We're going to make sure we're not the last.

the best is yet to come

I grew up in late 80s and early 90s...and even as a kid had a feeling that I was living in the remnants of a once greater society.

Earlier I replied in a different post, looking at the overall scheme of things, the above pic is where the white hat agenda intends to return us. It will take time to get there, but in the name of God it will happen.

We have been electing politicians with communist ideology for a long time and never realized it. The Great Awakening will succeed and return us to days of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

In President Trump's words, "We will drive out the globalist, cast out the communists, Marxist and Fascist. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country We will route the fake news media and we will Liberate America from these villains once and for all."

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110630158854743008

We're passing through the most difficult terrain in human history. All of history, particularly God's providential dispensation, has reached its conclusion, and we are passing through the most turbulent, difficult period in history.

Not the darkest period. Rather, the time when the most dark emerges because the light has become the brightest. And so, we are in the midst of real and serious tribulation.

A lot of believers think that the 'tribulation' foretold of in scripture is something fantastic, supernatural or orwellian. But that's only because such believers have lived, for the most part, through the most blessed periods of grace.

To anyone who lived through the Soviet purges, the Chinese revolution, even China today, or seen their families and communities murdered and destroyed under totalitarian regimes that arose in the 20th century like mushrooms after rain, to such people, the tribulation has been 100% real.

The point is this: humanity MUST pass through this difficult terrain. But it's tribulation because evil is being exposed, and purged. The beast becomes savage when it is cornered. The nightmare becomes the most terrifying when it emerges in clear daylight.

So do not mistake this difficult terrain as if it is the end. No, we're passing through this. yes, there has been and will be further collateral damage. But the future.... God has been preparing the best future for humanity for our entire history. And THIS is why scripture tells us, blessed is he who perseveres and overcomes, for he shall win the crown of glory.

If we realize now how good we had it, we can be confident we will NOT be the LAST, but the FIRST.

Those are clearly boomers. (Look at the car and the bikes/trikes) I contend that GenX was the last generation to truly enjoy the freedoms that our country offers. Granted, they had already started manipulating and brainwashing us, but it was a long way from what we see today. I was a teenager in the 80s, and I can't imagine a better time to be a teenager. As icing on the cake, we also get to see all of the evil plans that they had for us utterly destroyed along with the birth of an even greater USA.

Nice cowboy hat driving the pedal car.

Thanks for doing everything you could to preserve it.

My kids live like this now. They'll be unicorns in the nursing home. 😆

I grew up in a Big City. In 7th grade, I and my friends, some in 5th and 6th grade, would walk about a mile and a half to the stadium to see rock concerts. Tickets were about $7.00. At the end of the concert, we’d all walk home. It was 11:30-12 midnight. We had no parental supervision, no older siblings with us. We were all street smart and nothing bad ever happened.

There was a heliport a few blocks from my house. I could see the helicopters fly in and out all day. I resolved to go on a ride one day. I walked over there when I was 10 and inquired about ticket prices. $11. Ok. The following summer, I saved up $22 for myself and my 6 year old brother to go. We walked over there on a sunny Saturday and got on the ticket line. Bro got scared at the last minute so I went with some tourists from the line. No one asked me where my parent or guardian was. No one had to sign anything. No one needed ID. My brother was fine by himself for the few minutes of the ride. No one tried to kidnap him. No one asked him where his parents were.

These memories are from a completely different world. Heading to the other side of the city to go to a special park with water slides and horseback riding? The lot of you pre-puberty? No problem! Again, no older sibling or any adult supervision. As long as your parent knew what kids you were with, knew the kids, had their phone numbers, you were good to go. We all had keen senses for weirdos. We knew that “bums” (as they were called back then) were wild cards and to be avoided. We knew to keep our heads on swivels. This type of freedom, and little kids having this type of responsibility for their own safety is unimaginable today.

Dayum! This looks like my street 55 years ago.

Amen

I live in a nice neighborhood and I wish I could have it like this.

One of my best childhood memories was buying a ticket May 1970 for a Cubs game in August right before I started high school. I took the bus from the suburbs and went by myself. I was in a box sear 10 rows behind the Cub’s dugout that cost $3.50.

Ferguson Jenkins pitched a 9 inning 2-0 shutout.

Today you would need to rob a bank for that ticket and be lucky to see a starting pitcher do six innings.

the world you grew up in no longer exists

I had a little car like that. It was blue and I had to peddle it to make it go.

Nostalgia is a defense mechanism. Your mind body and spirit are telling you things have gotten worse and you need to go back.

It was still a life within a fake system, whether they allowed us to live happy or not.