Former US president, Jimmy Carter, has hit 99 years of age. That's one tough cookie!
www.fox5atlanta.com/news/jimmy-carter-hospice-care-year-later-advocates-awareness
It is fairly unusual for men to reach that age, more common for women although still infrequent. In an old blog post years ago I wrote of a dream that a man had in the 1970's regarding presidents of the USA with respect to the end of the age. The information is still available on-line at this page...
www.ubm1.org/?page=presidents
At the time, I mentioned that (if the dream was genuine prophecy) Carter would have to pass on by the time the great tribulation begins, finding my sense of what the dream means agreeing reasonably well with what was written about it (I generally try to discern things before entertaining others' explanations, even that given by the one who had the vision or dream, since it is often, though not always, the case that the dreamer himself does not understand the parable of the dream). All the other presidents in the same row of houses (see the page on the dream) had already passed on. The passage of the houses turns a corner, taking a different direction, suggesting to me at the time that with the passing of all in the first row, including Carter, there would be a great change of direction in the USA or even the world as a whole. Although that was not a strictly incorrect view, it was not accurate in that it is probably not what the dream was primarily about.
In retrospect, it seems more likely that the final house depicted, which would be associated with Obama, indicates the beginning of the end of the USA. I say that because during the time of Obama's second term, the Lord showed me on three occasions that the USA was coming to an end. Perhaps it is coming true. With the deep political, religious and cultural divisions in the USA which we are witnessing, it is difficult to believe that the coming presidential election will not be surrounded by extreme controversy at the very least, perhaps even things much more drastic.
In any case, I still have this deep gut feeling, which generally agrees with what is said about the dream, that the eventual passing of Carter will be a marker of some kind, an event that marks the end of one era and the beginning of another, an era not about a man but about a nation or even the world.
With all that is going on in the world, with the seemingly accelerating advance of time and events, I know it is difficult to keep anxiety at bay, finding myself affected by it from time to time. Nevertheless, we absolutely need to keep trusting in God, for He cannot fail, because failure is not a characteristic of His Spirit and is, therefore, impossible. Looking to man guarantees a flood of fear, but continually looking to the Lord will help to ease that angst.
