Dear Russ,

what you say hits the nail on the head, and let me tell you why.

I know alot of people may feel scandalized when I say this -- and i truly apologize and dont mean to push my religious views on anyone. God loves all peoples and uses all relgions to teach us.

A woman in our Syracuse NY church lost her husband a few years ago-- a firefighter who died putting out a housefire. This was shortly after 9/11's disaster in NY.

She and her sonr became very depressed and had alot of issues with God as to why her husband was permitted to die.

Well,... about 2 years ago, she was alone in her house-- depressed., when she got a visitation from her husband. His spirit came into her house and he held her hand as though he had never died.

He told her that God called him home. She asked him why he left them. He said "When God calls you Home, you Go!"

He said that everyone is active in Heaven-- its a positive , team player type of work- and very upbeat and postiive..

He said that plans are being made that very second for Jesus's return to Earth-- and that he was blessed to share a part in those plans .

He said that Jesus was returning "Very soon". This woman is not one given into delusions, nor was she particularly a very religous woman before this. This incident did bring her alot closer to God in her life.

I beleive we are presently in the period of the "Great Tribulation" where we are seeng the World and all of it's organizations at their most corrupt condition. This is because mankind is being permitted to do things "MAN'S WAY-- like when humans built the Tower of Babel on their own without God's involvement.

When Christ returns, He will be setting up His Kingdom on Earth- and things will no longer be MAN"S WAY any longer, but GOD'S WAY of doing things. God will soon say "Enough!"

All the World's organizations and foundations will crumble. I dont mean necessarily literally--- as in the EARTH crumbling. I mean anything man has done apart from God will topple eventually. This includes even Religious organizations-- everything that man did apart from God. We have been seeing this crumbling even within this decade- with scandals in the World Church, and in corporate scandals. Even scandals within the Presidency causing shakings and 'earthquakes" -- such as the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

We are seeing a sampling of God's way of doing things by seeing people being restored from the Pharma Cartel-- being restored from toxic poisoning of Mercury -caused by corrupt Greedy bigshots against thier own fellow citizens-- for the sake of $$.

People like Hal Huggins or Gary Trudeau are the whistleblowers who are willing to pay the price of rejection from fellow peers to do what is right.

Doing right comes with paying a price and going against the Status Quo at times.

We just have to hang in there and ask God to help us cope and prepare ourselves during this Tribulation period-where it looks like the jerks in society are getting their way.

Eventually, they will be trying to hide behind rocks and in caves when Christ does return.