The Day is Coming

This week, I spent hours on the phone trying to get something straightened out with my online store.  I don't know about most folks, but it seems in dealing with technology glitches, if it goes on too long, I have an almost visceral reaction and simply have to walk away.  I'm not talking about figuring out a new blog post or adding photos, even web designing doesn't cause this internal melt-down.  It was a situation in which the web host could not resolve the issue because everything was fine on their end.  It wasn't something I had entered wrong, and the gateway system was all fine on their end . . . So after a bazillion prompts and eleventy-seven special one time access codes, the problem was determined to be "cookies" and remained insolvable.  That's when I could feel my adrenaline glands squeezing into a state of collapse.

As I pondered my next move, which amounts to completely moving my online store, another thought came to mind.

There is a day coming in which there will be no choices, no buying or selling, and no human on the other end of the phone even acting like they are giving me the time of day.  I've already noticed, some web hosting sites do not provide phone service unless one has purchased a premium plan, and by premium plan, I mean the top dollar plan they offer.  One plan I checked into particularly frustrated me, in that I have to purchase the plan before I can even get any answers to my questions.  That reminded me of Nancy Pelosi's statement regarding passing the Health Care Bill so they could read it, and that's just been a great thing!

I don't want to buy something to find out what's in it.  I want to be able to ask questions and make a knowledgeable decision.  I guess the one consolation is the feeling that probably before it comes down to no choice in purchasing plans, the inability to buy and sell without a mark will have already excluded me from web business.  The realization hit me . . . We talk about the tribulation and we acknowledge it will occur, and many of us have already abandoned the notion that a sudden escape of a "rapture" will take place before the tribulation, but the reality is, our freedoms have been greatly reduced and our choices are already disappearing.

We act like the alarm is going to come on one morning announcing the Great Tribulation begins today . . . but that isn't the case.  Creation happens in an instant, chaos and anarchy are the result of disorder.  The great tribulation is falling into place by the erosion of society.  As we talk about the end of days, we are told the tribulation precedes the Second Coming.  It's time to realize, the day is coming.