ok. there's something i wish to admit. in ezekiel or someplace like that
You mean you don't know "chapter and verse" for sure? You're slipping, P!...
it says to 'blow the trumpet.' usually trumpets in the old testament were a sign of going into battle or a call to remember something (such as calendrical new moons). nowdays - we think 'trumpet?' what a wierd thing.
Just don't say that within earshot of any of the trumpet players in the Philadelphia Orchestra, will you?!
but, our voices can be 'trumpets' that are like the angels who bring us the Good News of Jesus return by becoming visible to us at the return of Jesus. we simply state what we believe and if people are helped by it (as in warning them of their lives being at stake) then we have done a 'good deed.'
If you believe so (which evidently you do); I have to admit that I don't have a voice like a trumpet, nor do I play that instrument. Do you think that the piccolo trumpet in F for which Bach wrote is any more likely to possess the characteristic that you ascribe above to the trumpet in general?
if you believe the earth will go on as it presently is - be my guest.
Then sadly I will not be your guest, because the earth has never gone one as it has ever been at any given "present" time; just like humanity, it is in a constant state of flax and evolution.
all i'm saying is that usually God forwarns Christians
Er - no - you say FAR more than just that! - and, in any case, do you therefore believe it to be true that God doesn't address any non-Christians, irrespective of their faith or otherwise?
- and they are reminded by what each other is saying by the Spirit of God moving in them to HEAR. we are warned in revelations not to accept a worldwide government that is anti-christ and not to accept a mark (to buy and sell) that will be affecting the thoughts and actions of those who do not hear. this 'mark' of the beast (world government power) will be at first christian friendly and then turn on them once gained - forcing them to WORSHIP the government and NOT GOD. that is what i'm saying.
And, in so saying, I think that you are being very constricted in your thinking. It's not that I don't accept any of what you say here - far from it, in fact; it's just that you are grossly over-simplifing such matters by trying to pin the entire future of the world on your understanding of the Book of Revelation as you have read it.
Best,
Alistair