There is only ONE LAST Trump.

 And who shall be worthy? The biggest gay basher, the KKK hateful zealot, or the abortion clinic bomber and murderer of doctors, the Christian Soldier who blew up babies arms and called it collateral damage?

1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Mat 24:29  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Mat 24:30  And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Mat 24:31  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

IF and IF and IF the book was true or partially true, this whole pre trib bullshit is so preposterous it's not even funny. 

American Hubris at its best form.  

Mixed that with Ultimate Greed and 

1Ti 6:10  For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

and you have all the answer you need.

There was no pre-trib  pre 1800, pre America.

For all the heathens and atheists out there :) well all the non zealots so called Christians anyway pre-trib is this magical belief that the "saints" meaning the preachers and believers of pre-trib of course believe that they shall not suffer with the rest of this wicked world they are forced to live in.  Unlike the First Christians ( and I would say the ONLY Christians that ever were) they won't have to be fed to lions, boiled in oil, butchered and quartered by gladiators, burnt at the stake NO NO NO they are SPECIAL.

Pre trib Mid trib BS if there is ONE rapture and that is a big if it is definitely a post trib.

Now enough about the contentions and million divisions and schisms of every single religion on earth let's look at the fallacies of this logic.

In politics and religion obviously an enormously dark and thick cloud of greed and ignorance has blinded everyone.

Whether these guys are serious or not many of them are laughing all the way to the bank with this idea.  Plus it also says We are so much better than you and we don't deserve to suffer. It has all the signs of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Alanis is not the DSM V here but here it is (in fact NPD won't  be in the DSM V)

Dear momma's boy I know you've had your butt licked by your mother
I know you've enjoyed all that attention from her
And every woman graced with your presence after
Dear narcissus boy I know you've never really apologized for anything
I know you've never really taken responsibility
I know you've never really listened to a woman

Dear me-show boy I know you're not really into conflict resolution
Or seeing both sides of every equation
Or having an uninterrupted conversation

And any talk of healthiness
And any talk of connectedness
And any talk of resolving this
Leaves you running for the door

(why why do I try to love you
Try to love you when you really don't want me
To)repeat

Dear egotist boy you've never really had to suffer any consequence
You've never stayed with anyone longer than ten minutes
You'd never understand anyone showing resistance
Dear popular boy I know you're used to getting everything so easily
A stranger to the concept of reciprocity
People honor boys like you in this society

And any talk of selflessness
And any talk of working at this
And any talk of being of service
Leaves you running for the door

(why why do I try to help you try to help you
When you really don't want me to)

The American flavour of Christianity to me

at least the one we see in the media anyway and in so many forum comments and in so many churches

is the most horrible gut retching stench that rises to high heaven and lowers to deep hell.

No wonder they have to fight so many "enemies" they create them if they don't have any and fight them in the name of God and at the trillion dollars profit of arms manufacturers.

This is how one becomes a "strong economy" apparently .

ANOTHER WORD that has changed greatly through the ages

economy (n.)

1530s, "household management," from L. oeconomia, from Gk. oikonomia "household management, thrift," from oikonomos "manager, steward," from oikos "house" (cognate with L. vicus "district," vicinus "near;" O.E. wic "dwelling, village;" see villa) + nomos "managing," from nemein "manage" (see numismatics). The sense of "wealth and resources of a country" (short for political economy) is from 1650s.

Personally I would prefer οἶνος nomia to οἶκος nomia but then again that is another story :)

The only problem with managing the "house" is when you start thinking the whole fucking planet is your little oyster now and you can put your nose in everyone's business in the name of American House Intere$t$ aka Foreign Policies and aka Minipax managed by Minitrue without forgetting of course the Wonderful Ministry of Love they have in Guantanamo or other rendition places because water boarding of course is the ultimate expression of love we all know or at least self-love which is also called masturbation.   

American House Intere$t$ were also very well taken care of by Mc Carthy, Cointelpro, PsyOps and WarOps and all the amazing and discrete tools of Room 101.  Funnily these things which keep re-surging but only years later so they SEEM to be things of the past but no one can find a death certificate on them or a body either.

and the mighty multinationals
have monopolized the oxygen
so it's as easy as breathing
for us all to participate

yes they're buying and selling
off shares of air
and you know it's all around you
but it's hard to point and say "there"
so you just sit on your hands
and quietly contemplate  ~ Ani DiFranco

So let's all sit on our hand and quietly contemplate waiting for a rapture or some other pseudo-dream that will keep us quiet and busy while the real work is done.

 This part is only for the extra geeks do not read past this line :)

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οἰκονομέω

oikonomeō

Thayer Definition:

1) to be a steward

2) to manage the affairs of a household

3) to manage, dispense, order, regulate

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οἰκονόμος

oikonomos

Thayer Definition:

1) the manager of household or of household affairs

1a) especially a steward, manager, superintendent (whether free-born as was usually the case, a freed-man or a slave) to whom the head of the house or proprietor has intrusted the management of his affairs, the care of receipts and expenditures, and the duty of dealing out the proper portion to every servant and even to the children not yet of age

1b) the manager of a farm or landed estate, an overseer

1c) the superintendent of the city’s finances, the treasurer of a city (or of treasurers or quaestors of kings)

2) metaphorically the apostles and other Christian teachers and bishops and overseers

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οἶκος

oikos

Thayer Definition:

1) a house

1a) an inhabited house, home

1b) any building whatever

1b1) of a palace

1b2) the house of God, the tabernacle

1c) any dwelling place

1c1) of the human body as the abode of demons that possess it

1c2) of tents, and huts, and later, of the nests, stalls, lairs, of animals

1c3) the place where one has fixed his residence, one’s settled abode, domicile

2) the inmates of a house, all the persons forming one family, a household

2a) the family of God, of the Christian Church, of the church of the Old and New Testaments

3) stock, family, descendants of one

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νόμος

nomos

Thayer Definition:

1) anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command

1a) of any law whatsoever

1a1) a law or rule producing a state approved of God

1a1a) by the observance of which is approved of God

1a2) a precept or injunction

1a3) the rule of action prescribed by reason

1b) of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents

1c) the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, especially the precept concerning love

1d) the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT