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In order to understand the topic, it is essential to take your time with your Bible. You must use an accurate translation (the KJV if you speak English) and you must plod through references. Time, times, and half a time are precise, definable concepts, but we hardly think this way. Understanding that the Sabbath is not just Saturday, and that a week can refer to a multiple of seven, even if it is a week of years (7 years, like a decade is to us 10 years) is a great beginning. It helps us tell time God's way. The Isrealites were in Isreal 490 years- but 70 times they ignored the sabbatical year, so that God sent them into captivity in Babylon. II Chronicles 36:21. Daniel was reading his Bible (Jeremiah 25:11) and, he understood ( read: took seriously what God said) that the seventy years prophesied was nearly accomplished. Daniel 9:2. If God says it, he means it, and intends us to understand. It is therefore essential that we use the plain sense of the text, and never read into it what is not there.
After hearing a couple of friends rave about the crime novels of Irish author Gene Kerrigan, I knew I'd have to read one sooner or later, and this brings me to Dark Times in the City, a gritty crime novel that explores the difficulties of remaining neutral in a corrupt damaged society where taking a moral stand can prove to be expensive. Danny Callaghan is a 32-year-old ex-con who's been out of prison for just 7 months. As an ex-con, he's considered a success since he's chosen the straight life. Callaghan lives in a nest of low-rent, drug-infested flats called 'the hive' and is holding his life together with a marginal job as a driver which allows him to tune out and remain independent. Ironically, he drives around visiting toffs and business execs whose nightly excursions tend to end in vomit-soaked drunken binges while Callaghan hangs out and acts responsible. One night, he's minding his own business in a pub and having a quiet pint when two men walk in to make a hit. The first assassin spotted his target and began to move forward.
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