The 'Compressed Disasters' Understanding Puts Things In A Clearer, Calmer Light!!

     If you're going to be one of the 'COOL KIDS' these days you have to believe that the Earth is on fire and only people who can't tell a boy from a girl are smart enough to save it.  Global catastrophism...all the rage among those who count human intellect to be higher than God's (or who thinks there is no God...or at least it isn't the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.)

     That's bad thinking!  Here's the cure I think:  Do common sense things locally all over the planet to show some love for nature and animals and plants and natural water bodies.  Harvest sustainably.  Grow some of your own food and some of your own town's food and store some of that away.  Stop the poaching of fish and plants and wildlife so that the sensible limits placed on harvesting can have their desired effect.  Reduce pollution.  These are all sound and sensible and responsible paths.  Sensible Christian paths also.  Christians are supposed to be good stewards of all things they manage. 

     But the world and its localized climates and ecosystems always have changed greatly as time passed.  Scientists and Christians and atheists all agree on that much, I think.  But Christians who believe the Bible's narrative say it's all about 6,000 years old.  Scientists say it's all billions of years old.  Atheists I won't speak for, but my impression is that more lean towards the scientific view.  But if Christians (and Jews and Muslims) are correct, and the Earth is about 6,000 years old, then that means that every epic, planet-wide disaster or change that you've ever been taught about happened in the last 6,000 years.  So, that also means that peaceful, stable times do not last long on this planet and never have.  In fact, we have had some extremely stable millennia lately, all things considered. 

     So, good stewardship?  Cooperative management between adjoining areas?  Yes!  Emphatically yes.  Do it and teach your children to do it.  A world government to direct us in our efforts?  No...no, no, no, not by any means!!  They would misuse that power in a hot heartbeat.  They would only ever see any sort of power, in any area whatsoever, as a tool for leveraging the world's humans and nations to embrace other steps of their plan.  (Everyone in the world should probably read Rummul's Law.  It's only a couple of pages long!)  They are not psychologically capable of intending goodness for all of humanity.  They actually see the very existence of a major fraction of humanity as being a serious part of 'the problem', in fact.  They are focused on being themselves, serving themselves, helping themselves, enriching themselves for Satan and self indulgence.  The World Government idea is a Satanic type idea.  If humans were intrinsically good then world government could be an excellent idea.  WE ARE NOT INTRINSICALLY GOOD!  We literally need God's teachings, specifically Jesus' teachings that God the Father sent us through the Son, because we couldn't obey the Father's teachings through Moses.  The Jews admitted that, though you tried, mankind couldn't quit violating their own religious laws.  Above and beyond that, we need Jesus to take over and reign as He knows is best.  And the Letter to the Corinthians says that once Jesus is Lord over it all, He will turn and give it all to the Father Almighty so that, fittingly, the Holy Father will be all in all.  Then things shall be as they ought to be. 

     So, the Earth is perhaps 'scientifically old', or maybe it is 'Biblically old'.  If it is Biblically old', perhaps 6,000 year old, then all of the volcanic ages and ice ages and elevated temperature eras, etc., were spread out over about 6,000 years of time.  If the right answer is that we're 6,000 years old, then oceans should rise dramatically at times and glaciers and ice caps should melt and/or form frequently, and periods of great volcanic activity should be frequent.  Asteroids should impact us pretty often as meteorites and species won't all necessarily survive (though we should care about them and see what care can be given them.)  But if all of the known catastrophes are packed into 6,000 years and not billions, then we've been living in a golden age of relative stability these last 2,000 years or more!  The Bible says the final years will be horribly deadly and destructive...the sight of a man will be rare upon the Earth at one point, it assures us!  Entire oceans will be dead!  Lifeless seas...imagine it!  A book that has never given us a false prophecy says these things are coming one day, we're not certain how soon exactly.

     So, how many times can you be killed in the flesh?  Christians believe that all of us will probably die an Earthly, fleshly death.  So we pretty much all will experience fleshly death.  Then we will rise for our judgement one day.  Were we killed by pneumonia, saber toothed tiger, measles, flu, war or weaponry, heart attack, a wounded mastodon, a dog bite, and angry dinosaur, a car wreck or a collapsing building, did we / will we freeze to death or die of thirst?  We will see!  But a planetary disaster kills you once, a bullet kills you once, cancer kills you once and so does a stroke.  You won't feel pain on a planetary scale if you are killed by a planetary disaster.  It should be a sort of pain very relatable to many other more mundane sorts of death.  No one's death is going to be a million times more painful if we die in an incident that kills a million people...so we can relax.  On that front it's going to be OK.  But as for an eternity in Hell feeling a million times more painful than the death on Earth, in the flesh, which led us to our judgement and then possible consignment to Hell, that is probably a reality, probably the truth!  Death can be almost painless.  It is highly doubtful that any eternity spent in Hell will be almost painless...highly doubtful!  The place is designed to punish painfully, from what we are told.  

     Going to Hell, though...being consigned to Hell...would exceed the pain of any sort of fleshly death, and not even death could make it go away.  So, what can the New World Order people with their hollow warnings of impending world disaster (of course they will be right someday...God, who actually does know, has foretold that such things are coming!) what do those people offer to you that would offset the never ending pains and agonies of Hell?  So take Jesus' offer...repent and be baptized and follow Him and count on His righteousness covering your objectionable and insufficient self to pacify and turn aside the well earned and long justified wrath of our Holy Father, because our own righteousness cannot ever do it.  Impending world calamity claims?  That's the small stuff.  Don't sweat the small stuff.  God manages world affairs, we just try to be good care takers in the mean time, working to please God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit...not working to please the human, New World Order, bubbling fountains of feigned goodness and carefully calculated, overly theatricized, canned and made for T.V. displays of compassion.  They're just working a plan, and your welfare is not part of the plan.  Service to Jesus and the Father is not part of their plan.  Getting the better of Jesus and ruining God's plan is their plan.  Not a wise plan, but yep!...that's their plan.  Whose side shall we be on?  There is a plan in the future to give us all a mark, and without the mark we cannot buy things or sell things.  Lacking the mark is pretty close to a death sentence.  But we Christians are told not to ever take that mark under any circumstances...not to save your darling children, not to save yourself, etc.  We simply cannot take this mark...it is expressly and eternally forbidden.  It shall be on the right hand/right arm or on the forehead/maybe face.  Those are the two mentioned anatomical locations.  We are warned in the Bible very specifically...DON'T DARE TAKE THE MARK, IT COSTS YOU YOUR ETERNAL SALVATION.  And hey what's it going to do if you reject taking it...kill you?  You were going to die anyway.  Same with our children.  So, if we find ourselves to be in that generation, then we give God a great show of faith and just accept His warning as law!  Will it kill you?  Maybe for a bit, but the Christian will get over it soon enough.  What if your sweet children die because you won't take the mark so you can buy some groceries?  Not many adults or children will survive the seal judgments, the trumpet judgments and the bowl judgments spoken of in Revelation.  It is part of the 'patience of the saints' to accept the hard fact that during the strange part of human history that features 'the Mark of the Beast' humans must choose death for themselves and their children (temporary fleshly death is all, not eternal death!) rather that taking that mark. 

     Choosing death before the mark will be tough for us Christians, because our logic will tell us that we can just believe in Jesus just as much whether we take the mark or not.  But taking the mark is different than other things.  It is 'expressly forbidden to Christians' without any real in depth explanation as to why.  It won't be easy, but you will be sort of in the same situation God put Abraham in when He told Abraham to go sacrifice his son Isaac.  Abraham simply obeyed.  And it ended up going well for him because of his faith in the Father.  And it went well for Isaac also.  It will be something like that for the generation which must reject the mark, I am sure of it.  Except the fleshly deaths will be real.  Isaac was reprieved at the last moment.  We and our children will actually die in the flesh it sounds like.  And remember, Jesus had not come and offered a promise of eternal salvation when Abraham was forced to make his choice.  So Abraham had an even tougher choice maybe.  And what would Sarah have done if he had come back without Isaac?  There will likely be many mothers telling their husbands that the children are more important than God's strict prohibition against the mark.  The are very tender in their love for their children.   They are very protective.  But in this case their best means of protecting their children would be to allow their little ones to pass into the hands of God...the very hands that formed them in the mother's womb.  It won't be an easy time.  It simply won't! 

     Abraham's choice was very hard.  But we Christians today have that huge advantage of being promised eternity with the Lord.  I will not be the bravest one, but I hope to have the courage to just accept that death is preferred before taking the mark, and I plan on showing that courage if it takes place during my days.  In my case it is not so hard...no little children and I am no longer young.  Most humans will face a harder choice than me, but the right answer is still the same answer:  Christians can never take the mark.  It will be the 'last great disaster' that we must survive if we are in that group in that place and time.  But much more mundane disasters have swept a great many humans away to their death...in the flesh.  That's all that rejecting the mark could do to us.  Sweep us away in the flesh!