Well Bob you certainly have asked a tough question for me to answer but I will answer the best I can with what understanding of it that I have! I keep hearing how the world is sinking down in more and more sinfulness and the Book of Daniel and Revelations explains to me that it will be so in the last days! I hear from the ministers and other Christians that we need to be saved and ready at all times to be caught up to Jesus in the air, whether dead or alive in Christ, so we will be in our Savior's presence forever more! As for as me personally, I believe Jesus is coming soon which will bring the end of the age as we know it! I believe Jesus is at the door and God is ready to open it for Him to come and catch His faithful saints away from the great tribulation coming upon all the earth!
Betty say it isn't so !!!!!!!!!!!!! Just kidding you are right it does feel lately like a runaway train, but Betty don't you just want to hang your head out the cabin window lean hard on the whisle while the pastor is shoveling all that tender knowing full well the tracks are out up ahead anyway? I feel like this more and more everyday and I think it's healthy! Some of us have been waiting for this fight our whole lives knowing our purpose was not moving forward and wondering why? Looking around the world today it finally starts to make a little sense.
Darkness is coming more and more but as long as we, as believers and worshipers of Christ Jesus are here, we are keeping the anti-Christ from appearing on the scene, but he will before anyone realizes it and then it will be too late, as we saints have already gone Home and our spirits of love and our prayers for those who will be left behind will not hold the anti-Christ back any longer, as they will go up with us! Now, I am not the wisest person on this earth but I studied the Word of God, diligently, for 20 plus years and with God's leading I gained a lot of knowledge and wisdom of the scriptures more so, then I did in the first 50 years of my life, although I was in church services from a young child but didn't know Jesus, personally, like I do now! Praise God that my mother and grandpa took my brother and I to church as often as we could go! We rode in a wagon with Fuzzy and Wary-Wort, our horses, pulling it! Dad was never much of a church goer nor a believer in Jesus, but did get saved before his death, he said, so we can only believe that he did, as he did change some from what he had been, as a filthy talking and strict father, who thought he knew it all! He was a bitter and angry man from what his childhood had been...they nearly starved or froze many times after his father left them as very young children! Aunt Grace, Dad, and Uncle John! They had a very difficult life growing up and dad was a hard worker, so I believe this was the way he loved us by providing a living for his own children! Mom took care of the farm, too, but dad never helped her with the cooking or cleaning of the house! We children did when old enough to help!
I didn't know we were keeping anything from taking place exactly when and where it's already been planned to happen but I see no harm in believing that. Did you find your purpose in this life Betty? Are you sure you let Him use you the way you were created to serve? I haven't, and that might not get me a ticket to bail in the rapture although I think it's written I will be with you and we won't be suffering anything like Jesus did. But for me to be alive now, this close and this willing to fight! arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr to be swept up to watch the game and not participate just don't seem right... does it Chief?
I got off the subject of the question you asked, so will try to get back to it! I have to be careful in my older age or second childhood, that I seem to be going through, for I fall too easily and can't get up without a cushion for my knees to kneel on and something to pull myself up with as I lift up on my right leg! I have COPD and Osteo-Arthritis and take meds for my breathing and for my stomach and depression which affects me and many in my family! I have prayed for healing and know God can heal me in Jesus' name, but so far has not, although I am better now than I have been for quite awhile, but just cannot do what I used to do!
:sad: But yet, I thank Jesus for my being able to get out of bed and being able to still walk and do a few things on my own1 I just pray I never have to go into a nursing home and that is one prayer I ask of God to take me before I have to be an invalid! I try to serve my Lord as much as I possibly can, but get into trouble many times, like Jesus, I am not above my Master, so we Christians will suffer the consequences of our faith when we do not waiver, for too many don't want to be reminded of their sins and that there is a God Who judges now and will on Judgement Day!
Betty its nice you are with us, I wish He would take a load off your suffering, and I'm with you when it comes to not being a burden on anyone, family or non. You served fine... you got a little fire and brimstone left with that Judgement day stuff and sins 
As believers that's tough for us late comers to handle, we like to focus on today and not 50 years of the past. My skeletons are still falling out of the closet!
My ex was very unsympathetic to my illnesses and even my children did for awhile and by listening to him, they believed me to be a hypocondriac, but I am not, for when I say I am ill, I am, and I wouldn't lie as I am a Child of the King and God's Kids shouln't lie or deceive anyone! Please listen to your wife and tell her you love her by holding her in your arms and letting her know how you feel in loving her as your wife! Keep her happy and she will return that love fullfold, like Jesus! Help her to understand that detecting is your hobby, but don't go overboard with it until she fully understands and has not fear of your being unfaithful to her, as many husbands who are gone too long wives are suspicious of being unfaithful! Put God first and then all other things will fall into place in time! Sympathy for others is part of Christian faith and love, for Jesus cares for us and carries our burdens when we ask Him to do so! So give a listening ear and help your wife to understand that you love her, (which I hope you do) and that you are faithful in your love for her! I hope I haven't gotten too personal but I care and wouldn't want your marriage to fail because of your liking to detect too much, as I've been there and done that, but my ex left me for another woman, for he had always been unfaithful through our whole marriage of almost 33 years but I just didn't know or refused to know, as on one wants to believe that your husband or wife has been unfaithful! Praise God we have a Savior and Lord to keep us on the right road of life and helps us to keep from straying off it by reading and studying His Holy Word which is the absolute truth! Amen!
Ma Betty
i'm ready if you are.
She cannot imagine what could possibly be so attractive about digging in the dirt for 9 hours and honestly I just don't know where the time went (plus I left my phone in the truck) When I got home I dumped my sack of black change, two rings and pendant in the sink to wash and she would say "that's it" Oh I love her to death, and she cracks me up but how many of us MD'ers think a 9 hour hunt is too long? Too long for my spouse but apparently barely long enough for me. Yes I already agreed to some kind of moderation with my new hobby, perhaps it will wear off soon... BUT I HOPE NOT!
May God Bless! Amen! 
