So back to the story about dad's house in the pines project. Dad bought a nice little piece of property in the pines, half way between where we live and my older sister, so it's about 8 hours away. I took a friend with me and we drove over to spend a week helping dad build the house. Dad had decided to design and build it himself.
One evening while the 3 of us sat in dad's camp trailer eating and having a nice Bible study, dad mentioned Medio Persia and I must have had the deer in the headlight look because he said, "you know what that is" and I just shrugged my shoulders. He then asked how it was that I didn't know. And thus my new journey began and why I'm writing this on the internet to share.
It really started because I didn't want to not have an answer if dad asked me another question like that. I decided to go read my Bible a bit better and figure out just what Medio Persia was. Sure, I'd heard the term before but couldn't have given a Bible study on it. Of course I had to go to Daniel and starting reading. For the first time in my adult life, I was really digging into Bible prophecy for myself and not just relying on my memory bank from what I was taught growing up. As I began reading it with the mindset of really understanding it for myself, the Holy Spirit was hard at work on me. This was the 2008 and I also found myself, for the first time, paying particular attention to politics. Always before, my choice of presidential candidates had been very clear-cut because I'm what they call a "Reagan conservative", Reagan was the first president I got to vote for in college. The 2008 election was not obvious to me since I don't believe Macain is a real conservative and I had no idea who this Obama character was so I needed information to make my decision. The combination of reading prophecy and paying attention to world politics more in-depth merged together and convicted me of the times in which we live. I know Adventists believe Christ will come soon, but I'm convinced we are truly living in the toenails of the image from Daniel 2. If you don't know what that means, I'll be posting more about my actual Bible study adventures.
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