October Surprise setup?

For once you are right, but I, like most, did not have much regard for the Bible in my younger years, but as the Bible said, God will not lose his chosen, and at 47 years of age, a change came over me, and since then, I have not been able to lay the Bible down for any reason.

However, I will say this; I am a warrior Christian, fully understanding that God is a jealous God, and understanding exactly what that means. But the Church is turning apostate as the scriptures say it would, and would eventually do more harm to people than good. I know that you, at least at this point of your life, do not believe, but please allow this one scripture to explain that apostate condition, and some of what it means;

“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” (1 Timothy 5:2-3)

In the Greek, there is no definite article before either `day' or `Lord,' indicating that the expression was stereotyped, having become somewhat as a proper noun. The expression was used extensively in the Old Testament; and one could summarize the Old Testament meaning of the expression thus:

(1) It would come suddenly and unexpected, (2) it would involve a cosmic upheaval in which the earth, and likely its solar system, would be shaken to its very foundations, and (3) it would be a time when God would bring spiritual judgment upon the people of all nations upon the earth.

The adoption, from the very beginning of Christianity, of this same expression, used in the sense of the day of Jesus Christ, shows how universally the early church accepted Jesus as co-equal with God. However, that just means that as most men's sons become equal with their father in the areas of a family business, then God's son became equal with His Father in the capasity as a Savior. Thus, The day of the Lord here means not the destruction of Jerusalem, nor the day of one's death, but the day of the Lord's Return. The Lord himself used this figure; a thief gives no warning of his coming.

But there is a bit more, it also means at the precise moment when humanity feels most secure in their rebellious and sinful course against God, and at a time when all of the devices of government and society believe they have produced an environment in which man may think that the peace, prosperity and safety of the whole world have been secured, it is precisely then, when the Lord will descend from heaven with a mighty shout, with the voice of the archangel and the sounding of trumpet of God.

In regard to "an environment in which man may think that the peace, prosperity and safety of the whole world have been secured," Could that mean a one world government? Revelations seems to set it on that level.

fridsgns, a true Christian can never be at peace with any religion of man's contrivance. Recent history has made that very clear, starting in year one AD. Daniel made an observation of our times about 500 years before Christ, saying:

"And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;"

"Made war with the saints, means, persecuted the Church (Revelation 11:7, 13:7), and prevailed--but only to a point. Most Christians today cannot see what is happening, so how can we think that non-believers can see and understand what they cannot?
While no more is intimated than that the children of men make war with one another, and prevail against one another, the prophet does not show himself so much concerned, but what is the meaning of this? Will the Lord cast off his people? Will he suffer their enemies to trample upon them and triumph over them? What is this same horn that shall prevail so far against the saints? To this the interpreter answers (v. 23–25) that this fourth beast is a fourth kingdom, that shall devour the whole earth, or (as it may be read) the whole land.

This can mean only a one world government, and that the ten horns are ten kings, and the little horn is another king that shall subdue three kings, and shall be very abusive to God and his people, and that is how it sets at the end. It really does not matter, in a general sense that the earth will be destroyed by fire, but whether people like it or not, mankind has discovered the means to do just that, destroy the earth through a nuclear war.

There is a lot that the Bible teaches that fits mankind to the “T”, and that alone should make a person consider at least parts of the Bible, if not all. What does it teach about what I say here? The inherent selfishness of human nature in the pathetic struggle to satisfy the desire for pleasure must inevitably be thrust into conflict both inwardly within the personality itself and outwardly in all human relationships. As so often in God's word, it is self-explanatory. The kind of wars and fightings I mention is precisely that of pleasures warring against the soul's true interests in people’s members, meaning not between members of the church, exclusively (though this is included), but within men themselves, individually.

So true peace between men is often nothing more than a dream, but I can testify that I have an inner peace with God, not man, that will stay intact through anything that gets thrown at me.