Well, Phil I couldn't agree with you more!  There sure
is peace being a Christian.  The solar flareups have
become more and more intense over the past few years. 

Todd

--- Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Helen,
> 
> I didn't mean this specifically was a prophecy
> fulfilled but I am guessing
> the 10 nations talked about in the book of the
> Revelation will be made up of
> 10 unions.  For years, of course, everybody thought
> it would be 10 nations
> functioning as one out of Europe.  What do they have
> now?  Something like 27
> countries?  I can't remember but I have always
> thought the 10 nations would
> be the 10 countries that had nuclear capability as
> far as weapons are
> concerned.  If they don't get a handle on somebody
> pretty soon, like North
> Korea, Pakistan, India, Eran, or even Israel,
> somebody is going to set off a
> nuclear weapon and blow a few million people off the
> planet.  Unless it is a
> small nuclear device, I doubt it will happen in the
> Middle East simply
> because everybody is so close together, half the
> Middle East would disappear
> in a mushroom cloud if a big bomb were detonated. 
> Probably the country that
> set it off would blow itself away in the process. 
> I've been guessing on
> Pakistan and Indian getting into it the last couple
> of years myself and they
> certainly have come close.  Then, too, it could be a
> nuclear detonation in
> the United States that kills a few million and
> pushes the U S off the map as
> far as a global super power is concerned.  If that
> happens, the entire
> planet will suffer economically in dozens of ways. 
> Many countries, of
> course, already depend heavily economicly on the
> United States.  Even the EU
> would likely collapse if the U S drops off the
> global market economically.
> At least that's what the big economists are
> suggesting.  Anyhow, The North
> American Union would likely be one of those 10
> unions around the world.  It
> seems like there is a lot of puzzle pieces being
> moved around.  I honestly
> never thought I would see some of the world events
> in my life time that have
> occurred and it sure seems closer to the return of
> the Lord more than any
> time I can remember.  I'm also trying to keep up on
> the sun activity because
> to me, it appears the sun is going to go into a nova
> stage during the
> tribulation.  They used to think that a nova cycle,
> where the sun heats up,
> normally they say 7 times hotter than normal, and
> the period it takes to die
> out, turning the sun into a Red Dwarf, would take
> thousands of years.  Now
> they say the entire cycle can take just 7 years. 
> Last year, or perhaps it
> was late the year before, a 100,000 square mile area
> of the sun's surface
> blew off into space.  They call these Corona Mass
> Ejections or CME's for
> short.  This is one of the largest solar flares ever
> recorded.  The area of
> the sun where this took place just happened to be
> pointed at a 45 degree
> angle from the earth.  Otherwise, we would have had
> serious power outages,
> weather disturbances, and likely would have lost a
> lot of satellite
> communications.  In the last 50 years, the sun
> activity has increased and
> larger and larger sections of the sun's surface are
> blowing off.  They are
> predicting, even in the ham radio reports, that the
> next sun spot cycle, due
> to arrive in the next two years, that is, it is
> building up now, will be the
> largest sun activity ever.  That means even bigger
> areas blowing off into
> space and if any one of the large CME's is pointed
> at the earth when it
> goes, we are facing global cataclysmic results. 
> Every time I hear about the
> latest sun spot solar flare and its size, I think of
> what Jesus said about
> signs in the sky before His return.  I'm sure glad
> I'm a Christian.
> 
> Phil.
> 


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