NOTE: Today, Jan. 17/17, I read an article by the renowned columnist Robert Sibley. In it he agrees with much of what I have written below but adds a certain dimension to the issue. I will use his own words -
- "If I didn't know better, I'd be tempted to dust off the Book of Revelation and update myself on ....the End of Days."
- We might do better to look at a long-dead German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsch to gain some understanding of why things are falling apart."
- In the 19th Century Nietzsch wrote "The story I have to tell is the history of the next 2 centuries with wars such as have never happened on earth."
- Sibley points out that although Nietzsch was an Atheist himself, he foresaw the crisis of culture that would follow the collapse of the Christian Value System. Nietzsch warned of the "total collapse of all values" during the 21st Century....that is to say, in our present Century.
Is It Upon Us?
The Bible mentions many times about the end of humanity's time here on earth and how violent things will be. Some of those passages predict it will begin in the Middle East which has suffered so much in both death and destruction over the course of the last several years.
Could this be the foretelling of the end?
Luke 21:20-28(NIV)
20 “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 25 On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.26 People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
I leave it to each of you to interpret what the above means for you personally but what is indisputable is the fact that evil has been let loose in that special part of the world.
Let's start with the recent betrayal of Israel ...the region's only Democracy ..by President Obama, aka the little guy in the white house.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why the Jews attract so much wrath. Have they not suffered enough?
Even though I am retired, I have said many times that I would be prepared to pick up arms to help Israel if the need for such ever came about and if they were prepared to accept my help.
In a recent blog, I wrote about the parallel between the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey this month and the assassination of the Arch Duke in 1914. The Middle East was a tinderbox then.. as it is now...but today the weapon of choice is the unforgiving Nuclear Bomb.
And now Russia has replaced the United States as the Power in the Middle East. Allied with it are Iran, (which has sworn to erase Israel from the face of the earth) and Syria, which has just finished killing nearly a half million of its own citizens and displaced millions more.
Hardly foreshadows a safe and secure future for Israel or for that matter the rest of us.
That said, I do not know if the end is truly at hand but I can tell you that the signs certainly point in that direction.
As I see it...
'K.D. Galagher'
