HMMMMMM - INTERESTING TAKE ON THE HALF HOUR OF SILENCE IN THE HEAVENS

Very interesting.  I actually ran the numbers in a date/time calculator on google and sure enough....

I have felt a deafening silence since the prophetic days of Ezra Taft Benson - very little terse warning has been given (from heaven) as the world has descended into utter spiritual chaos.  This would at least potentially explain why.  ETB was one of the old guard who did not mince words along with McConkie, N. Eldon Tanner and many others.  After his ministration, there was a marked push to come across as kinder/gentler "let's all get along", more koombiastic in nature. 

I have seen parenting fails and those who try to be friends with the ones they are parenting often fail.  The children often end up in a malaise and often suffer from "failure to launch" (depending on the personality).  Where the parents have been loving - but firm in their approach - the children often are able to fledge and then fly without too many inputs.  Where coddling or "helicoptering" has occurred, the children are often weak and suffer failures upon launch. 

Such is what we seem to have in the Church today - spiritually anemic "children" who are blown about with every wind of doctrine and who have to be assigned sermon topics from an Ensign article because of the lack of doctrinal fortitude.  In the old days as missionaries, you were put on a boat with a return ticket three years later and you were pretty much on your own.  Without international banks to whisk funds to you (it often ended up being without purse nor scrip), cars and so much else, you pretty much HAD to rely on the Spirit to be your guide and it became an adventure from start to finish.  Now, we are coddled and babied all the way along.  This makes for weak adults and weak leaders who do not know how to operate by the Spirit and cave under the first hint of pressure.  I have been reading in the four gospels and now Acts - those guys were total missionary studs.  If you did not get at least one stint in prison or have a good old fashioned stoning under your belt, you missed the boat and did something wrong.

So, we have just been given pretty much the "faith, hope charity" diet for the last 20 years and it has been extremely difficult for me to see and experience.  Possibly, this is the reason - and I have to say that I am definitely curious to see what will happen on March 20, 2015 if there is anything to the mad ravings of this date:

Many of you are aware of the March 20th solar eclipse that falls in the middle of the blood moon tetrad. (For those who don't, I've attached a link).
HOWEVER! Here is an addition that only latter-day saints can make:
We know from Rev 8:1 and D&C 88:95 that there will be silence in the heavens for the space of a half hour after the opening of the seventh seal;

We know from 2 Pet 3:8 and Abr 3:4 that one day to God is a thousand to earth, therefore a half hour = 20 years and 304 days;
President Ezra Taft Benson, who was very outspoken on the Constitution, the failings of governments and man's accountability to keep America as a covenant land, passed away on May 30, 1994, exactly 20 years and 304 days before March 20, 2015. COINCIDENCE?
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Sign Of Judgment? Total Solar Eclipse On March 20th Falls In The Middle Of The Four Blood Red...

The total solar eclipse on March 20th falls on Nisan 1, which is the first day of the first month of the Biblical calendar. According to Jewish tradition, a solar eclipse on...

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Notice that the partial eclipse of 9/13 occurs on 29 Elul which is the date that the stock market is supposed to melt down, per Rabbi Jonathan Cahn of "The Harbinger" fame.  I have to say, I am quite intrigued by it all!