Riots???

[Dordrecht]

20 years ago this weekend, riots broke out in LA after a jury acquitted police officers in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. 53 people died, nearly 3,000 people were injured and thousands of businesses were damaged or destroyed.


Are we going to see riots if Obama is not re-elected?
If not re-elected, it might be classified "racist" by some.

Or are we going to see riots of he is re-elected??

[Barb]

20 years ago this weekend, riots broke out in LA after a jury acquitted police officers in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. 53 people died, nearly 3,000 people were injured and thousands of businesses were damaged or destroyed.


Are we going to see riots if Obama is not re-elected?
If not re-elected, it might be classified "racist" by some.

Or are we going to see riots of he is re-elected??

Oh please... :foottap

[bbyrd009]

So really, this is a Pol thread. Yes, riots are going to occur either way,
and I'm sure we'll be the first, as Christians, to have the video.

[Dordrecht]

Oh please... :foottap

Please w h a t ?????

[Jay]

There will be riots if he is not elected, and a civil war if he is.

[tstew]

There will be riots if he is not elected, and a civil war if he is.

I strongly doubt either.

[Dordrecht]

and a civil war if he is.
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There should be!

[Sam]

There will be riots if he is not elected, and a civil war if he is.

that's a pretty strong prediction.
guess we'll wait and see.

[Sam]

on another subject, I would expect riots and looting if George Zimmerman is not found guilty and sent to jail.

[Dordrecht]

.....and that's how the system is being blackmailed.......

[RevDWW]

There will be riots if he is not elected, and a civil war if he is.
I hope he is not reelected and there are no riots and no civil war.

[Dordrecht]

I hope he is not reelected and there are no riots and no civil war.

Any thing can happen! (End times!)

[RevDWW]

Any thing can happen! (End times!)
What I hope for and what happens could be worlds apart. People get ready. Prepare for the end of the world as we know it.

[Dordrecht]

What I hope for and what happens could be worlds apart. People get ready. Prepare for the end of the world as we know it.

Well said!

[bbyrd009]

What I hope for and what happens could be worlds apart. People get ready. Prepare for the end of the world as we know it.
Well, that happens about...every ten years now, lol.
See, when you look for it in tomorrow,
then you start looking for riots
and um, whatnot.

[Dordrecht]

Well, that happens about...every ten years now, lol.
See, when you look for it in tomorrow,
then you start looking for riots
and um, whatnot.

Nonsense!
You go by scripture!

[bbyrd009]

In preparing for..."the end of the world as you know it?"
<loaded Q alert>

My problem here is going to be embodied in your def of
"the end of the world as you know it,"
as soon as this end becomes embodied in tomorrow,
which is implicit in most pov's--this "end of the world,"
having not happened yet (so one thinks), is being forwarded
as something that is going to happen tomorrow?

[Dordrecht]

I don't understand your post.:smack

[houston]

I don't understand your post.:smack

You don't say...

[MawMaw]

I don't understand your post.:smack

Does anybody ever? :heeheehee

[Jay]

I hope that my predictions do not come to pass either.

[bbyrd009]

The end of the world scenario as presented above suggests the common one that
a Christian is to avoid, and not participate in. It happens tomorrow, and thus never happens. It is a satanically inspired preoccupation. It is a lie. It removes one from now.

The end of the world as you know it has already happened,
to you, several times. In a sense, it just happened again; at sunset.
Contrast one "preparing" for an imagined tomorrow v
one working to bring that tomorrow about.

If you are preparing for...tomorrow, "Armageddon,"
in this manner, you are useless to God.

[Dordrecht]

If you are preparing for...tomorrow, "Armageddon,"
in this manner, you are useless to God.

I am??


I always thought Jesus said to "Watch for the Signs and Prepare for His Return"

"Take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things." - Mark 13:23

"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." - Luke 21:36

I guess scripture must be wrong again...

[bbyrd009]

I am??


I always thought Jesus said to "Watch for the Signs and Prepare for His Return"

"Take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things." - Mark 13:23

"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." - Luke 21:36

I guess scripture must be wrong again...

Not at all, it merely describes the premises from which you read those verses.
"Watch ye, therefore" is not suggesting that you attempt to divine tomorrow, and a look at the object there, what ye are to in fact Watch (which ends up being "ye"), firmly puts one in now, not tomorrow. "Watch for signs" means have the knowledge to know when a sign has come to pass, not forecast for its possible passing any second now.

This is (apparently) a subtle, but huge diff in
"how you run your life," "your outlook," whatever. Huge.
Everything.

[Dordrecht]

"Watch for signs" means have the knowledge to know when a sign has come to pass, not forecast for its possible passing any second now.

What about the birth pains? Isn't that a forecast??

[bbyrd009]

What about the birth pains? Isn't that a forecast??

To that I'd say Christ is allowed to forecast, "I have told you all things,"
and so now we have a concept of "birth pangs," yes. We know that something will happen "in a twinkle of an eye" at some point, too--but see what anticipating it leads to. "I don't have to act today because I'm getting Raptured tomorrow." Same mentality, the diff being "I have to act today, for _____ is going to happen tomorrow."

[bbyrd009]

Whatever gets one out of now ends up being the point.
This is what God means at
"Understand I AM"
and why it's written that way.

[Dordrecht]

"I don't have to act today because I'm getting Raptured tomorrow."

I have never met anybody who said that.

Have you?

[bbyrd009]

I have never met anybody who said that.

Have you?

It is not exhibited in what a person says, of course.
It's demonstrated. What are you preparing for?
Nevermind what you say.

[Dordrecht]

It is not exhibited in what a person says, of course.

You mean they think it?

[bbyrd009]

You mean they think it?

well, yes. It gets internalized, becomes the MO.

[Dordrecht]

MO??

[Jay]

MO??

MO=Modus Operendi=Method of Opperation

[Dordrecht]

Thanks, Jay!

[RevDWW]

The end of the world scenario as presented above suggests the common one that
a Christian is to avoid, and not participate in. It happens tomorrow, and thus never happens. It is a satanically inspired preoccupation. It is a lie. It removes one from now.

The end of the world as you know it has already happened,
to you, several times. In a sense, it just happened again; at sunset.
Contrast one "preparing" for an imagined tomorrow v
one working to bring that tomorrow about.

If you are preparing for...tomorrow, "Armageddon,"
in this manner, you are useless to God.

My 'End of the world as we know it" remark was not about The End of it all. Just the end of the normalcy as I know it now. It can happen with a Hurricane, Tornado, Riot, Revolt, Accident, on a city, county, state, country, or world scale. It most likely is not Armageddon.

There is nothing wrong with being prepared as best you can is there?

[Jay]

Thanks, Jay!


Your welcome!:highfive

[houston]

It was all fulfilled in 70 A.D.

[Sam]

It was all fulfilled in 70 A.D.

yeah, right


:highfive

[bbyrd009]

My 'End of the world as we know it" remark was not about The End of it all. Just the end of the normalcy as I know it now. It can happen with a Hurricane, Tornado, Riot, Revolt, Accident, on a city, county, state, country, or world scale. It most likely is not Armageddon.

There is nothing wrong with being prepared as best you can is there?

Nope, one can easily read that with the right premises, too;
I took it that way. But most people would naturally read that
with the "tomorrow" implied, I think.

[bbyrd009]

It was all fulfilled in 70 A.D.

Yup, and we know that there is nothing new under the sun.
I think all those things that are mentioned before
"...but don't look for the Kingdom yet..."
can be safely said to be cyclical?