Introspection Day

               The winds hit us and they were fierce....ripping apart society and government and family and about everything else. They caught us unprepared because we paid no attention and had no interest in the weather reports from God's Storm Center and chief meteorologists....among them Jeremiah and Daniel and Matthew and Mark and Luke and Peter and Paul and Jude. So we are shaken as we survey the damage....and the sun is drying out the streets enough that we can see the destruction....but what we also do not seem to understand is that we are only in the eye of the ferocious storm. We can do a 360 in the news of this world and see nothing but dark storm clouds circling us. The winds coming out of the southeast will hit us directly....and this as the enormous storm surge may move in like a tsunami as the super blood moon lifts the waves.
                There are some verses in Daniel that we tend to pass over as the prophet was told to close up and seal the words...."till the time of the end....none of the wicked will understand, but the wise shall understand." Apparently we will understand what is happening at the "end." Why the 1290 days....and not 1260 days....and what about 1335 days.....an extra 45 days? There is surely significance here.  
                Does not Revelation 13:18 tell us...."This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of man. His number is 666." Does not Revelation also tell us...."Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written, for the time is near" (Rev. 1:3) The time is always to be "near' to the Christian....for we do not know what a day brings.
                 Daniel was told to go his way....and rest until he rises again....Billy Graham and R. C. Sproul the same....as with all of the redeemed who have gone before us....and here we are....fighting not over the influence of the computer and AI....but Hunter Biden's computer....not in humility making our plans....if Jesus should tarry....but purposed that we will make ourselves great again....taking vengeance on anyone who rained on our 2020....We are one glorious nation under God....Our best days are yet to come....State of the Union parade. 
                 Do we even give a morsel of meditation on what the people of the Ukraine are going through as winter sets in. There was a visit to these posts only minutes ago from Bangladesh...and multiple views from Russia. How are our brothers and sisters in China faring....and Vietnam and Poland? I haven't repeated to myself of late Hebrews 13:3...."Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you are also in the body." Surely this is a time in America for introspection....even more than thanksgiving.