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They said that no one could predict the Rapture, no one could predict the events we faced while waiting for Him. They said "no one", but what they really meant was that they couldn't, and looking back it is painfully obvious that it was their pride that kept so many more from even looking.

A few did look, even though they were exiled from the churches, and tried to warn others. "If God is so loving, why doesn't He tell each of us so we don't have to listen to the crack-pots?" some said. Some, even deacons and preachers, simply closed their ears to anything they didn't want to hear. Now, many years after the first seal was broken open, some of us have come to realize that the truth was right in front of us all along, but we were too full of our own understandings, truths, and most damnable arrogance to open our eyes, ears, and hearts. Even in reading in the Scriptures the patterns we should have seen, we chose to believe the lies we'd become comfortable with.

The first horseman was no false Christ, neither was he a peaceful man who conquered by treaty rather than warfare. The second fulfilled every prophesy, but didn't bring the war we expected. The third was not embodied in a man at all, but an event, and when the crash came we were too busy keeping life and limb together to notice much of anything. We should have known that when the global economy tanked famine and pestilence would follow, as it did, but we still weren't looking, listening, and worse we didn't want to know. Still we chose to listen to those who told us that as bad as it was this was still not the end because we were still here. We believed them.

Then came the terrible persecution of those who had tried to warn us. Do you recall that Jesus said that our enemies would be the ones in our own homes? Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, brothers, and sisters all turning each other in to the authorities for torture and execution.

"Where is the promise of His coming?" some asked. By this time so many hearts that had been at least lukewarm were now colder than the Antarctic ice pack. I didn't realize it then, but these people were lashing out because they felt that God had lied to them by sending them teachers and preachers that told them only what they wanted to hear, even though they paid those preachers and teachers very well to do just that. Did they ever take their wrath out on those false prophets? No. That wrath was reserved for those who tried to warn them.

How many were killed and slaughtered,

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