Lions and Tigers and... a Dinosaur?

Today I got a slick invitation in the mail inviting me to a "Prophecy Seminar." I took a picture to show you. Multi headed leopards with wings, a dinosaur with strange points shooting out his head, a bear with ribs in his teeth and a winged lion in full color on the post card. Scary Stuff. The Key to Your Future!"

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It is all FREE! Free admission, Free study materials... Nothing to buy at all. Seating is limited.

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The return address doesn't inspire any credibility. "Seminars Unlimited." The address is in Texas which makes me even more suspicious. Not much good has come out of Texas lately. I digress. It also says it is sponsored by
Signs of the Times, whoever that is.

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The post card goes on to say that when I complete the seminar, I will "really understand the Books of Daniel & Revelation." Specific and dramatic revelations of things to come...not from

psychics... but from the unfailing Word of God.

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Hmmm. Last I tried to read the Book of Revelation it appeared to me that it was open to quite a bit of interpretation. I doubt if anyone will ever "really understand" it. Way back in Catechism

days the teachers didn't dwell on it much. I think it was way beyond us kids. It was billed as the confrontation between good and evil. I remember thinking I just wanted to live a normal life and then die without having to be around for all the crazy stuff.

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No real point in all this. I don't plan to attend. I hope they are not unscrupulous people who are taking advantage of those who do go. Maybe selling "End of Times" kits or something. Or scaring them. "Rousting" people up. ( I was once accused of rousting. It had to do with complaining about the bad water at an apartment where I lived. I "rousted" the other tennants.)

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Just live a good life, people. Treat others well. The Golden Rule. If you do that, your religious beliefs (or not) don't really matter. Even if that final battle comes along. I don't have a chance against the winged lion anyway.