The End is Near

 

I keep hearing silliness about the eclipse Monday.  Mom's friend Janet says she will not go outside because who knows what sort of rays will be emitted from the event!  So there's no way these dangerous rays could get into the house apparently.   Janet warned me in no uncertain terms not to believe my so called eclipse sun glasses will protect my eyes.  No, I'll be blinded and also killed by gamma radiation.  

Then I hear that the eclipse is the beginning of the Tribulation.  OK.  Someone explained that Christians don't need to be afraid, because angels are going to have special invisible safe houses for us to live in, and this will protect us from the wrath of God during the Tribulation.   I haven't heard this theory before, which surprises me.  I thought I had heard them all.  

It's all so clear now.  On Monday around 2:00 pm Central time the Tribulation starts.  Then the world of angels and demons will no longer be invisible to us.  They'll be right here with us out in the open.  Oh, it may not be obvious, because they will disguise themselves as people.   Then the Christians will be put into safe houses by the angels.  It would seem safe, except that some of the Christians will get bored, and decide to go outside for a while and visit some of their friends.  Surely if would be OK to go see Aunt Mabel.  

But wait!  The Antichrist has taken over the whole world and convinced everyone to take the number 666, which is the number of his name, to prove allegiance to him.  I suppose this would seem like a good idea because if the whole world were one nation, wouldn't that end all the wars?   But when the world declares allegiance to the Antichrist, the Great Tribulation begins, with the wrath of God finally raining down to destroy mankind.  The first thing that will happen is the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.  Oh, but didn't God decide not to destroy mankind after the Flood?  He decided not to destroy mankind with a Flood again.  Next time He'll destroy us with fire.  

But suppose the hypothetical Christian decides to venture out of the safe house and visit Aunt Mabel?  Aunt Mabel would never turn him over to the Antichrist.  Well, Aunt Mabel thinks that she would be doing the person a favor by pressuring them to take the Mark of the Beast, and then they could be part of the brave new world.  And so Aunt Mabel does turn them over to the authorities.  Then the hypothetical Christian just will not accept the Mark of the Beast, and so the solution for that is to execute him by cutting off his head.  Imagine Aunt Mabel's surprise at how things turn out.  

So this eclipse is not to be taken lightly.  It must be taken as the  catastrophe that it is.