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From: jomibase@ihu1h.UUCP (opperman)
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Subject: Re: Maryknoll called - please keep your prayers going
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 14:15:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 13 14:15:46 1985
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> In article <1297@hammer.UUCP> seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
> > 
> > Why does God allow natural disasters?  No, I don't have
> > the answer, but there is one possibility I'd like to point out.
> 
> Sorry I no got answer either.  I was wondering about this a few days
> ago in the aftermath of several cyclones that tocuhed down in
> Pennsylvania.  Apparently there was little or no warning before the
> funnels touched down, although after they had been observed some
> residents did have as much as 40 minutes warning.
> 
> Also there have been several disasters in Bangledesh (sorry) and
> adjoining countries.  A mighty big tidle wave and several cyclones
> that some say could have been detected by facilities now under
> construction in those countries.  Hardly seems fair.
> 
> > Look in Revelations.  Just before the second coming there
> > is supposed to be a great increase in earthquakes and such,
> > right?  Now, look at the number of earthquakes per year for
> > that last few decades.  Every decade the number doubles!
> 
> As I understand it this is because we have been observing and studying
> these natural phenomena so much more intently (than say hundreds or
> thousands of years ago).  Remember also the age of written records and
> how many records of such disasters would survive.
> 
> But why in the last 10 years?  Beats me... where's your sources?
> 
> > Then consider that Israel was restored as a nation in 1948,
> > and that the second coming is supposed to be within one
> > generation (~40 years) of that event.
> > 
> > hmmmmm!
> 
> Television preachers point to lots of other things, claiming the
> proliferation of nuclear weapons and various wars in various countries
> as proof of the end times.  You have to take all of this in
> perspective.  They thought the world had come to an end back when the
> plague was decimating Europe and they had good Biblical substantiation
> for thinking the end had come then too.
> 
> I think proof of the end is somewhat more subtle.  For the first time
> in history we have finally been able to map and settle on the entire
> globe as well as communicate with all of its people.  I'm sure God
> would not bring the end about until such was true... and since man will
> more than likely be the instrument of his own destruction (remember
> that God promised Noah he wouldn't), nuclear weapons look like a good
> indicator as well.
> -- 
> 
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It is all and good for the curiosity of man to try and predict the 2nd
coming of Christ. However, I believe it was said that it (2nd coming)
would come like a thief in the night. Who can say by any evidence when
that will be?
-- 

C.J. Opperman
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