A zillion years ago, in 10th grade English, we read a story about a king who gathered all his knights for a feast. But the tradition was that something strange had to occur before they could start eating. At some point someone looks out the window and sees to old guy walking across a snowy field. King says that qualifies and the start eating. Our teacher thought this was the dumbest plot element she’d ever heard. I disagreed.
You’re in a feast hall with a crowd of linebackers who are ready to eat, but cannot. It’s a feast day, so the day before was likely a day of fasting. At least it was a meatless day. In a castle that’s been smeeling of cooking, roasting, and baking for three days. These guys are about to start smashing the furniture, or fighting on the tables. The threshold for ‘strange’ would naturally be getting lower and lower and lower as the hunger grows.
I’m pretty sure SOMEONE has noticed signs that Christ’s return was imminent every year for the last 2000 years.
People are getting desperate for his return, and therefore desperate for signs of his return, and therefore less critical of suggested signs. Anything vaguely resembling prophecy, or some other Bible line that can be made into prophecy, will be cheerfully identified and promulgated.
And as more and more signs are claimed, there has to be an urge among some to identify a prophecy of your own.
But really. YOUR God, who’s stated that lying lips are a fucking abomination, would choose TRUMP to lie our way into the 2nd Coming? Christ’s Herald is an adulterer, a rapist, a thief, a crook, a conman, a felon, who takes God and GJesus’ names in vain…?
I do understand God doesn’t need people to be PERFCT, but there’s got to be a limit to how VERY offensive they can be.
