Monday, July 11, 2016

Is this a Nostradamus-Type Application, or is there more to it than that?

   There is some likeness to modern-day scriptures in what is happening today. Is it fulfillment? I am somewhat of the though that it isn't, but who knows.
   There was the Arab Spring, in which people rose up against  their governments. Back then, I wondered if their was any likeness in that to a prophecy in a book of scripture called the Doctrine and Covenants. The 87th Section of that book prophesies the Civil War, and then prophesies war being poured out upon all nations. After saying those two things shall take place, it says, "And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters."
   So, is this, "slaves rising up against their masters,"  reference to  the Civil War? Or, does it  refer to another event, for it says it comes "after many days." The order of things suggests it comes many days not only after the Civil War, but after war being poured out upon all nations?
   It was only a short time after the Arab Spring that we had the Occupy movement here in America, and, ever since that time, we have had discontent over the 1 or 2 percent who have all the money. There is a rebellious discontent against the rich. And, now, there is a growing protest against the police. Is it a little much to say that, in a manner of speaking, police are the masters, and the people are their slaves? Perhaps.
   I have sometimes thought of the prophecies of Nostradamus, and of how they are so vague that things can easily be found as "fulfillments" of them. Perhaps that is all there is to what is going on now, in relation to what is in the Doctrine and Covenants.
   I think of two other scriptures from the Doctrine and Covenants. In Section 45, verse 63, it says: "Ye hear of wars in foreign lands; but, behold, I say unto you, they are nigh, even at your doors, and not many years hence ye shall hear of wars in your own lands."
   And, in 38:29, it says: "Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land."
   Those two scriptures perhaps refer to something else. Still, though . . .
   It says, "you say there will soon be great wars." Even so, we do not doubt more war in the Middle East. We see it coming. We see Israel and other situations, and we know war will continue in the Middle East.
   Do we, though, not know the hearts of men in our own land? Do we not know how deep the anti-government sentiment runs? There are those in this land who speak ill of our current government, who feel ill toward it, but do we not fully consider where it might lead?
   "Ye know not the hearts of men in your own land."
    I want to say, again, that I think of Nostradamus's predictions, and of how there are always going to be happenings that can be suggested as fulfillments of  them, I do wonder but what this is but the same thing.
   Still, I confess, I do wonder.

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