MY THOUGHTS
The news out of Europe is that a deal is being agreed upon so that Greece will not default. That deal is going to be announced on Monday. We shall see. I will write more about a Greece deal, if it comes to pass later this week. Let's look at the world we live in according to February 19th, 2012, because it changes by the day and sometimes by the hour.
The economic situation is bleak as the central banks print money as fast as anytime in human history. Also, at no other time in history has the world been so much together as one entity. Man can come together as a world to fight its Creator in our days, but the Creator is using some very creative ways to send out His message. Through the likes of Tim Tebow, Jeremy Lin, and the funeral of Whitney Houston, there has been some Light coming through. Grant it, especially Ms. Houston, a woman with many problems, it is hard to see the Light. However, some of the statements at the funeral were encouraging, and of course there were many who stood behind the pulpit that were not God's messengers, but the message of Christ did resonate off and on during the service, so I grant that. In any case, it is interesting that God is using avenues that seemed foreign to the traditional church member, and it shows that God's pulpit is everywhere, and we are a part of it.
As the world goes into the abyss with the Iranian war looming, economic meltdown with Europe weeks away, maybe sooner, and the moral collapse of society, we are seeing the signs of the times everywhere like no other time in human history. The lulls are shorter, the birth pains are stronger, and the sense of the Lord's coming is more evident every day. Stay strong, and take courage He has conquered the world and our sins through Jesus Christ. He created time for His Glory, and in time we shall know how all things play out.
Bro. Brian
NEWS LINK
There are two possible outcomes of the barrage of words being launched against Iran: a war that starts inadvertently (what, one wonders, would be the reaction today if a British naval patrol in the Gulf were captured by the Iranians, as happened four years ago?); or a war that starts after an attack by Israel. A negotiated climbdown by both sides is the least likely option, although the venue for one still exists. The next round of talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN security council plus Germany will be held in Istanbul. Failing any breakthrough there, western policy is caught in a cleft stick.
The British foreign secretary, William Hague, warned on successive days that the Iranian nuclear programme could trigger a Middle East cold war and that Israeli military action to forestall it would be unwise. And yet, if you do not believe that sanctions will deter Tehran from its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons (and this newspaper talked to senior US officials who do not), one judgment inexorably leads to the other. So competing voices in the US administration are both upping the ante and scurrying every month to Jerusalem to restrain Ehud Barak and Binyamin Netanyahu from doing what they have long promised to do. The latest visitor to Israel is Tom Donilon, Barack Obama's national security adviser. Long before coming to power, Netanyahu said that Israel's date with destiny lay with Iran, not the Palestinians. And there is no reason to disbelieve his intention to attack Iran. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/19/iran-war-israel-us-obama
