Ah, more agreement!

I am always careful about saying, "I don't believe in prophecy" because of exactly what happened to your grandmother. I know more than a few folks who have had the same sort of experiences, and I wouldn't discount them. Nor would I ignore those nudges.

I have to say - yes - if there is a prophetic surge in regards to end times, I think it's going to be church by church, God speaking to the pastors in an abundance of churches and using their voices as His own. I can't imagine Him using warnings of the End to make anyone money! The question in my mind is... is He starting to do that?

When He nudges you, my sister, and says, "You should plant a little extra this year", and He nudges me and says, "Now is a good time to make a very extensive medical supply kit", and my pastor starts preaching on persecution just about every Sunday... am I to think that He's doing that for nothing?

I think that anyone with eyes open right now can see that the next few years are going to be *very* bad. The natural disasters of the last week (China, Burma, tornados, fires) combined with the front page news of months about food prices combined with yesterday's front page picture of a corn-belt farmer's hand full of mud... soil too wet to plant... 2008 will be tight, but 2009? I shudder. Add a few active volcanos (Hawaii, Chile), stir with the usual wars (too many to list) and you've a fine mess.

I sent you an article to your private email about how they've turned RFID into a tattoo process - quick and easy. They can read it -with current technology- at about a meter away.

So the stage is set. But it has been before, from what I'm told. And like Abraham, perhaps the next years are too hard to get through without holding to that Blessed Hope of Christ's return. I am *not* attached to my own notions to the point of thinking I hold the whole truth! Should I live to be 98, rocking my chair in the window of same California home I'm in now... that's fine with me.

And yet. And yet. I do have... well, not quite theories. But I expect the next years to be *very* rough, rough enough that we'll think we are in the tribulation. Will it be pre-tribulation warmup, from which we'll be snatched just before everything topples down? I don't know. I think though - it behooves us to use the communications networks to listen to one another, to listen to what the Lord has put on our hearts, and to act wisely and according to His will.

There is a fine line between being wise and preparing for anything and being foolish and getting excited over whispers and phantoms.

What is God calling you to do? And what is He preventing you from concerning yourself with?