OPTIMIST or PESSIMIST?

[angels4u]

22 hours ago, Dennis1209 said:

We are seeing all the global problems coming on like birth pains and their effects on America and the world. We cannot get the products and services we were privileged to enjoy a couple of years ago. I could write a laundry list of delays I've experienced trying to get a repair part, service, or product for something. 

Monday, I went to get four new tires for my pickup truck, no big deal, right? They didn't have four of anything, they had to call different suppliers around the region to get them piecemeal. I would not be surprised to see $10.00 a gallon gasoline shortly. I have some written estimates of a couple of months ago I neglected to act upon. Guess what the prices are since then?

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the problems we are now dealing with, will they eventually get better or worse? 

I believe we are the terminal generation that will see all these things come to pass spoken of in the Bible. As a pretribulation believer, I am optimistic that I am not a citizen of this world, and that Jesus can come at any moment to take us home. The Bible is not specific on how much of the end-time we will witness and experience, each having a different hermeneutic viewpoint. 

I personally suspect right now is the first blip on the fetal monitor, and the contractions get stronger and closer together from here on out. 

Your thoughts? 

We're living in days the world never saw before, actually we're living in very dark days but with a very bright future just on the horizon and God will still show us beautiful moments if we have eyes to see, some days my heart gets very sad for everything going on around me and wonder where we will be on the end of this year, thank God He can take my worries away and in Him we're safe, there's just no other way to be happy ,it's heartbreaking to see so many people who still have no clue in which kinds of days we're living ,Maranatha,Jesus come soon!

Don't forget to pray for the salvation of your loved ones and for God to save this generation and to pray for Israel and Jersalem..

 

I'm very much an optimist ,I believe everyday that God is working on His plan to get us home soon,this world has nothing to offer to me, I'm on my home to glory land!

[Dennis1209]

8 hours ago, Sower said:

Take no thought for the morrow.       God's got my back, through better or worse!

These are exciting times (optimistic) to get a good glimpse of just how strong our faith really actually is.
Are we giving God the opportunity to show His faithfulness? Do we really trust the Lord of Lords.
Are we continuing to sow the seeds of the good news to whosoever will as the time is getting short.
Or are we building bomb shelters like back in the fifties. To hide.

The covid/CDC debacle got my wife and I on our knees to decide what to do, jab or no jab.
It was like when we discovered what was going on in the government run schools back in the mid eighties.
We were on our knees then, should we leave them under the influence of government run school curriculum,
or home school them in a Christ oriented environment. We got excited then too, though plenty nervous.

God is on the throne, and He never left us nor forsook us. He was so faithful.
It was illegal in Texas to home school at the time and there were school principals and homeschooling parents jailed!
God led us to home school all our kids and He cleared the way from first grade through college. Ain't God good!
We decided that fear should not be a deciding factor when making decisions. Fear was on TV, radio, newspapers and forums.
We did not get the vaccine(s-s-s) but built up our God given immunity's with all those illegal forbidden age old drugs/vitamins.
We eventually both caught covid at church, and wife was back to work at her business in 5 days, and myself ten. No aftereffects.
We both have had worse cases of flu during our younger days. Back when patients were not drugged/incubated to death.
I'm beginning to believe that anything the (present) government forbids, or makes illegal, then the opposite is the best way to go.
Think about that a minute, in this woke/LGBT generation .

Times are hairy for sure. For my wife and myself it's like the end of the toilet paper roll, getting faster-getting shorter.
Getting exciting cause we know were going home soon. And with all the media fear mongering, gas prices, shortages
of food and commodities, (please don't forget to fill up two closets min of toilet paper:) people are afraid.
I have the niche (God given boldness) to steer a conversation to the hard/scary times, and then tell why my wife and I are at peace.
People that need to hear about the good news are all over the place, and today is the day of salvation.
The simple phrase "Jesus loves you" seems to open the door, and especially the ears. Many actually start the asking questions,
 and seeking, wanting to know the truth about God, and hear some good news, the real 'good news.'
I've been passing out an inexpensive neat looking "Bible Promise Book for Men-Women" and have their
spouse asking for another for themselves. People are searching in these "the problems we are now dealing with"
My wife and I have been so blessed with so many true riches it's hard to not to be so grateful.
: "Only one life, 'twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last".
Our goal is to pass on His blessings and not whine and complain about what God decides is best for us.


 

                  “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
                                                  therefore
  pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

 

                        

 

 

You are correct; we think so much alike.

Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

One thing that struck me as odd sometime back, I did not pay particular attention. In hindsight, I find it interesting. Remember that program on TV titled Doomsday Preppers? For some reason that enticed me to do a little research, one thing led to another. Potential threats and catastrophes were not as prevalent back then as right now.

I discovered from multiple sources, in mass, the politically connected people in the know, the elite, wealthy, and celebrities, were buying property around the globe and building elaborate doomsday bunkers for themselves and family.

At the time, I wondered why all the panic buying and construction if they knew something coming, we did not know? The above verse is interesting about being buried underground. In hindsight, I get the sense all these connected rich people are speculating and preparing for something.

There have been so many things that have transpired since then, too many to name. As a Watchman of prophetic events shaping up, it is all aligning according to scripture. I truly believe our time is short, and if so, we should see some things coming about.

I am not fearmongering, but I found the following grabbing my attention: As with everything our government and liberal media tell us, do we put any faith and trust in what they say?

Anyone can do their research on this if they are interested, and they can believe the government and what they want. The following could be nothing, but this asteroid Apophis is exciting.

The Greek name assigned to this asteroid, the timing of potential impact, what is occurring in Israel on this date, Friday the thirteenth. NASA’s rush on their new asteroid deflection tests, creation of global space forces, etc. I suspect today, with our sophisticated telescopes and technology, the biblical Wormwood could be detected well before it arrives?

Not to cherry-pick but…

Luke 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

[Guest]

10 hours ago, angels4u said:

Best thing is probably to get him food instead of money?

Best thing is for him to get a job instead of conning the rest of us.  It would teach him responsibility.  Telling lies to us teaches him the wrong lessons and should not be reinforced. 

[angels4u]

1 hour ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

Best thing is for him to get a job instead of conning the rest of us.  It would teach him responsibility.  Telling lies to us teaches him the wrong lessons and should not be reinforced. 

If he’s able to work then yes,you’re absolutely right …

[angels4u]

11 hours ago, Dennis1209 said:

You are correct; we think so much alike.

Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

One thing that struck me as odd sometime back, I did not pay particular attention. In hindsight, I find it interesting. Remember that program on TV titled Doomsday Preppers? For some reason that enticed me to do a little research, one thing led to another. Potential threats and catastrophes were not as prevalent back then as right now.

I discovered from multiple sources, in mass, the politically connected people in the know, the elite, wealthy, and celebrities, were buying property around the globe and building elaborate doomsday bunkers for themselves and family.

At the time, I wondered why all the panic buying and construction if they knew something coming, we did not know? The above verse is interesting about being buried underground. In hindsight, I get the sense all these connected rich people are speculating and preparing for something.

There have been so many things that have transpired since then, too many to name. As a Watchman of prophetic events shaping up, it is all aligning according to scripture. I truly believe our time is short, and if so, we should see some things coming about.

I am not fearmongering, but I found the following grabbing my attention: As with everything our government and liberal media tell us, do we put any faith and trust in what they say?

Anyone can do their research on this if they are interested, and they can believe the government and what they want. The following could be nothing, but this asteroid Apophis is exciting.

The Greek name assigned to this asteroid, the timing of potential impact, what is occurring in Israel on this date, Friday the thirteenth. NASA’s rush on their new asteroid deflection tests, creation of global space forces, etc. I suspect today, with our sophisticated telescopes and technology, the biblical Wormwood could be detected well before it arrives?

Not to cherry-pick but…

Luke 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Dennis,I was just reading tonight that the Russians are flying vip people away from Moscow,I forget the name of the place where they have bunkers ,also in Russia they’re protecting things and moving them to safe places…

 

[teddyv]

I'm generally an optimist. God is sovereign and this world still belongs to him. Despite a lot of nonsense these days, we are still living in a time of the longest, healthiest lives and the most material blessings in the history of humanity.

[OneLight]

1 hour ago, teddyv said:

I'm generally an optimist. God is sovereign and this world still belongs to him. Despite a lot of nonsense these days, we are still living in a time of the longest, healthiest lives and the most material blessings in the history of humanity.

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Edited March 18, 2022 by OneLight