"...ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?"

 ...one can hardly do worse than revisit the words of the Master that Franklin so usefully reminds us of: *Guard yourselves *Do a Personal Inventory *Don't be Troubled *Stay Focused Upon Jesus *Look to the 'End'-Goal (of your faith) For in such a time as you think not the end will come... Nuff said!  

Rarely - in the 'Western hemisphere', that is - have such words been more relevant to the situation we find ourselves in. Yes, as good preachers such as Chuck Misler/Chuck (Charles) Swindoll and others have long since maintained, we are now - indeed long since - living in a post-Christian era... ...and (actual physical) persecution (such as 'Eastern' Christians in the likes of the old Eastern Bloc,  China, the Islamist Middle East have long since experienced) surely cannot be all that far away... But then, as already noted, the Master Himself gave us plenty of warning thereabouts, didn't He... "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted...and then many shall be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another..." "then shall be great tribulation ["in those days shall be affliction"] such as was not since the beginning of the world ["of the creation which God created"] [un]to this time, no, nor ever ["neit...

Dearest Readership, I humbly, respectfully suggest that that time has - long since - come/arrived... ...and that those falling for this devilish strategem are far from the usual suspects, no indeed... [Read: the increasing number of folk now readily falling for/openly embracing ' fake news '; no, it ain't just the 'liberal lefties', folks.] 

But ultimately - eventually -  the judgment shall sit... And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the [M]ost High... And thus and so human history as we know it will come to an end, with the Omnipotent One putting a great big 'fullstop' to all our stubbornness and stupidity...  

But will they - this generation - (even bother to) hear/listen in? Sadly, I doubt it , at least not the great majority... ...and so, when 'the crisis of the ages' unfolds in the not too distant, they will not be ready... As the Master Himself put things so very 'pathetically', as in with abundance of pathos (in His voice and manner and everything about Him in fact) "O Thou Who Stone the Prophets and Kill Those Sent To You, How Often I Would Have Gathered Your [Little Ones] Together... ...But You Were Not Willing... Behold, Your House Is Left Unto You Desolate!" (As per an unexampled interview broadcast this very evening in New Zealand, where Mr Anderson was being interviewed by Gary Hoogvliet (sp?!?!?) in an excellent series on Shine TV, 'A Very Tall Man'...

Just askin', folks... truly ! 

Sadly and regrettably David Bellamy - whom Yours Truly had the immense privilege (20-some years ago) of not only hearing address a packed public meeting as well as present a low-key scientific seminar for kids, but afterwards converse a little with (during Dunedin, Aotearoa-New Zealand's biennial 'International Science Festival') - departed this life a couple of years ago now... ...barely noted by the mainstream media (at least in God's Own) despite his frequent trips and public  feting here... ...because he so happened to hold a very un-PC opinion - doubtless deeply held and well-articulated - upon *this issue of our age...(and **doubtless others as well)... ...Being one of the only such public speakers I've ever heard to declare his contempt for the newfangled, anti-traditional family term 'partner'... 

*Though Japan & Taiwan, I believe, have suffered rather devastating cyclones ('typhoons') also of late... **And since writing this, Louisiana - and the 'entire shebang' of the United States, N.B. right upon the exact (16th) anniversary of Hurricane Katrina,  (itself around 13 years after Hurricane Andrew, which Yours Truly was a fly-on-the-wall observer of ) - has now experienced the 'equal worst' (including all three for argument's sake) such cyclone in its (if not necessarily America's) entire (European settlement) history...  ***Even here in our own little abode we experienced something previously utterly unheard of - much less seen/witnessed and actually experienced - firsthand: a biblical-style plague/infestation of large blue bottle house flies...and believe me or not, that particular Sunday (around three weeks ago) I vacuumed up/****squashed with a tissue up to around 70-80 such vermin... ****Thankfully upon neither count offering up more than...

Satan Will Make it Appear that Christ Has Already Come...In Various Parts of the World He Will [Manifest Himself - in the Person of the Antichrist] As A Great Benefactor of the Poor and Needy...Repeat Many of the Wonderful Truths that Christ Spoke While Upon This Earth...Speak in Wondrous Tones and Accents of Love...Even [Bear Himself] in [Similar Manner]... and then declare to one and all that He has changed the Sabbath to Sunday... ...and now requires all to keep holy this day... The deception is terrible, the delusion almost overpowering... ...but the people of God will detect the Deceiver... ...because he misquotes the Scripture and pronounces a blessing upon the very ones upon whom the scriptures denounce God's severest curses... The deception will be so [brilliant] that it will be impossible to detect it but by the testimony of the Scriptures... Are we now so grounded in the word of God that we will believe and hold to it even when our very senses are screaming out to us the ...

To the [L]aw and to the [T]estimony: if they speak not according to [these], there is no light in them  

But just because something is altogether true and real however much all and sundry (attempt to) debunk it doesn't mean it comes from God Above... No sirree! As I said to my sister yesterday eve (upon the heels of two reports upon the same): just because something isn't made up or imagined does not, ipso facto, make it as it were a revelation from God Above... No indeed. Whilst the phenomena could feasibly be explained as pure imagination or even hallucination, the instances are simply too many and accumulated to now be simply shuffled off as pure hocus-pocus... So if UFOs aren't 'little green men' from Mars, and apparently could both really be some incredible military superiority of the Chinese or Russian governments, what possibilities remain? How about this (one), folks? They're actually evil angels ... To Be Continued...shortly!