TIME IS SHORT!   DFO1347          12/82

         1. WE'RE NOT TO FRET FOR TOMORROW, which means we're not to worry about tomorrow, but the Lord sure has had a lot to say about tomorrow, so He certainly must want us to be informed about tomorrow! That's the whole point of prophecy, to let you know what's going to happen so you won't worry about it.
         2. WE ARE IN A WORLDWIDE DEPRESSION NOW, NOT IN A MERE RECESSION. They're trying to keep it quiet & avoiding the word "depression" like the plague, but a few people have had the nerve to come out & bluntly & flatly state that we are in just as great a depression as the World Depression of the 30's!
         3. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS NOW 3 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT!--And going further in the hole every year! As I told you a couple of years ago: "The Crash Is Here!" (No.854.) The only thing that's keeping it running is faith--faith with a false foundation, faith in their politicians, faith in their industries, faith in their industrialists, faith in their World leaders that somehow they're going to find a solution. Well, they are one of these days.--But it will be a completely new System.
         4. SO WE ARE NOW IN ANOTHER GREAT DEPRESSION & they're actually beginning to admit it, & there's only one thing that's ever pulled'm out, & it's the one thing they always have recourse to, & the one thing they always resort to to pull'm out, & they'll do it again!--War! Only this war is going to be so disastrous it is not going to save anything!--It is going to destroy the entire Western Capitalistic World, & maybe a good piece of the Communist World with it!
         5. NOW WE'RE GETTING INTO THE REALM OF EXACT PROPHECY, THE GREAT CONFUSION! It's going to be sudden, it's going to be by tremendous surprise! What does it mean when people widen their eyes?--Shock! Surprise! I don't think that anything short of the atomic war could bring on the Great Confusion!
         6. AND WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF THAT GREAT CONFUSION? He's going to be the Devil in the person of a man!--The Antichrist! God Himself spoke to us in '66 & told us that the Author of Confusion was already gathering his forces for the Great Confusion!--16 years ago!
         7. IT'S A FUNNY THING ABOUT US & BIBLE PROPHECY, we know more about the future than we do the present! We know more about what's going to happen at the End than right now! The Lord's given us the number of days when we get to the End--exact days, exact months, exact years!--So you have to take this problem, this equation, & start at the end & work backward, right?
         8. THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST IS CONSIDERED THE PIVOTAL POINT, THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION! But the Great Tribulation is only the last half of another specific time period that is given, The Last Seven Years--which is the reign of the Antichrist.--The period of the seven-year covenant which he breaks in the middle.
         9. NOW, IF THIS AUTHOR OF CONFUSION IS GOING TO BE IN SUFFICIENT POWER TO PRECIPITATE THAT WAR WHICH WILL BRING ON THE GREAT CONFUSION, then he certainly will either have to be in control of one of the principle Superpowers, or be such an influential man behind the scenes that he's going to take control as soon as it's over--engineering the Great Confusion so that he can take control of it & rise out of it as the World conqueror. He is going to destroy the World in order to take it over & be proclaimed as its saviour.
         10. IF YOU WERE RUSSIA, CONVINCED THAT THE U.S. WAS OUT TO DESTROY YOU & that as soon as they had sufficient nuclear power & missiles available to ensure a first-strike superiority they would use it, would you wait until the U.S. deployed hundreds of Pershing missiles in Europe in 1983?
         11. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOME SIGN or some indication of what will be the last straw that'll break the camel's back, that the Russians are just not going to wait for, & I am convinced that that is it! I think it would take a miracle of God to delay it or delay the Russians!--Another reason why I think it's gotta be soon is that the West is desperate to save itself from this economic crash that they can see is coming, but won't admit except to themselves & at high levels.
         12. AND THE ANTI-NUKE MOVEMENT IS GROWING IN EVERY COUNTRY, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES! They're growing to such proportions that it is doubtful that the U.S. will be able to get some of those missiles into Europe in 1983! So do you think the U.S. is going to wait until she can't get those missiles over there & she can't even keep the ones there that she's got? And do you think the Russians are going to wait until she puts more in? I don't see how they would & I would certainly be surprised if they did! So one way or the other, somebody is going to be tempted to shoot first--& soon!
         13. WHAT DID THE LORD TELL ME THE OTHER MORNING ABOUT BREZHNEV'S DEATH?--It was the Death of the Era of Peace! This year peace died, so what will next year bring?
         14. LET'S BACK IT UP FROM THE END & SEE HOW THE PICTURE FITS.--What year did we interpret to be the Coming of the Lord? Now remember, I'm not guaranteeing it & I'm not swearing by it, but that is what came to me & the way I interpreted it, & I'm not going to promise it! But our guesstimate date for the Coming of the Lord is 1993, right?
         15. AND IF 1993 IS THE COMING OF THE LORD, THEN THE ANTICHRIST HAS TO TAKE POWER SEVEN YEARS BEFORE THAT, right? We don't know if it's the first part, middle or end of 1993, but just for conjecture & theory, a guesstimate, if the middle of 1993 is the exact end of the seven years, what is the exact beginning of the seven years?--The middle of 1986!--When Halley's Comet is going to return for the first time in 70-some years!
         16. I'M NOT PROMISING THE WAR'S GOING TO BE NEXT YEAR, BUT I DON'T SEE HOW IT CAN GO MUCH LONGER! And if the Antichrist has got to take power sometime in 1986, he's certainly got to have a little time to pull the World out of the horrible chaos & the Great Confusion that it is in already, & is going to be in even worse after the war. So it wouldn't be unreasonable to suppose in that case, would it?
         17. SO DOES THE YEAR 1983, & CERTAINLY AT THE LATEST 1984, FIT THE SCHEDULE FOR THE WAR? I don't see how it could come any later for him to save the World from its chaos & bring it to the point where he can take over & have World control & persuade all the World's religions to sign a pact in 1986!
         18. GOD CANNOT HOLD BACK THE FLOOD & THE WHEELS OF HISTORY FOREVER! The time has to come that the judgements of God must fall, when the cup of their iniquity is full, & God cannot allow it to go any further or they will destroy the Earth!--The whole Earth!
         19. BOTH SIDES ARE MAKING MORE & MORE & MORE MISSILES & MORE WARHEADS & MORE ATOM BOMBS all the time, & if He waits another year, that means that many more millions are going to be slaughtered! The longer God waits, the more slaughter, the more mayhem, the more carnage, the more holocaust!--There wouldn't be enough people left to carry on His program of what He wants to happen.
         20. HE'S GOT TO INTERVENE SOON! He's got to stop it soon, it cannot go on & on much longer! If He lets it go on much longer, they'd destroy the whole Earth & all mankind & there wouldn't be anything left! But God has a few more things to work out in His program, a few more lessons He wants to teach during the Millennium!
         21. SO IF OUR ESTIMATES OF THE INTERPRETATION OF SOME OF THESE REVELATIONS ARE ANYTHING NEAR CORRECT AT ALL, even approximate, & if you just look around at the conditions of the World today, the war is imminent! Let's go over it again: The economy is already shot. What do they always try to do to rescue it?--A war! The World is on the verge of it now, each one is just jockeying for position to try to make sure he'll be the winner.
         22. AND OF COURSE FROM WHAT GOD'S WORD SAYS, IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS WHO THE WINNER'S GOING TO BE--RUSSIA!--Virtually named!--Meshech, Moscow; Tubal, Tobolsk! (Ez.38:3) He even named some of the leading cities of Russia! Those two cites are named in Bible Prophecy as parts of the Kingdom of Magog, whose leader is Gog, the Antichrist!--Specific! So we know it's going to be Russia, therefore we know Russia has to make the first strike!
         23. THE ANTICHRIST IS GOING TO BRING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS OR HE COULDN'T BE THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, he couldn't be the false Messiah.--But he will, he'll save the World & he'll try to salvage what he can & reconstruct what he can & restore some kind of order & economy & peace on Earth. Everything will get under more & more rigid control as things get organised, more government control, & you won't be able to operate as freely.
         24. SO WE HAD BETTER WORK THE WORKS OF HIM THAT SENT US WHILE IT'S YET DAY & do everything we possibly can, right now, today, tonight! Whatever we do, we'd better work fast, for the night is coming when no man can work & when we won't be able to work like we're working now!
         25. WE'D BETTER GET AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE CAN INTO THE HANDS OF THE FAMILY TO GUIDE THEM, EVEN IF WE'RE CUT OFF & HAVE NO FURTHER COMMUNICATION. We'd better get as much organisation, indigenuity, finances, supervision, self-government, self-supporting, self-propagating power into the local hands of local Families & local Family government as we can, right now while we still have time!
         26. I BELIEVE GOD'S GOING TO USE US, SO IT'S NOT GOING TO BE THE END FOR US, DON'T THINK THAT! People are going to be more desperate, just like they are in times of trial & emergency & catastrophe, they're more receptive then than ever! God's Word says they're going to come to you & beg you to teach them the ways of the Lord! "Them of understanding shall instruct many!" (Dan.11:32,33; Isa.60:2-5; Zech.8:23) I'm just trying to tell you that what we're doing now & the way we're doing it & what we're producing, we'd better do as fast as we can & get it in their hands as fast as we can!
         27. AMEN, LORD, HELP THIS TO HAVE BEEN PROFITABLE & NOT WASTED TIME. We've delivered our souls & we don't want the responsibility on our hands of not having told them that we feel the End is near, so that we will work hard to do as much as we can while we still can!
         28. BLESS & KEEP US!--WE KNOW YOU'LL HAVE A PLACE FOR US! And we know You'll care for our little ones. You have made them for a reason, to serve Thee & be Endtime Witnesses for Thee, Lord, & a blessing even in these last terrible days! Help us to teach them all we can, to fill their little minds & hearts with Thy Word & that which will give them power & strength, Lord, to survive in such days! PYL! In Jesus' name, amen!
         29. THAT'S THE WAY I SEE IT, THAT'S THE WAY I BELIEVE IT, & I DON'T SEE HOW IT CAN BE MUCH LONGER!--For all those reasons. So there it is for what it's worth & you can take it or leave it, but I hope it'll help you to work even harder & faster for the Lord! Don't over-do, I don't mean that, but it just kind of inspires me when I know it's gettin' so close! PTL!

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