Re: dark times

Dear Friends, 

 

Please read Bill's comment and my response.   In Christ, Carol

----- Original Message -----

From: Bill Miller

To: carol wolman

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:09 AM

Subject: Re: dark times

Though I've been out of the Christian camp for a couple decades, I recall the end times prophecy about the "star that falls into the sea and poisons a third of the waters". Sounds like a nuclear incident to me. Unfortunate, but I get the sense that a showdown of that magnitude still has to occur before the evil is sufficiently exposed and rejected - so that we can finally return to sanity. I hope I'm wrong, but if there's any sort of divine direction to the universe, we have to believe we can survive this and eventually thrive again.

 

Bill Miller

 

I believe that star fell in 1945, and humanity woke up enough to create international treaties and bodies to control these horrible weapons.  Ever since 1945, there has been a fierce battle, the spiritual battle of Armageddon, between the warmongers and the peacemakers.  The weapons of the warmongers are ever more fearsome nuclear weapons.  The peacemakers' weapons are those of the Prince of Peace, as described in Rev: 19 (KJV)   ¹⁵And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

 

The sharp sword coming out of the mouth is, of course, the tongue, which speaks the truth and exposes the lies of the warmongers.  The rod of iron is the fear of all-out nuclear war, which keeps the nations in check and forces them to cooperate in order to prevent this.  The wrath of Almighty God is at our greed, carelessness with His creation, and lack of compassion for one another and for our fellow creatures, for which we are suffering ecodisasters.

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,  Carol Wolman

----- Original Message -----

From: carol wolman

To: peacemakers

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 3:18 PM

Subject: dark times

 Dear Friends,

 

Today I had a new patient, a depressed young man.  He did not want to take antidepressant medication because "the Lord has laid this burden on me, and He will heal me if He wants to".  He is an ardent fan of the LEFT BEHIND series, and wishes the rapture would come soon, although he denies feeling suicidal. 

 

I just sent out an email about how high school students are being bombarded with recruitment messages.  The recruiters hound them in the lunchroom, the guidance counselor's office is plastered with recruitment posters, and Channel 1, the school news channel which they watch each morning, is full of ads from the armed services.  We are quickly becoming a militarized country.

 

Bush is pushing for a new generation of nukes and an end to the ban on nuclear weapons testing.  No mainstream politician will touch the depleted uranium issue with a 10 foot pole.   It's easy to lose hope.  If we escape a nuclear conflagration, the slower nuclear war may destroy the gene pool.

 

I derive hope from my own story.  I went to Jerusalem in 1978 to talk about the psychic numbing Americans were manifesting then about the threat of nuclear war.  Why would God answer by sending Jesus to walk with me and promise that He would use me to prevent nuclear war?  Why would God have sent an angel to tell me, in Jerusalem, that I would have children, when I was almost too old?   Why would He fulfill the prophecy about children so thoroughly and faithfully if He didn't mean to fulfill the promise as well?

 

I take comfort from His constant presence in my life, and keep my faith.

 

  Psalm 23: ⁴Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace, Carol Wolman