We are getting closer...
I've been watching the news over and over again and it is awful what you see in these images. I have been following the story about Hurricane Katrina ever since it was still on it's way to pass through Florida. Specially since I have family in the South Florida area so I was really concerned. When I saw what the hurricane had done in Florida and we were able to finally reach our family over there (because we couldn't get through to their land-line phone, we finally reach them at their cellphone) and they told us that part of the fence had fallen on top of one of their cars and that their neighbors roof had a hole on it, and that the canal near by had almost overflowed, I was like...Wow! I remember asking myself at that time, if it has done this being a category 1 and it's approaching New Orleans as a category 5, what will this thing do? But I never would have imagined what I have been seeing. The images are shocking and the destruction is unimaginable. I really believe authorities underestimated the power of this act of God. Seeing those people loosing everything they have, everything they have built, everything they have worked for...it's like reading Job's word in the Bible in Job 1:21..."Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
It's hard to imagine what it means going through that unless you have experienced it yourself. It makes you give thanks for things many of us take for granted, like water, a toilet, a/c, etc. Having to lie in your own feces as I was hearing in the news some hospital patients were doing at a New Orleans hospital...it's sobering to say the least. I imagine these sick people, with chronic illnesses, like diabetes or high blood pressure, not being able to take their meds, having to be all wet with filthy water, newborn babies, mother's that have just delivered, it's hard, really hard.
What has been specially appalling for me has been the looting, the shooting, the murders, the raping. How police officers, firefighters, patients trying to be evacuated from the hospitals have been shot at with sniper fire. It shows how can the best and also the worst can come out of extreme circumstances. You can possibly understand if people loot food and water, I don't like it, but I could possibly understand that. But robbing TV's?? guns?? no way!! How can someone possibly be thinking of looting and killing and raping when there is such a disaster going on? It just shows what man's nature really is, it shows the sin within us, how far from God we are. We are a world that has taken God out of our lives, a society who believes that man can do anything...is there any need for God? Certainly not...we can do anything.......WRONG!!!!! It shows how miniscule we are and how could God if He wanted to could wipe us all out. We are all in His hands.
Psalms 118:8... It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
Jeremiah 17:5 and 7... Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD".
"Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD".
I was thinking about these women in the Superdome and at the Convention Center in New Orleans, you came to these places to take shelter from the storm, and you end up being there, not knowing if you still have a house or not, if maybe a relative that you haven't seen or heard from is alive or dead, without food or water, without a proper place to urinate or have a bowel movement, with heat and on top of all that... raped?? Outrageous!!! How very sobering that this is happening in the United States of America. You would think that this country has all the resources needed to respond right away, but I guess they didn't in this case. They are responding now, but the help was needed as soon as the storm passed. And I really hate to see this happening. There are people out of the U.S. who really dislike the United States, that is something that you can't hide. I for the most, defend them, because I believe they are a Christian founded nation, a nation who has stood up for Israel, but in this case I do not know what to say, except that the help has taken too long and that the appropiate measures were not taken. Again, "Katrina" was underestimated. If the local authorities in New Orleans knew that the storm was a category 5 (thank God it downgraded to a category 4 when it landed, because if not imagine) and also knew that the levee's could only handled I believe a category 2 or 3 storm, they should have gotten all those buses that are being used now to evacuate people, and evacuate the poor people of the city before the storm. Of the people that could have evacuated and didn't want to, this will be a lesson for future situations, to learn and listen to your authorities. I do hope things will get under control soon. The best day yet I think it was yesterday, but the people at the Convention Center are still there, not one has been evacuated as I watched the news this morning, I hope they are evacuated no later than today. I understand that the situation is difficult, areas are hard to reach, but the reality has been much worse than what anticipated. I guess their worst case scenario was not even close to reality. I will pray that as in any other difficult situation the U.S. has been through, they will be able to rise from the ashes. So my prayers are with these people from Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama and basically with the whole country. I know they will recover, but as a human being I hoped they wouldn't have had to go through this. But I have to remind myself that since we live on a fallen world, sin is on this earth, and the earth can't bear it anymore.
So as my title says...we are getting closer and closer to the end of times, to the second return of Jesus. I think I have wrote before in here that for me personally 9/11/01 was a turning point. For me that was the beginning of the clock towards Jesus second coming. And from that time on, I know things are going to get worse instead of better, because we are getting closer. Let me end this post with the word of God, read it and meditate please. We are not exactly there yet (what these verses describe) but we are getting closer.
"and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains"...Matthew 24:7-8...........you can add hurricanes there after earthquakes.
"And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another"...Matthew 24:10
"And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold"...Matthew 24:12
"Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house"...Matthew 24:17
"And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!...Matthew 24:19
But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect...Matthew 24:36-44.
"Katrina" is nothing compared to the signs that will be seen to the Close of the Age.
If you want you can also read about my Tsunami post.
It's hard to imagine what it means going through that unless you have experienced it yourself. It makes you give thanks for things many of us take for granted, like water, a toilet, a/c, etc. Having to lie in your own feces as I was hearing in the news some hospital patients were doing at a New Orleans hospital...it's sobering to say the least. I imagine these sick people, with chronic illnesses, like diabetes or high blood pressure, not being able to take their meds, having to be all wet with filthy water, newborn babies, mother's that have just delivered, it's hard, really hard.
What has been specially appalling for me has been the looting, the shooting, the murders, the raping. How police officers, firefighters, patients trying to be evacuated from the hospitals have been shot at with sniper fire. It shows how can the best and also the worst can come out of extreme circumstances. You can possibly understand if people loot food and water, I don't like it, but I could possibly understand that. But robbing TV's?? guns?? no way!! How can someone possibly be thinking of looting and killing and raping when there is such a disaster going on? It just shows what man's nature really is, it shows the sin within us, how far from God we are. We are a world that has taken God out of our lives, a society who believes that man can do anything...is there any need for God? Certainly not...we can do anything.......WRONG!!!!! It shows how miniscule we are and how could God if He wanted to could wipe us all out. We are all in His hands.
Psalms 118:8... It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
Jeremiah 17:5 and 7... Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD".
"Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD".
I was thinking about these women in the Superdome and at the Convention Center in New Orleans, you came to these places to take shelter from the storm, and you end up being there, not knowing if you still have a house or not, if maybe a relative that you haven't seen or heard from is alive or dead, without food or water, without a proper place to urinate or have a bowel movement, with heat and on top of all that... raped?? Outrageous!!! How very sobering that this is happening in the United States of America. You would think that this country has all the resources needed to respond right away, but I guess they didn't in this case. They are responding now, but the help was needed as soon as the storm passed. And I really hate to see this happening. There are people out of the U.S. who really dislike the United States, that is something that you can't hide. I for the most, defend them, because I believe they are a Christian founded nation, a nation who has stood up for Israel, but in this case I do not know what to say, except that the help has taken too long and that the appropiate measures were not taken. Again, "Katrina" was underestimated. If the local authorities in New Orleans knew that the storm was a category 5 (thank God it downgraded to a category 4 when it landed, because if not imagine) and also knew that the levee's could only handled I believe a category 2 or 3 storm, they should have gotten all those buses that are being used now to evacuate people, and evacuate the poor people of the city before the storm. Of the people that could have evacuated and didn't want to, this will be a lesson for future situations, to learn and listen to your authorities. I do hope things will get under control soon. The best day yet I think it was yesterday, but the people at the Convention Center are still there, not one has been evacuated as I watched the news this morning, I hope they are evacuated no later than today. I understand that the situation is difficult, areas are hard to reach, but the reality has been much worse than what anticipated. I guess their worst case scenario was not even close to reality. I will pray that as in any other difficult situation the U.S. has been through, they will be able to rise from the ashes. So my prayers are with these people from Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama and basically with the whole country. I know they will recover, but as a human being I hoped they wouldn't have had to go through this. But I have to remind myself that since we live on a fallen world, sin is on this earth, and the earth can't bear it anymore.
So as my title says...we are getting closer and closer to the end of times, to the second return of Jesus. I think I have wrote before in here that for me personally 9/11/01 was a turning point. For me that was the beginning of the clock towards Jesus second coming. And from that time on, I know things are going to get worse instead of better, because we are getting closer. Let me end this post with the word of God, read it and meditate please. We are not exactly there yet (what these verses describe) but we are getting closer.
"and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains"...Matthew 24:7-8...........you can add hurricanes there after earthquakes.
"And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another"...Matthew 24:10
"And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold"...Matthew 24:12
"Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house"...Matthew 24:17
"And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!...Matthew 24:19
But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect...Matthew 24:36-44.
"Katrina" is nothing compared to the signs that will be seen to the Close of the Age.
If you want you can also read about my Tsunami post.
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