Quote Originally Posted by Libertytree View Post
With the advancement of time, things move much more swiftly, per Sparky's notation of the Roman empire vs the British empire. It didn't take long for the USSR to fall but reasserting itself has taken quite a bit of time.

I don't know how this translates to the future of the US but it seems the pace at which it could happen has shortened considerably. Once the writing is on the wall it's just a matter of it hitting that tipping point and no matter how long TPTB try and salvage it or prolong it the end is a forgone conclusion.
Exactly right. The timescale of old does not apply today. Look at an exponential curve upward. With less time the climb increases enormously. Speed of communication, transportation, computation and deliberation makes the world a faster-moving and more dangerous place. We have not seen it recently but the events of WW2 times 1000 in a timeframe less than one fifth is now possible. Once the big one starts, the flashes of nuclear annihilation will make postwar Germany or Japan look like good old days.

The trapper is laying snares all over the place right now. Trip up the right one and they all spring. Here is what it will look like:

Rev 6:4 And another horse went out, red. And it was given to the one sitting on it to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another. And a great sword was given to him.
Rev 6:5 And when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and the one sitting on it having a balance in his hand. [judgment- hunger & slavery]
Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.
Rev 6:7 And when He opened the fourth seal, I heard a voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come and see.
Rev 6:8 And I saw, and behold, a pale green horse, and the name of the one sitting on it was Death; and Hades followed after him. And authority was given to them to kill over the fourth of the earth with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.