Fifty Years? Fifty Weeks? How About Fifty Days....

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Aug 31, 2011 at 15:41

Indeed, who can imagine a world this deep in polemic struggles for the next empire that if one misstep does occur, then the whole fragile thing erupts into a massive catastrophic struggle for mere existence? Who indeed can imagine such a thing? Yet it is written.

Fifty years is lifetime for some; for others it is the first part of several chapters of life that could hold more experience than many can handle. Fifty years of Israel holding onto the Temple Mount was once thought impossible and yet all the Arabic world trying to wrest it away has more than fifty lifetimes of trouble as the rest of the world attempts feverishly to avert the world war you have alluded too: yet all who know this know it is inevitable.

Fifty years? How about fifty weeks; or even fifty days: Who knows? The disciples of Jesus Christ, nearly two thousand years ago went from a confused group of shaken believers to a confident corporate witness of Who Jesus Christ is and what He would mean to a world that is in rebellion to His Word-all in fifty days. That witness is here today: so are the prophetic fulfillments.

The Arab upheavals, the discontent of the Muslim status quo has indeed been shaken, and to what extent it is believed here will eventually be revealed. It is, at the same time about the 'Palestinian' issue and yet than that. Is it the leadership of the discontent or does the veil that hides the truth need ripping to show the realities of humanity not being able to handle the truth.

A different world in fifty years-to be sure-but when does one start counting to a time when it is supposed to get better? The time piece necessary to figure that one out is not a calendar: all one needs now is the clock on his/her Blackberry

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