Amen!

Come On Jesus!

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson

At 06:34 PM 10/4/2006, you 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.