Terrorist Attack in Sweden

A man rammed his truck into a bunch of innocent people walking down the streets of Stockholm yesterday.

The Swedes are saying it was a terrorist attack....but they won't say what motivated the terrorist. Could it have been an angry Buddhist who felt he was in the wrong reincarnated body?  Or maybe an really mad Lutheran who wanted to make a statement about women in the clergy?  Or maybe just an angry man who was mad that his wife cheated on him and wanted to take it out on Sweden?

We here at W&W are going to step out on really shaky ground and suggest that it was a man who worshiped Allah and believes Muhammad was the final prophet and that the whole world should bow to him or be destroyed.  These folks are commonly referred to as Muslims....oops....Muslim extremists.

Police on Saturday said they had arrested a man from Uzbekistan suspected of plowing a truck into a department store in the Swedish capital, killing four people and injuring 15.

Authorities confirmed that the 39-year-old suspect was known to security services and described him as a "marginal character." They would not confirm his status in Sweden.

Speaking at a press conference, the head of Sweden's National police, Dan Eliason, said security officials had found an object in the truck that "could be a bomb or an incendiary object."

The suspect was detained Friday and matched an image put out by police showing a man in a green jacket, hoodie and white shoes, according to a televised police statement.

Eliason also said that police could not rule out that several people were involved in the attack.

The incident sent shock waves through the country. Sweden's crown princess Victoria held back tears as she left flowers for the victims at the site of the attack on Saturday.

"Sweden shall come out stronger from this, and we get through this together," she told the press and mourners gathered near the department store.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said on Saturday that his country was in sorrow and said Monday would be a day of mourning in Sweden. But he said Sweden would continue to be an open society.

Speaking on state television at the scene of the attack, he said: "Sweden has shown its best side during this attack. To help each other, support each other, and open our homes to other humans. We want to have an open society in Sweden. We shall continue with that."

Here;  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/stockholm-terrorist-truck-attack-suspect-arrested-police-n744126

Yes!!  Silly Sweden wants to have an open society....meaning they will continue to let thousands of male, Allah-followers between the ages of 18 and 30 come as fast as they want into their open society!  Even if that means totally doing away with the country of Sweden....they will do it!

You gotta hand it to those stubborn liberal socialists.  They can be confronted with DAILY EVIDENCE that Islam causes serious problems wherever it takes root....but they will just plug their ears, close their eyes and keep on dreaming that ALL people are 'basically good' and they all want the same things.

There is NO DOUBT Assad Dropped the Chemical Weapons

By now most of you know that Pres. Trump launched an attack on a Syrian air base.  The base was used as a launching point for the chemical weapons that Assad used to gas his own people.

Some are now saying this chemical attack was a 'false flag' and was actually the rebels who used the chemical weapons knowing that Assad would be falsely blamed.

This is not true.

Watch Amir Tsorfati from Israel give an update report from yesterday.

Also notice that he says Putin of Russia called Netanyahu and rebuked him for whatever part Israel played in getting the Americans to attack Syria yesterday.

Watch it here;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBchlbdJdc&utm_source=Behold+Israel+News&utm_campaign=642c65fca6-Breaking_Truth_on_Syria_4_6_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_206749708f-642c65fca6-150875017&ct=t(Breaking_Truth_on_Syria_4_6_2017)&goal=0_206749708f-642c65fca6-150875017&mc_cid=642c65fca6&mc_eid=dc4941b6f6

It would seem that all of these events are pushing Russia and Israel towards the Ezekiel 38 prophecy.

As Amir says, we Christians don't need to see any signs in the sky before the rapture occurs.  It could happen at any time....and we should not be surprised when it does.

Could Trump Turn Damascus Into a Ruinous Heap?

We have been watching the Isaiah 17 prophecy unfold for years now.  We have NO IDEA if we are close to its fulfillment....but there sure have been lots of headlines in the past 8 years on Syria and Damascus.

Today we find a doozie.

Will Trump Turn Damascus Into A 'Ruinous Heap'?

Rumors of war are percolating in Washington D.C., and if the Trump administration is not extremely careful it may find itself fighting several disastrous wars simultaneously.  

Just one day after threatening North Korea with war, Donald Trump has committed to taking military action against the Assad regime in Syria.  

Trump is blaming the chemical attack in Syria's Idlib province on Tuesday on the Syrian government, and he is pledging that the United States will not just sit by and do nothing in response.

Trump has called the attack a "terrible affront to humanity", and he is placing all of the blame on the shoulders of the Assad regime.  

But now that Trump has committed the U.S. to take military action in Syria, what is that actually going to look like?

According to the Daily Mail, at this point Trump is not giving any hints as to when or where he will strike Syria...

He did not want to say in front of the cameras how he plans to respond to the crisis.

'I don't like to say where I'm going and what I'm doing,' Trump reminded. 'I watched past administrations say, "We will attack at such-and- such a day, at such-and-such an hour.'

But it isn't difficult to imagine what Trump may decide to do.  Past presidents have always favored using airstrikes to make a point, and that is what many of the "analysts" on television are recommending.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=1139#4PEvJzF007mL65H5.99

Ouch!  Several disastrous wars simultaneously?!?

That sounds bad!  Where would we get all the money to do this?  We already maxed out and hit our DEBT CEILING on March 15 and are currently spending all the cash in the Treasury....but that's supposed to run out maybe sometime later this summer!

And how would Americans feel about everyone getting hit with a $5000 WAR TAX that is added to their tax return next April?

"Ummm....Dennis....they wouldn't like that because Americans like to fight wars but don't want to sacrifice anything to pay for them.  We prefer putting our war expenses on a credit card and letting the next generation figure out how to pay!....just like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan!  Painless!  Now let's go truck shopping so I can sign up for an $850/month truck payment for the next 7 years!"

Remember friends, if we do end up in a bunch of wars...it's not going to be Trump's fault.  The dude just got here!!  Much of the blame will be laid on previous administrations that drew RED LINES in Syria and then did NOTHING to enforce them once they were crossed.....OR....drew RED LINES in North Korea and then did NOTHING to enforce them once they were crossed....OR....drew RED LINES in IRAN and then did NOTHING to enforce them once they were crossed.

Team Obama did a ton of things to set the world up for major war....and then he walks away when his 8 yrs is over but will NO DOUBT name himself "President of Peace" and point out that no new wars or boots on the ground happened under his watch.

What a joke!

Isaiah 17
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.

Former Defense Secretary Talks of Violent War With North Korea

We can file this next article under;
--Wars and Rumors of War

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter says U.S. Pre-emptive Strike On North Korea Could Lead to ‘Invasion’ of South Korea

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter says a U.S. preemptive strike against North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program could prompt the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, to try to invade South Korea.

Carter, who served as defense secretary in the Obama administration, told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on “This Week” Sunday that if the U.S. preemptively strikes North Korea, “It’s quite possible that they would as a consequence of that launch … attempt an invasion of South Korea.”

“I’m confident of the outcome of that war, which would be the defeat of North Korea,” Carter said. “But, Martha, I need to caution you, this is a war [with] … an intensity of violence associated with it that we haven’t seen since the last Korean War.”

“Even though the outcome is certain, it is a very destructive war,” the former defense secretary said, noting that the South Korean capital of Seoul, with about 25 million area residents, is on the border between the two countries. “So one needs to proceed very carefully here.”

Carter’s comments come as President Trump is set to meet this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The Trump administration wants China to get North Korea to end its nuclear program.

But Carter said the Chinese have been “unwilling” to take on that role because, in the short term, they are “fearful of a collapse of North Korea or a war” that would result in a “unified Korea allied with the United States on their border.”

Carter also commented on U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s taking a different, tougher tone toward Russia than President Trump himself.

“In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important,” Carter said. “This is our government and our foreign policy, and we all need to wish it success. But there does need to be clarity and consistency.”

Here;  http://secondcomingherald.com/former-defense-secretary-ash-carter-says-u-s-pre-emptive-strike-on-north-korea-could-lead-to-invasion-of-south-korea/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=evergreen_post_tweeter&utm_campaign=website

So if USA hit's North Korea for it's illegal nuclear program and for threatening us and our allies....then South Korea could be attacked and China may have no choice but to get its military in on the action.

That sounds bad.  But what choice to we have?  Allow the fat-man-in-a-pant-suit to threaten the world with nukes with NO CONSEQUENCES?

As you survey the world and its governments and then try to figure out what USA's government should say or do....it's almost like playing a game of 3-D chess.  Anything you touch is going to have multi-dimensional effects.

Yes, we could whip North Korea in a war, BUT would China then allow a unified Korea which is backed by America to be right on it's border?   Maybe not!  So then what?!

Reading it all and pondering it all makes one eager for the day when Christ himself comes back to earth and smashes all the worldly forms of government and establishes his perfect rule of Benevolent Dictator.

After that day there will be no more Republics, no more Communist Rule, no more Socialism, no more Congress or Parliaments but only Christ sitting on the throne and ruling with an iron rod.  All the man-made forms of government will blow away like "chaff on a threshing floor in the summer."

Daniel 2

34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

Jesus Christ is that rock!  Amen!  Come Lord Jesus!

Companies Begin Implanting Micro Chips in Employees

For years I used to wonder how the future world government was going to FORCE people to take a mark of the beast in order to buy or sell anything.

Now I know they won't be forced.  They will willingly accept the mark.

The evidence is already all around us that for the FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY this is actually taking place.

Companies Have Begun Implanting Microchips In Workers

The Associated Press reported Monday that companies there have begun implanting microchips in their employees, marking the first time the practice has been used on a broad scale.

“What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish start-up hub Epicenter,” AP reports. “

 

The company offers to implant its workers and start-up members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.”

Epicenter, home to more than 100 companies and about 2,000 workers, began offering the implants in January of 2015. Now, about 150 workers have been chipped.

“The biggest benefit, I think, is convenience,” Patrick Mesterson, Epicenter co-founder, told AP. “It basically replaces a lot of things you have, other communication devices, whether it be credit cards or keys.”

A “body hacker” shows up at your office, ready with a preloaded syringe. He injects the chip into the fleshy part of the hand near the thumb. Now you’re a cyborg.
The chips use near-field communication technology, the same as in credit cards. When swiped by a reader a few inches away, data flows via electromagnetic waves. The chips are passive, meaning they contain information but can’t read other devices.

The technology isn’t new. Such chips are used for things such as tracking deliveries and virtual dog collars. And there have been other, isolated cases of companies chipping their employees in the past.
But Epicenter is bringing it to a whole new level, and workers there seem alright with the idea. In the article, the general attitude is perhaps best captured by the comment of one 25-year-old worker:

“I want to be part of the future.”

Here; http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-04/

Yes!!  The people who reject Christ will ALL want to be part of the future!

Certainly you can read an article like this and say to yourself, "I don't know the day or the hour that our Lord is coming for His bride....but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened today, tomorrow, next week or next year."

1 Thessalonians 5
But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

2 Timothy 4

Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

Approaching a Point of Crisis

World events are getting deadly serious.  Yet I'm quite sure most Americans haven't a clue.

This makes me wonder again about Matthew 24 and if WE are the apathetic generation that is so busy eating at Applebees, drinking at their local pubs, spending $50,000 on lavish weddings, building million dollar homes using low interest rates....and yet we don't realize how close we are (as a nation) to devastating times caused by catastrophic events that could happen here or abroad.

Matthew 24
37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.

Syria gassed more people today using illegal WMD's even though we had been told Syria had destroyed them all with Russia's certification.

The deadliest chemical weapons attack in years in Syria killed dozens of people in northern Idlib province on Tuesday morning, including children, and sickened scores more, according to medics, rescuers and witnesses in the rebel-held province, who said the gas had been delivered by a government airstrike.

A few hours later, according to several witnesses, another airstrike hit one of the clinics treating victims, who had been farmed out to smaller hospitals and maternity wards because the area’s largest hospital had been severely damaged by an airstrike two days earlier.

Here;  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/middleeast/syria-gas-attack.html?_r=0

And happening in the same neighborhood just a few weeks ago, Israel carried out a bombing run into Syria and their jets were chased back into Israel by Syrian anti-aircraft missiles that were destroyed once they entered Israel's airspace.

Syria wasn't happy....but even worse RUSSIA WASN'T HAPPY with Israel's actions and told Israel that they BETTER NOT INTERFERE with Russia's plans to dominate Syria and set up a Middle East Forward Operating Base.

Can you smell Ezekiel 38 in the air?

Notice how, once again, we find Israel, Russia, Syria and Iran all heading towards conflict.

Late on Friday, March 17th, Israeli fighter jets crossed the Syrian border and carried out bombing raids against targets located in or near Palmyra. It represents the most northerly point Israel have ever attacked in Syria since the beginning of the civil war in 2011. It is believed Israel were targeting Hezbollah advanced weapons transfers.

The Syrian response was immediate, launching several anti-aircraft missiles which pursued the IDF jets back into Israeli airspace. Israel were then forced, for the first time, to deploy the new Arrow defense system, which according the Israeli government successfully intercepted the Syrian anti-aircraft missiles just moments before they hit the retreating Israeli jets.

Syria replied officially through its Ambassador to the United Nation’s, Bashar Al Jaafari, who reflected a change of mood in the Syrian capital Damascus to such attacks, “the Syrian response was appropriate and changed the rules of the game.” [1]

The Syrian government, under Bashar Al Assad, is feeling increasingly empowered and to a very large degree immune from Israel’s more drastic military responses, due to Russia’s ever growing presence within Syria. Assad is beginning to feel secure again and also quite emboldened, to the point that he clearly no longer fears the consequences of firing upon Israeli jets, or perhaps even upon Israel itself.

Shortly after the successful bombing raid, Israel’s Ambassador to Russia, Cary Koren, was summoned to Moscow to hear the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister deliver a stern and severe rebuke, warning Israel in no uncertain terms not to interfere again in future Russian plans for Syria. [2]

Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Defense Minister responded as only he can, by threatening to wipe out all Syrian anti-aircraft batteries that fire on intruding Israeli bombers in the future.These Israeli fears have led the defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to threaten to wipe out any Syria anti-aircraft battery that fires on intruding Israeli bombers.These Israeli fears have led the defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to threaten to wipe out any Syria anti-aircraft battery that fires on intruding Israeli bombers.These Israeli fears have led the defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to threaten to wipe out any Syria anti-aircraft battery that fires on intruding Israeli bombers.

Israel are heading towards war. Though much of Israel’s future security strategy is understandably shrouded in secrecy, there are enough fragments of publically available information to clearly signpost in which direction Israel is headed.

Israel, for its part, seems to be in no mood to draw back from its consistent policy of attacking arms transfers to Hezbollah, where ever they see them. The potential for future confrontation between Israel and Syria, or worse between Israel and Russia is now a very real and growing one.

The problem Israel faces is one of balance. Do they continue their policy of strikes against Hezbollah, diminishing their capabilities which have until this point proved a tactical success, but which also may provoke a much greater strategic problem for Israel by drawing Syria and Israel into a full blown military confrontation? Worse still, Israel may even be drawn into an open confrontation with Russia.

Ominously, the beginnings of this may be happening right now. At the United Nations on Sunday night, Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari, speaking of Israeli Ambassador Cary Koren’s summoning to the Russia Foreign ministry, revealed that a clear message had been sent to Israel, “Putin sent a clear message, and (Israel) were told categorically that this game is over.” [8]

Events in Syria will continue to deteriorate from Israel’s strategic point of view. Bashar al-Assad, increasingly empowered, emboldened and now antagonistic, will continue to tighten his growing grip on Syria. Israeli border areas will continue to be flooded with Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah with fighters, all of whom are armed to the teeth and intent upon confronting the Jewish state with an arsenal so vast that it exceeds all of Europe’s armies current conventional capabilities put together. [9]

Russia will also continue to turn Syria into essentially one huge forward operating base.

Here;  http://www.raptureready.com/2017/04/02/an-approaching-point-of-crisis-by-matt-ward/

Hmmmm....Russia threatening Israel.....that's not going to go well.

Ezekiel 38
21 I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. 23 And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Another Alien Headline

Another day...another headline finds its way onto Google News with the word "alien" in it.

This one we find in Newsweek and quoting the uber-atheist, mother earth worshiping scientist named Neil Degrasse Tyson.

THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE: WHAT ASTROPHYSICIST NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON THINKS ABOUT ALIENS, ELON MUSK AND TRAVELING TO MARS

Neil deGrasse Tyson has no plans to meet advanced life on Earth or other planets anytime soon. The famous astrophysicist told fans this weekend he won't be traveling to Mars via private space exploration and he doubts humans will make contact with complex organisms—that is, alien life— within his lifetime.

Tyson's remarks came up during an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit Sunday where he promised to divulge his views on “life, the universe and everything.” Asked by one commentator whether "we will ever make contact with complex organisms within the next 50yrs?", Tyson was not encouraging. 

"I think they (we) might all be too far away from one another in space and possibly time. By complex, I'm presuming you mean life other than single-celled organisms. Life with legs, arms, thoughts, etc. It's all about our capacity to travel interstellar distances. And that's surely not happening in the next 50 years. Not the rate things are going today," he wrote back.

As a consolation for those curious about life beyond our planet, Tyson said we could have new answers on that front soon. "I think in the next century we will know for sure whether there is or was ever life in the solar system—especially on all the fun spots that keeps us wondering from afar—Mars, Europa, Titan, Enceladus," he said.

Someone later asked Tyson whether he would use SpaceX to travel to Mars, prompting Tyson to poke fun at Elon Musk, the founder of tech companies SpaceX and Tesla. "I really like Earth. So any space trip I take, I'm double checking that there's sufficient funds for me to return. Also, I'm not taking that trip until Elon Musk send his Mother and brings her back alive. Then I'm good for it," Tyson replied. 

http://www.newsweek.com/future-science-what-astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-thinks-about-aliens-578125

So Tyson doesn't think we will be meeting any advanced aliens anytime soon.

Of course lots of folks would disagree with him.

London: 500 Churches Closed, 423 New Mosques

How sad.

"London is more Islamic than many Muslim countries put together", according to Maulana Syed Raza Rizvi, one of the Islamic preachers who now lead "Londonistan", as the journalist Melanie Phillips has called the English capital. No, Rizvi is not a right-wing extremist. Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate for Literature, was less generous; he called the UK "a cesspit for Islamists".

"Terrorists can not stand London multiculturalism", London's mayor Sadiq Khan said after the recent deadly terror attack at Westminster. The opposite is true: British multiculturalists are feeding Islamic fundamentalism. Above all, Londonistan, with its new 423 mosques, is built on the sad ruins of English Christianity.

The Hyatt United Church was bought by the Egyptian community to be converted to a mosque. St Peter's Church has been converted into the Madina Mosque. The Brick Lane Mosque was built on a former Methodist church. Not only buildings are converted, but also people. The number of converts to Islam has doubled; often they embrace radical Islam, as with Khalid Masood, the terrorist who struck Westminster.

The Daily Mail published photographs of a church and a mosque a few meters from each other in the heart of London. At the Church of San Giorgio, designed to accommodate 1,230 worshipers, only 12 people gathered to celebrate Mass. At the Church of Santa Maria, there were 20.

The nearby Brune Street Estate mosque has a different problem: overcrowding. Its small room and can contain only 100. On Friday, the faithful must pour into the street to pray. Given the current trends, Christianity in England is becoming a relic, while Islam will be the religion of the future.

In Birmingham, the second-largest British city, where many jihadists live and orchestrate their attacks, an Islamic minaret dominates the sky. There are petitions to allow British mosques to call the Islamic faithful to prayer on loudspeakers three times a day.

By 2020, estimates are that the number of Muslims attending prayers will reach at least 683,000, while the number of Christians attending weekly Mass will drop to 679,000. "The new cultural landscape of English cities has arrived; the homogenised, Christian landscape of state religion is in retreat", said Ceri Peach of Oxford University. While nearly half of British Muslims are under the age of 25, a quarter of Christians are over 65. "In another 20 years there are going to be more active Muslims than there are churchgoers," said Keith Porteous Wood, director of the National Secular Society.

Since 2001, 500 London churches of all denominations have been turned into private homes. During the same period, British mosques have been proliferating. Between 2012 and 2014, the proportion of Britons who identify themselves as Anglicans fell from 21% to 17%, a decrease of 1.7 million people, while, according to a survey conducted by the respected NatCen Social Research Institute, the number of Muslims has grown by almost a million. Churchgoers are declining at a rate that within a generation, their number will be three times lower than that of Muslims who go regularly to mosque on Friday.

Here;  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10124/london-mosques-churches

God warned the Israelites that once they got wealthy in the Promised Land that they would turn from Him and reject His laws.

"Who needs God?  We have everything that we need and we've provided it all for ourselves!"

The same thing seems to be true through all generations.

Here in America, our churches are also being boarded up.  Our own public schools have taught that there is no intelligent designer and that we all evolved from fish, reptiles and apes that were all made by the process of evolution and fine tuned by Mother Earth!

Revelation 3
17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

Prepare for RARE Solar Eclipse Coming to America

The Bible says that the Last Days will have strange signs in the sky.

This summer, there is going to be a solar eclipse that makes a big line all the way across America from NW to SE.

It’s being called “The Big One”.

Coming this summer, we will see an event unlike any we’ve seen in North America since 1918: a total solar eclipse crossing the entire United States in a line from coast to coast on August 21, 2017.

The eclipse will begin around 9:48 am Pacific Standard Time. According to NASA, the longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes 41.6 seconds at 37°35′0″N 89°7′0″W in Shawnee National Forest south of Carbondale, Illinois and the greatest extent will be at 36°58′0″N 87°40′18″W near Cerulean, Kentucky.

And that’s not all…

If you plot the two total eclipse paths on a map, it would appear the giant “X” intersects right over the New Madrid fault line near Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Paducah, Kentucky — which will thus see two total solar eclipses in less than seven years.

Some people say these are “signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars” in a Biblical, end times type of sense… just saying.

Here:  http://www.thedailysheeple.com/x-marks-the-spot-rare-total-solar-eclipse-coming-soon-hasnt-happened-since-1918-but-heres-where-it-gets-weird_032017

Is US Economy About to Roll Over?

It's funny how quickly people forget about how scary the collapse of 2007-2008 actually was.

Up to that time people were buying Hummers and SUV's and huge pick up trucks and using loans taken against their rising home prices to finance their big trucks, vacations, boats, etc...

No one had a care in the world!  Real estate prices were "always going to go up" at 10-15% per year so why not use some of that increase today to buy some things we want and "need"....is how our minds began to delude us.

And then the bottom fell out.

Gasoline went to $4.25 gallon, home prices fell by as much as 50%, millions actually owed MORE on their homes than what they could sell them for, a recession took hold, millions lost their jobs but couldn't afford to move to look for a new one because they were upside down on their home.

When Lehmann Brothers went belly up and Americans realized that our entire financial and banking market could come undone....there was palpable fear that we wouldn't be able to recover.

But fear not!!  We had a plan to borrow and print money until the tide was turned!

Now today, we NEVER REALLY FIXED ANY OF THE PROBLEMS....but instead owe $20 trillion to someone or something, Congress just hit the HARD DEBT CEILING a few weeks ago and is burning through money like a drunk sailor on shore leave...but yet most Americans don't seem concerned at all!  They hear that the STOCK MARKET is at record highs so everything must be "good"!

It makes us wonder if we are on the edge of an even bigger collapse than the last one?

Today I read this weekly commentary from Rapture Ready and realizing that there are others wondering the same thing.

The Economy Is Starting to Roll Over

Even since the financial crisis of 2009, the U.S. economy has been is said to be in a period of “positive growth.” We are regularly reminded of our good fortune by the Dow Jones hitting a fresh new all-time high. In February, the Dow recorded its longest “winning streak” since 1987. It closed 2,000 points above its 200-day moving average  for the first time ever.

The boom in financial assets on Wall Street is not a true reflection of what is happening on Main Street. The price of stocks and bonds has gone up because the Federal Reserve has promised Wall Street bankers an endless supply of money.

Record low rates have allowed Washington to ignore the consequences of deficit spending. Over the past eight years, our national debt has gone from $10 trillion to $20 trillion, and we have nothing to show for our indebtedness.

A credit driven boom has always ended in a crash. The Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises said it best:

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.

There is no way to tell when the cycle will come to an end. What makes this current boom particularly difficult to forecast—is the government’s willingness to do anything to avoid the bust. Since it’s not possible to live on credit forever, the day of reckoning will eventually come when the government can no longer hold back the flood waters. Here are six possible warning signs that the economy is starting to buckle:

Sears, once the monolith of American retail, said in a recent report that there is “substantial doubt” that it will be able to keep its doors open. Sears is selling off the last of its brand names to raise cash.

Payless Shoes is set to file for bankruptcy. The chain announced it will close 500 stores.

The huge electrical and nuclear energy giant Westinghouse has filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors. The firm’s Japanese parent company Toshiba will issue a loss of $9.8 billion in relation to the bankruptcy.

The number of loans being created by banks has started to decline. Year over year loan growth by the 25 largest U.S. banks fell to around 3.35% in early March, down from 7.18% a year earlier. In New York city, commercial real estate lending was down 17% last year.

The default rate for auto loans has soared back to “Great Recession” levels. In 2009, they peaked out at 14.6% for the subprime market. That rate is now at 11.9%.

Global Art Sales Fall 11% to Lowest Point Since Recession. Sales of art and antiques dropped 11 percent to $56.6 billion, according to a report released by UBS Group AG and Art Basel.

We also have long-term problems that are about to overtake us. The biggest of these is the cost of health care. After it became clear that Congress would not be able to come up with a replacement for Obamacare, President Trump warned that the current system would soon implode. The nation’s health care tab is around $11,000 per person, and it’s growing at 9% per year. With the government on the hook for a large portion of this expense, there is simply no permanent fix that will not bankrupt the country.

Along with these unintended pressures on the economy, we now have planned efforts to hamper growth. Despite the GDP numbers declining with every new revision, the Federal Reserve has moved twice to raise interest rates. The only logical explanation for this move is that the Fed realizes the economy is headed for a recession, and they are raising rates to give themselves room to lower them once the economy starts to contract.

I can only point to divine intervention for how the U.S. economy has managed to avoid a crash. We currently have the third longest period of positive growth in American history. Because Jesus said he would come at a time of “peace and safety,” I think the Rapture is the explanation for why we have a Goldilocks economy. Since there is no room for a soft landing, the next few months may prove to be very interesting.

“For when they shall say, ‘Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape’” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

Here;  http://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

"But Dennis!  A financial bust could never happen!  This is America!  We can borrow and print as much money as we need to fight wars, pay for free health insurance for everyone, feed 48,000,000 every month on food stamps, provide Social Security to millions, and rebuild all the aging infrastructure that is 100 years old!  We can do everything we want because we have a printing machine that prints money and computers that create as much as the banks ask for!"