BCE and CE

BCE = BEFORE Jesus Christ's birth.
CE =   AFTER Jesus Christ's birth.

The reason they switched from BC to BCE and from AD to CE is to eradicate any hint of Christ from the calendar. How quickly this change was adopted by school teachers, even before this became official. However,  hasn't America already thrown Christ out? Sure!

Persecution will separate the few Christ followers from the many Christ professors. 

Denying Christ will seem smart, safe, and easy for those who have no real loyalty to Christ.

God says the road to Hell is easy and many go that way. Narrow is the road and difficult is the way that leads to life and only a few find it. The many refuse God's loving arms stretched out to them, because they are plane stupid, like I used to be. 

What was God doing for eternity before He created the Universe?

The Word of God reveals the answer.
John 1:1  The Word was with God.
John 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God.[In intimate, eternal fellowship]
John 17:24  Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast
                   given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold
                   my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me 
                   before the foundation of the world.
Psalm  16:11  Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; 
                      at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Isaiah 44:6  Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts;
                    I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Isaiah  48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret
                     from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD,
                     and his Spirit, hath sent me.

When God seems a million, zillion miles away...

God created the universe, the planets, the stars, and everything that exists. His power is unlimited. There is nothing He cannot do. He is holy, kind, patient and merciful, but His wrath against sin is dreadful.

In His great love for us He sacrificed His own son on the cross to set us free from sin and Hell. Call upon Jesus and yoke up with Him. He will forgive you, help you, strengthen you, and be with you.  No matter what comes, Jesus Christ is our Rock, our Help, our Eternal Life, both at the right hand of the Father, and with us.

Believe every Word of God, rightly divided by the Spirit.

Be ready, because great overwhelming deception is on the way.

Help us Lord Jesus to abide in you.

And never forget that we walk by faith in His promises, no matter what it feels like or doesn't feel like.

We survive because we know in our hearts that Jesus Christ is risen.  Glory to God.
Because if in your heart you do not know that Jesus Christ is risen, then how can you trust in Him? To the saved, rejecting Christ is unthinkable.Totally. Peter denied Christ thoroughly [flesh] but afterward wept bitterly [spirit].

Jesus had told them all, as He is telling us all now:
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matt 26:41

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
John 1:9