----- Original Message -----
From: "Y2k Fooey" <y2k_fooey@hotmail.com>
To: <sterlingda@greaterthings.com>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 9:46 PM
Subject: Y2K Fooey
> Sterling,
>
> You idiot and false prophet! I wonder
> what you think now? Y2K foretold in
> the Bible? Baloney! I Guess a true
> prophet is known by whether his
> prophecies come true or not. Since
> yours don't, we now know which side you
> stand on--clearly Satan's.
>
> I think you had better think seriously
> about true repentance and getting
> back into the true Church--the one that
> Joseph Smith founded and Gordon B.
> Hinckley leads at the present time.
>
> Greater Things? Bah. Your mind has
> been darkened to the point where you
> have been given the lesser things.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Y2K Fooey,
I suppose you would call Jonah a false prophet too.
I gladly carry the title of "false prophet" if that means that
the warning of what "could" happen was heeded and the disaster
averted thereby.
If you will go back and read my Y2K page again, you will see that I state
very clearly that these are "probable" futures designed to stir us
up to repentance whereby we might avoid the consequences warned about.
I believe that Y2K indeed was an amazing catalyst to give the entire
planet a common point around which to cooperate and help one another,
internationally, nationally, on a state, city, and community level. I would
dare say that Y2K pulled us together in a major way and helped dispel
animosity among peoples.
Is this not a good thing? Is this not a "greater" outcome than
what we were headed toward?
Go take a peek again at www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/Y2K/ and you
will see that I very clearly and repeatedly stated my wish that we might
avert the disaster. Now we have. And for that I will gladly take the title
of "false prophet," for the prediction of what COULD have happened
did not happen.
Praise be to God.
Happy New Year.
Sterling
1/1/2000
p.s. I would ask you the following question.
Looking back, my message (along with many,
many others) was that Y2K could be a tremendous problem and that we must
prepare ourselves. President
Hinckley's message was that all is well there is nothing to worry about.
In hindsight it looks like President Hinckley was right and I and my
associates were wrong. However, if people had listened to President
Hinckley and not me and others like me, then he would have been wrong, and
we would have been right.
Interesting paradox.
From: "Sterling D. Allan"
<sterlingda@greaterthings.com>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 8:03 AM
In this discussion about preparedness, the argument has been put forth to
the effect, "One is wasting his time to be engaged in activities (e.g.
preparations) where they cannot make a difference in the course of
events."
My reply is that how man gauges success and how God and his angels gauge
what is important are two completely different things. The number of Jusus
name in Greek is 888, which word number in the New Testament lexicon means
"useless."
If the angels had been able to find but ten righteous people in the city
of Sodam, it would have been spared. (Gen. 18:32.) Just ten. Not a majority,
not a slim minority, ten. Just think if three or so more people would have
repented besides Lot and his family, the city would have been spared. That
is not a tall order.
That is why I cannot feel that my outwardly "futile"
preparations for various possible disasters over the past many years were
indeed futile. God and his angels saw my sincerity -- along with the few
others who were doing the same -- and the course of history was changed
accordingly.
No. We were not given voice in Washington D.S. before a joint session of
Congress. No, we did not get on national television and make a statement.
No, we hardly even got a mention in the local newspaper. Yet our efforts
were seen by heaven.
Heaven calls the shots, based on our agency. And when heaven sees enough
effort toward repentance, it listens.
Sterling
Y2K Fooey
