People stop blogging for a variety of reasons, and they don't always announce to the world what those reasons are. If I stop posting for a significant period of time (which, for me, would be a week or more), it might mean I've fallen ill, or I've lost my access to a computer, or I've been abducted and taken to Guantanamo Bay or Outer Mongolia. It probably doesn't mean I've gotten fed up with the blogosphere and just quit. If that ever happens I'd probably go out with more of a flourish, like leaving up a blank screen with a cryptic message, or something similar.

There are always discreet inquiries the curious and concerned could make. My e-mail address is down there, linked at "contact Desert Cat", or messages left in the comments may be answered by family members.

But there is another possibility too, and one that some of you may use to brand me as a nut. So be it. See, I'm looking forward to the imminent return of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Like countless generations of believers, by the way. It's part of our faith. However, there is more reason to believe that we are on the very portal of this event today than there has been in over two thousand years of history. I am not going to make this post a rehash of all of those reasons. For a very good look at the case for this particular season, I urge you to read Herb Peter's book Recommendation 666 and his website, Fulfilled Prophecy. So that other possibility is that I am just not around anymore.

I wish you luck, my friends. Because if this is the case, things are going to get really wierd for you in the next few years. And possibly...unpleasant.

If I'm no longer here for this reason, don't expect too much uproar in the media. In fact, don't expect much but soothing platitudes. Prominent Christian leaders--ministers of the major Protestant denominations, Catholic clergy, and popular church movements will appear on TV talk shows to demonstrate that nothing so absurd as the "rapture" could have occurred. After all most of *their* congregations are intact. Surely if such an occurence were to have taken place, they and their flocks would all be gone, right? No, these scattered reports of missing persons have some other explanation, and one that probably makes perfect sense.

In fact, immediately after these disturbing rumors have blown over, you can expect to see a new ecumenical movement, a new effort to bring all the world's religions together into one accord to bring a lasting world peace. But the true intent won't be so obvious for a few years yet.

Still, I don't want to delve into the details here. There is much that is not fully clear in terms of the timing and so forth. The events are certain. How they play out is yet to be seen.

There are two places I urge you to go, if you're still curious after all the official explanations have been given. First, this woman has a vast trove of archived articles pertaining to these times. Peruse it while you can. I expect her site, mine, and many similar will disappear in a few short months after we disappear.

And of course, there are my own archives, where I have written on this topic from time to time.

I'm sorry. I wish you were with me. It is not too late, by the way. Receive Jesus and flee into the wilderness. It's going to be one tough row to hoe from here through about 2014.

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