WHY AM I HERE?
A GOOD FRIEND RECENTLY ASKED ME THIS VERY QUESTION, AND IT GOT ME THINKING TO THE BIG PICTURE OF, YEAH ROB, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE? WELL, I FIGURED SINCE I HAVE LOVED END-TIME PROPHECY SINCE SOON AFTER I GOT SAVED ON 4/7/93, THAT I WOULD TRY TO GUESS WHEN I BELIEVED THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH WOULD BEACCORDING TO WHAT I NOTICE IN THE WORLD, AND COMBINE IT WITH WHAT I KNOW OF SCRIPTURE. IT'S A FUN GAME. MANY HAVE DONE IT BEFORE ME, AND EVERYBODY HAS BEEN WRONG. SO IT'S A FUN GAME, I'M INTERESTED WITH FINDING THE ANSWER, AND I AM O.K. WITH BEING WRONG. NOT TO MENTION, THAT IT ALSO SEEMS LIKE QUITE A FORFILLING WAY TO LIVE LIFE. THE CONCEPT OF LIVING LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW, BECAUSE BY MY SILLY ASS CALCULATIONS, WE ONLY HAVE 948 TOMORROW'S LEFT UNTIL THE RAPTURE AKA DISAPEARANCE OF BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST. YES, I REALLY THINK ABOUT THIS SHIT ON A DAILY BASIS, IT'S SILLY I KNOW, BUT IT IS JUST WHAT MAKES ME TICK. WHETHER I'M HIGH OR LOW, DRUNK OR SOBER, IN SICKNESS OR IN HEATH, WHETHER I AM RICH OR I AM POOR, WHETHER I'M OUT WITH FRIENDS OR COMPLETELY ALONE, RAIN OR SHINE, I THINK ABOUT A)THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH, B)THE SEVEN YEAR REIGN OF THE ANTI-CHRIST, AND C)THE OFFICIAL SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST, D)THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST, AND FINALLY E)THE CREATION OF A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH.
OK, I PREFACE THIS WITH A WORD OF WARNING OR CAUTION FROM NONE OTHER THAN THE HOLY BIBLE HIMSELF...
Matthew 24:36(New International Version)
The Day and Hour Unknown
36"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father.
I AM WELL AWARE THAT NO ONE KNOWS, AND I REALLY DON'T KNOW EITHER, BUT...I LOVE READING WHAT IS IN BETWEEN THE LINES, AND GOD HAS AVERY SPECIAL WAY OF WRITING IN BETWEEN THE LINES WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE'S HEARTS. I AM NOT AN ATHORITY, I REALLY AM NO ONE. I AM JUST ANOTHER CRAZY VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS SCREAMING OUT THAT THE COMING OF THE LORD IS AT HAND. WHY DO I DO WHAT I DO? BECAUSE I JUST DO. I DON'T BELIEVE IN ACCIDENTS, BUT THERE IS A VERY SPECIFIC REASON FOR ALL THAT HAPPENS, AND CAN USUALLY ONLY BE SEEN BY GOD FROM ABOVE OR SPECULATED UPON BY THOSE ON THE EARTH. I DON'T HAVE TO KNOW WHY I DO WHAT I DO. I JUST HAVE TO DO, YA KNOW.
I HAVE WANTED TO BE THIS GENERATIONS NOAH CONCERNING THE COMING DOOM AKA THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD ON THE EARTH. IN OTHER WORDS, I WANTED TO TELL PEOPLE TO GET ON THE BOAT BEFORE THE FLOOD COMES, ONLY THE NEXT TIME, IT WILL BE BEFORE THE FIRE COMES. ONLY THIS TIME, THE SAVING VESSEL WON'T BE A BOAT, BUT A CROSS. INSTEAD OF BELIEVING THAT GETTING ON A BOAT WILL SAVE YOU FROM THE COMING TRAGEDY, BELIEVING IN A MAN'S LIFE, AND WHAT WAS DONE ON A CROSS, AND WHAT CAME OUT OF A GRAVE IS WHAT WILL SAVE YOU FROM A SOON COMING TRAGEDY.
OK, OK, I KNOW THIS IS HEAVY SHIT, ESPECIALLY IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU HAVE EVER HEARD SOME CRAZY SHIT LIKE THIS, BUT IT'S WIDELY BELIEVED TO BE TRUE. IT IS BELIEVED BY A LARGE SECT OF PEOPLE THAT THE BIBLE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUE STORY, AND IT REALLY HAPPENED, AND IT'S REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN. REALLY THE WHOLE BOOK IS A PORTRAIT OF GOD, BUT IT GETS VERY SPECIFIC WHEN IT COMES TO A FELLA NAMED JESUS CHRIST. HE IS CALLED THE SON OF GOD. HE IS SAID TO BE THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, AND NO ONE CAN COME TO THE FATHER, EXCEPT THROUGH HIM. THIS IS CALLED THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, AND NO, NOT OF LATTER DAY SAINTS, JUST THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
I DON'T KNOW WHO IS SAVED, AND WHO IS NOT SAVED, AND QUITE FRANKLY, I REALLY DON'T CARE. IT'S NOT MY PROBLEM TO BE CONCERNED WITH. I CAN ONLY GO WITH WHAT I BELIEVE THE SCRIPTURES REVEAL TO MY SPIRIT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH ME, AND IT'S PROBABLY BETTER THAT YOU DON'T. YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOUR MIND AND SOUL TELL YOU TO BELIEVE, AND WE'LL LET GOD, OR WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE IN BE THE JUDGE OF WHAT'S WHAT.
FOR SOME REASON, THE STORIES OF JESUS, JUST MADE SENSE TO ME, AND I GRAVITATED TOWARDS IT LIKE FLIES TO SHIT. TO SEE THAT CHRIST COULD FORGIVE AND SAVE THOSE WHO WEREN'T ALWAYS LIKED BY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, WAS REALLY SOMETHING THAT I COULD GET DOWN WITH, BECAUSE IN MY OWN LIFE, I REALLY HAVEN'T BEEN LIKED BY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE EITHER. DO I BELIEVE IN JESUS AS GOD'S ONLY SON, AND THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD? ABSOLUTELY, I DO, BUT FOLLOWINGA BUNCH OF RULES AND REGULATIONS IN ORDER TO GET SAVED, IS JUST NOT SOMETHING THAT I'M PERSONALLY DOWN WITH. THERE ARE MANY THAT ARE, AND THAT'S COOL, BUT I JUST NEVER HAVE BEEN, AND REALLY DON'T PLAN ON EVER BEING LIKE THAT.
I BELIEVE THAT ANY RIGHTOUSNESS THAT I MAY HAVE IN THE EYES OF GOD IS STRICTLY BECAUSE OF WHAT JESUS HAS DONE IN HIS LIFE FOR MY LIFE. IT'S HIS RIGHTOUSNESS THAT MAKES ME ACCEPTABLE BEFORE GOD, BECAUSE AS YOU CAN CERTAINLY TELL BY MY LIFESTYLE AND LANGUAGE, IT SURE THE FUCK ISN'T MINE. I BELIEVE THAT THE BLOOD THAT JESUS SHED ON THE CROSS FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD IS WHAT COVERS MY LIFE, AND THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES ME ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, HIS FATHER. YOU SEE, I AM IN THE WORLD, AND I BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS BORN A VIRGEN, LIVED A SINLESS LIFE, DIED ON A CROSS, AND ROSE FROM THE GRAVE, ALIVE 3 DAYS LATER. AND THE WAY I READ THE SCRIPTURES, I SEE THAT THOSE THAT BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, WILL BE SAVED FROM THE WRATH THAT IS TO COME. NOW THAT BELIEFCOMES FROMA COMPILATION OF SCRIPTURES AND MESSAGES THAT ARE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE WHICH IS SAID TO BE THE WORD OF GOD.
OK, SO MY GUESS FOR WHEN THE RAPTURE WILL BE IS....
SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2011 AT SUNDOWN IN ISRAEL FOR THE START OF ROSH HASHANAH WHICH IS ON SEPTEMBER 29TH OF THAT YEAR, BUT IT IS SAID IN THE JEWISH CUSTOM THAT THE HOLIDAY STARTS AT SUNDOWN OF THE PREVIOUS DAY WHICH MAKES IT THE 28TH THAT IT ACTUALLY STARTS ON ACCORDING TO OUR CURRENT CALENDAR SYSTEM. SO I'M GUESSING THAT SUNSET WILL BE AROUND 6PM IN ISRAEL IN SEPTEMBER, AND THAT IS DURING DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME, SO IT WILL BE 10 HOURS EARLIER HERE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA WHICH AT THAT TIME WILL BE PART OF THE PACIFIC TIME ZONE. SO IF I SUBTRACT 10 HOURS FROM 6PM IN ISRAEL, I COME UP WITH 8AM HERE IN THE PACIFIC TIME ZONE, 9AM IN THE MOUNTAIN ZONE, 10AM IN THE CENTRAL ZONE, AND 11AM IN THE EASTERN ZONE ON SEPTEMBER 28TH, GIVE OR TAKE A HALF HOUR OR SO.
OK NOW, THIS IS JUST ROB BEING ROB. IT'S LIKE THIS IS MY LOTTERY NUMBER...09 28 20 11 08 WHICH TO ME EQUALS SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 AT 8AM IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA.CONSIDERING NO ONE KNOWS BUT GOD, I HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING THE LOTTERY WITH THESE NUMBERS THAN I HAVE OF ACTUALLY BEING RIGHT ABOUT THIS BEING THE EXACT TIME OF THE COMING OF THE RAPTURE, BUT HEY.....
IT SURE IS FUN FOR ME, AND WHAT IF....JUST WHAT IF.....I'M RIGHT, OR WHAT I LIKE TO SAY BEING, "I AM NO ONE, AND 'NO ONE' KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR.HEHEHE.
OK, I PREFACE THIS WITH A WORD OF WARNING OR CAUTION FROM NONE OTHER THAN THE HOLY BIBLE HIMSELF...
Matthew 24:36(New International Version)
The Day and Hour Unknown
36"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father.
I AM WELL AWARE THAT NO ONE KNOWS, AND I REALLY DON'T KNOW EITHER, BUT...I LOVE READING WHAT IS IN BETWEEN THE LINES, AND GOD HAS AVERY SPECIAL WAY OF WRITING IN BETWEEN THE LINES WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE'S HEARTS. I AM NOT AN ATHORITY, I REALLY AM NO ONE. I AM JUST ANOTHER CRAZY VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS SCREAMING OUT THAT THE COMING OF THE LORD IS AT HAND. WHY DO I DO WHAT I DO? BECAUSE I JUST DO. I DON'T BELIEVE IN ACCIDENTS, BUT THERE IS A VERY SPECIFIC REASON FOR ALL THAT HAPPENS, AND CAN USUALLY ONLY BE SEEN BY GOD FROM ABOVE OR SPECULATED UPON BY THOSE ON THE EARTH. I DON'T HAVE TO KNOW WHY I DO WHAT I DO. I JUST HAVE TO DO, YA KNOW.
I HAVE WANTED TO BE THIS GENERATIONS NOAH CONCERNING THE COMING DOOM AKA THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD ON THE EARTH. IN OTHER WORDS, I WANTED TO TELL PEOPLE TO GET ON THE BOAT BEFORE THE FLOOD COMES, ONLY THE NEXT TIME, IT WILL BE BEFORE THE FIRE COMES. ONLY THIS TIME, THE SAVING VESSEL WON'T BE A BOAT, BUT A CROSS. INSTEAD OF BELIEVING THAT GETTING ON A BOAT WILL SAVE YOU FROM THE COMING TRAGEDY, BELIEVING IN A MAN'S LIFE, AND WHAT WAS DONE ON A CROSS, AND WHAT CAME OUT OF A GRAVE IS WHAT WILL SAVE YOU FROM A SOON COMING TRAGEDY.
OK, OK, I KNOW THIS IS HEAVY SHIT, ESPECIALLY IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU HAVE EVER HEARD SOME CRAZY SHIT LIKE THIS, BUT IT'S WIDELY BELIEVED TO BE TRUE. IT IS BELIEVED BY A LARGE SECT OF PEOPLE THAT THE BIBLE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUE STORY, AND IT REALLY HAPPENED, AND IT'S REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN. REALLY THE WHOLE BOOK IS A PORTRAIT OF GOD, BUT IT GETS VERY SPECIFIC WHEN IT COMES TO A FELLA NAMED JESUS CHRIST. HE IS CALLED THE SON OF GOD. HE IS SAID TO BE THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, AND NO ONE CAN COME TO THE FATHER, EXCEPT THROUGH HIM. THIS IS CALLED THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, AND NO, NOT OF LATTER DAY SAINTS, JUST THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
I DON'T KNOW WHO IS SAVED, AND WHO IS NOT SAVED, AND QUITE FRANKLY, I REALLY DON'T CARE. IT'S NOT MY PROBLEM TO BE CONCERNED WITH. I CAN ONLY GO WITH WHAT I BELIEVE THE SCRIPTURES REVEAL TO MY SPIRIT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH ME, AND IT'S PROBABLY BETTER THAT YOU DON'T. YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOUR MIND AND SOUL TELL YOU TO BELIEVE, AND WE'LL LET GOD, OR WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE IN BE THE JUDGE OF WHAT'S WHAT.
FOR SOME REASON, THE STORIES OF JESUS, JUST MADE SENSE TO ME, AND I GRAVITATED TOWARDS IT LIKE FLIES TO SHIT. TO SEE THAT CHRIST COULD FORGIVE AND SAVE THOSE WHO WEREN'T ALWAYS LIKED BY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, WAS REALLY SOMETHING THAT I COULD GET DOWN WITH, BECAUSE IN MY OWN LIFE, I REALLY HAVEN'T BEEN LIKED BY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE EITHER. DO I BELIEVE IN JESUS AS GOD'S ONLY SON, AND THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD? ABSOLUTELY, I DO, BUT FOLLOWINGA BUNCH OF RULES AND REGULATIONS IN ORDER TO GET SAVED, IS JUST NOT SOMETHING THAT I'M PERSONALLY DOWN WITH. THERE ARE MANY THAT ARE, AND THAT'S COOL, BUT I JUST NEVER HAVE BEEN, AND REALLY DON'T PLAN ON EVER BEING LIKE THAT.
I BELIEVE THAT ANY RIGHTOUSNESS THAT I MAY HAVE IN THE EYES OF GOD IS STRICTLY BECAUSE OF WHAT JESUS HAS DONE IN HIS LIFE FOR MY LIFE. IT'S HIS RIGHTOUSNESS THAT MAKES ME ACCEPTABLE BEFORE GOD, BECAUSE AS YOU CAN CERTAINLY TELL BY MY LIFESTYLE AND LANGUAGE, IT SURE THE FUCK ISN'T MINE. I BELIEVE THAT THE BLOOD THAT JESUS SHED ON THE CROSS FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD IS WHAT COVERS MY LIFE, AND THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES ME ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, HIS FATHER. YOU SEE, I AM IN THE WORLD, AND I BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS BORN A VIRGEN, LIVED A SINLESS LIFE, DIED ON A CROSS, AND ROSE FROM THE GRAVE, ALIVE 3 DAYS LATER. AND THE WAY I READ THE SCRIPTURES, I SEE THAT THOSE THAT BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, WILL BE SAVED FROM THE WRATH THAT IS TO COME. NOW THAT BELIEFCOMES FROMA COMPILATION OF SCRIPTURES AND MESSAGES THAT ARE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE WHICH IS SAID TO BE THE WORD OF GOD.
OK, SO MY GUESS FOR WHEN THE RAPTURE WILL BE IS....
SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2011 AT SUNDOWN IN ISRAEL FOR THE START OF ROSH HASHANAH WHICH IS ON SEPTEMBER 29TH OF THAT YEAR, BUT IT IS SAID IN THE JEWISH CUSTOM THAT THE HOLIDAY STARTS AT SUNDOWN OF THE PREVIOUS DAY WHICH MAKES IT THE 28TH THAT IT ACTUALLY STARTS ON ACCORDING TO OUR CURRENT CALENDAR SYSTEM. SO I'M GUESSING THAT SUNSET WILL BE AROUND 6PM IN ISRAEL IN SEPTEMBER, AND THAT IS DURING DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME, SO IT WILL BE 10 HOURS EARLIER HERE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA WHICH AT THAT TIME WILL BE PART OF THE PACIFIC TIME ZONE. SO IF I SUBTRACT 10 HOURS FROM 6PM IN ISRAEL, I COME UP WITH 8AM HERE IN THE PACIFIC TIME ZONE, 9AM IN THE MOUNTAIN ZONE, 10AM IN THE CENTRAL ZONE, AND 11AM IN THE EASTERN ZONE ON SEPTEMBER 28TH, GIVE OR TAKE A HALF HOUR OR SO.
OK NOW, THIS IS JUST ROB BEING ROB. IT'S LIKE THIS IS MY LOTTERY NUMBER...09 28 20 11 08 WHICH TO ME EQUALS SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 AT 8AM IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA.CONSIDERING NO ONE KNOWS BUT GOD, I HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING THE LOTTERY WITH THESE NUMBERS THAN I HAVE OF ACTUALLY BEING RIGHT ABOUT THIS BEING THE EXACT TIME OF THE COMING OF THE RAPTURE, BUT HEY.....
IT SURE IS FUN FOR ME, AND WHAT IF....JUST WHAT IF.....I'M RIGHT, OR WHAT I LIKE TO SAY BEING, "I AM NO ONE, AND 'NO ONE' KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR.HEHEHE.
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The Bible says not one man will know when He is coming . So, I believe that any date anyone guesses will be wrong. It will be a day no one guessed.
But I admire your passion about it! You\'re right. Not one of us knows if we will be here tomorrow. So, its a great thing to live each day as your last. Thats hard to remember sometimes. Love ya!!!
I don\'t want to blow your mind, but what if the Rapture and the seven years of tribulations have already happened? Do you remember in 2000-2001 all the missing children pictures up on the board at Wal Mart? Of course the children would be the first to go. I also had a strange experience in 2001 - my born-again, conversion, awakening, experience was accompanied at one point by a feeling like a flash of lightning through my whole body -- it felt as if God\'s hand swept through me. I was alone in bed at 12:00 midnight. If I had disappeared, no one would have known what had happened to me. I thought at the time that it was the Rapture. I do know I was changed in that instant. Maybe I was left behind, I certainly hadn\'t been a saint to that point -- maybe I wanted to stay to help others through the tribulations. Particularly I wanted to stay for my son, an agnostic/atheist despite all my attempts to get him and my husband to Unity. We have had terrible earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and a never-ending war on terror in the last seven years but it wasn\'t as bad as it could have been. The angels have been with us. All of us, not just America. But remember, Jesus did say the end would come like a thief in the night.
I WILL CALL YOU \'HUG\',CAN I ASK,ARE YOU FROM JEWISH ANCESTORS? PROVERBS 28 V 23 HE THAT REBUKETH A MAN AFTERWARDS SHALL FIND MORE FAVOR THAN HE THAT FLATTERETH WITH THE TONGUE.HUG,YOU HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL HEART FOR \'THE LORD\',BUT YOU NEED TO TAKE OFF THE SUNGLASSES OF INIQUITIES AND PUT ON THE ROBE OF RIGHTIOUSSNES,HAVE A CLEAN MOUTH AND MAKE \'THE LORD GOD\'YOUR PRYORITY,YOU CANNOT PUT THE WORD\'.....\'AND THEN SHIT.....DO UNDERSTAND,HE SAID\'BE HOLY FOR I AM HOLY\',TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN HE SAID\'THE LORD JESUS CHRIST[JESHUA MESSIA]\'GO AND SIN NO MORE.GO AND SIN NO MORE HUG,IN HIS LOVE ,MY LORD AND SAVIOUR \'JESUS CHRIST\',LOVE LUCY...