For the thing was done suddenly!

I'm not sure where to begin and so I'll just begin. It's early Wednesday and as I look out the window everything looks like it always has. In fact, it looks the same as it did when our forefathers were here other than the cosmetic changes of culture and technology. One could look out across the fields and woods and say to themselves "It'll always be as it's always been." This of course is a complete denial of reality and yet most people tend to live according to this concept. Even though history is filled with sudden, unexpected alterations of the status quo, (Sodom and Gomorrah, Pompeii, Titanic, crash of 1929, Pearl Harbor, September 11, 2001,) we tend to look at each day as though it will be just like the one before it. On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was on my way to work when I picked up a copy of the Detroit Free Press. (or maybe it was the Detroit News; it was one of them) It was about 8:30 in the morning and the big huge glaring earth shattering headline read "CHARLIE BATCH IS BENCHED" As you know, an hour later, the World Trade Center was meeting it's demise, and thousands of souls were entering eternity. Whether it was an inside job or not is irrelevant. The relevant truth is that it altered the course of the nation and set up the sequence of events that are happening now, such as the eagle nation of Daniel 7:4 being mired in an open-ended conflict in Mesopotamia while the phrase "war on terror" is being used to justify the implementation of the beast systyem. All of this is happening and yet people live one day to the next like nothing will ever change. Jesus said in Matthew 24:37-39 "But as the days of Noe were, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark. And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall the coming of the Son of man be." In one respect, things are the same. The attitude of "same ol same ol" (I really don't like that phrase) marches on in the face of reality. Well, one thing is for sure; the winds of change are blowing today on every front with monumental earth changes ,(polar ice disappearing) distress of nations with perplexity, (all of them) and the emergence of a police state right before us. (Can you fathom the significance of the fact that we're having a national discussion on whether it's alright to torture prisoners; oh! I mean, "enemy combatants") Daniel 7:7-8 states "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." If you, at this moment don't know Jesus, he shed his blood for you and will save you if you'll repent and ask him to in sincerety. This could be your last chance as tomorrow is not a promise to anyone. Saints, don't get overly wrapped up in the sideshow battles of this life. Occupy till he comes but don't become like the Ephesians in Revelation 2:4. Scripture will come to pass as it must. This is a good thing because I've read the end of the scriptures and eternity is awesome to be sure. As is stated in II Corinthians 4:18, "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. "