The One Who'll Really 'have the last laugh' (at the culmination of a noteworthy 'generation' 's privileged and unique moment in history)

Though it's a well-worn cliche, and then some...it's no untruth to repeat the biblical declaration, one uttered by None Other than Jesus Christ Himself (in His famous 'Olivet'/Mount of Olives Endtime pronunciations) as recorded in various of the 'synoptic gospels', i.e. those of Matthew, Mark and Luke...

This generation will not pass away...till all these things be fulfilled.

What kind of things? Hey, that'd take a whole lotta time I simply don't have this evening, but suffice to say it doubtless includes any and all of the kinda stuff the Master'd presently been 'rattling off'(no disrespect intended, simply the most convenient phraseology to convey my point!)...

...to His blessed, chosen Twelve...

i.e. the likes of 'wars and rumours of wars'...'kingdoms rising against kingdoms'...'famines, plagues and pestilences'...'false prophets and Christs/Messiahs'...

...and ultimately a day and age in which 'brother (and no doubt sister) will betray brother (and no doubt sister), to death, parents will betray children and children [their] parents [to death]'...

...and [w]hen there will be great tribulation, such as never was since there was a nation...

...a special moment in time, in fact, in which this gospel of the kingdom [would] be preached unto the entire world...

...and then the end will [most surely - make no mistake about it] come...

So  those looking somewhat askance at present-day geopolitical developments across our globe, may well find somewhat cute a certain American President's seemingly inimitable ability to not only pull off one heckuva electoral upset in Presidential Election 2016 - for the inside story/scoop thereupon I can only suggest the intrepid reader 'visit' and spend quality time upon my 42-page 'insider' posted herein upon August the 22nd, 2016 - but at this stage looks seriously set to repeat his success in little over one year's time...'despite the odds' of such a thing occurring...

And whether in regards to that, or simply vis-a-vis 'the Donald's' seemingly endless ability to pull success 'out of the ashes of defeat' (to quote Henry Higgins' immortalized words to Eliza Doolittle in 'My Fair Lady') in all sorts of various and sundry arenas and situations...

guess what, folks? Yep, he'll not 'have the last laugh'...no sirree!

That privileged place/position has already - long since  - been taken up by One Who brooks no rivals ...the Almighty Himself, in point of fact...

For somewhere He has declared, in laying out the trajectory of His Second Advent to our troubled orb - "without sin, for salvation...to those eagerly awaiting Him"...

...and moreover regarding the conditions to accompany that blessed time, about which apparently the sacred Scriptures have more to say than about any other topic, that at that solemn time

the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the [A]rchangel, and with the trump [sic] of God...

And elsewhere (a couple epistles back) the Apostle Paul, in likewise specifying the great and long-foretold return of Jesus the Christ for His own, declares:

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (sic):

for the trumpet shall sound...

after which believers throughout the ages, whether dead or still alive to witness Jesus' Second Coming, will be whisked 'up together in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air'...

...and thus shall...ever be with the Lord...

Folks, do I happen to believe that 'it's just a coincidence' that ye good ole King James Bible happens to be the one and only version which still renders this particular passage in this oh so particular way?

Believe it or not, I don't...and nor should you...

And no, I'm not too childlike to happen to think that it's not so much a backhanded compliment at the tenure of President Donald J Trump as it is the Omniscient One's way of - oh so subtly - informing us all of the approximate time of His return to Planet Earth, whilst notifying/putting upon notice a certain Mr Trump as to

Who will ultimately have the very last laugh...

Nuff Said!

Anne Frank: True Heroine of Yesteryear...In her Memory after learning today she would've turned 90 sometime last week...

Coming Out (as a former left-winger): Part Two: Some info that might well amaze you - esp. if you're still of my former (political/ideological) persuasion...

Assuming you've already read part one - on my other blogsite, i.e.
http://davidedwinisms.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/) - and if you haven't, definitely do so prior to reading this (as it simply won't make proper sense otherwise)...it's the June 13th blogpost...

Having said all the foregoing (upon my other blogsite, in that aforementioned blogpost, that is)...

I still subscribe - as did/do many if not most of those aforementioned individuals, and vast swathes of those living in those many and various former communist nations, I've little doubt - to an essential 'egalitarian', 'left-of-centre' economic view/perspective of things...

...though ultimately I simply cannot get past an incredible, almost breathtaking point conceded by none other than the *co-author of communism/marxism, Karl Marx himself...

Going on the premise/theory/presupposition that when folk call/consider themselves 'left-wing' they are essentially adhering to/declaring their allegiance to the notion that the world's wealth/goods ought ideally be 'equally' distributed to/shared amongst all folk everywhere (as far as conceivably possible, anyhow) - or, as Marx himself either stated it or effectively characterized it, 'from each according to his (or her) means, to each according to his (or her) need'...

...and not to the rather messy and extremely unpleasant accretions (of totalitarian control etc) that oftentimes adhere to the pejoratively-used term/label 'communist' (and consequently to all those who themselves adhere to that view of the world/reality)...

...isn't it rather curious how/that Karl Marx - evidently a university dropout as well as anti-semitic (for those keeping score nowadays...i.e. for impartial souls who are keenly aware that indulging in el typical historical revisionism as is so much the rage these days just might occasionally throw up/ expose a few of one's own iconic 'untouchables')

- was only able to find/locate one historical instance whereby 'communism' had ever been shown to 'work'...

Citing the wonderful demonstration of mutual benevolence so powerfully on display in the Early (Christian) Church - and doubtless having in mind such potent examples/instances as those recorded in the Book of Acts (of the Apostles), to wit Acts 2: 44-45; and 4: 32-34-37, as illustrations of what he termed **'primitive communism'...

I personally find it more than just a little intriguing that - in Marx' own view - the one and only historical instance of (such) effectively conducted/successfully achieved socialism/communism is one whereby his theorem (if we accept for the sake of argument that it is truly an instance thereof)...

...came about, not by a top-down governmental edict or diktat, but spontaneously, from the grass-roots up...

...which just may go some way to explaining why onlookers throughout the then known world charged its proponents with having 'turned the world upside down'...

*As, of course - for those with historical memory - the Communist Manifesto was co-authored by Friedrich Engels.

**Whether due to its historical antiquity or (more likely) due to his belief that it represented a rather formative, as in 'inchoate', example of his own pet theorem (of marxism/communism).