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Originally posted by FissionSurplus
To MaMaa, Thanks for sharing. I am not a Christian anymore, I am more of an agnostic, if you must know the truth. I haven't been to church since 1980. However, everybody who lives around us here is a church-going, bible-thumping Christian. The people we went to dinner with at the pizza joint are interested in our company because they play the stock market and my husband is a wiz with stocks, so they like to pick his brain from time to time.
In fact, I found out something interesting from a third party recently about these people and some others in this area. They are building a religious "compound" to the south of here, where they will all flee to when the SHTF. After things calm down, supposedly they will cross over into Mexico, then cruise down the west coast of that country to a Central American country, where they will take a boat to Jerusalem, and live there.
Supposedly, they look at this as God's will, that the current mosque on the Dome of The Rock in Jerusalem will be destroyed, and then the Jews and the Zionist Christians can rebuild Solomon's temple and await the Messiah. They claim this is where Jesus will reign and rule the world. If Israel has to start a nuclear war to achieve this end, so be it.
I believe this kind of thinking is nutty, personally, but to each his own. We certainly weren't invited on this bizarre pilgrimage because we're not church-goers. They aren't influencing me at all, and certainly couldn't have 10 years ago.
Your post does further my believe in the power of prophetic dreams. Some are glimpses of a happy future, and some are dire warnings.
edit on 18-2-2012 by FissionSurplus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by FissionSurplus
reply to post by MaMaa
You may be right, MaMaa, because I can think of many Sundays where I sat on those hard, uncomfortable pews, hearing about the End of Days and the Tribulation, where the wicked get what's coming to them and the good float up to Heaven to party with God and Jesus Christ.
My mother does know that I don't go to church, but she doesn't know that I am, by the strictest definition, an agnostic....meaning I just DON'T KNOW. What moms don't know won't hurt them, right?
My mom does know about my weird dreams. She said she's getting old, and if it is her time, then she accepts it and doesn't let it worry her. Her faith gives her confidence, something I wish I had but just cannot muster up in the face of what is going on in the world today.