Blog note. Jesus indicated that ‘fearful sights’ (various natural disasters) would occur leading up to the time known as the Tribulation and Great Tribulation (a combined seven year period of great destruction on earth). Although these types of things have occurred in the past for centuries and thousands of years, they could be identified as the ‘season of the times’ due to the ferociousness of these events. They would be occurring in greater intensity, severity, frequency, size, duration, scope … just like the pains that a woman experiences in labor the farther along she is in the labor process. We are in the ‘season of the times’ that comes just before the seven (7) year Tribulation/Great Tribulation period

… And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:11).

… And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (Luke 21:25)

… Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken; (Luke 21:26)

… This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Timothy 3:1)

Jesus is giving a series of prophecies about what to look for as the age of grace comes to a close. These verses are several of many such prophecies from throughout the Bible. 2017 was the worst year in recorded history for the intensity, frequency, severity, duration and occurrence of a large number of severe natural disasters worldwide. Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, torrential flooding, unprecedented wildfires in unusual places, devastating droughts, excessive/scorching heat setting records everywhere, record snowfalls in Europe and Russia. Snow in the Arabia. This list can go on. Most studied Eschatologists believe these ‘fearful sights’ and massive natural disasters are all part of the ‘CONVERGENCE’ of signs that this Biblical and prophetic age is closing. Most people who study prophecy are familiar with the routine reference(s) made that these things will be like a woman having labor pains, growing in intensity, frequency, size and duration.

411-pound feral hog that infiltrated a San Antonio golf course. This ‘little piggy’ is THE market and ain’t no ‘Caddy Shack’ ground hog. Pork chops for all of San Antonio?

INSIDER•September 16, 2019

A 411-pound feral hog infiltrated a golf course in San Antonio, Texas, last week, and it took three men and three dogs to remove it.

Wyatt Walton, of the invasive species removal company Lone Star Trapping, responded to the call at Gateway Hills Golf Course on September 12. He told Insider on Monday it was the company’s biggest one captured to date.

According to Texas A&M’s AgriLife Extension, feral hogs typically weigh around 200 pounds, with a large hog clocking in around 300.

Although Lone Star Trapping employs cameras and electronic traps to capture wild pigs, Walton said the boar was “trap educated,” so he had to resort to canine assistance to capture it.

A Black Mouth Cur (a hunting dog that’s great at tracking) located the pig, while two American bulldogs caught the hog and held it by the ears until Walton wrestled it to the ground and tied it up.

At 6-foot-2 and 250 pounds, Walton said he isn’t a small guy. But the hog still weighed almost 200 pounds more than him.

Walton said it took three men to carry it into a trailer before they took the live hog to a processing center.

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Walton added that his “work isn’t done” — as large cities like San Antonio continue to develop, wild boars will continue to find their way into populated areas where they wouldn’t normally be found.

That’s where Lone Star Trapping‘s technology and equipment can come in handy to humanely remove these animals where they don’t belong, he said.

“As San Antonio continues to flourish in population, there’s that much more native land having developments built on it, to accommodate the growth native wildlife are just being pushed and pushed then eventually you end up having instances with human interactions, as they are just trying to survive is inevitable,” Walton wrote in an email.