Still Pacing the Cage

Various ramblings from the front:

I know it’s been a while since I have posted. Not for lack of interest. Time, maybe, interest NEVER. Having a busy life filled with various responsibilities like you all, I would love to be able to just blog my brains out on this site and keep you up to date on every jot and tittle of prophetic fulfillment. Actually, it’s increasingly overwhelming as to where to even start.

I got up at 4 AM today to tune in to Joel Rosenberg’s Epicenter Conference live from Jerusalem. Great speakers, great insights. And I could feel the energy and excitement that the attendees had about the times and the reason for this event. Lots of folks turned out for it, which went well into the morning even for us Midwesterners living 8 hours behind. I admit I was a bit disappointed that even into the morning there were never more than 300 people watching it on livestream in the entire world; I had really hoped more people than that would consider losing a bit of sleep as nothing and making it a priority. It is a fabulous time to be alive, to be sure. And vexing, so vexing. Everyone I talk to who is alert and has their radar up says the same thing: they can’t believe how strange and scary the times are. People are more selfish, brutal and unthinking than I ever imagined possible. Even my daughter who is barely 25 can see how radically the world has changed in her lifetime, and while I never thought the ’80s were much of a bargain in the first place, to her those days were still more than livable. These days, the number of problems associated with just day to day living is simply mind-boggling, and most can be directly blamed on the exponentially rising levels of the most sickening kinds of sin imaginable, just as Timothy warned us. I have said this before, but the perilous times he spoke of all have to do with the state of the human heart.

I also tuned in to another Prophecy Conference today, the Fargo/Red River Conference going on for the next few days (www.godlyconferences.com). Again, if you have your nose in your bible, you can just imagine the wealth of info, the overload actually, that point directly to His soon return. The glut of evil intentions, the rise of tracking technology, the coming together of various trade blocs, talk of regional/global currencies, the coming famine/economic collapse of the West, saber-rattling in the Middle East, the Oprah/I AM God syndrome that has gripped the masses, the awful state of the Church — all this and more are things I have been watching for decades and I KNEW without a doubt I would see these things in my life. And I am not going to waste any time at all striving over rapture-related speculations. I have studied it intently for years and I have no doubt that the ONLY stance we dare take is one of watching and waiting for Jesus. Any other stance is watching and waiting for the Antichrist, and that is wholly unbiblical. End of story as far as I am concerned. So, no need to strive about that.

Days of Noah? Oh, you betcha. Marrying and giving in marriage. Self-absorbed. Building a kingdom on earth. Sexual perversion saturates all media, all the time. Pretty soon we will hardly be able to afford the basics. But what are Americans obsessed with? American Idol. American Airlines (gotta have that vacation no matter what it costs!). And, even though our groceries cost 20% more, and gas prices are out of this world, and Haitians are rioting over rations, what is our government offering us? A COUPON to get a digital TV signal! O no, within 10 months we might not have TV. Gotta get the government involved in regulating our prime time. Does that strike anyone else odd, that the government is so concerned that we get rid of analog airwaves? Maybe the government could be worried enough about our budgets to give us a coupon for, say, meat? Or gas? Or a discount on an appendectomy? Oh ‘brother’. Here is my take – when the economy flatlines, and we can’t go to work or school or even feed the kids, at least we can sit home and watch the tube so we can be told what to think about our world. Special.

Still pacing this earthly cage,

mary