A Closer Look at Hell

Is the traditional doctrine of Hell in the Bible? Every church or tradition has various ways that things are done. Nothing wrong with that as long as it is understood that it is a church tradition. My tradition has preached on the topic of hell on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. 

Since today is the last day of the feast, I thought to follow this tradition by embedding another Pam Dewey seminar, "A Closer Look At Hell." The perspective that is offered may not be what you might expect. 

A Closer Look at Hell (Hi definition version) from Oasis Ministries on Vimeo.

When not editing prophecypodcast.com for me, Pam has done a lot of her own blogs on many subjects. If you want more information on the topic of Hell be sure to visit one of Pam's blogs-NonDante.  Or you may get a free PDF copy of her book on hell. 

Up Beat Boys

Bad break dancing, bad rapping—but there is something about this video about the Feast of Tabernacles that I like. 

3 to 7 years

What Can't Continue, Won't ContinueWhile there is a recurrent theme on the Prophecy Podcast blog of a crisis in 3 to 7 years, I do have an assumption underlying that “prediction” that I hope is false. As I have also pointed out, what can’t continue, won’t continue. Our current policies can’t continue. If that is the approach that is tried, it will fail in 3 to 7 years. I expect instead that there will be various short term fixes with varying degrees of success. Describing the future of the US as a long period of decline sounds horrible, but in fact this is an optimistic scenario.

The blog post yesterday about Grand Mal seizures as an analogy to our economic situation led Pam Dewey to write to me about her view of the future. Pam’s mother was subject to serious danger of such seizures as the result of a massive stroke in 1986. She took Dilantin from then on until her death in 2009. It was supposed to be a dose four times a day, but over time the confusion of old age led to her missing many, many doses. Under normal circumstances, being under-medicated could easily have led her to repeated seizures. Yet in all those years, she only had a single serious incident involving one. Pam noted:  

I say all that to say ... the US may end up like my mother. Needing to take the Dilantin, and always in danger of those seizures—but somehow getting by for years and years without any Grand Mal. That’s one of my theories of prophetic speculation and prognostication ... we just have no way to predict anomalies that make no sense but do exist. So ALL the pundits can be surprised, because there are just TOO many variables that can head off in unexpected directions.

Yes, the situation may never come to a crisis moment, but instead the bad economy can continue for a long time. Or there can be something unexpected, out of left field, that leads to a crisis. Just like Yoga Berra said, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.”

What is the economic Dilantin that we need to take? While I feel no need to walk on hot coals for Tony Robbins, he gives us a reasonable course for the future I wish we would take.

Grand Mal Seizure

I have been using a number of analogies about our political and economic situation. I have compared the US economy to a junkie and the election to the arrival of the Cirkus Klown Kar. But there is another analogy that applies to both the election and the economy. 

In 3 to 7 years I expect that the economy will have a Grand Mal Seizure. The Mayo clinic defines a grand mal seizure this way:

A grand mal seizure — also known as a tonic-clonic seizure — features a loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions. It’s the type of seizure most people picture when they think about seizures in general.

Grand mal seizure is caused by abnormal electrical activity throughout the brain. In some cases, this type of seizure is triggered by other health problems, such as extremely low blood sugar or a stroke. However, most of the time grand mal seizure is caused by epilepsy.

Many people who have a grand mal seizure will never have another one. However, some people need daily anti-seizure medications to control grand mal seizure.

It is a shocking thing to see, and it will be even more shocking when our body politic has its seizure. You do not want to be too close when the flailing begins. As Yogi Berra said, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” So who can say when or what the trigger will be?

It may be the flashing pretty light of deficit spending reaching a point where no one will lend the US any money. In this area there is plenty of wiggle room as it will take the US about ten years to reach the point Japan is right now in terms of government debt to GDP.  Japan does have the advantage that they owe the debt domestically. The US owes a large portion of its debt to China and Japan. Since a recession is coming to China by all indications, at the very least new debt will not be purchased by the Chinese. 

Or maybe interest rates will rise. Interest rates are at historic lows. Interest rates could go up by a factor of 5 and still be lower than what I paid in the 80’s. This will lead to huge negative feedback in the deficit. If we think 1.2 trillion is a bad, just wait. 

Or maybe we will have a 30 year long malaise like Japan? 

In any event, neither Obama nor Romney will take their Dilantin—tax increase, budget cuts, and unfortunately, money printing. 

I hope I am wrong and that there is not a seizure in the future. It is a horrible cliché, even worse than feeding frenzy, but time will tell. 

Obama 2016

Obama 2016 is in many ways a faulty documentary. 

It begins with an interesting discussion of Obama’s early life. But the documentary almost immediately “goes off the rails.” It is very bizarre for a person from India to praise Colonialism. While Leopold II of Belgium is not mentioned in the documentary, obviously his example is not beneficial to the defense of Colonialism, his example is illustrative of the period. Why did Leopold take control of the Congo and run it like his own personal fiefdom? It was not because he loved black people. He made lots of money by exploiting the populace. 

Here is how Wikipedia summarizes it:

Leopold extracted a fortune from the Congo, initially by the collection of ivory, and after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s, by forcing the population to collect sap from rubber plants. Villages were required to meet quotas on rubber collections, and individuals’ hands were cut off if they didn’t meet the requirements. His regime was responsible for the death of an estimated 5 to 15 million Congolese. This became one of the most infamous international scandals of the early 20th century, and Leopold was ultimately forced to relinquish control of it to the government of Belgium.  

Leopold was not a nice man. Pam Dewey, the beloved editor of this blog, is giving a seminar here on the prophecy podcast next Monday, on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, on hell. If there is a hell like the traditional idea says, Leopold is there. 

After defending the theft and murder of the colonial period, similar to the defense of concentration camps by Michelle Malkin, Dinesh D’Souza gets even stranger and dons the mantle of a prophet. Dinesh should leave that to us professionals. While I disagree with Obama’s policies, I do not think his purpose is to destroy America. Never believe in a conspiracy theory when the data is better explained by incompetence and stupidity. 

If you decide to watch the documentary, watch it with a critical eye. 

Since the documentary has been removed from Youtube, here is a trailer of the movie.