the frustration zheer has isn't at the british. he has what we all have. a feeling of alienation from what is happening. a powerlessness. unless you are in high areas of finance or government (and the government is more like 'who's got the money?') you are relatively powerless. unless...unless there's someone that has MORe power. maybe God? there is a scripture that says 'if God is for you - who can be against you?' no matter the racial slurs or difficult living. elijah was living off of pieces of bread that ravens gave him and water from a creek for a while. but, it was temporary. and yet - each day he had enough to sustain him. that might be us in a matter of years. the world economy - plus the tensions in the middle east - war - famine - drought - disease - pestilence. these are all signs of the 'four horsemen of the apocalypse.' i don't think it's going to get better. but should you rely soley on your government or on God. i say God. i've seen it happen before. the unlikely. the miracle. the unusual 'just the right moment' happenings. i belive God is extremely powerful. enough to save. otherwise, He wouldn't have bothered warning sodom and gommorah, the people of noah's time, jonah's ninevah, and revelations for today. of course, it COULD happen in our lifetime. it's been happening the last 3 years. it's like being a frog in cool temp water to boiling. you just don't feel the temperature changes until you're like 'what's happening?'
we'll know the start of the last 3 1/2 years because the two witnesses will be preaching to the world from jerusalem. jerusalem will be divided and armies around it - just like the book of matthew says. we will know when jesus is about to arrive because the two witnesses will be killed. their bodies laying in the streets. but, within three days - they'll be ressurrected and then we will also see divine miracles - such as the return of Jesus and great earthquakes and hail and things that don't normally happen (that happened at his death and ressurrection). namely, the sun and moon being darkened.
it won't matter whose got the upper hand then. it will be you and God. that's the only relationship to worry about now. and, we can always know that if God is for you - who can be against you? but, we should always prepare spiritually and physically. as i see it - joseph was given seven good years and then seven years of famine. if you see it coming (and the farmland and production here in usa has been dwindling due to lack of rain and sometimes expense - gas/equipment/business) then you should make provision for your family and a few extra people. keep extra water. keep extra seeds (in case you have to grow some things). learn about gardening indoors and outdoors. it seems to me with some of the hotter weather - that having one's own greenhouse could be nice - hydroponic gardening is cool because it uses recycled water and also provides a person with their own summer produce. if you get really good at gardening - you can also can and/or freeze produce for use in the winter. people are so used to buying at the store, they don't realize that if it all collapses - there won't be the ease of shopping as there is now. and, it gives a person something to do rather than to say 'i can't do anything about the situation.'
i've been thinking lately for myself that it would be a good idea to do the cpr classes again and also take some kind of medical training. if there is war or problems - the majority of people will die from lack of care. also, to have supplies and/or be resourceful. and also to know about survival tactics. most people are so used to things being handed to them - that they wouldn't know how to survive without stuff for a few months to years. i think we have to go back to old time books and learn from our ancestors (even though it seems less civilized). at least we'd be aware of alternate methods of getting along.
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