11 I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
I know we will not know when the end times are coming, it will be a surprise. But he did provide us prophesy for some reason and it is interesting to see words written thousands of years ago about a fate that probably seemed impossible at the time come true. Maybe there will be some people who recognize the end times? Maybe it is more of a collective statement to say that society won't know its coming. it seems like if someone is studying closely they will be able to discern the fulfillment from prophesy from mere similarities to actual fulfillment of prophesy. Either way it is fascinating to read the old words and see how some of it has unfolded already.
I'm not sure if this link is accurate, but it is interesting. See #3
http://www.therefinersfire.org/recent_prophecy.htm
knut
the thing that keeps running through my mind, as I read these chapters, is all the unrest in the middle east and how it may relate to all of this....?
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That thought really gives me peace.
tp