end time signs?

international signs

• just watch the news
• nation vs nation
• wars and rumors of wars

natural signs

• famines
• pestilence
• earthquakes

moral signs

• violence
• as in the days of Noah and Lot (perversion rampant)
• excesses in all areas of sin (lawlessness)

spiritual signs

• false christs (sun moon)
• false prophets
• man of sin revealed (spirit of antichrist)
• occult and satanism (bookstores)
• iniquity will abound
• false doctrines
• harvest
• falling away (love of many will wax cold)

These signs were discussed in the last couple of Wednesday Bible studies. It was a good overview and list. We have had these signs for centuries, but do they seem to be increasing in frequency and intensity?

Here is a list of verses from the Bible: Acts 1.11 John 14.1-3 Gal 4.4 Acts 2.1 Matt 24.1-3 Matt 24.36 Ps 102.16 Is 66.8 Jer 32.36-41 Dan 12.4 Matt 24.4-44 Luke 21.25-36 Acts 2.16-21 1Thess 5.1-6 2Thess 2.1-4 1Tim 4.1-3 2Tim 3.1-5 2Pet 3.1-14 Conclusion: 2Pet 3.10-14 1Thess 4.15-18 (be ready)

spring number 5

Last weekend Lois Ann and i went to Anchorage. Guess what? It was pouring down rain in the mountains. We have about 2 feet of snow in Nikiski on the ground. Near Cooper Landing and in the mountains there was almost no snow on the ground and snow started about half-way up the mountains. Turnagain Pass had about the same amount of snow as us. This has been a very strange and warm winter. It is not like it was in 1888, shown in the photo below. You can click on the photo for a bigger view.

This is a picture of New York during the great blizzard of 1888. My son is an apprentice electrician. I imagine they had a lot of work for electricians in New York.  

kenai peninsula map 

seems like spring again

We just finished about a week of sometimes below 0 weather. Today it is warm once again with temperatures around 30 degrees F ABOVE. We live in God's country here in Nikiski because our temps were 20-30 degrees warmer than Kenai and Soldotna which were near the 10 BELOW mark much of this last week. Maybe Nikiski gets some warm currents from Cook Inlet.

pauls letters

A while back i read that the apostle Paul's letters were placed in the New testament according to the size of each letter because that is the way the Romans arranged authors works in a collection back in those days. The next few months i am reading them according to the order in which they were written:
Galations---------49AD------Acts 13:12
1Thessalonians---51AD------Acts 18:1
2Thessalonians---52AD------Acts 18:1
1Corinthians-----57AD------Acts 19:22,23
2Corinthians-----57AD------Acts 20:1
Romans-----------58AD------Acts 20:2
(After Acts)
Colossians-------61-62AD
Ephesians--------61-62AD
Philemon---------61-62AD
Philippiand------63AD
1Timothy---------63AD
Titus--------------63AD
2Timothy---------67AD

Here is a picture of the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge that i spotted on yahoo today. I grew up in Duluth and this is the main landmark of the city. Duluth is built on a hill and most everyone can see this from their house or by driving to skyline parkway.  

This is a picture from Christmas for Holly. We miss you!! 

10 below

Winter really arrived today. This is the first below zero weather this winter. It has been so warm this winter that we did not expect we would get this kind of weather this year - ha ha.

brain website

This is an interesting website about the brain. You can even take a test to find out what is unusual about your own brain. Lots of interesting pictures of the brain.
Link

Winter is supposed to look like this. This was early winter from a few years ago 

4th spring this winter

Once again the snow was about two feet deep, and once again it has warmed up and it is raining!!! This is probably the 4th time the weather has acted like this, this winter. It has been disappointing to skiers, skaters, snowmobiliers, snowshoers, and especially snowblowers which get clogged up with wet snow. I love hockey and usually we have great ice on our Nikiski rink by Thanksgiving. This year there is barely enough ice to skate safely. Here is a website to see our weather: www.arh.noaa.gov .

happy new year

This is the first blog entry of my first blog written on the first day of the first month of 2005. We actually live in Alaska on the beautiful Kenai peninsula in the community of Nikiski.