THAT'S the point, Fly. Are there identifiable aspects to some of these incidents that might be addressed BEFORE the next occurrence. And by so addressing them, might that next occuance - and others - be averted?
Teaching people that they will escape tribulation by rapture has very dangerous possibilities:
1. Assured that they will not undergo tribulation, people neglect to prepare themselves for it. Hence the flippant attitude of many, "I'm not looking for Antichrist...I'm looking for Christ!" If they're not bothering to know the events to look for, it's fairly certain they won't be able to see them.
2 When tribulation events occur, people will deny it is even happening. In fact, they'll have proof it's not happening. If the events were truly associated with the tribulation, they wouldn't be here. They'll be able to use their very presence as proof that tribulation hasn't begun.
3. When it becomes undeniable that momentous events are occurring, and the rapture has not removed them from the circumstances, people will be inclined to reject all previously held beliefs as having been proven false and unreliable.
4. Evangelism during the tribulation will be difficult, at best. Scoffers will be able to claim it's superstitious hooey i.e. - "First you tell.me to believe in order to escape the bad times. Now that the bad times are here, you're saying I still need to believe. Your silly superstitions were wrong then, so they're just as wrong now!"
Pre-trib eschatology, along with its popularity in the mass culture, may be the most dangerous teaching/movement ever to arise in the past 2,000 years.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get raptured" is not sound teaching.
Beginning in Colonial times... Number of treaties made with Original Nations - 600+ Number of treaties NOT broken by Colonists/Americans - 1 (negotiated by William Penn in Pennsylvania Colony).
RE: the much awaited results on the Ferguson fiasco
THAT'S the point, Fly.Are there identifiable aspects to some of these incidents that might be addressed BEFORE the next occurrence.
And by so addressing them, might that next occuance - and others - be averted?