Submissions by joegracegrace (Joe Grace)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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A dictator will "make war on the saints [the Christian nations],gain power over every nation," (Revelation 13.7).This conquest implies world war. Yes, NUCLEAR war would explain "sudden destruction" at Rapture(1 Thessalonians 4.16-5.3)
Estimating the Time of the Rapture by Connecting the Dots
Here are my assumptions.
The Rapture occurs as the "sudden destruction" occurs. The two events are side by side in 1 Thessalonians 4.17 - 5.3, just 3 verses apart. That sudden destruction kills millions, causing souls to depart this world together. The gathering angels would then escort the saved souls to heaven(Matthew 13.47-49; 24.30).
Second assumption is that the sudden destruction = the military attack that "the Beast or Antichrist "wages against the saints"(Revelation 13.7) by which he "gains power over every nation". The saints would refer
to the...
The Rapture occurs as the "sudden destruction" occurs. The two events are side by side in 1 Thessalonians 4.17 - 5.3, just 3 verses apart. That sudden destruction kills millions, causing souls to depart this world together. The gathering angels would then escort the saved souls to heaven(Matthew 13.47-49; 24.30).
Second assumption is that the sudden destruction = the military attack that "the Beast or Antichrist "wages against the saints"(Revelation 13.7) by which he "gains power over every nation". The saints would refer
to the...
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Pastors Sometimes Have Their Heads In the Sand
I visited a local pastor to share some info.
It was back in July but Im still mad about it.
I brought up that the Book of Revelation says "the Beast (Antichrist) will make war against the SAINTS (the predominately Christian nations) and will overcome them" and will thereby gain "power over every nation" - the whole world (Revelation 13.7).
Next I brought out to him, this local pastor, that this "war" or military attack could be when the Rapture occurs. For millions of Christians dying together would allow for souls to exit bodies.At which point the "gathering...
It was back in July but Im still mad about it.
I brought up that the Book of Revelation says "the Beast (Antichrist) will make war against the SAINTS (the predominately Christian nations) and will overcome them" and will thereby gain "power over every nation" - the whole world (Revelation 13.7).
Next I brought out to him, this local pastor, that this "war" or military attack could be when the Rapture occurs. For millions of Christians dying together would allow for souls to exit bodies.At which point the "gathering...
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Abortion is Like Rape
Having an abortion is like getting RAPED.
You dont want to be there at the abortion clinic.
You dont enjoy undressing in front of a stranger, the abortion doctor.
Just like a woman doesnt enjoy it when a rapist takes her panties down.
You dont want to be penetrated by the vacuum tube that the doctor uses to pull
body parts out of your uterus.
Just like a woman hates being penetrated during rape.
No woman CHOOSES abortion.
She does it because she feels forced to.
A bit like having forced sex, ie getting raped.
Rape is humiliating, abortion is...
You dont want to be there at the abortion clinic.
You dont enjoy undressing in front of a stranger, the abortion doctor.
Just like a woman doesnt enjoy it when a rapist takes her panties down.
You dont want to be penetrated by the vacuum tube that the doctor uses to pull
body parts out of your uterus.
Just like a woman hates being penetrated during rape.
No woman CHOOSES abortion.
She does it because she feels forced to.
A bit like having forced sex, ie getting raped.
Rape is humiliating, abortion is...
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Gorbachev is the ANTICHRIST
Gorbachev, or you could say Garbage-ev, made peace, ending the Cold War, only because he knew we would disarm as a result.
Russia needed us to disarm because our nuclear arsenal was too big. Russian attack couldnt destroy all of it. But now that we have given up 2/3 of our boomer submarines(reducing from 39 down to just 12), Russia can destroy ALL of our retaliatory arsenal!!!
LSS: Gorbachev fulfills these words "By peace he will destroy many" (Daniel 8.25, KJV).
He hasnt destroyed us, our big cities, yet, but he is about to do...
Russia needed us to disarm because our nuclear arsenal was too big. Russian attack couldnt destroy all of it. But now that we have given up 2/3 of our boomer submarines(reducing from 39 down to just 12), Russia can destroy ALL of our retaliatory arsenal!!!
LSS: Gorbachev fulfills these words "By peace he will destroy many" (Daniel 8.25, KJV).
He hasnt destroyed us, our big cities, yet, but he is about to do...
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Why M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction) is Obsolete, Totally Invalid
M.A.D. is invalid for Russia has found a way to hit us,
but prevent us from retaliating effectively.
That is recipe for a one-sided war, unilateral destruction,
Rather than a two-sided, "mutual ..destruction."
Our nuclear arsenal is retaliatory in nature.
Just the threat of our retaliating is supposed to be enuff to deter Russia from attacking.
Hence it is called our Nuclear Deterrent.
Evidently it really has struck FEAR into the Kremlin.
For 7 decades have passed without Russian Attack.
Why is that about to change...
but prevent us from retaliating effectively.
That is recipe for a one-sided war, unilateral destruction,
Rather than a two-sided, "mutual ..destruction."
Our nuclear arsenal is retaliatory in nature.
Just the threat of our retaliating is supposed to be enuff to deter Russia from attacking.
Hence it is called our Nuclear Deterrent.
Evidently it really has struck FEAR into the Kremlin.
For 7 decades have passed without Russian Attack.
Why is that about to change...
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The Vietnamese War Could Have Been Won. Why Wasn't It ??!!
The Communist North Vietnamese waged a guerrilla war
in South Vietnam from the start to almost the very end..
But in the end, the North switched strategy,
changing from guerrilla war to conventional war.
I mean the North invaded South Vietnam with thousands
of battle tanks and armored personnel carriers(APCs).
Where did they get those heavy tanks and APCs?
Russia had transported those tanks on ships that
were unloaded at the port of Haiphong.
My point is that if America had bombed that port and others,
Those Soviet tanks would not...
in South Vietnam from the start to almost the very end..
But in the end, the North switched strategy,
changing from guerrilla war to conventional war.
I mean the North invaded South Vietnam with thousands
of battle tanks and armored personnel carriers(APCs).
Where did they get those heavy tanks and APCs?
Russia had transported those tanks on ships that
were unloaded at the port of Haiphong.
My point is that if America had bombed that port and others,
Those Soviet tanks would not...
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Warmth in the Midst of the Winter Called Life
What is the allure of a woman's vagina for a man?
It's like that of a door almost shut,
But just a little bit ajar.
As someone passes by in the night,
They see a shaft or rather a sliver of light escaping from within.
Not just light, heat is assumed as well.
For the year has reached the month of December.
In the coldness of the wintry night outside,
the promise of that inner heat is alluring, indeed.
It's like that of a door almost shut,
But just a little bit ajar.
As someone passes by in the night,
They see a shaft or rather a sliver of light escaping from within.
Not just light, heat is assumed as well.
For the year has reached the month of December.
In the coldness of the wintry night outside,
the promise of that inner heat is alluring, indeed.
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When is "Resurrection Day"?
There are "Two Resurrections" we are told(Revelation ).
The "first Resurrection" is at the beginning of the Millennium(Rev ).
While the second Resurrection is at the close of the same (Rev 20 ).
Pardon me for saying it, but this is a bit artificial, or misleading.
Christ's own Resurrection in 30 AD marked the start of the Church Age, of course.
And since we are "in Christ," His Resurrection is ours as well.
So all Christians are counted as having resurrected along with Him,
As it says in , ..
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The "first Resurrection" is at the beginning of the Millennium(Rev ).
While the second Resurrection is at the close of the same (Rev 20 ).
Pardon me for saying it, but this is a bit artificial, or misleading.
Christ's own Resurrection in 30 AD marked the start of the Church Age, of course.
And since we are "in Christ," His Resurrection is ours as well.
So all Christians are counted as having resurrected along with Him,
As it says in , ..
...
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How Can the Caterpillar of Genesis One Get Transformed into the Butterfly of the Big Bang Theory ??
What justification is there for such a metamorphosis ??
Well, as the genes of the caterpillar and butterfly are the same,
So too with Genesis chapter one and the Big Bang Theory (BBT),
We don't dump Genesis One, we retain it,
But we re-interpret it by the Big Bang Theory.
Moses borrowed from earlier Creation Week stories,
eg,the polytheistic Babylonian account,(I'll look up the name of the other one).
My point is that Moses cleaned them up, de-mythologizing them.
We follow in Moses' footsteps when we take the "days" of Genesis One as...
Well, as the genes of the caterpillar and butterfly are the same,
So too with Genesis chapter one and the Big Bang Theory (BBT),
We don't dump Genesis One, we retain it,
But we re-interpret it by the Big Bang Theory.
Moses borrowed from earlier Creation Week stories,
eg,the polytheistic Babylonian account,(I'll look up the name of the other one).
My point is that Moses cleaned them up, de-mythologizing them.
We follow in Moses' footsteps when we take the "days" of Genesis One as...
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Who Is "the Restrainer" Who Gets "Taken Out of the Way" by "the Man of Sin"(2 Thessalonian
Fundamentalist Christians always say that "the Restrainer is the Holy Spirit."
That's ridiculous.
If you would simply read Daniel 11.36-37, you'd see that "the Man of Sin"(2 Thess 2.4)
corresponds to "the King of the North"(Daniel 11.36-45).
In turn, that king is opposed by "the King of the South".
So THAT is the real "Restrainer."
It is "the King of the South."
Let me go over that one more time.
It's "the Man of Sin" versus "the Restrainer" in 2 Thessalonians 2.3-8.
While it's "the King of the...
That's ridiculous.
If you would simply read Daniel 11.36-37, you'd see that "the Man of Sin"(2 Thess 2.4)
corresponds to "the King of the North"(Daniel 11.36-45).
In turn, that king is opposed by "the King of the South".
So THAT is the real "Restrainer."
It is "the King of the South."
Let me go over that one more time.
It's "the Man of Sin" versus "the Restrainer" in 2 Thessalonians 2.3-8.
While it's "the King of the...
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Hollywood and the New Feudalism
During the Dark Ages thru the Middle Ages
The moneyed class were free to do as they pleased,
While all the poor peasants were expected to wait on them,
Basically sacrificing their desires for the sake of their masters.
The successes of the land-owning class was as close
to real freedom that the dirt-poor serfs ever got.
The serfs had to live vicariously thru the rich dukes and earls and barons,etc
who ruled over them.and used them.
Likewise today, the masses live their boring little lives
in which something spectacular rarely happens,...
The moneyed class were free to do as they pleased,
While all the poor peasants were expected to wait on them,
Basically sacrificing their desires for the sake of their masters.
The successes of the land-owning class was as close
to real freedom that the dirt-poor serfs ever got.
The serfs had to live vicariously thru the rich dukes and earls and barons,etc
who ruled over them.and used them.
Likewise today, the masses live their boring little lives
in which something spectacular rarely happens,...
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The Jerusalem Temple: What the 3 Divisions May Mean
Like there are "3 heavens" (2 Corinthians 12.2-4),
there were 3 sections to the Jewish Temple:
(1)The outer court yard,
(2)The Holy Place,within the court yard
(3)The Holy of Holies. within the Holy Place.
So the Holy of Holies was a room within a room within a room.
The Holy of Holies, God's Throne room, was definitely like the "Third Heaven".
For the "Mercy Seat," the lid of "the Ark of the Covenant," served as the throne of God.
A likeness of the real throne of God in the Third Heaven.
Moses and then Paul much later claimed that things ...
there were 3 sections to the Jewish Temple:
(1)The outer court yard,
(2)The Holy Place,within the court yard
(3)The Holy of Holies. within the Holy Place.
So the Holy of Holies was a room within a room within a room.
The Holy of Holies, God's Throne room, was definitely like the "Third Heaven".
For the "Mercy Seat," the lid of "the Ark of the Covenant," served as the throne of God.
A likeness of the real throne of God in the Third Heaven.
Moses and then Paul much later claimed that things ...
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