AMERICA IN CRISIS: 8.29.20 - We Should Mourn For What Is Happening To America

We Should Mourn For What Is Happening To America - Michael Snyder - http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/we-should-mourn-for-what-is-happening-to-america This week it was Kenosha, Wisconsin and next week it will probably be somewhere else. Yet another senseless police shooting was followed by more rioting, looting and violence.Of course rioting, looting and violence have basically become a nightly occurrence in America at this point anyway. The protests never seem to end in some cities, and crime rates are absolutely skyrocketing all over the country. Much of what is written aboutall of this chaos is focused on trying to pin the blame on someone, but even if we correctly identify who is to blame, will that actually stop the violence? I don't believe that it would. In fact, I don't think that anything is going to stop the violence anytime soon. I just feel so sad today. We are literally watching the meltdown of our society, and that process is going to continue no matter what happens in November. I have never seenso much anger in America, and the frightening thing is that the level of anger seems to just keep growing. I wish that we could learn to truly forgive one another, love one another and come together as a society. For years I have been telling my readers that civil unrest likethis was coming, and there is an entire chapter in my new book entitled "Civil Unrest and Martial Law". So many of the things that myself and others have been warning about are now playing out right in front of our eyes, but there is absolutely no joy in beingcorrect. There is only sadness. I love the United States of America and what I see happening to our nation grieves me very deeply. Whenever I write articles about our need to love one another, those articles tend not to get much attention at all. In America today, we would much rather hate our enemiesthan love them. The corporate media has trained us to hate those "on the other side", and they have done that job very well. They have been stirring the pot for years, and now much of the population has been perfectly primed to explode. In such an environment, it was inevitable that there would eventually be eruptions of violence. On Sunday night, it was Kenosha's turn... Armed rioters shut down streets in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Sunday night as the city fell into chaos after a police-involved shooting earlier in the evening. A large group of rioters - including at least two armed rioters - blocked a police armored car from proceeding down a street. After a standoff, the police began throwingtear gas canisters from the top of the vehicle to disperse the crowd. Moments later, gunshots rang out after one of the protesters appeared to open fire. The police shooting that caused these riots only happened a few hours earlier. That means that some of these rioters were already armed and were ready to cause chaos on very little notice. And it seems that these sorts of riots are almost always accompanied by widespread looting... The violence quickly spread and eventually large mobs began looting shops and stores throughout the city. Later in the night, vehicles at several car dealerships were set ablaze. Including one at a dealership next to a church which displayed a Black Lives Matter sign. And just like in so many other cities, police officers in Kenosha quickly became targets. In fact, it was reported that one officer was actually knocked down with a brick. Protesters were promising to come back Monday night, but Governor Tony Evers called out the National Guard in a desperate attempt to keep that from happening... In a bid to stave off another night of chaos, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said 125 members of the National Guard would be in Kenosha on Monday night with responsibility for'guarding infrastructure and making sure our firefighters and others involved are protected.' The Kenosha Police Department declared a state-of-emergency curfew for Monday night beginning at 8pm until 7am the following morning, according to a post on the police department'sTwitter feed. Meanwhile, we witnessed yet another senseless riot in Portland on Sunday night... A tumultuous weekend in Portland ended late Sunday night with Portland Police declaring a riot outside of the bureau's North Precinct. Police said they made 23 arrests over the course of the night on various charges like interfering with a peace officer and rioting. During the riot, protesters were literally hurling anything that they could find at the police... Demonstrators lit dumpsters on fire, and threw fireworks, rocks, and "sharp chunks of ceramic" at officers, police said. Just after 10:30 p.m., police declared the gathering an unlawful assembly. Sadly, a similar scene unfolded in Denver just the night before... Dozens of armed Black Lives Matter anarchists descended on the Denver Police Headquarters and damaged buildings, set fires and shot fireworks at cops. The mob, consisting of between 50 to 75 demonstrators, were said to be wielding numerous weapons - from axes to guns - during the incident. Of course the riot in Denver didn't even make many headlines around the nation because this sort of thing has become so commonplace in our major cities at this point. We have basically entered a period of semi-permanent civil unrest. And now that lawlessness has been unleashed in our streets, new eruptions of violence will be easily sparked with each new incident that comes along. I am particularly concerned about this upcoming election season. It is easy to imagine quite a few scenarios which would unleash widespread rage and fury. I just wish that things could be different. Americans should not be fighting other Americans in the streets, and it deeply grieves me whenever I see it happening. If everyone simply treated others the way that they would like to be treated, we wouldn't see senseless police shootings and there wouldn't be rioting and looting in ourstreets. Unfortunately, the very basic values that this nation was founded upon were rejected by our society long ago, and now we are paying a very great price for that choice. Tornadoes, Heatwaves & Hurricanes - America's Natural Disasters On The Rise It has just been one thing after another in 2020. First, the COVID-19 pandemic erupted and quickly spread all over the globe. At this point more than 800,000 people have died globally, and authorities are warning us to brace ourselves for another waveof the pandemic in the fall. Of course many would argue that fear of the virus has been even worse than the disease itself, and it is undeniable that the COVID-19 shutdowns were the primary reason why we have plunged into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the1930s. More than 57 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits so far this year, and that number just keeps rising with each passing week. On top of all that, the tragic death of George Floyd caused an unprecedented wave of civil unrestto erupt in major cities all across America, and many are anticipating a fresh outburst of unrest as we head toward election day in November. So coming into this month we had already faced far more trouble than we do in a typical year, and now a very strange series of natural disasters is making things even worse. For example, earlier this month an absolutely massive storm known as a "derecho" with winds of up to 112 mph came roaring through the Midwest. Millions upon millions of acres of crops were destroyed, and Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has described this stormas a "40-mile-wide tornado that went through the state of Iowa"... The damage was so bad that the New York Times reported that Iowa state officials estimate that at least 14 million acres of necessary farmland were damaged by the storm. Not only were crops destroyed but hundreds of millions of bushels of commercial storagegrain, as well as tens of millions of bushels of on-farm storage grain, were also lost. Shannon Textor, who is a spokesperson for the Iowa Corn Growers Association, reported that it may be weeks to determine the monetary loss as a result of the storm. "It's really hard to get your arms around the devastation at this point," Textor admitted. President Donald Trump took notice of the destruction and on Tuesday discussed the damage and promised Iowans the "full support of the federal government in recovery. According to Iowa Governor. Kim Reynolds, the devastation caused an estimated $4 billionin damages from the storm. During a briefing with the president, Reynolds described the storm as a "40-mile-wide tornado that went through the state of Iowa." Shortly after that historic storm ripped a giant scar across the Midwest, the western half of the nation was gripped by a historic heatwave. The highest temperature ever captured by modern instruments was recorded in Death Valley, California, many other all-time records were shattered all over the Southwest, and the city of Phoenix actually broke their record for most days in a year in whichthe high temperature reached at least 115 degrees. Yes, we see wildfires in California every year, but we have never seen anything quite like this. Just consider the following facts... -12,000 lightning strikes have hit the state over the past week, and many more are expected this week. -More than a million acres have been destroyed by fire so far. -Two of the five largest fires in the history of the state are burning in northern California right now. -Wildfires in California have already caused more death and destruction in 2020 than they did in all of 2019. -A "red flag" warning has been issued for Monday. Authorities are anticipating that winds of up to 65 mph and widespread lightning strikes will make this crisis even worse. As if everything that I have shared so far wasn't enough, two very dangerous storms are headed toward the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Marco is likely to make landfall first, and residents of the Gulf Coast will begin to feel Marco's fury as early as Monday morning... At 5 p.m. CDT on Sunday, Marco strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph and was moving to the north-northwest at 13 mph. Forecasters warn that time is running out for residents along the central Gulf Coast to make preparations, as impacts will start to be felt early Monday morning. Marco is expected to continue intensifying through Sunday. Following closely on the heels of Hurricane Marco is Tropical Storm Laura. Laura will likely enter the Gulf of Mexico early this week, and forecasters fully expect it to also develop into a hurricane... Tropical Storm Laura is forecast to reach the Gulf of Mexico early this week, where significant intensification into a hurricane is expected. The area with the highest chance of seeing a hurricane strike from Laura by midweek is along parts of the northernand western Gulf Coast, but this forecast is still uncertain. At this point, many are anticipating that Laura will end up being the stronger of the two storms, but we shall have to wait and see how everything plays out. Meanwhile, much of the other side of the globe continues to wrestle with a historic plague of locusts. Some of these swarms of locusts are the size of major cities, and it would be difficult to overstate the crop devastation that we have been witnessingin many countries. When combined with the tremendous impact that COVID-19 has been having on global food distribution systems, these two factors have created a tremendous worldwide crisis. In fact, the head of the UN World Food Program has once again used the word "biblical"to describe the famine that the planet is potentially facing... The Covid-19 pandemic may lead to a calamity of epic scale, with millions facing starvation worldwide, the head of the UN's hunger-fighting body has warned. "All the data we have, including WFP forecast that the number of people experiencing malnutrition will grow by 80 percent by the end of the year, ... points to a real disaster," David Beasley, Executive Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP), said. "We are risking a famine of biblical proportions." 2020 has truly been a year like no other, and it is imperative for everyone to understand that the "perfect storm" that we are now facing is just getting started. All of a sudden, the U.S. is being hit by one major crisis after another, and to many people it seems quite unlikely that so many nightmarish events would happen so closely together by random chance. So what do you think? Could it be possible that someone is trying to get our attention? It would be a major understatement to say that 2020 has been a "crazy" year so far, and I have a feeling that quite a few more surprises are in store for us before this year is over. Originally published at End Of The American Dream - reposted with permission. Why Is America Being Hit by So Many Horrific Natural Disasters All Of A Sudden? - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/why-is-america-being-hit-by-so-many-horrific-natural-disasters-all-of-a-sudden It has just been one thing after another in 2020. First, the COVID-19 pandemic erupted and quickly spread all over the globe. At this point more than 800,000 people havedied globally, and authorities are warning us to brace ourselves for another wave of the pandemic in the fall. Of course many would argue that fear of the virus has been even worse than the disease itself, and it is undeniable that the COVID-19 shutdowns werethe primary reason why we have plunged into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. More than 57 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits so far this year, and that number just keeps rising with each passingweek. On top of all that, the tragic death of George Floyd caused an unprecedented wave of civil unrest to erupt in major cities all across America, and many are anticipating a fresh outburst of unrest as we head toward election day in November. So cominginto this month we had already faced far more trouble than we do in a typical year, and now a very strange series of natural disasters is making things even worse. For example, earlier this month an absolutely massive storm known as a "derecho" with winds of up to 112 mph came roaring through the Midwest. Millions upon millions ofacres of crops were destroyed, and Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has described this storm as a "40-mile-wide tornado that went through the state of Iowa"... The damage was so bad that the New York Times reported that Iowa state officials estimate that at least 14 million acres of necessary farmland were damaged by the storm.Not only were crops destroyed but hundreds of millions of bushels of commercial storage grain, as well as tens of millions of bushels of on-farm storage grain, were also lost. Shannon Textor, who is a spokesperson for the Iowa Corn Growers Association, reported that it may be weeks to determine the monetary loss as a result of the storm. "It'sreally hard to get your arms around the devastation at this point," Textor admitted. President Donald Trump took notice of the destruction and on Tuesday discussed the damage and promised Iowans the "full support of the federal government in recovery. Accordingto Iowa Governor. Kim Reynolds, the devastation caused an estimated $4 billion in damages from the storm. During a briefing with the president, Reynolds described the storm as a "40-mile-wide tornado that went through the state of Iowa." Shortly after that historic storm ripped a giant scar across the Midwest, the western half of the nation was gripped by a historic heatwave. The highest temperature ever captured by modern instruments was recorded in Death Valley, California, many other all-time records were shattered all over the Southwest,and the city of Phoenix actually broke their record for most days in a year in which the high temperature reached at least 115 degrees. Of course that heatwave set the stage for the nightmarish wildfires that we are witnessing in the state of California right now. Yes, we see wildfires in California every year, but we have never seen anything quite like this. Just consider the following facts... -12,000 lightning strikes have hit the state over the past week, and many more are expected this week. -More than a million acres have been destroyed by fire so far. -Two of the five largest fires in the history of the state are burning in northern California right now. -Wildfires in California have already caused more death and destruction in 2020 than they did in all of 2019. -A "red flag" warning has been issued for Monday. Authorities are anticipating that winds of up to 65 mph and widespread lightning strikes will make this crisis even worse. For much more on these wildfires, please see my article entitled "The State Of California Is Never Going To Be The Same After This". As if everything that I have shared so far wasn't enough, two very dangerous storms are headed toward the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Marco is likely to make landfall first, and residents of the Gulf Coast will begin to feel Marco's fury as early as Monday morning... At 5 p.m. CDT on Sunday, Marco strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph and was moving to the north-northwest at 13 mph. Forecasters warn that time is running out for residents along the central Gulf Coast to make preparations, as impacts will start to be felt early Monday morning. Marco isexpected to continue intensifying through Sunday. Following closely on the heels of Hurricane Marco is Tropical Storm Laura. Laura will likely enter the Gulf of Mexico early this week, and forecasters fully expect it to also develop into a hurricane... Tropical Storm Laura is forecast to reach the Gulf of Mexico early this week, where significant intensification into a hurricane is expected. The area with the highest chanceof seeing a hurricane strike from Laura by midweek is along parts of the northern and western Gulf Coast, but this forecast is still uncertain. At this point, many are anticipating that Laura will end up being the stronger of the two storms, but we shall have to wait and see how everything plays out. Meanwhile, much of the other side of the globe continues to wrestle with a historic plague of locusts. Some of these swarms of locusts are the size of major cities, andit would be difficult to overstate the crop devastation that we have been witnessing in many countries. When combined with the tremendous impact that COVID-19 has been having on global food distribution systems, these two factors have created a tremendous worldwide crisis.In fact, the head of the UN World Food Program has once again used the word "biblical" to describe the famine that the planet is potentially facing... The Covid-19 pandemic may lead to a calamity of epic scale, with millions facing starvation worldwide, the head of the UN's hunger-fighting body has warned. "All the data we have, including WFP forecast that the number of people experiencing malnutrition will grow by 80 percent by the end of the year, ... points to a real disaster,"David Beasley, Executive Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP), said. "We are risking a famine of biblical proportions." 2020 has truly been a year like no other, and it is imperative for everyone to understand that the "perfect storm" that we are now facing is just getting started. All of a sudden, the U.S. is being hit by one major crisis after another, and to many people it seems quite unlikely that so many nightmarish events would happen so closelytogether by random chance. So what do you think? Could it be possible that someone is trying to get our attention? It would be a major understatement to say that 2020 has been a "crazy" year so far, and I have a feeling that quite a few more surprises are in store for us before thisyear is over. What's Coming Next? - By Rob Pue - https://www.raptureready.com/2020/08/25/whats-coming-next-by-rob-pue/ I think we all knew that 2020 was going to be a very tumultuous year for our country. But I don't think any of us were prepared forjust how dramatic the tyranny and violence would be - not just here in America, but worldwide. I certainly had no idea that things would change so rapidly and so drastically in just a few months. Today, we have 34 states thatmandate the wearing of face masks in public. Some are even "strongly recommending" we wear them while sequestered in our own homes. This for a "virus" with more than a 99% survival rate... and a virus that's been reported by government and health officials,aided by their allies in the mainstream media with enormously inflated case numbers - and many outright lies, designed to instill great fear and panic among the people. Perhaps most alarming is that the vast majority of people are happy to go along with these mandates - even with evidence of a massivehoax plainly visible for all to see if only they would look. And the mask-wearers are even proud to wear their masks - it's a badge of "virtue" to them. It's as if they "strut" pridefully out in public, wearing their designer masks while looking down theirnoses at those who don't wear one. It's like another world out there now, altogether. We also saw months of "lockdowns," where businesses were forced to close their doors, and people were not allowed to go to work unlesssomehow they were deemed "essential workers." Interestingly, the "essential" businesses and workers included "big box" stores like Walmart, (perhaps the country's largest retailer of Chinese-made products), liquor stores, smoke shops and marijuana dispensaries.Christian churches were ordered to close across the country. Those allowed to open again have been commanded that there be no singing praises to God allowed. Then came the "race riots," with massive violence, looting, and unbelievable destruction of property, while police were ordered bymayors and city councils to "stand down" and let the rioters destroy. We even learned that bricks and rocks were conveniently placed in these devastated neighborhoods, stacked along the streets or piled in bins on the sidewalks - even BEFORE the George Floydincident ever happened. Then we saw the conquering of American cities by ANTIFA and the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement. Black people forcing white people to get down on their knees, kiss theirfeet and apologize for their "white privilege." The demand for the defunding of police departments; a street in DC renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza,"within just a matter of DAYS; the words "Defund Police"and "Black Lives Matter"painted in 60ft tall letters on the streets leading to statehouses and even the US Capitol. Conveniently,most of the rioters were wearing masks - like the rest of the country - so most could not be identified. But that didn't really matter, since most of them were never arrested anyway... they were allowed - indeed - even encouraged in some areas to wreak asmuch havoc as possible by the leadership there. In Minneapolis, the city council voted unanimously - (in a veto-proof vote) - to not only defund the police but to disband the policedepartment altogether, replacing it with "Community Organizers" - led by the radical "Nation of Islam." I should also mention the countless statues and monuments either destroyed or censored from view all around the country, essentially removing the memorialsof our nation's history. This in a land where the vast majority of our young people are already nearly completely ignorant when it comes to history. That's a subject most were never taught in the public schools and colleges, and if they were, it was a "skewed"history - a re-written type of history, where everything American was taught as evil and oppressive. It's no wonder our young people hate their country today. If you think I'm exaggerating, just ask someone in their teens or 20s what happened on December 7th, 1941. There's a greater than90% chance you'll get nothing more than a blank stare. We also saw the desecration of countless veterans' cemeteries across the country - the final resting places of those who fought, bled and died for the cause of freedom... not just American freedom, butthe freedom of people living under tyranny and oppression the world over. What's coming next? It's very plain to see that the end goal of all this is a tyrannical, totalitarian New World Order, but thatcannot be fully accomplished until America is vanquished, utterly in ruins. And the New World Order cannot run efficiently unless every person on earth has been marked with a digital microchip implant, which will be delivered through a mandatory vaccine - a vaccine that, I believe, will prove so deadly that many will die quickly after taking it, not from any virus or other pestilence, but from the vaccine itself. That's partially what it's designed for. And I don't think it's going to be long before we seethis all come to pass. It's not just America. I received an email this past weekend from someone in Australia who read one of my previous commentaries.He emailed to affirm what I had asserted in my message: that Australia is currently, for all practical purposes, under communistic rule. The lockdown there is so severe that police are stopping vehicles, smashing car windows and pulling people out to be arrested,if they're even just suspected of violating the lockdown rules. Great Britain is much the same. Jesus spoke of the last days in Matthew 24 and stated that IN the last days, "...because lawlessness shall abound, the love of manywill grow cold." We've certainly witnessed that recently, haven't we? Common citizens attacking one another for not obeying mask mandates. Neighbors "snitching" on neighbors. It appears that the deviland all his minions are raging. Have you heard about the recent murder of 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant? The North Carolina boy was outside, riding his bike in his yard, when his next-door neighbor, a black man named Darius Sessoms - (a repeat offender, multiplefelon, who has served multiple prison sentences and has two pending felony drug charges) - walked over and shot the boy point-blank in the head. Later, Sessoms boasted on social media about killing the boy, stating he had (quote) "blown his 'white privileged'brains right out of his head." This incident received almost no coverage in the mainstream press, so if you know about it, you most likely didn't find it there. And are you aware that the violent attacks and rioting we've been seeing in the major cities are NOW coming to suburbs, small townsand even rural areas? Recently, BLM marched through a Seattle suburb, demanding white people vacate their homes and GIVE them to black people. ANTIFA hasthreatened to destroy fields of crops and kill cattle in farming states. For those who don't believe this, or think I'm some sort of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist or simply just don't want to hear anything"negative," you can choose to continue to wear your blinders (along with your 'mandatory' face masks) if you like... but all this will soon be coming to YOUR front door. What will you do then? Beg the government to protect you and happily jump aboard the busesto the FEMA camps, I suppose. Black Lives Matter. Yes. ALL life matters. But we've had the wool pulled over our eyes yet again by the Leftist propaganda of the mainstream media. Do yourresearch and you'll find that everything Black Lives Matters stands for is absolutely antithetical to everything good and Godly, everything American and everything freedom-related. This is a demonic group of Marxists and Communists MANIPULATING and takingadvantage of black people to systematically destroy all of Western Civilization, with an emphasis on destroying the United States. This is an invention of Barack Obama, George Soros, the Clintons and others who quite frankly should all be sitting in Gitmoright now on charges of treason and sedition. Yet, like the LGBT movement - ALSO bent on our ultimate destruction - BLM is being richly funded to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars,not only by our domestic and foreign enemies, but even happily and proudly by our major corporations. Google has donated $12 million. Facebook and Amazon are donating $10 million each. Apple Corporation is in for $100 million dollars.Walmart just announced it's donating another $100 million. Target stores: $10 million; Home Depot: $1 million. These are just a few. There are MANY more donors to the BLM movement - because it SOUNDS good; because so many are so deceived, theybelieve BLM is a GOOD thing; because the mainstream press has fed it to us that way. Again, we only see what they WANT us to see, and they've played this strategy well, tugging on the emotional heartstrings of the populace. These corporations want to appearrighteous and benevolent, so they are funding the very organization that intends to completely destroy capitalism and the free market economy that has allowed them to thrive. Those within the Deep State of Leftist politics have also been recruiting Christian church leadership as their "useful idiots." Sofar, they've recruited 28,000 clergy to be part of their "Clergy Response Team." Their job is to tailor their sermons, in the midst of all this present darkness, to brainwash their congregations to obey government authorities through the deliberate misinterpretationof Romans 13. Perhaps the pastors don't know any better, but they're now all on board, acting as "sleeper cells," if you will, ready to supportthe unconstitutional dictates of their government "masters" through agencies like FEMA and Homeland Security whenever called upon. They've been instructed to teach "government obedience," for such things as turning in firearms, re-locating to 'FEMA Camps,'submitting to mandatory vaccinations and more. They've already willingly closed their churches, forced face masks and social distancing when ordered to do so, so if you think this is "farfetched," think again. This is right out of the Nazi' playbook.' AndI wonder - is YOUR pastor part of the Clergy Response Team? Do you even know? Would he even tell you if you asked? The question still remains, What's Next? Dana Coverstone is a pastor in Burkesville, Kentucky. A couple months ago, he released ahomemade video that went viral on social media. In the video, he is quick to point out that he does NOT claim to be a prophet, or to "speak for God" in any way. But he revealed a series of dreams he has had that are very disturbing. He felt the need to sharethem in order to sound a warning of what may be coming next, so God's people can prepare. His first dream was in December of 2019. In this dream, he saw a calendar indicating the month of March. A finger underlined theword "March" and then "tapped" the calendar three times. He saw sickness, people wearing masks, and ambulances. Then, in his dream, the calendar moved forward to June. Again, a finger underlined the word "June" and then tapped it three times. He saw citieson fire and rioters in the streets and extreme rage. He heard the words: "Brace Yourself, Brace Yourself." All these things came to pass, just as he saw in the dream. Then later, he had another dream. In this dream, he again saw a calendar with the month of September highlighted. And again, a fingerunderlined the word "September," and tapped the calendar three times, indicating something significant coming in September. And then the calendar moved forward to November, but this time it was different. Instead of "tapping" the calendar, a giant FIST smashedthe calendar to bits - and he saw the numbers representing the days of November "explode" into the air, even appearing to be 3D in shape. He saw fighting in the streets, businesses and schools closed, money being sucked out of banks, Washington DC in flames.He saw no sign of President Trump or any legislators in Washington. But he did see people hiding in their homes and churches, stores and homes burning. And he again heard the words "Brace Yourself, Brace Yourself." Also, within Pastor Coverstone's dreams, he saw the banks having no change, no coins. The US Mint was no longer producing currency.In his dream, the bank teller told him to "prepare for hyperinflation." And then again, he heard, "Brace Yourself, Brace Yourself." I'm not sure what to make of this, and I've always been pretty skeptical when people have told me they have a "word from the Lord"for me or some special revelation. But I'm reminded of the words of the prophet Joel, repeated in Acts, Chapter 2: "And it shall come to pass in the lastdays, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those daysof My Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lordcome. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." You can take the dreams of Pastor Coverstone with a grain of salt if you like. But I believe he very likely DID receive a warningfrom the Lord in his dreams, and as a watchman, sounded the warning for the rest of us. None of us knows what the rest of our days on this earth will hold. But we can certainly discern the signs of the times we are living in. And I believe we had BETTER beabout our Father's business, occupying until He comes, standing strong in the faith, even as others fall away and deny Him all around us. It's very likely our time is shorter than any of us realizes now. And whether that great and terrible Day of the Lord comes in ourlifetime, or whether we go into captivity for the horrific sins we have allowed to continue and in our apathy have done nothing about, I do believe the righteous judgment of God Almighty is about to strike our wicked land very soon, because we've claimed thename of Christ, many have... we profess Him with our lips but our hearts are far from Him. We'd BETTER get right with God NOW. We'd better start studying and seeking and praying and repenting today. Because "tomorrow" you may find yourself standing beforeHim. What will you have to say for yourself then?