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The Coming Storm
Bob Neumann
Since the beginning of time man has strived against the planet called Earth. Among all the creation he was endowed with the authority to take dominion. In fact in any one measure of ability, he was never equal to the creation. All of his senses were inferior to that which is in or under his dominion. Sight, hearing, smell, and taste lacked most levels of true acuity. Size, strength, speed, supple dexterity were limited. Yet man took and held dominion by the “gifts” of knowledge and will. Conscious thought not base instinct was the difference between man and the creation he had been given dominion over.
And as man’s dominion expanded over the face of the planet, man by conscious action ceased to adapt to the environment around him. He took dominion over the land. He domesticated both plants and animals, creating social structure. And eventually civilizations.
Today many stress the destructive nature of man, confusing conscious dominion with mindless plunder. That is a point of modern man’s failure to understand his own beginnings. Ancient man did not plunder nature. “Dominion” is bred on sensibility. What can be modified was domesticated. That which could not be domesticated was either controlled or defended against. Simple safety precautions eventually evolved into what we now think of as cities. But cities were not built to conflict with the environment. In fact the environment dictated where and how the cities were built.
Ancient man lived in harmony with nature. The planets cycles and patterns, in spite of modern thought, dictated to man. What he could not control, he adapted to. The seasons told him when to plant and when to harvest. When to travel, when to build, and even when to make war. Ancient man, to prove this point, in all instances worshiped the creation-not the Creator. What man could not control, be in dominion over, he had to appease. So man created religion.
In the midst of his superiority in so many levels man understood he stood helpless, defenseless against the catastrophic “whims” of nature. Survival itself was too often endangered by the unforeseen, the unexpected, that which could not be anticipated. Even in modern society this “ultimate truth” has not changed. Knowledge, strength, and even technology give us little advantage when the storm overtakes us.
The five daughters of the storm are death, destruction, devastation, disease, and despair. Throughout history man has stood helpless and vulnerable in the face of the storm. But the storm has many faces. As man progressed, advanced, became the builder of civilization. The storm gained newer faces, more frightening and terrible as man “expanded” himself. The more he succeeded to “control” his environment, the greater threat the “storm” posed to him.
Today as man continues to move farther out of harmony with his Creator and the creation in which he was given the responsibility of dominion, he moves closer to the storm and his own destruction. The same man who recently stepped away from his Creator, now runs to the religions he has made to allow him to either confront or negate the storm. Man does not know he has brought the storm to himself by turning away from the Creator.
Today the prognosticators are warning about the “season” ahead. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods are being predicted by all “seers”. At the same time media “oracles” warn of economic tremors with shaking in all the markets. “Political Pundits” daily cry out warning about the instability of governments and movements who seek settlements by the spilling of innocent blood. Pseudo, social psychics make proclamations of impending doom because of inequality between the peoples as they promote racial and social tension. Any human being on planet earth today who has any access to any team of “media” are aware of all these facts.
And we were warned! And are still being warned!
Nearly two thousand years ago we were told:
(Matt 24)
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.
The faithful one who gave us this intense warning, was called Yeshua ben Yosef, a carpenter from the village of Nazareth. There is not one nation where His Name has not been spoken, His message of the GOOD NEWS OF HIS KINGDOM has not been taught. Every language on the face of planet earth has it’s own variation of how His name is pronounced. But He remains the same, yesterday and today. And His kingdom will have no end.
We call Him Jesus. He is the Creator, the Son of the living God. His instruction manual for His kingdom is called the Bible. The message of who He is, what is now happening on the earth, and the storm which now comes upon the earth is in this book the Bible.
If we see that what He warned about is happening, and all of what seems about to explode upon the world is exactly what He said. Maybe we should learn exactly what He said. Maybe we should learn exactly what He said will soon take place. And maybe, just maybe, it might be smart to know a little about who He says He is.
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