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Old 18 January 2007, 04:24 PM
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I received this at 10:19 this morning, so I guess the timing isn't so mystical after all...

You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you.
A trumpet?
A choir?
A choir of trumpets?
You don't know, but you want to know.

So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you see you aren't the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car doors are open, and people are staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store.

The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parents are searching the clouds. And what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.

As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None. From whence came
the light begins to tumble a river of color spiking crystals of every hue ever seen and a million more never seen. Riding on the flow is an endless fleet of
angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.

North.
South.
East.
West.

Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, holy, holy.
The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver- bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship.

Presently the movement stops and the trumpets are silent, leaving only the triumphant triplet: Holy, holy, holy. Between each word is a pause. With each
word, a profound reverence. You hear your voice join in the chorus. You don't know why you say the words, but you know you must.

Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet.

The angels turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is.

Jesus.

Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King.

He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud.

He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:

I am the Alpha and the Omega.

The angels bow their heads.
The elders remove their crowns.
And before you is a Figure so consuming that you know, instantly you know:
Nothing else matters.
Forget stock markets and school reports.
Sales meetings and football games.
Nothing is newsworthy..
All that mattered, matters no more....
for Christ has come. .

And, please let me know the exact time you read this. It is mystical--honest

This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, he saw me, and he
asked:

My child, what is your greatest wish for today?

I responded:
"Lord please; take care of the person who is reading this message, their family and their special friends.They deserve it and I love them very much"

The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginnings but Not its end.

This message works on the day you receive it.

To some it may sound dumb, but the person who sent this to me was impressed with its timing. Let us see if it is true.

ANGELS EXIST, but sometimes, since they don't all have wings we call them FRIENDS, SUCH AS YOU.

Pass this on to your true friends. SOMETHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN TO YOU TODAY. SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING TO HEAR.

THIS IS NOT A JOKE; SOMEONE WILL CALL YOU BY PHONE OR WILL SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING THAT YOU WERE WAITING TO HEAR. DO NOT BREAK THIS CHAIN.
SEND IT TO A MINIMUM OF 4 PEOPLE.
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Old 18 January 2007, 04:48 PM
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Jesus.

Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King.

He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud.
So...that's Jesus on the cover of those supermarket romance novels?
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Old 18 January 2007, 05:26 PM
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I'd love to hear how the local traffic reports handle this!
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Old 18 January 2007, 05:42 PM
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So...that's Jesus on the cover of those supermarket romance novels?
So...Christ is...Fabio?

Whoda thunk?

J (I had a feeling Christ was Italian)
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Old 18 January 2007, 06:06 PM
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I received this at 10:19 this morning, so I guess the timing isn't so mystical after all...

You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you.
A trumpet?
A choir?
A choir of trumpets?
You don't know, but you want to know.

So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you see you aren't the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car doors are open, and people are staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store.

The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parents are searching the clouds. And what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.

As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None. From whence came
the light begins to tumble a river of color spiking crystals of every hue ever seen and a million more never seen. Riding on the flow is an endless fleet of
angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.

North.
South.
East.
West.
My DOYC! The aliens are invading! Run for the hills!!!!!!
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Old 18 January 2007, 06:33 PM
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you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, holy, holy.
So God and the angels only speak in English? I would expect God to at least be bilingual.

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ANGELS EXIST, but sometimes, since they don't all have wings we call them FRIENDS
I thought angels without wings who were sent to live on earth were demons...
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Old 18 January 2007, 07:16 PM
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He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud.
So, is the cloud the actual transport? Doesn't that make the stallion unecessary then? And why is Jesus coming in such a flashy manner? He's supposed to be very humble. Remember Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Unless 2000 years of ruling Heaven have gone to his head.

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My DOYC! The aliens are invading! Run for the hills!!!!!!
Damn, you beat me to it.
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Old 18 January 2007, 07:50 PM
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Pass this on to your true friends. SOMETHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN TO YOU TODAY. SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING TO HEAR.
Wentworth Miller will finally go out on a date with me?
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Old 19 January 2007, 01:44 AM
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Icon204 9:13 AM ("Second Coming" of Christ?)

Boy! This message is so cornball and campy!

No doubt, it is a fundamentalist, premillennialist view of the "second coming" of Christ.

The part about Christ returning on a stallion--and a white one--is taken from Revelation 19. However, most Christians interpret that passage symbolically. For many, it represents the triumph of Christianity over the pagan Roman empire and the cult of emperor worship in the fourth century C.E.

Barbara R.
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Old 19 January 2007, 01:51 AM
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He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:

I am the Alpha and the Omega
And an honorary Theta. But that Delta House is a disgrace to campus.
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Old 19 January 2007, 02:11 AM
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THIS IS NOT A JOKE; SOMEONE WILL CALL YOU BY PHONE OR WILL SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING THAT YOU WERE WAITING TO HEAR.
Wow - I didn't forward it or anything and then out of the blue, someone returned my call about fixing my stove.

OMGOMG!!! eleventyone11!!111

Seriously - can we set our expectations any lower?

If you do this you will get a letter in the mail, sometime.. about something... that's related to you.. or someone you know... or who used to live at your address .. or next door... probably.

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Old 19 January 2007, 02:24 AM
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LOL. I'd missed that aspect. You will get a call you were already waiting for anyway? What a POWERFUL missive this is!
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Old 19 January 2007, 02:44 AM
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This is truly great. Thanx ever so for posting it. I shall await the day with bated breath.

I worked with a woman who had a bumper sticker that read something like: "In the event of the Rapture, this car will be driverless."

I dunno.

I think of myself as a pretty articulate person, not often at a loss for words. But there are simply no words to describe what I feel upon reading the above piece, or remembering my workmate's bumper sticker. Short words, commonly thought of as Anglo-Saxon words, leap to my lips. Expletives, ugly and descriptive, follow. It is all unsatisfactory, since what I want - what most of us want, I suspect - is to have the deep, abiding, delightful satisfaction of knowing -- of SEEING THEM LEARN IT -- that these dorks will one day understand they are not only wrong, but foolishly, sappily, dorkily, blindly, idiotically, stupidly childishly wrong.

*sigh*

See? I told you that I am at a loss for words.
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Old 19 January 2007, 02:47 AM
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I shall await the day with bated breath.
I love it when people use the correct spelling of "bated". Almost makes the glurge worthwhile, just to read that response.
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Old 19 January 2007, 03:18 AM
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True... when I see "baited" breath I suddenly think of the old classic...

Nobody loves me,
Everybody hates me,
Guess I'll go eat worms...
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Old 19 January 2007, 06:27 PM
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Icon215 Ahh...the wisdom of bumper stickers.

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I worked with a woman who had a bumper sticker that read something like: "In the event of the Rapture, this car will be driverless."
Coincidentally, I work with a woman who has a bumper sticker that reads: "When the rapture comes, can I have your car?"
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Old 22 January 2007, 05:40 PM
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He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud.


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I will be your knight in shining armor...
...riding across the desert on a fine Arab charger...

Dawn--emotional rescue--Storm
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Old 22 January 2007, 06:40 PM
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The elders remove their crowns.



For some reason i misread that as 'The elders remove their clothes'. For a moment i thought this glurge was gonna become interesting.
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Old 22 January 2007, 06:42 PM
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You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you.
A trumpet?
A choir?
A choir of trumpets?
You don't know, but you want to know
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North.
South.
East.
West.
Sounds like one of those old text only games from the Commodore 64 era.

Go North
Cannot go north.
Go west
A horse is blocking your way
Ask rider to move
Cannot ask God to move.
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Old 22 January 2007, 06:58 PM
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Maybe that's what the glurge is based on.
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