Revelation: Where are we?

I was talking with my eldest brother last night, and that is the question he posed to me. As those of you who read my rantings regularly know, I am one who believes we are in the last days, the quickening if you will that Jesus spoke of to his Disciples.

Are we at the first seal? Are we past the fourth? We want to put GOD’s terms into our picture frame, and we just cannot do that. A GOD who can make the entire universe in six days, cannot fit into our comprehension, no matter how we try. Ours is a box GOD will not fit into. Scientists want us to believe the world and universe are billions if not trillions of years old. Some want to say it had no beginning as they deny the existence of their creator. I am a young earth creationist. yes, there are stars we can see that are many thousands of light years away, but the creator who made them can make that light shine in an instant, if he can make it in four days. And why did he take three days if he is all powerful? He made it perfect, he took his time. We don't live in a perfect world, we and our ancestors defiled it, and that brings us now to the twilight of the era of man.

We want to understand it on our terms. Christians were for a time called flat earthers. People got that notion from the Bible. How? Revelation teaches that when Jesus returns, all the earth will be able to see. it. In an era before television and satellite transmissions, before one could see the events half a world away as they unfold, the only logical solution was a flat earth, and all the perils that came with it.

Again, we wanted to put GOD into our box. He just doesn't fit! Jesus said there would be wars and rumors of wars. Well, we have had that for the last 150 years! Not much changing, but then again, Jesus likened it to the end of a pregnancy where the abortionists knife cuts the baby.... Oh wait, he spoke of natural delivery where the onset of labor is gradual, a tightening here, a contraction there. signs that a woman alone in the world might not understand with out a physician, midwife, or close friend or mother to help her understand. So gradual, you would not notice, and might give birth in a toilet because you did not know the signs. it happens!

If we compare 2013 to 2012, nothing much has changed. Much! how about 2013 to 2003? if you think about it, you see the changes. then again, how about compared to 1973? That's ancient history! If you had left earth in 1973 in a rocket, and returned today, you would not know America! Hell, you wouldn't know Europe, Australia, and you damn sure wouldn't know Russia. North Korea? Meh.

So where are we? If the one on the white horse has come, who was he? Need it be a he? Might it be a nation? We once were a righteous nation, composed of people who feared the Lord? I do not know. I am woefully ignorant. The second seal, war and all its ravenges, with all that has transpired in the last century, might we well be there?

The third seal sounds to me like a great famine. Wheat prices through the roof, a days wage to pay for a measure of grain, massive world wide famine? I see no evidence of it yet, but with genetic tampering of our food supply, who knows what we might unleash.

So where are we? but more importantly, where are you?

Some of you are going, "he's gone off the deep end. I have, come join me, the living water is fine.