Isaiah 66:
⁸ Who has ever heard of such a thing?
Who has ever seen such things?
Can a country be born in a day [Israel: re-established in one day, May 14, 1948]
or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor [the Holocaust]
than she gives birth to her children...[post-WWII, modern day Israel]

Soon after this, in the same chapter - in Isaiah 66, it continues...

¹⁵ See, the LORD is coming with fire,
and his chariots are like a whirlwind;
he will bring down his anger with fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.

¹⁶ For with fire and with his sword
the LORD will execute judgment upon all men,
and many will be those slain by the LORD.

Matthew 24:
²¹ For there will be greater anguish than at any time since the world began. And it will never be so great again. ²² In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God’s chosen ones [the Holocaust; time of Jacob's trouble]
...

²⁹ “Immediately after the anguish of those days [again: the Holocaust], the sun will be darkened,
the moon will give no light,
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
³⁰ And then at last, the sign that the Son of Man is coming will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send out his angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from all over the world—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.
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Starting the countdown to the end of this age...
"Yes" I'm serious; and "No" I'm generally not a nutcase-just a reserved CPA-lol.
Does today's Laodicean church not see what time we are in?

DEBKAfile - Obama gives Iran another year's grace for nuclear dialogue
Only last week, furthermore, Tehran signed a new military pact with Syria, roping in the Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian Hamas as second-strike wielders; Wednesday, the 'Iranian Cyber Army' hacked into Twitter and filled its home page with anti-US slogans; for most of December, Iran-backed Yemeni rebels have kept Saudi and government forces on the run and, Friday, Iranian soldiers seized control of an Iraqi oil well in a disputed border region...

Washington's determined ultimatum to Iran to comply with its international obligations by the end of 2009 has been extended by a whole year - an extra six months granted by Israeli up to June 2010 and another six months which President Obama tagged on himself in order to further delay an Israeli attack on Iran. By then, it will all be over: Tehran will have attained a nuclear weapon plus the means of delivery.


Matthew 24:
³² “Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches bud and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near [Israel: re-established May 14, 1948] . ³³ In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know his return is very near, right at the door. ³⁴ I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass from the scene until all these things take place.
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