Jesus provided His followers with a long list of signs that will announce His return to the earth and yet told us, "the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him" (Mt 24:44). Why would that be? How could that be?

One of the reasons why many will likely be completely surprised by the timing of his coming is because we have completely misread prophecy and history. Here are a few of the mistakes that I think people will make.

The Rebuilding of the Temple

What if we keep waiting for the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem and this never takes place? Everyone seems to be looking for this as if it is inevitable because they believe this fulfills the following verse: "So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel--let the reader understand--then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains" (Mt 24:15-16). But what if that prophecy was already fulfilled by Rome's destruction of the Temple some 40 years later? How would fleeing to the mountains help if this was simply a sign foretelling His return? It would certainly help if one was about to be filleted by a Roman short sword.

But let's suppose it is a prophecy of a future event. Could it be we are misreading it? If Daniel's fourth kingdom, Rome, is also Revelation's Great Beast, and the chosen people are now those whom a sovereign God elects to be born again believers in Jesus, then might not the abomination occupy a holy place sacred to many Christians. How about St. Peter's in Rome since the Great Beast is, was and will be Rome? Or perhaps some other revered Christian site?

Do you really think Israel will destroy the Dome of the Rock Mosque on the Temple Mount so that it can rebuild the Temple? They hesitate to even build additional settlements in the West Bank for fear of what the repercussions will be with the Arab world, Europe and the USA. Yet some think Israel would destroy a building sacred to Muslims to build a temple for a highly secular people. I do not see this ever happening so long as Israel is surrounded by Arabs who hate her.

Babylon

Another one of the errors plaguing interpreters of history/prophecy is a mistaken view of Babylon. When Saddam Hussein started to rebuild the site where Babylon once stood many in the overly literalistic camp of prophecy saw this as a confirmation that Mystery Babylon was arising to become the great city that would intoxicate the kings of the earth and gorge itself on the blood of Christians. Please! This historical theme park is still a pile of rocks and no one in Iraq today seems to be terribly interested in sinking the nation's oil wealth to make this abandoned site the most powerful city in the world.

As if that could happen anyway, but for the sake of argument, let's suppose it will. The question now becomes, WHEN? Re-read the description of Babylon in Revelation. It speaks of the kings of the earth committing adultery with her and the merchants of the earth growing rich from her excessive luxuries. To become a hub of commerce takes decades, and to become THE hub of commerce takes centuries. Yep, that sounds like Babylon, Iraq to me. If anyone believes a city of such power can spring up over night, then I suppose such a person has no regard for history and total regard for a vision of prophecy that is hermetically sealed from reality.

Babylon was a code word for Rome. When the Parthian Empire took over the region where Babylon stood in 141 BC it was in a state of utter desolation and obscurity. So why would Revelation refer to what had become a virtual ghost town as the great city that feasted on Christian blood? In John's Revelation Babylon is a reference to Rome because he locates this city on seven hills (Rome was widely known as the city on seven hills).

That it was a code word for Rome is further supported by the cryptic reference Peter made to Babylon in his first epistle: "She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you her greetings, and so does my son Mark" (1 Pet 5:13). This indicates 1 Peter was written in Babylon. Really? What led Peter to occupy a ruined city to fulfill his apostolic duties? It is highly unlikely he was in Babylon, Iraq but was using a coded reference to Rome, a city we know he was in toward the end of his life.

Their need to refer to Rome in coded language is as obvious as there other attempts to escape persecution like meeting in the catacombs to pray, or tracing an image of a fish in the ground to indicate they were Christians.

There are many other interpretations of prophecy that are contrary to history and these too will result in people being surprised by His return. As Jesus once said, "You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times" (Mt 16:3).

Grace and peace,

Tom
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Things look bad, don't they? If you are an economist you fret over the rise of oil prices, inflation, contagion in the EU spreading from Greece to Portugal and Spain, and, heck, let's throw in trade wars, currency debasement, you name it. If you are an American you might worry about our economy, our failing schools, our falling behind China, and so on. If you are a conspiracy theorist, then the NWO (New World Order) is just around the corner and that means the loss of liberty and wealth for all but the conspirators. Then there are the Muslim nations that are in uproar, and who knows what kind of regimes will take their place. So what's up with the title of this blog post, "Things look good!"

We are to live by faith and not by sight, because we cannot see what God has in store for those who love Him. For those who don't, well, things look bad. But for the followers of Jesus things have never looked so good. When we look at the nations of the world we need to adopt the divine perspective of God who is unimpressed by the rebellion of those who refuse to follow Him. He asks, "Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?" (Ps 2:1). Whatever their plan may be it is irrelevant, because God's plan is the only one that can be enacted. Can time dictate terms to Eternity? No. Can the ever-changing change that which changes not? No.

The times look good and, as I have repeatedly said, the template's message is a message of hope. It declares, along with the far more important witness of God's Word, that God wins. It's game, set, match right now. His prophetic Word declared victory and His Word cannot be broken.

But times are tough. "All of this stuff sounds great," you may think, "but right now I am hurting and hurting bad." I do not make light of anyone's pain. I have been there myself and I will likely be there again, because God has so much work to do with my heart. But I still contend that if you exercise your eyes of faith, then you may be able to see how this suffering is another good omen for you. When F. B. Meyer studied the life of Elijah to determine what the secret was to his power he noted, among other things, the way Elijah was led by God to a brook named Kerith (he spells it Cherith), to be alone and to wait on His command. It was a time of utter, day-to-day dependency on God. It was not a time of exaltation, but the exact opposite. As he wrote in his book, "Elijah and the Secret of His Power,"

"The man who is to take a high place before his fellows must take a low place before his God, and there is no better manner of bringing a man down than by suddenly dropping him out of a sphere to which he was beginning to think himself essential, teaching him that he is not at all necessary to God's plan, and compelling him to consider in the sequestered vale of some Cherith how mixed are his motives, and how insignificant his strength.

"...Every saintly soul that would wield great power with men must win it in some hidden Cherith. A Carmel [scene of Elijah's great victory over the false prophets] always presupposes a Cherith; and a Cherith always leads to a Carmel."

Forty years in the wilderness were a necessary preparation for the Promised Land and I honestly believe those who are servants of the kingdom of God are being led through a wilderness of testing to enable them to wield the power of God in advance of the Lord's coming. As God prepares us for the final intersection of Eternity and time there will be signs in the heavens and on earth, and one of the earthly signs will be outpourings of His Spirit and a harvest of nations. History reveals patterns of spiritual empowerment. One occurred at the end of the first millennium and we are in

Things aren't looking bad for those who are on the right side of Eternity. Things are looking good.

Grace and peace,

Tom
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Sorcery 12/08/2010
 
Sometimes you have to laugh. I recently asked a radio program host what sort of feedback he got from our interview. He replied, "Most people really liked it; a few thought you were a sorcerer (but don't worry; we said you were at least a sorcerer who LOVED Jesus!)." Now that made me laugh--the sorcery part, not loving Jesus. But since some felt this way let us examine the charge to see if there is even a smidgen of truth to it.

Sorcery is the use of magic, especially black magic, according to a dictionary definition. How the Template of Time conjures up that notion is beyond me, so let's suppose the listener really meant a practitioner of divination, or a seeker of knowledge of the future by supernatural means.

The template does attempt to forecast future events so the charge sticks when it comes to seeking knowledge of the future. But this is not what makes divination bad. Seeking knowledge of the future is something that people perform in hundreds of different fields. The weather forecaster attempts to predict the next day's weather by looking at weather patterns. Homeland Security attempts to predict what terrorists will do next by analyzing internet chatter, gathering human intelligence, listening to coded messages and so on. Investors seek to predict what markets will do next by looking at stock charts, analyzing earnings, etc. Profilers attempt to predict what criminals will do next--e.g., these latest crimes reveal an escalation in violence; the suspect is likely to murder someone soon.

"But, Tom Payne, you try to time things and this is what makes you and your system evil!" Or so I imagine some particularly troubled individual saying in reply. But is attempting to time a future event with a degree of specificity evil? In the Bible we read about the way the prophets searched earnestly and intently into "the timing and circumstances" of future events like the suffering of Jesus, and how "even angels long to look into these things" (see 1 Pt 1:10-12). So if trying to time a future event is evil then the prophets and holy angels of God are in trouble!

What makes divination bad is the way the information is gathered. It is the "supernatural means" that makes it wicked. Diviners of the future rely on the spirit world to gather their insights into tomorrow. Intercourse with demonic powers is evil and so divination is condemned by the Bible. Furthermore, the future they divine is of suspect value since spirits are not omniscient.

To the charge of divination I have to answer "not guilty." I do not attempt to communicate with spirits or angels. My insights into the possibility of future events is based 100% on the history that precedes the suggested future outcome. In other words, the past points to the future--hardly a radical idea. What is radical is the way the future appears to be like the past, i.e., destined to conform to a time-template made up of time-patterns found in the Bible and extending from the life of Jesus.

After discovering the Template of Time I began to see how it might be used to forecast future events. This posed moral and philosophical problems for me. It was not because I was guilty of divination--the above argument answers that false charge--it was because I knew and believed, and still believe, that God alone knows the future. So how could I know the future also? The answer was simple: I didn't know it, nor would I pretend like I did. What the Template of Time forecasts are suggestions of potential outcomes, not knowledge of future events. The forecasts may or may not come true because I have no knowledge of the future, but if they do come true they offer powerful evidence of the template's existence. And that is the reason why I generate forecasts. I want to test the validity of the theory called the Template of Time.

Why test it? To prove it is either true or false. I believe it to be true, but what if my belief is based on false assumptions? The last thing I want to be is the propagator of a lie, because I value the truth. Also, if the template is a lie, then I don't want to spend another minute of my time on it. But if it is true, as I believe it to be, then it offers many powerful and important testimonies. First and foremost, it reveals how all of human history affirms how Jesus is Lord because it conforms to His life. The sequences of history extend from His life and reveal how His life shaped time, instead of time shaping His life. The template also reveals how history is structured, not chaotic. It is conforming to a design and this affirms the existence of an almighty God who alone would be capable of shaping the destiny of the planet and all walk on it.

It also offers valuable insights into where this world is headed. When I started this research I did not have an opinion on whether or not the prophecies of God pointed to Israel rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem, or that a rapture of God's elect would occur before the tribulation of the last days. I had no opinion because I had not studied these topics. My focus as a Christian was on a theologically accurate understanding of the Bible. So I studied Calvin, Luther, Hodge and others. However, once I developed the Template of Time and saw what it forecast, I came to see how many current, popular ideas about where this world is headed are likely wrong, both from a Biblical perspective and most certainly from a historical perspective. Wrong ideas in these areas can have bad consequences. For example, what if I believed in a pre-tribulation rapture and then found myself, and all other Christians, in the midst of the final tribulation? Would this not leave me poorly prepared to endure the hardships that would follow? Would it not test my faith during a time when I needed my faith to be rock-solid? Another benefit of the Template of Time is the way it grounds prophecy in history and helps us understand both. When we wrench prophecy from its historical moorings all sorts of wild ideas and mistaken notions become possible. But since history and prophecy are one, to attempt to separate the two is a bad idea.

Lover of Jesus? I plead guilty. Sorcery? Sorry to disappoint you on that count, but I plead not guilty. Diabolism is incompatible with loving the Lord.

Grace and peace,

Tom  
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History is the record of activities within the sphere of time. Many of these activities are furiously violent and yet history's end is rest, peace, the Sabbath fulfillment of the promises of God. But how do we achieve this peace in troubled times? When the world is being shaken like a rag doll how do we achieve that calm and stability that is contrary to all that is going on around us? How do we escape the fate of the Israelites who wandered for forty years in the desert and against whom God declared the following oath, "They shall never enter my rest"? (Ps 95:11).

The upsets that trouble the periphery of existence are designed to chase us to the center where there is peace. The world's traumas are to remind us how there is nothing in this world that we can ultimately trust: not totalitarianism, not democracy, not poor or great leaders, not money, not the applause of crowds; all of these things are like passing shadows.

We don't like troubled times and yet we need them. They provide necessary course corrections to a wayward people. Our hearts naturally tend in the wrong direction. We think we want to love God, but our eyes draw us elsewhere. Our affections are drawn first and foremost to the things of the world. Some get so passionately engaged in politics that everything else fades away. Others are so driven to make money that the glories of heaven recede from their view. We want things, lots and lots of things and we love and trust the things that fail us. And so, for our sakes, the world is shaken to drive us back to what is stable, to the only place where true peace can be obtained, in a word, to Jesus.

The Apostle Paul made the connection quite clear: "The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything...." (Ph 4:5-6). When we move to the calm center the Lord is near, because He is the calm center, the embodiment of peace. This peace that is qualitatively different from the world's peace as He once told His disciples. The Lord is near and therefore we are not to be anxious about anything, but instead we are to act like high priests offering our requests to God in a spirit of thanksgiving. "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus" (Ph 4:7).

On this Sunday if anyone is preoccupied with the troubles that seem so big, so insurmountable, then might I suggest turning from them, turn your back to them, and turn toward God so that you might offer your requests to Him and enter His peace. When the anxiety returns, then turn once again to Him who is your peace. We may be in a tossing boat at sea without hope of seeing the shore ever again, but once the Lord draws near the winds ar still, the seas stop tossing and peace prevails.

If there is one suggestion of time that the Template of Time offers it is this: the Lord is near.

Grace and peace,

Tom
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I recently received an email asking whether I was familiar with the seven feasts or not. It was a good question and I welcome all correspondence because it lets me know areas that I should probably address or clarify...and other things as well. The short answer is yes, I am familiar with the festivals and I think you will find the way they unfold on the template to be fascinating.

If you look at the slides on my home page illustrating some of the concepts under-girding the template you will find one that describes how the Creation Week is itself a time pattern. The first three days are primarily concerned with forming the earth, and the next three days with filling the earth. The final day seven is the culminating day of rest. After a long period of time it dawned on me that the Creation Week was an Initiation-New Direction-Culmination (INC) sequence. Day one, “Let there be light,” was the ultimate initiation of a historical movement, or of history itself. The next two days completed the formation of the earth. Then the creation process moved in a new direction with the fourth-day arrival of a new impulse of creation: “Let there be lights.” The next two days completed the filling of the earth. This process of creation culminated in day seven and rest.

When we place the festivals on this template we see the following pattern emerge:

Day One: Initiation.             First Festival: Passover.

Day Four: New direction.     Fourth Festival: Pentecost, or Weeks.

Day Seven: Culmination.     Seventh Festival: Tabernacles, or Ingathering.

These festivals form a pattern revealing how the spiritual history of the people of God will unfold. During the first stage, Passover, the blood of a lamb or a goat on the door frame of a house was a sign to the angel of death that those dwelling inside the house were to be passed over, the plague that would kill every first-born child was not to apply to them. It was a prefiguration of the sacrifice Jesus would make on the cross to take away the sins of the world. By the blood of Jesus, our Passover lamb (1 Cor 5:7), believers are absolved of sin’s debt and are made righteous.

Historically speaking, Passover represents the 2,000 year Age of Israel that began with Abraham c. 2000 BC and culminated in the crucifixion of Jesus c. 30 AD. During this 2,000-year epoch God graciously provided a system of sacrifices to atone for the sins of the Israelites. With the crucifixion of Jesus this system was no longer needed as His death paid sin's debt once and for all. And, as He prophesied, the Temple where the sacrifices for sin were conducted, was torn down. This happened in 70 AD, one forty-year time-cycle after His crucifixion.

Every culmination is an initiation; the closing of one chapter marks the beginning of another. Jesus, who was the culmination of the Age of Israel and of the Passover Feast, was also the initiator of the Age of the Church. On the day of Pentecost He fulfilled John the Baptist's prophecy that He would baptize with the Holy Spirit. Pentecost means 50 and on this fiftieth day after His resurrection the Holy Spirit was poured out on His disciples in Jerusalem and many consider this to be the birthday of the church. On this day the disciples of Jesus were empowered to share the good news in the language of every person in their presence and several thousand were added to the ranks of the church on that day. It also marked the beginning of the last days, a time when the Prophet Joel said God would pour out His Spirit on all people (see Acts 2:17-21).

Passover was a spiritual impulse associated with freedom from slavery and deliverance from death. But Pentecost is a new impulse concerned with empowering the freed followers of Christ for the purpose of effectively serving Him. This empowerment does not require the drama of the apostle’s Pentecost experience. We do not need to hear a mighty wind, have flames descend upon our brow, or speak in tongues, but we do need to abide in Christ and be filled with the Spirit--as a branch is filled with life-giving sap--to be fruitful. A mission of each church member is to produce the fruit of the Spirit to the glory of God and the Feast of Weeks, also known as Pentecost, celebrated the firstfruits of the wheat harvest. It was also referred to as the Feast of Harvest (Ex 23:16).

We are nearing the end of the 2,000-year Age of the Church. The year 2030 will be the 2000-year anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus. Surely the Lord is near; however, I am not proposing that this date, or any date, is the date of the second coming. The words of Jesus seem very straightforward to me: “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Mt 24:36). So, even though I believe I’ve discovered a Template of Time, I do not waste my time trying to uncover a date that the Lord assures me is impossible to do.

The seventh and final festival, the Feast of Tabernacles (Booths), or Ingathering, should soon follow. In the Israelite’s world this occurred after the final harvest of the fruit of orchards and vines.

One of the Feast of Tabernacles’ observances was sleeping at night in make-shift booths, or temporary dwellings, to recall the way they did so during their pilgrimage through the wilderness to the Promised Land. It is a way of signifying what the end result of history will be. Like the Creation Week's day seven, it will culminate in rest, peace, the completion of the harvest and celebrating this. However, we are the ones who will be harvested. We will be like the wheat ingathered by the Lord into His barns. And in the glorious fulfillment of the age, we will shed our temporary dwellings, our bodies, for permanent ones, bodies of light, as corruption puts on incorruption.

When you add up all of the evidence—the proliferation of sequences throughout history and their predictive character, the structuring of history into 500-year blocks of time that move according to the INC pattern, the festivals and much more—it becomes less and less difficult to accept the out-there notion that God has structured history to conform to a pattern hidden in the Bible in front of our eyes. I believe this template is designed to do several things, but among them is the exaltation of Christ. All of time extends from Him and points toward Him. And it is a message of comfort telling us, "Be at peace. I have overcome the world and all that is occurring, and will occur, is part of the fulfillment of a plan s

Grace and peace,

Tom
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There are whispers in the wind of conspiracies being engineered by a new world order, of currency collapses, thermonuclear war, the rise of the antichrist, economic depressions, the third world war, and the return of Jimmie Carter to the office of President of the USA. Yikes!

There is a problem with living in fear of what does not exist and may never come into existence. It is the same problem suffered by children who cannot sleep because of the bogeyman. Namely, we cannot function fully in such a psychological climate; we are like cars that only have a first gear. We want to go faster, we ought to go faster, but we cannot because we are held back by fears that absorb our attention and energy. Irenaeus wrote that "the glory of God is man fully alive," and those who live in constant dread over what might be suffer from a hypoxia of the soul, a condition wherein the soul, deprived of oxygen, grows weaker and feebler over time. The question always becomes: how then should we live?

Forgive me for being the incurable optimist, but I think we should recast our vision of the future and say it is very bright. And the basis for this optimism is this: God wins. It does not matter what conspiracy is actually under way, or imagined, because against the power of God who is sovereign over history even genuine conspiracies are nothing but the vain imaginings of men and women. Nothing will occur outside of what God allows.

One of the benefits I received from writing and researching The Template of Time was this: I got a chance to see history unfolding according to a plan. As one woman who interviewed me said, "It is like history is a symphony that is being conducted according to musical score." Indeed it is. And once you see how history is not random, but conforms to a plan that advances the kingdom of God, then why fear? Why live in dread? As the Psalmist confidently wrote, "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me" (Ps 23:4). Such confidence is not based on false hope; it is not whistling in the dark. It is a confidence born of the knowledge that God is in control of human history, and of our personal destiny, and we need not fear so long as we belong to Him.

For those who have read The Template of Time: Our Destiny Decoded, I sincerely hope some of its fear-dispelling spirit was communicated to you. It plainly shows how God is in control of history and how it is unfolding on a pattern with incredible precision. If God is in control, then why should we dread anything?

Grace and peace,

Tom 
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I have recently received information regarding the Whore of Babylon and how I have it wrong (always a distinct possibility that one should never discount out of hand), because the Whore of Babylon is not the revived Roman Empire, but the apostate church. The idea that the whore was the Roman Catholic Church and the pope was the antichrist is one that was popular during the Reformation and for a time thereafter. Luminaries like Martin Luther and John Calvin held this idea or ones close to it. I am no apologist for the Roman Catholic Church, but such a notion does not fit history and therefore, prophecy, because prophecy and history are one.

Here is one big problem with this idea. Daniel's fourth kingdom was to follow the third kingdom, Greece, which was toppled by Rome in 146 BC. This fourth kingdom was symbolized as a beast with ten heads and ten crowns. We later see the Great Beast with ten heads and ten crowns in the Revelation of John. They are the same beast, and they have the same mission: to make war with the saints, or followers of Jesus. Now here is where history helps us to interpret scripture. Did the apostate church conquer Greece? Was it around to assume the role of the fourth kingdom when Greece fell from power in 146 BC? No, it was not even born yet.

How well does the apostate church fit the following description of the Whore of Babylon: "the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth" (Rev 17:18). This may be a news flash to some, but the marginalized Roman Catholic Church is not now ruling, and has not ever ruled, over the fourth kingdom, Rome. Does anyone think that the nations of Europe, united under the banner of the European Union, will ever submit to the Pope in Rome? Why do we need to adopt such an outlandish interpretation that is at odds with history, common sense and prophecy? Has the Roman Catholic Church ever been Daniel's fourth kingdom of iron that crushed all in its path? Has it ever been a confederacy of nations symbolized by the ten crowns united in the one beast?

The Whore of Babylon is described as being a mercantile superpower "where all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth" (Rev 18:19). Does the Roman Catholic Church remotely fit this prophetic description? No. But does the largest market in the world, the EU, possibly fit this description? More closely than any other pretender to this position.

History and prophecy are one and when we attempt to separate them we remove the objective foundation that history affords us and open the doors to endless, fruitless speculation.

"So what," might be the response of most of you and I can understand that reaction. It does not seem to be that important of a point. But so many important misunderstandings flow downstream from notions such as these. Hatred of Catholics would be one of them. How is that an expression of Christian love?

Another would be misreading what is now occurring in the world in ways that are injurious to the faith. For example, if the Great Beast is assumed to be the Pope, and the Roman Catholic Church is assumed to be the Whore of Babylon, then Christians should applaud when and if a militaristic leader gains control of the EU and begins to slaughter Catholic Christians wholesale. Is not the destruction of the Whore of Babylon and the Great Beast a good thing according to the Bible? Yet what if this militaristic leader of a revived and transformed Roman Empire is actually the Great Beast who is feasting on the blood of Christians. Then the misled, misinformed Christian will be cheering the satanic actions of an incarnation of evil.

History and prophecy are one. I invite you to study The Template of Time: Our Destiny Decoded to see how this view is confirmed by the last 2,000 years of history and how it suggests where this world is headed.

Grace and peace,

Tom
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NO, this isn't my forecast, but the prediction of a site that uses a web-bot program to determine such things. Evidently, this web-bot program surfs the net, analyzes the chatter, gives a heavier weighting to some words and phrases, and then predicts a thermo-nuclear attack on Monday, November 8, 2010.

Could it happen? Of course, anything is possible. As I am fond of telling my wife, "Yeah, and we could be hit by a meteor." To which she replies, "Exactly." Grrr. So yes, it could happen, but do I believe it will. Not a snow ball's chance in hell.

How can web chatter prophesy hurricanes and environmental disasters as these web-bot programs are supposed to be able to do? I am reminded of the theory of continental drift. Alfred Wegener believed South America and Africa were once one land mass and that continental drift explained how these continents separated. However, though he did see what is likely to have been true, his proposed  mechanism behind their separation was woefully inadequate. Continents have a mass that just does not allow drifting. Plate tectonics theory came around later to provide a mechanism that explained how the continents could have been joined and then split apart.

That is where I have problems with the web-bot program. They do not provide me with a convincing mechanism that has the ability to generate their predictions.

What about the Template of Time? My power source is infinite. The eternal Word of God incarnated and inscripturated are behind the shaping of human history. What God has prophesied in His Word will come into being and the Template of Time demonstrates how history and prophecy are one.

Grace and peace,

Tom

P.S. I will sleep well tonight and look forward to Tuesday when this prediction can be authoritatively debunked.  
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