Tag: Christianity

THE RAPTURE AND THE WRATH OF GOD

THE RAPTURE AND THE WRATH OF GOD

I’ve written in previous posts on the subject of the Pre-Tribulation view of the Rapture, and the idea that many American Christians have concerning the wrath of God. “God is too loving to let us suffer through the Tribulation” they will say, and we are “not appointed to wrath”. Well, if this is the case, why, I … Continue reading THE RAPTURE AND THE WRATH OF GOD

IS JESUS REALLY COMING SOON? Part 2

IS JESUS REALLY COMING SOON? Part 2

WATCH AND BE READY Looking around at our own part of the world in the prosperous West it may be difficult to imagine that anything remotely resembling any events in the book of Revelation could ever occur.  So perhaps we should be considering how difficult life is for people in other parts of the world, … Continue reading IS JESUS REALLY COMING SOON? Part 2

IS JESUS REALLY COMING SOON? Part 1

IS JESUS REALLY COMING SOON? Part 1

IS THE SECOND COMING LATE? When I became a Christian over thirty years ago, I was expecting to be “snatched up” in the Rapture of the Church at any moment. I had read and re-read Hal Lindsey’s “The Late Great Planet Earth”, digested every word, and  began to study world history and current events with … Continue reading IS JESUS REALLY COMING SOON? Part 1

YOU WERE WRONG, ORWELL!

YOU WERE WRONG, ORWELL!

 ORWELL: ONE BIG FACECRIME! (A warning to my readers...this is irony!) George Orwell had some really insane ideas about a future dystopia didn’t he! Waxing prophetical, he envisaged a world in which government intruded into every aspect of public and private life, and which was distant and incurably deceptive and untrustworthy. In this nonsensical world the working masses … Continue reading YOU WERE WRONG, ORWELL!

WHAT DO YOSEMITE SAM AND JESUS CHRIST HAVE IN COMMON?

WHAT DO YOSEMITE SAM AND JESUS CHRIST HAVE IN COMMON?

  What do Jesus Christ and Yosemite Sam have in common? Survivalists might answer that both packed guns.  Atheists might say that both are fictional characters. Mormons would likely suggest that both lived in the USA. The politically correct may say that they were both far too masculine and assertive. Dwarves might claim that they were very … Continue reading WHAT DO YOSEMITE SAM AND JESUS CHRIST HAVE IN COMMON?