what a fine tribute to our Lord and Saviour. Thankyou!
Thankyou Pureheart. Will see you soon in the air!
Posts by RickA
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10This Man "Jesus"
by RickA in2000 years ago there was a man born contrary to the laws of nature.
this man was reared in obscurity.
earthly riches were not important to him.
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This Man "Jesus"
by RickA in2000 years ago there was a man born contrary to the laws of nature.
this man was reared in obscurity.
earthly riches were not important to him.
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RickA
2000 years ago there was a man born contrary to the laws of nature.
This man was reared in obscurity. Earthly riches were not important to Him.
He did not travel extensively, only once did He cross the boundary of the country in which He lived and that was during His exile in childhood to Egypt.
In infancy, He startled a king;
In childhood, He amazed Jewish leaders;
In manhood, He ruled the course of nature, walking upon the billows as if pavement. He hushed the sea to sleep.He healed multitudes without medicine and made no charge for His service.
He never wrote a book, and yet all the libraries of the country could not hold the books that have been written about Him, He never wrote a song, and yet He has furnished the theme for more songs than all the songwriters combined.
He never founded a college, but all the schools put together cannot boast of having as many students.
He never practiced psychiatry and yet He has healed more broken hearts than all the doctors far and near. Names of great scientists, philosophers and theologians have come and gone; but the Name of this Man abounds more and more.
Herod the Great could not destroy Him and the grave could not hold Him.
His Name stands highest of Heavenly glory, acknowledged by angels and feared by devils.
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.”
As the living personal Christ, the Messiah and Savior, the Redeemer of Man: Here is God’s appointed sacrifice for sins.
Long ago, God’s divine principle was established that “without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.”
Today God, in wondrous love, tells us, “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.”
Jesus is the only One that has fulfilled all of the Scriptures regarding Messiah’s birth, ministry, death and resurrection. There are over 300 prophetic Scriptures in the Old Testament concerning messiah’s incarnation. Jesus fulfilled them all.
Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh in order that He might die for you.
He came to earth but was rejected by the people as their king at that time. He is going to come to this earth again, and then He will be accepted as, not only King of the Jews but as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
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INDIA DEPLOYES NUKES
by RickA inno comment needed!.
prithvi missiles moved near border in punjab.
vishal thapar .
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BJP chief fires off a nuclear warning to Pakistan
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD, 25 December — Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fresh mortar and heavy machinegun fire yesterday as allegations of spying, kidnapping, torture and a dire warning from the chief of the dominant party in the ruling Indian coalition further inflamed passions on both sides of the South Asian divide.
New Delhi expelled a Pakistani diplomat, raising the ante in the posturing and ongoing war of words as Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, currently on a visit to China, showed that diplomatic moves were not yet exhausted by pledging to crack down on two militant groups accused of attacking the Indian parliament.
With both the nations on "high alert", the head of India’s extremist BJP party added fresh fuel to the already raging fire by issuing a warning to Pakistan yesterday that it would be "wiped out of the world" if it opted for a nuclear strike against India.
"We will not be the first to use the nuclear weapon," BJP President Jana Krishnamurthy was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India in an interview with a television channel. "But if it is used against us by Pakistan, its existence itself would be wiped out of the world map," Krishnamurthy said.
Amid the moves and counter moves, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes arrived in Kashmir yesterday, reviewing military preparedness on the region’s disputed border, while Pakistani Army deployed anti-aircraft guns and moved most troops from the eastern garrison town of Sialkot to the border with India, local sources said yesterday.
Fernandes, who has played down the threat of a full-scale war, refused to speculate on the probability of military action.
The Indian Army yesterday canceled all leave for soldiers stationed along the country’s western border with Pakistan and even asked some of those on holiday to report back to work. "There is no question of issuing any leave to soldiers at a time like this when there is phenomenal troop mobilization on the Pakistani side of our shared border," said a senior army commander who did not want to be named.
"It is true that we have asked some soldiers on holiday to drop everything and rejoin their units in India’s western sector," he added.
Indian forces on the border with Pakistan have been on "high alert" since the Dec. 13 attack on the Indian parliament by five gunmen, whom New Delhi claims were Pakistan-based militants backed by Pakistani military intelligence.
Thousands of tanks and soldiers have massed in the towns of Ganaganagar, Anupnagar and Jaisalmer in India’s western border state of Rajasthan.
Last week, India announced the recall of its ambassador to Pakistan and terminated cross-border rail and bus links, citing Islamabad’s inadequate response to demands that it crack down on the activities of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammed.
During his visit to China, President Musharraf said his government would take steps against the two groups if evidence proving their complicity was uncovered. Pakistan’s State Bank said yesterday that it had frozen the assets of Lashkar and another Pakistan-based group named by the United States as being involved in terrorism.
"That is not enough, much more needs to be done," Indian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nirupama Rao said. "Instead of focusing on tackling the terrorist groups on their soil as we have asked, (Pakistan) is diverting attention to other issues."
Indian police, meanwhile, said they had arrested a parliament official for allegedly passing "sensitive" information to a Pakistan High Commission (embassy) staffer. A police statement said Ajay Kumar, a senior executive assistant in parliament’s administrative staff, was caught giving information on defense, atomic energy and ship design to the staffer, Muhammad Sharif Khan.
India ordered Khan’s expulsion yesterday.
The statement said Kumar’s interrogation revealed that Khan had several times asked him about security arrangements around Parliament House and to arrange a security pass for him to watch legislative proceedings.
Categorically rejecting these charges, Pakistan’s Foreign Office statement said, "These absurd Indian allegations represented yet another desperate attempt to implicate Pakistan," in the Dec. 13 terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament.
Pakistan accused India of kidnapping and torturing Khan and said it had lodged an official protest with Indian authorities. "During interrogation, (Khan) he was stripped naked, severely beaten and tortured, resulting in visible and internal injuries," the Pakistan Foreign Ministry said.
Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh firmly denied yesterday any custodial maltreatment. "We deny it completely," Singh told reporters.
Local sources in Muzzaffarabad said Pakistani Army has deployed anti-aircraft guns and moved most troops from the eastern garrison town of Sialkot to the border with India.
Kashmir’s Revenue and Relief Minister Abdul Qayoom said hundreds of panic-stricken people had begun migrating from border areas following the exchange of fire which killed three border guards over the weekend.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) officials said India had also stepped up security on its eastern border with Bangladesh to prevent Pakistan sending militants through the porous frontier.
With tensions rising between the nuclear-capable powers, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said at the weekend that India was ready for any eventuality.
"Peace is India's ideal goal and we pursue it zealously. But if crisis knocks on our door the country will not shy from its duty," Vajpayee said.
"The world should know that although we pray for peace we are well-versed in the art of war."
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What is EVIL? Who Defines?
by D wiltshire inwhat is evil?.
who defines what is truly evil?.
if someone lived a trillion x longer than you, and had a billion x more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?.
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Let me see if I got this right. Sin and evil are the same, and we all sin because we are made of flesh. Now, are some sins so bad that they can't be forgiven, and other sins so minor that they are over looked by God? Also, I have to ask, what is considered a sin. The JWs believe that smoking is a sin. Does God believe that? The Catholics used to believe that eating meat on Friday was a sin. Did that make it a sin in God's eyes? How do we determine what and what is not a sin?
Only one sin can't be forgiven
Mt 12:31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
One Sin is the same as another doesn't matter if it is small or large, God will not overlook sin even if it's small.
1Jo 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 ¶ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.Anything that grieves the spirit of God would be a Sin including smoking.
1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
What is and what is not a sin?...anything that convicts our hearts, because the laws are written there and you will know if you sin.
Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
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What is EVIL? Who Defines?
by D wiltshire inwhat is evil?.
who defines what is truly evil?.
if someone lived a trillion x longer than you, and had a billion x more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?.
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RickA
How is sin different from evil in your opinion. Are they interchangable words or do they mean the something different? Are some sins, simply a matter of inperfection, which we all share? Is evil something beyond our natural state of imperfection? What do you think?
Sin is evil & Evil is Sin. Flesh is sin, flesh being imperfect.
Ro 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.The question is are we forgiven for the sin we do so we are not under the law. For no man can stand before the throne of God without being forgiven.
Ro 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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What is EVIL? Who Defines?
by D wiltshire inwhat is evil?.
who defines what is truly evil?.
if someone lived a trillion x longer than you, and had a billion x more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?.
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SIN
Lu 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
Ga 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: -
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INDIA DEPLOYES NUKES
by RickA inno comment needed!.
prithvi missiles moved near border in punjab.
vishal thapar .
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RickA
No comment needed!
Prithvi missiles moved near border in Punjab
Vishal Thapar
(New Delhi, December 24)
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Competitive military posturing between Indian and Pakistan assumed more belligerent proportions, with both sides mobilising ballistic missile groups.
Close on the heels of Pakistani media reports about "activation" of missiles directed at India from its Kharian base, reliable sources indicated that the Indian Army has moved its Prithvi Short Range Ballistic Missile (SRBM) batteries to strategic locations closer to the India-Pakistan border along Punjab.The 150 km range Prithvi missile is handled by the 333 Missile Group, which is headquartered at Secunderabad. "Movement (of the missile group) is taking place," confirmed a senior official of the Ministry of Defence. While declining to "talk specifics", he reiterated that "India is in a state of high alert".
The source hastened to clarify that the Prithvi missile batteries had been "moved" but not "deployed".
India has based the Missile Group far away from the Indo-Pak border at Secunderabad as a confidence building measure. Because of its short range, any movement of this tactical battlefield missile, and that of its Hatf counterparts possessed by Pakistan, close to the border is a destabilising factor.
The deployment of this missile in Punjab effectively brings the Pakistani heartland - notably Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Faisalabad within striking range.
The Prithvi is generally equipped with conventional warheads but is also capable of mounting a nuclear warhead. Hence, distance of SRBMs from the border is also considered a nuclear risk reduction measure (NRRM).
The Prithvi is a single stage, liquid fuel, road mobile and inertially-guided missile. The 333 Missile Group is reportedly equipped with 15 launchers and about 75 missiles. It's weakness, however, is that it takes several hours to refuel the liquid propulsion missile before firing. The implications in terms of tactical response time are obvious. It's also the only Indian ballistic missile which is operational.
By contrast, Pakistan's operational missiles include the 300 km range Hatf II (Chinese M-11), the 600 km range Hatf III (Chinese M-9), the 750 km Shaheen I (Hatf-IV), the 1150-1500 km Ghauri I/ II (Hatf-V) and the 2500 km Shaheen II, giving it superiority in missile-based weapon delivery systems. But for the Ghauris, all are solid-fuelled propelled, requiring very little time to be fired.
While India does have the demonstrated technology for 1500 km (Agni I) and 2,500 km (Agni II) missiles, the only one it does have ready in its arsenal is the short-range Prithvi.
Pakistan military warns of nuclear conflict with India
CHAKOTHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A senior Pakistani army officer said on Monday continued border clashes with India could spark an uncontrollable flareup involving nuclear weapons.
The two neighbours have reinforced positions on either side of their disputed border in Kashmir since a December 13 suicide attack on the Indian parliament which killed 14 people. New Delhi blamed two militant groups based in Muslim Pakistan.
Local sources said on Monday that Pakistan's army had deployed anti-aircraft guns and moved most troops from the eastern garrison town of Sialkot to the border with India.
Pakistani and Indian troops only watched each other with distrust from bunkers on either side of a broken bridge at Chakothi in the west of disputed Kashmir when a group of journalists visited the Pakistani side of the front line.
But both sides reported exchanges of fresh mortar and heavy machinegun fire elsewhere in Kashmir and New Delhi expelled a Pakistani diplomat, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed adversaries ever higher.
Pakistani Brigadier Mohammad Yaqub said the situation was "highly explosive".
"Because in that situation, that tension, even a small little incident can result in a chain reaction which nobody will be able to control," he told Reuters Television at Muzaffarabad, capital of the Pakistani-held part of Kashmir.
He said an all-out war between the two nations could "become really horrific for the entire world".
Asked if nuclear weapons could be used, Yaqub, giving what he called his personal view, said:
"But if there is a war between the two countries and if any country feels that it comes to its own survival, probably there won't be any hesitation to use nuclear weapons."
A brief statement from the military's public relations department said the top-brass of Pakistan's armed forces met in the garrison town of Rawalpindi and "discussed matters relating to defence, national security and professional aspects".
A source in Sialkot, just a few miles from the border in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, said most of the troops had left the cantonment.
"The movement of troops to and from the border has increased. It is more than in routine times," he said.
Artillery exchanges have increased recently in the Sharkargarh-Zafarwal sector of the working boundary, a 220-km (136-mile) stretch of border between the line of control dividing mountainous Kashmir, and the frontier that runs down the plains in an eastward direction up to the Arabian Sea.
A senior local official in Sialkot said the army movements to and from the border had "not been very obvious," but declined to go into detail.
New Delhi accuses Pakistan of fomenting a decade-old revolt in Muslim-majority Kashmir. Pakistan denies sponsoring the rebellion, saying it only provides moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri struggle for self-determination.
Kashmir's main separatist alliance, the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference, asked the two nations to exercise restraint in the region, which has triggered two of the three wars they have fought since independence from Britain in 1947.
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RickA
Here another one hot off the press, did he say a billion people in the balance SaintSatan. No couldn't be we still have 100 yrs left.
Analysis: Nuke Fears Revived
Posted Dec. 20, 2001WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A tough nationalist democrat and a warlord presenting himself as a democrat are on a collision
course -- and the lives of more than a billion people hang in the balance between them.Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India and his top ministers now openly accuse neighboring Pakistan, led by President Pervez Musharraf, of waging a systematic campaign of terrorism against India. Vajpayee on Tuesday promised a decisive battle against terrorism. Pakistan denies it is harboring or directing the terrorists.
Vajpayee's government pledged Tuesday to wage at long last a decisive battle against the Muslim guerrillas who, India has long maintained, are controlled as well as supported by Pakistan. Pakistan responded that any cross-border incursion by India "will receive a strong and swift response."
But India, reeling from the shock of what could have been a catastrophic attack on its parliament and entire political leadership by extreme Islamist guerrillas last week, shows no sign of backing down.
Vajpayee leads the second-most populous nation in the world. Musharraf leads the fifth -- soon to be the fourth -- most populous. (China is No. 1, the United States No. 3, and Russia No. 4, but Pakistan with its surging birthrate may in reality already have outstripped it).
Both India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed powers.
The men who lead them are a striking study in contrasts. Both leaders rose representing hard-line nationalist constituencies. But they represent very different political dynamics.
Vajpayee built up his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party into the leading political movement in his giant nation of a billion people, the second-most populous nation in the world, indeed, in human history, and the largest successful democracy of all time. He can act tough, and has not given Pakistan an inch over the red-hot issue of Kashmir, but he has spent well over three decades brokering compromises in the comfortable parliamentarian club world of New Delhi.
Musharraf is a heroic warrior and veteran combat soldier in an army smarting from its repeated failures to wrest Kashmir from Indian control in previous wars. And he is a master of the intrigue that has swirled around Pakistan's military and powerful, clandestine intelligence services for decades as they toppled civilian governments, armed Islamic mujahedin warriors in Afghanistan with U.S. support through the 1980s, and worked on their top-priority nuclear weapons program.
Musharraf was born in New Delhi in 1943 before the catastrophic fission that split apart predominantly Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan from the former British Empire, or Raj in 1947, spent his entire career rising in the ranks of Pakistan's military.
In 1998, both nations openly exploded nuclear devices within days of each other. Both are now openly nuclear armed. India developed its own nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Pakistan was greatly aided in its missile technology and development by its historic ally China. Saudi financing played the dominant role in funding its nuclear program.
The two countries have fought three major conventional wars since becoming independent 54 years ago, in 1947, 1966 and 1971.
Millions of people died and countless millions more on both sides became penniless, brutalized and destitute refugees when the British pulled out disastrously fast at under the direction of their last viceroy of India, the late Lord Louis Mountbatten, in 1947. The hatreds sown at that terrible time continue to erupt today.
But India-Pakistan historic tensions have most of all been kept alive by the flashpoint issue of Kashmir.
The northern province, known as Jammu and Kashmir, is overwhelmingly Muslim but has been controlled by India since 1947. Muslim guerrillas backed by Pakistan have for more than a decade waged one of the most bloody guerrilla insurrections in the world to try to drive India out.
Estimates of the death toll on both sides over the past 12 years start at 35,000 and go as high as 80,000. That is more than 20 times the number of people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that damaged the Pentagon and destroyed the World Trade Center.
The Pakistanis, including Musharraf, assert that the majority Muslims in Kashmir are brutalized by the Indian military. India counters that its army is fighting merciless terrorist fanatics who slaughter entire villages of other faiths.
The acquisition of nuclear weapons by both giant nations has given a new dimension of threat to the conflict over Kashmir.
India and Pakistan both have vast, impoverished majority populations. Therefore, neither of them so far has had the resources to develop survivable second-strike nuclear capacities or hardened missile silos to prevent their nuclear missiles from being wiped out by the other side in some surprise pre-emptive attack.
That means that the threat level between the two is comparable potentially to the hair-trigger tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and early 1960s, before the combination of détente and second-strike nuclear delivery systems removed the temptation -- or feared threat -- for either side to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike to render its arch foe defenseless at a single blow.
The Clinton administration accorded a high priority to trying to negotiate phased nuclear disarmament between both nations. But because its efforts were grounded in misty idealism and not practical realpolitik, it failed. However, so far, the Bush administration has not done any better.
Any resolution of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan still looks impossible in the foreseeable future. Earlier this year, Vajpayee and Musharraf met for a historic summit at the famous Indian city of Agra. But hopes of reconciliation or, at least, a thaw in relations, crashed at the first hurdle. The two men could not even agree on a joint statement.
In practice, both men retained their hard-line positions. Musharraf pledged never to give up the struggle to what he called "freedom" for the people of Kashmir. Vajpayee continued to insist that Pakistan had to stop its support for "violence and terrorism being promoted in the state (of Kashmir) from across its borders."
The end of the summit was not reassuring. And nor was much of Musharraf's talk when he was in India. "I cannot live in this make-believe world," he told Indian newspaper editors at a breakfast meeting in Agra. "I cannot live in this illusion," referring to India's continued full control of Kashmir.
Musharraf wanted the summit to concentrate overwhelmingly on Kashmir. Vajpayee wanted to dilute the Kashmir issue by pushing ahead on other ones as well. Musharraf felt this was an attempt to duck the issue he felt most strongly about.
The tone of the end of the summit was worrying. Both sides expressed disappointment, and worse, over the failure to even agree on a joint statement.
Now, the terror attack last week on the parliament in New Delhi has revived hatreds and tensions on both sides at fever pitch.
Vast issues are at stake. The threat of nuclear war, like a colossal, glittering, cosmic sword of Damocles, continues to hover menacingly over 1.2 billion human beings in two of the largest nations on earth.
Everyone who wishes them well can only hope and pray that both leaders will prove capable of taking deep breaths and stepping back from the brink for the common good of all.
Otherwise, all of South Asia could erupt in a nuclear inferno of apocalyptic proportions that would make the terrible events of Sept. 11 look like a firecracker in comparison.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/160646.html
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RickA
No were not in the last at all, your right LB. Sit back and enjoy the rest of your life.
Here another one hot off the press.
Hostility will be met with force, Pak tells India
SLAMABAD: Responding to a build up of Indian troops at its border, Pakistan promised on Thursday to retaliate acts of violence.
"Any hostility would be met with full force," said foreign ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan. "Pakistan's armed forces are fully capable and prepared to defend the country's frontiers."
Khan reiterated Pakistan's denial of involvement in last week's deadly attack on the Indian parliament in New Delhi. At a news conference, Khan condemned the incident and pledged support to find those responsible.
"Pakistan is ready to take action against any individual, organisation or group, if proved responsible for the attack on Indian Parliament," he said.
US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher urged India on Thursday to share with Pakistan any evidence it has about the terrorist action.
The attack has worsened already troubled relations between the two nuclear nations.
On Wednesday, Indian troops were seen moving toward the border, followed by heavy vehicles hauling anti-aircraft guns, mortars and communications equipment.
Villagers living in hamlets in Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Ferozepur districts along the India-Pakistan border said they had seen army soldiers from both sides taking up positions closer to the line that divides the two South Asian rivals
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Well, since each of God's days is a year, or a thousand years, or seven thousand years....depending....I guess that still gives up plenty of slack time.
won't you be surprised when you see him coming with fire in his eyes!
2Pe 3:3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: