The Diary of an End of Days Timeline.

What follows is an end of days timeline written in narrative form as a diary of one who was left behind. Any dates mentioned are used for relational purposes only, based upon the following:

1. The rapture will occur between 10 1/2 to 14 years prior to the physical return of Christ as Judge. Either 7 years prior to the beginning of the 70th week or 7 years before the great tribulation portion; the last 3 1/2 years.
2. During this period prior to the 70th week, Israel will suffer through one last purging, found in Ezekiel 38 & 39 and Zechariah 13:8-9. Then and only then shall all Israel be saved (Romans 11:26).
3. The 70th week begins when the future Antichrist signs a 7 year pact with many nations, including Israel.

Let the diary fill in the blanks.

• Sat 11/17/18 7:30 am - I haven't slept since for hours. Last night, went bowling and we all had a few rounds of beer - except Mike as usual. Got home around 11 pm. At 1:30 am call from Mike's wife - he never made it home - she called the police and was told that there was a rash of missing persons, so get in line. Got in my car to go retrace Mike's normal path home - saw his car at a local Quickie market - talked to the clerk who remembered Mike buying a cream soda, and left the store. Wasn't until later that he noticed the car was still there but the guy was nowhere around. I sat in my car and reflected on the past couple years as Mike's friend.
• (Reflection - Mike used to be a drinking buddy until about a year ago when he told me he got saved or whatever; he did seem different - like relaxed all the time. It irritated me to no end. I know that it created some wife type problems, but don't we all have some spouse problems. He mentioned to me something about a rapture and gave me a book - Left Behind - I think. Read first few chapters - thought it was hogwash and put on a shelf meaning to return it to Mike. I need to find that book.)
• 3:00 am Found the book, read or scanned as fast as I could - turned on the news to see if all the things this book said would happen, did happen. If the rapture really did occur, this book and the news are on two different planets or something - there was no similarity. News was lots of missing persons being reported in multiple locations to the authorities and several empty car accidents - BUT no planes falling out of the sky, no massive amount of traffic accidents, no earthquakes, no cities on fire and no reports of death on an epic scale. The news was abuzz with those who had witnessed people disappearing right before their eyes, but other news fronts seemed pretty quiet. Maybe the hammer is yet to fall. It is noon-thirty I will try and get some sleep.
• 4:00 pm I slept but I didn't rest - I am more tired now than when I laid down.
• 4:00 to 12:00 am Watched every news channel - rapture, rapture, rapture - when will the hammer fall? Set alarm for 8:00 am - I am going to go to Mike's church - a community church just up the road.
• Sunday 11/18 10:00 am - A large crowd at the church - the chatter bank & forth was deafening, I could hardly hear myself think. The preacher came in and quieted the crowd - he had followed all the reports - wanted to assure everyone that the rapture had not occurred, his & their presence verified the fact. He did say he was at a loss but was sure God would give him clear direction in due time. His sermon for the next 30-40 minutes seemed like a lot of mumbo-jumbo and I didn't have clue what he was talking about. As we left the church, the deafening roar reared its ugly head again, everyone wanting to get their two cents in. Sunday was one of the worst days of my life - I was still waiting for the hammer to fall.
• Monday 11/19 Up early again, couldn't sleep, watched news - several "experts" - possible alien intrusion, as this has happened before in history (where do they find these space cadets?) - from the religious quarter - a gleaning of people who stood in the way of God and His desire for an all inclusive world-wide church, a new brotherhood of man (what a bunch of hooey). Note: my usual foul mouth seems to have rid itself of my disgusting and often embarrassing habit.
• 7:30 to 5:30 pm Went to work - it was good to get busy - every one was there but Mike - everyone seemed a little quieter than usual, I felt better, but I know something is terribly wrong. I will write again when I feel like it.

Saturday 10/5/19 - It has been almost a year and a lot has happened - it is hard to take it all in. Sanctuary cities have been made a federal crime, mayors and councils arrested - massive illegal & gang sweeps - a lot of dead thugs, special ops' teams have wiped out most known terrorist training camps in the good old USA - kill a cop or school kid on campus, automatic death penalty, 20 years no parole for just shooting at them - lots of mosques closed and tons of deportations - National Guard now patrols both the Mexico and Canada borders, the wall on the Mexican border is almost complete. The presidents ratings have skyrocketed, along with a few assassination attempts - it has become very dangerous to be an American abroad, but with the USA's aid, a few European countries are getting their immigration problems under control. Drum banging and threats of war in the Middle-East seem to be a daily event - the president of Turkey is working overtime to bring a coalition of Arab states together to erase Israel from the face of the earth since they destroyed the Iranian nuclear facilities. I almost hate turning on the news any more, it just seems like the world is going crazy like an out of control rollercoaster.

Note: Israel is so small - why are these countries so afraid of them? I guess I need a history lesson.

Also over these past few months I have tried several churches, crowds seem smaller now than a year ago. So many seem so sincerely..insincere. People trying to carry on as if nothing has changed in the world but really terrified because something did change. Ta ta for now.

12/31/20 - Happy New Year? Over the last two years there have been earthquakes here and there, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods - nothing out of the ordinary - I really wonder if the hammer is ever going to fall.

Newsy stuff - crazy legislation - one side the president mostly gets his way - on the other hand - more & more drugs are legalized - we are not personally chipped like a lot of people claimed we would be, but - our cars are now chipped for new taxes, etc, our social media is chipped and is edited by fed, state and local authorities, along with our banks and credit cards, there are new gun laws but the 2nd amendment still stands, voter ID is the law, a convention of states failed - term limits also failed but it looks like the president may get a 3rd term. With so many countries trying to buddy up with America these days, the U.N. doesn't seem as anti-USA as it once was. The Korean border virtually has been erased and their threats of war a distant memory. On a sad note - the slaughter in S. Africa has destroyed its economy and it has become a wasteland.

On a personal note - life has not treated me badly - nice home, nice car and I am thinking about re-marrying. No more living like a carefree bachelor - though my life for the past two years has been any but carefree.

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