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I was sent this question, how would you answer it? Please be honest.

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Sorry to talk politics but I am obsessed with all of the resent stuff going on in the world. And yes we are becoming a socialist nation by every means. My heart feels that we are in what the bible would describe the final hour. At a time when our 401 k's are shrinking we need not to look at our monetary retirement policy but rather our eternal retirement. These are scary times for Christians everywhere but we all knew it would happen maybe not so fast.
Question though- Colin powell made a really scarey statement about a generated world wide crisis occurring on the 21st or the 22nd of January. What does he mean? Are we going to war why the 21st or 22nd do you know or have a guess what the world wide crisis is going to be?

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...In which case conjecture is entirely acceptable.

It's been my experience that people––Christians in particular––seem to develop an "end times" prophecy every few years or so. (I have books from the '50s and '60s that talk about "impending tyranny")

The trick is to look BEYOND the Bible (which is hard to do, if you're a Christian; but it must be done) and look for patterns of tyranny in history...not just the socialist ones, but also the "right wing" tyrannies (Great Britain and the recent US both come to mind)

Major events are often staged, keep in mind. Pearl Harbor, the Maine, 9/11, etc.

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Pearl Harbor was NOT staged.........precipitated by actions [or lack of] of the US government.....but not staged.      as for for 9/11............

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Staying silent when one knows an attack is imminent is just as evil as selling out to the enemy...the USG knew an attack was in the works, not a question of "if", but "when."

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oh baloney   hind sight is 20/20 and every Monday morning quarterback has it.

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Believe what you want, but it does answer a lot of questions...and brings up a few more.

Question though- Colin powell made a really scarey statement about a generated world wide crisis occurring on the 21st or the 22nd of January. What does he mean? Are we going to war why the 21st or 22nd do you know or have a guess what the world wide crisis is going to be?

MR. BROKAW:  If you were called into the Oval Office on January 21st by the new president, whoever it happens to be, and he said to you, "General Powell, I need from you your recommendation on where I begin.  What should be my priorities?" Where would you start?

GEN. POWELL:  I would start with talking to the American people and talking to the world, and conveying a new image of American leadership, a new image of America's role in the world.

The problems will always be there, and there's going to be a crisis come along in the 21st or 22nd of January that we don't even know about right now.  And so I think what the president has to do is to start using the power of the Oval Office and the power of his personality to convince the American people and to convince the world that America is solid, America is going to move forward, and we're going to fix our economic problems, we're going to meet our overseas obligations.  But restoring a sense of purpose, a sense of confidence in the American people and, in the international community, in America.

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Every time a Democrat is voted in a few Christians say end times.  Until God himself knocks on my door and asks me "Do you believe?" it is business as usual.  

Pick any moment in time and look at what was going on, you could make a successful argument that the end of the world was right around the corner.  If you operate like that you will go nuts.  

Flu, nuclear war, Democrats in the White House, and anything else we can think of right this instant as catastrophic, aren't.  I'm sure if I was talking to God and pointed out I was living a life based on fear and worry, he would smack me up alongside the head for missing the big picture.  I think part of the lesson is having my soul is in the right place, so if the time comes, my side of the street is clear.

Now about prepping.  I prep for an earthquake first, and a weather event next.  Distant third is a massive societal collapse ala Somalia.  When I begin to "obsess" about an event, I have moved from prepping for an event to panicking to a false emotional feeling.  

Any emotion I experience in moderation is good.  Fear of not taking care of my wife and kids is okay if I am prepped for an event.  Fear to the point that I have made everybody live in a concrete bunker and eat MREs is no longer moderate, but extreme.  Thinking and prepping for a event is moderation, obsessing over an event is extreme and no longer in moderation.  Bad.

And don't forget when it comes to end times, we win the final battle.

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Believe what you want, but it does answer a lot of questions...and brings up a few more.