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Eclipses, ‘Blood Moons,’ and Pre-Trib Anxiety

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  Eclipses, ‘Blood Moons,’ and Pre-Trib Anxiety Tuesday, March 26, 2024 8:49 In September 2021, many people went into a frenzy when the United States Postal Service announced that their mail delivery service would become permanently slower. This new phenomenon is called Pre-Parcel Anxiety. “We live in a society where we build expectations and uphold perfectionism. We want things here and now. We want efficiency and struggle with patience,” psychotherapist Owen O’Kane explains. Today, we’re seeing what I’m calling Pre-Trib Anxiety. The world is in such a mess that anticipation of the always-imminent rapture is making people anxious. Where is it? It should have been here by now. Why is there a delay? This anxiety is being treated (if I can use that word) by prophecy prognosticators assuring Christians that the rapture is right around the corner. We are closer today than we’ve ever been. How long have we heard that claim? Seeing an eclipse or a blood moon is thought to be an email from Go