Thanks for your hearfelt words Dave.
Bob, your comment gave me more to think on, thanks.
I very much agree that the end is not what many are expecting. It's something I was shown after the most difficult time I've experienced thus far. It was a time when love was in short supply, and doubt was in abundance. It all culminated in a great humbling and new understanding of what the love of God truly means. It's been almost two years, and I'm still in awe from having had such an experience.
Personally I rebel against all labels assigned to the worship of God, UR included. For me, what makes perfect sense is a winning combination and balance, of both spirit and truth, thus eliminating all the confusion that doctrines of men offer. A slow and painfull road to nowhere.
Recalling something I read somewhere, paraphrasing, - Christians are taught Jesus is coming back soon, and boy is he mad.! We're all afflicted with Jonathan Edwards' ”Angry God” Syndrome,, which in my opinion is in complete opposition to the God of love I have come to know, and is the love manifested in our great teacher and example, Jesus Christ.
Jesus came in peace not to destroy men, but to save them. He came wielding the sword of truth and spirit of God's word and not a physical sword. Therefore I can't reconcile anything but a belief that the divine judgments that are coming upon the earth are meant to restore all things, not to destroy all things. The law destroys the sin, not the sinner, and the law's judgments destroy the sin from the earth, rather than destroying the earth itself. There's a whole lot of words in the book that attest to this truth, from what I've been given to understand.
I think on Gods Glory and how he best sees himself being glorified in the end of this age and the ages to come, and it settles the issue for me.
In the past my bouts of preoccupation with end times was due to my fear of it, born of ignorance. Now my thoughts of it are not a preoccupation of any degree of importance. Although I believe I'm living in a time of great importance, just what that means is still illusive to me. Besides, I've always felt that way., and often wondered if anyone else did.
Honestly, I do wish I could live until the end of this age, because I know it's going to be extraordinarily magnificent, and I have no fear or reservations of it being otherwise.