Submissions by joegracegrace (Joe Grace)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
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)
The Parable of the Good Samaritan: Has Christ Spoken it in Vain?
The story goes, a man is robbed, left half dead.
A priest and then a Levite ignore him as he's lying there.
But a foreigner (a Samaritan), passing by,comes to his aid.
Martin Luther King explained that parable this way:
The Good Samaritan thought like this:
"What will happen to him(the crime victim)
if I don't help him?"
While the others, the priest and the Levite,
thought like this,"What might happen to me if i help him?"
They thought only about themselves.
But the Good Samaritan had a larger...
A priest and then a Levite ignore him as he's lying there.
But a foreigner (a Samaritan), passing by,comes to his aid.
Martin Luther King explained that parable this way:
The Good Samaritan thought like this:
"What will happen to him(the crime victim)
if I don't help him?"
While the others, the priest and the Levite,
thought like this,"What might happen to me if i help him?"
They thought only about themselves.
But the Good Samaritan had a larger...
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The "Sudden Destruction" at The Rapture is War, NUCLEAR War
The Rapture of the world-wide Church,
- Actually only a very small part of it goes up -
is described by these words in the New Testament,
"The Lord [Christ] will descend with a shout..
We who are alive will be caught up..
to meet the Lord in the air...
Comfort each other with these words"(1 Thessalonians 4.16-18).
Just 3 verses later, we read that the Rapture
occurs on "THE DAY OF THE LORD"(1 Thess 5.2).
a term that goes back to the Old Testament.
When Isaiah prophesied that God would punish Babylon
via military...
- Actually only a very small part of it goes up -
is described by these words in the New Testament,
"The Lord [Christ] will descend with a shout..
We who are alive will be caught up..
to meet the Lord in the air...
Comfort each other with these words"(1 Thessalonians 4.16-18).
Just 3 verses later, we read that the Rapture
occurs on "THE DAY OF THE LORD"(1 Thess 5.2).
a term that goes back to the Old Testament.
When Isaiah prophesied that God would punish Babylon
via military...
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The Rapture or the Second Coming, Which is More Glorious??
At the Rapture (and the "sudden destruction" that accompanies it)
no more than 300 million souls will depart their bodies and this world.
Suppose that 2/3 of them are "saved," believing followers of Christ.
That would mean 200 million tops, entering heaven, escorted by the angels.
But at the Second Coming of Christ,
the whole world will become converted.
For we read, On that day, there will be one Lord,
One Name, for the whole Earth(Zechariah 14.9).
There are 7 billion souls in the world.
One and a half billion are already believing...
no more than 300 million souls will depart their bodies and this world.
Suppose that 2/3 of them are "saved," believing followers of Christ.
That would mean 200 million tops, entering heaven, escorted by the angels.
But at the Second Coming of Christ,
the whole world will become converted.
For we read, On that day, there will be one Lord,
One Name, for the whole Earth(Zechariah 14.9).
There are 7 billion souls in the world.
One and a half billion are already believing...
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The Difference Between the Rapture and the Second Coming
Christ's Appearing:(1) at the Rapture
and (2) at the Second Coming of Christ
are two completely separate things.
They happen at two different times.
The Rapture happens when the Antichrist is "revealed as the Destroyer,"(2 Thessalonians 2.3)
BY the mass destruction (implied) produced by "the war against the saints [the Christian West]"
which he launches, by which he gains power over "every..nation"(Revelation 13.7).
So the Rapture comes at the START of the Antichrist's ownership of the world.
Whereas, the Second Coming occurs...
and (2) at the Second Coming of Christ
are two completely separate things.
They happen at two different times.
The Rapture happens when the Antichrist is "revealed as the Destroyer,"(2 Thessalonians 2.3)
BY the mass destruction (implied) produced by "the war against the saints [the Christian West]"
which he launches, by which he gains power over "every..nation"(Revelation 13.7).
So the Rapture comes at the START of the Antichrist's ownership of the world.
Whereas, the Second Coming occurs...
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China and North Korea are Playing "Good Cop, Bad Cop"
When North Korea does something crazy
Pundits always say America's leaders
should get China to "use its influence"
as a way to get North Korea to behave.
How absurd, how naive, how backward is that !!
Don't they know, can't they see the obvious ??!!
It is CHINA that is encouraging North Korea's offenses,
It's China that NEEDS North Korea to act up, to go off.
China and North Korea are partners,
They're working together as "Good Cop, Bad Cop".
But what do I mean by, "Good Cop, Bad Cop"? ...
Pundits always say America's leaders
should get China to "use its influence"
as a way to get North Korea to behave.
How absurd, how naive, how backward is that !!
Don't they know, can't they see the obvious ??!!
It is CHINA that is encouraging North Korea's offenses,
It's China that NEEDS North Korea to act up, to go off.
China and North Korea are partners,
They're working together as "Good Cop, Bad Cop".
But what do I mean by, "Good Cop, Bad Cop"? ...
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Improving upon the Gettysburg Address
Lincoln ends with the question of whether "gov't of the people,
By the people and for the people will perish from the Earth".
Actually that wasn't the issue in the American Civil War.
for if the South had won and secession succeeded,
The democracy in the North would still remain intact,
rather than "perish from the Earth."
So why does Lincoln frame the issue in terms of a life or death struggle?
Because something ABOUT democracy was in danger of "perishing from the Earth."
Just as Lincoln said at that melodramatic...
By the people and for the people will perish from the Earth".
Actually that wasn't the issue in the American Civil War.
for if the South had won and secession succeeded,
The democracy in the North would still remain intact,
rather than "perish from the Earth."
So why does Lincoln frame the issue in terms of a life or death struggle?
Because something ABOUT democracy was in danger of "perishing from the Earth."
Just as Lincoln said at that melodramatic...
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News Coverage of EMP is being Smothered by Coverage of Less Important Stuff
Electro-Magnetic Pulse or EMP is being ignored or slighted by the press and the media.
News story after story on Global Warming(GW) - they come out almost daily. It's sickening.
Not that GW stories are so bad, it's just that EMP is a much worse, ominous, deadly threat !!!
By far !! It deserves full-throated COVERAGE in the press and TV journalism, etc !!!
With GW, as the shorelines around the world rise,
mankind will have time to take drastic measures to curtail it.
NOT SO with EMP. All or almost all the social media will be disabled,
no more WWW or...
News story after story on Global Warming(GW) - they come out almost daily. It's sickening.
Not that GW stories are so bad, it's just that EMP is a much worse, ominous, deadly threat !!!
By far !! It deserves full-throated COVERAGE in the press and TV journalism, etc !!!
With GW, as the shorelines around the world rise,
mankind will have time to take drastic measures to curtail it.
NOT SO with EMP. All or almost all the social media will be disabled,
no more WWW or...
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RUSSIA is VIOLATING the ABM Treaty, and NOT ABIDING by the Doctrine of M.A.D.
The ABM Treaty of 1973 allows Russia and America to each have 200 Anti-Ballistic Missiles.
So basically the ABM Treaty bans any nationwide ABM system of thousands of ABMs.
But Russia, ruthless Russia, has gone ahead anyway and built 2,600 Anti-Ballistic Missiles,
Plus 13 LPARs aka "battle management stations" that go along with their massive ABM system.
Why is this important, EXISTENTIALLY important to America and Western Europe (and the world).
America and Russia have both built enormous arsenals of offensive missiles,
Thousands of nuclear missiles...
So basically the ABM Treaty bans any nationwide ABM system of thousands of ABMs.
But Russia, ruthless Russia, has gone ahead anyway and built 2,600 Anti-Ballistic Missiles,
Plus 13 LPARs aka "battle management stations" that go along with their massive ABM system.
Why is this important, EXISTENTIALLY important to America and Western Europe (and the world).
America and Russia have both built enormous arsenals of offensive missiles,
Thousands of nuclear missiles...
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REFUTING the Seventh Day Adventists' Theory of the "Fourth Beast"(Daniel 7.7-8)
Daniel the Jewish prophet of God sees a vision
About "four beasts," appearing before him in succession(Daniel 7.3-7).
They stand for "four kingdoms" in succession(Daniel 7.17).
They are Babylon,Persia,the Greek empire,
With the Roman empire being "the Fourth Beast."
The only purpose of the first 3 is to bring us to the fourth.
But all the Fourth Beast in Daniel 7.7 does is to bring us to
The Return of the Fourth Beast(Daniel 7.8).
(After a period during which it doesn't exist).
The future Russian invasion/conquest of Europe, ...
About "four beasts," appearing before him in succession(Daniel 7.3-7).
They stand for "four kingdoms" in succession(Daniel 7.17).
They are Babylon,Persia,the Greek empire,
With the Roman empire being "the Fourth Beast."
The only purpose of the first 3 is to bring us to the fourth.
But all the Fourth Beast in Daniel 7.7 does is to bring us to
The Return of the Fourth Beast(Daniel 7.8).
(After a period during which it doesn't exist).
The future Russian invasion/conquest of Europe, ...
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What Is the Length of the Tribulation Period?
A "time, times and half a time"(Daniel 7.25) which translates into 3 and a half years.
But Christ said He would "SHORTEN the days" of the Tribulation(Matthew 24.22).
So we can dispense with the socalled/nominal length, the "three and a half years."
So why then do preachers, mindlessly continue to say "three and a half years"?
How can they just ignore Christ's words to the contrary?
Do they think Daniel 7.25 is equal in importance to Matthew 24.22 ?
What Christ said trumps everything else, in my book.
Perhaps...
But Christ said He would "SHORTEN the days" of the Tribulation(Matthew 24.22).
So we can dispense with the socalled/nominal length, the "three and a half years."
So why then do preachers, mindlessly continue to say "three and a half years"?
How can they just ignore Christ's words to the contrary?
Do they think Daniel 7.25 is equal in importance to Matthew 24.22 ?
What Christ said trumps everything else, in my book.
Perhaps...
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Going Back to the Milk of the Word About the Rapture/Nuclear War Connection
I tend to go on and on about "Gorbachev is the Antichrist,"
About "the Tribulation Period will be just 5 months"(Revelation i9.5,10),
So much so, that I forget that most people -
They don't even understand the most basic stuff
About the Rapture - Nuclear War connection.
So let me go back and play the nursing mother
With her suckling baby at her breast
(even though you should be able to figure
this stuff, this terrible stuff, out for yourselves).
Very simply there are 5 Rapture passages each of which...
About "the Tribulation Period will be just 5 months"(Revelation i9.5,10),
So much so, that I forget that most people -
They don't even understand the most basic stuff
About the Rapture - Nuclear War connection.
So let me go back and play the nursing mother
With her suckling baby at her breast
(even though you should be able to figure
this stuff, this terrible stuff, out for yourselves).
Very simply there are 5 Rapture passages each of which...
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Replace the Phony War on Drugs With a REAL War on Drugs
If the socalled war on drugs is ever to become a reality,
the death penalty should be given to dealers.
(As is the case in Singapore.)
Executing them would not increase the number
of deaths occuring due to drugs.
Rather it would decrease those deaths.
Deaths due to car accidents that drug-abusing drivers cause,
WON'T BE HAPPENING - So lives will be SPARED.
Innocent lives will be spared
When lives of drug dealers
(who would have sold the drugs to the addicts
who would have been the doped up drivers
that caused the fatal accidents)...
the death penalty should be given to dealers.
(As is the case in Singapore.)
Executing them would not increase the number
of deaths occuring due to drugs.
Rather it would decrease those deaths.
Deaths due to car accidents that drug-abusing drivers cause,
WON'T BE HAPPENING - So lives will be SPARED.
Innocent lives will be spared
When lives of drug dealers
(who would have sold the drugs to the addicts
who would have been the doped up drivers
that caused the fatal accidents)...
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