Posted by Ben Curran on October 23, 2008 at 13:33:47:
In Reply to: The significance of the Global Economic Slowdown at this point in time and Revelation posted by Elana Janson on October 20, 2008 at 13:13:14:
Thank you, Dr Janson, for putting these events into context.
"And all shipmasters and seafaring men,
sailors and all whose trade is on the sea,
stood far off and cried out as they saw
the smoke of her burning.
'What city was like the Great City?'
And they threw dust on their heads,
as they wept and mourned, crying out,
'Alas, alas, for the Great City,
where all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!'
In one hour she has been laid waste."
(Revelation 18)
As a person who has earned good money contracting as an engineer in the merchant marine during the great shipping boom of the last ten years, I stand on the shore with those seafarers!