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0.25 Second ~

The time that it takes for a human being to see something and then react to it is (on average) around 1/4 th of a second (0.25  sec.). This sounds pretty quick, so let's put this in perspective. A car traveling at 60 MPH is the same as saying one mile in one minute. To find the number of feet per second the formula is 5280 feet / (divided by) 60 seconds = 88 ft./second. Multiply this by 0.25 = 22 ft./second. As you can see this 'reaction time' can cause a delay that is long enough for a car to travel 100 feet in a little over a second if the brain is attached to the event, and you have looked away from the road for as little as one second. Reaction times that bypasses the brain can be as little as 0.08 of a second, which means that if you have pre played a driving decision in your brain and have already decided what you would do before hand, this can shorten the reaction to a situation by more that a half second, which could be the difference between life or death. This is why it is so important not to allow yourself to be distracted by anything while driving, such as by texting, changing the channel of the radio, or a bee flying around inside your car. These things can kill you, because your brain is far behind your actual location, and you must be able to 'think ahead' in order to be safe.

Thinking ahead is also important when dealing with life in general, and especially when looking a the spiritual world throuth the eye of Bible prophecy. Truth is the key to understanding Bible prophecy and knowing what to expect when and how, and where we are in time. But if we are looking one direction, and become distracted due to the misunderstanding of prophecy, and don't have time to react properly to events that have been unlooked for, will our being distracted cause us to miss out on a bright future of peace and prosperity because we have been expecting something else?