", simply because my car would not pass emissions even after almost $300 in repairs. Or getting a ticket in the mail for doing 45 in a 30mph school zone when a camera had taken a pic of my license plate, and this was when students were not even present. So no i do not rejoice at annoying inconveniences such as that, especially when i still owe $90 a month in probation fees and have to take a DUI course costing about $365. I know it is supposed to be a deterrent but people still drink and drive even after going through all that. And just imagine what would happen if there were no more drunk drivers and no one paying all those fees, what would happen to the "system" without all that money?? Probably a lot more unemployed police, or reduced wages. No wonder the cops who arrested me for DUI were smiling and joking with each other. So why should i or anyone rejoice over having to pay something that you can barely afford, and can't even pay your minimum credit card amount due monthly? That is not persecution, just the way our "system" makes money off of us, period. But i do get the point about trusting in God regardless to deliver us from the ways of the world. And if gaining eternal life is the only thing i have then i am most blessed indeed...but as far as i can see it is just about all i have at this point.

Actually i think you are probably right if for no other reason than there are no facts to back it up. But i am not sure how well pre-existance is now accepted among most Christians since i never seem to hear anything about it, but i personally believe in it. And that we were ALL in spirit form with God in the first earth age until Lucifer rebelled and took a 3rd with him while one 3rd were on the fence and the other 3rd remained faithful to God, or you could say were/are the very Elect. But to be totally fair God required us all to pass through this earth age in the flesh to in order to prove who would be truly faithful, probably more for those who were undecided to. Since if Christ had to do it then who are we to call God unfair or question why we are here? But i said all that to simply point out that Adams and Eve's failure was actually the 2nd one, and you could also say everyone who takes the Mark of the beast will officially be the 3rd one. But again i am not sure at all how many other Christians also see it this way, it's just how i once heard a certain Bible teacher explaining it and it all made perfect sense to me. But yeah there is no evidence of any life ever existing elsewhere and it's really irrelevant whether it ever did.

First off i like that little "sarcasm" thing at the bottom, and i often am that way myself but tend to get a bit too disrespectful so i try to be careful in that frame of mind. But anyway as far as someone stealing from me goes, i've had it happen before but it was only a very minor theft so just let it go. Just one of those things you can't control, unless of course you catch a burglar in the act and just blow them away. Then guess there's nothing wrong with that, depending of course on what state you live in, and as long as they were armed, and you weren't shooting them in the back as they were running away ...but some courts would probably even let that slide as well? But i guess you're right about laws all being the same regardless, at least as far as obeying them is concerned. But the last few times i have been pulled over the officer didn't even ask for proof of insurance which i've heard is extremely rare for that to happen? Now i'm not saying God was looking out for me but just saying it is not the norm. But maybe he was already too busy trying to determine whether or not to give me a ticket for an expired tag, which if it had been up to date then he may very well have tried to get me on something else, who knows? Either way that's just my own "testimony". And as far as revivals such as this go, it really wasn't much to write home about if you know what i mean? I've heard about miracles and such things happening there but the few times i've went it just seemed pretty normal to me and nothing special. So maybe i shouldn't go back even when i do get my license reinstated, but who knows?

Well i mostly agree about the verses telling us how we should always respect and obey the "authorities" that were put in place for that specific purpose, but at the same time i believe some people are unfairly charged/arrested for things that could have been overlooked, if it weren't for law enforcement out for $$$, but guess someone has to support them?? But i just don't see how someone who is not endangering anyone else could be locked up simply for driving when they are not supposed to, and their car is impounded anyway so why not just let them go and keep the car? And just recently while driving in an area i was not supposed to be at the time, i came across this guy hitchhiking on the highway and ended up giving him a ride, and he was so thankful for it that he called me his "savior" since he had been walking for quite some time. Not sure if it was meant to be but it sure felt good to be able to help someone out in that situation. And also just keep in mind that back during Revolutionary war days whenever the "revenuers" would come to collect taxes that a lot of them would end up being tarred and feathered. And then there were the hillbillies and moonshiners who had utter disdain for the "law" and still mostly do to this day. But am not at all condoning that kind of attitude, but just saying that some of these traffic "crimes" nowadays are so petty compared to how people disgarded the laws back in those days. But i have had some close calls just trying to go to church so am thinking that God is maybe trying to tell me that He doesn't really have my back even when i think i am doing the right thing? I just wish this big "revival" wasn't so close to where i live, and it just seems like more than some strange coincidence that it's happening at this time?

Actually i realize that now, but was just too young at the time and believed whatever the doctors or "shrinks" told me. But now i pretty much know the reason for my own depression, which i truly believe was more subconscious than anything else, and not only feeling sorry for myself but for everyone else who was suffering like i was, and not wanting to accept the fact i could do nothing at all to help myself or anyone else going through the same thing i was. And I think i was just starting to realize than even if i could do something about it that it would never amount to much, since HE is the one allowing it and there is only so much we can do because it's really all part of His so-called "plan"...or however you want to say it?? THAT is how i would define true "depression", period.

Well i'm not sure if they are as corrupt in my area but i know it is mostly all about the money and cops making their daily or weekly "quotas" for traffic stops/tickets,etc. And i don't think anyone should go to prison for any traffic related offense, except maybe for a habitual violater such as for DUI's. But i never understood why they don't just impound someone's car until they can get a valid license, instead of just locking them up? Either way i now understand why i got pulled over by a cop who only had about 2 seconds to "scan" my plates, and i always had wondered about it, but i'm pretty sure they also put out BOLO's to keep an eye out for certain vehicles who have been stopped before for repeat offenses. But as far as attending Church, i will usually never do it if i feel at all uncomfortable or paranoid about it which is most of the time.

I may have to go get some "blinds" but my room is already pitch black so not sure if that is the problem? And i have also went to sleep with the TV on some Christian channel and i would dream of whoever happened to be on preaching but it seemed to be more of a distraction to any other dreams i might have had, since i can't remember much and it's more confusing than anything else. I usually just pray to God that if He wants to show or tell me anything that i would hear and remember it. But due to insomnia and stress/anxiety I very rarely sleep more than 5 to 6 hours at a time, and that's usually not enough time to get into that deep sleep state unless you are just really tired. But my dreams usually always seem to come in that time after i finally go back to sleep.

Thanks so much for the encouragement, and it's always very refreshing to finally hear something other than how it's all my fault and i deserve whatever happens to me, even if it's mostly true. But still why do so many people feel the need or desire to belittle others right in the midst of all the crap they are going through?? Anyway as far as all this unexplained dream phenomena, i am beginning to think that God or the Holy Spirit does at times intervene in our dreams much more than we realize, even if it may seem like some random person saying something, we still need to pay attention and i believe if any one thing or message is from God then HE will always help us to remember it. And since you mentioned mental health, i was diagnosed with severe depression due to a chemical imbalance when i was about 15 and was taking some very strong anti-depressant meds for it which seemed to do the job. Not sure if that would still be of any significance now but just thought i would mention it?

This is a type of permit that only allows you to go to certain places and religious services are not one of them. I have done it anyway a few times because i really felt led to but in the area i live there are idle cops everywhere who apparently have nothing better to do than pull someone over? And i have already been pulled over a few times for having an expired tag(which is still do) but luckily i was either going to or coming back from work which is allowed. But i guess the main reason i am asking is because their is a MAJOR revival happening less than 30 minutes from where i live with people coming from all over the country and world, and i have been a couple times but missed the service times i really wanted to attend. But was just wondering if i am actually being led by God to do this or is doing this always against His will, because i truly believe He can keep anything bad from happening as long as it is a part of His will.