How close are we to the end of the world?
If only by watching the news, at least what they tell us anyway, it seems
obvious that we are living in a time that just boggles the minds of the people
of God. Jesus said that when the end comes it would be as it was in the days of
Noah and of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Luke
17:27-30) What exactly does that
mean? Well, Jesus is saying that the end of the world in Noah's time was a set
day by God. He had already decided that He was going to destroy the world with
water and start afresh. Yet He also found Noah to be a righteous man. Of course,
they all laughed at Noah because they did not believe him. How do we know this?
Well, none of the people were on the ark except Noah and his family. These
people were laughing because to them all seemed well. They were doing their own
thing, marrying, owning land and having children with great plans for the
future. However, God said that all of mans imaginations of the heart were evil.
It was so evil in fact, that God was going to destroy it all. God felt bad that
He even created humanity it was so evil. (Genesis 6 &
Genesis 7) Nevertheless, God being
very merciful and a God of Love He had a greater plan. He saved Noah and his
family including Noah's wife and his three sons and their wives and
two of all the unclean animals as well as seven pair of
each clean animal to give humanity another chance. The Bible says that Noah
found grace in God's eyes for Noah walked with God. For this reason, God spared
Noah and his family. Now all these people who drowned, Jesus said that they were
all eating and drinking and marrying and they did not know the end was come
until the great waters swept them all away to their death. Right before this
flood occurred; the fallen angels had left their home in Heaven and mated with
the women of the earth. According to the book of Enoch, out of this unholy
mating, came forth giants who were killing, feeding, and destroying the earth's
resources just to satisfy their bellies. Now, have we come to this point yet in
our times? Are the giants now major corporations who for their own bellies are
destroying God's green earth and the earths resources? Watch and be prepared is
one of the constant messages both by Jesus and the Apostles in the New
Testament. Look at the world we live in now; is there any reason for God to let
this go on any further? Everything our society is telling us to do to be good
normal citizens is this: First, forget about God and lets all believe in what we
want to, we are our own unique creatures and we all have the power to save
ourselves. (2
Timothy 3: 1-5) Read that
verse and ask yourselves if this is not already happening in the world today.
Every soul has to choose and we as Christians know and understand that there are
choices we have to make and God has left it up to each of us to make that
choice. But, up until the last several years, God has been an option as a choice
for mankind. But now, they have taken God out of our schools and we get
shootings like in Columbine where these kids with guns said anyone who believes
in God will die. There were a couple maybe only even that one girl who kept
standing and she was killed. There are so many more other situations that we see
on the news concerning schools that it would take months to write them all out.
Most of the time these events do not even make the news. Just recently, a young
girl in junior high was expelled from school for mentioning the word God. Have
we gone too far? Our forefathers fought and died for this great country so that
we can be free from the tyranny of dictators. They fought in the name of God and
freedom. Most of our military today have a saying that they will fight till
death for GOD and country. Well that was several years ago, maybe they are not
allowed to say that anymore. Meanwhile, we have the Supreme Court who is the
highest law of the land. They make the laws and they all agreed to not only
remove God from our schools but now they are removing the 10 commandments in
heavy stone from our public places such as courtrooms, libraries etc… All in the
name of what? So that some people will not be offended because they see God's
laws that they choose not to follow? Are they really that spiteful to remove the
very foundation on what this country was founded on for their own comfort so
they will not be offended? Yet I ask you this, and believe me I do not agree
with the majority of the Jerry Falwells and the moral majority movement.
However, I can remember years ago and I guess they are still doing it today,
they are protesting TV, movies, and music of how they have become filled with
violence and sex and drugs and all kinds of filthy immoral living standards that
are being taught to our children and us. Yet it seems to me that they are not
getting any help from the Supreme Court in this matter. Have you heard of any TV
shows, movies, porno and violent and sex ridden video games being removed? I
have not. These violent video games and satan inspired death metal music that
these Columbine kids were listening to repeatedly and finally made them snap and
go on a rampage; can we still get these materials at any local store that sells
these goods? Yes. I can not turn on the TV today to find a good movie or to
catch up on the news without being made sick to my stomach with all the new
shows and commercials that are filled with sex, violence and where they make it
cool and normal to commit adultery on one's spouse or loved one. That if you are
not doing these things there is something wrong with you. This stuff is all
around us in this world constantly. Satan inspired advertising and media events
promoting sex, violence, adultery, looking out for self instead of helping our
neighbors in need. We store up our own little materials and riches for our own
comforts and convenience. Now tell me, out there in the world and this includes
churches, what percentage would you say on TV, radio, movies, bill boards,
buildings, cars, monuments and everything else would you say pertains to God? I
will go overboard here and say maybe 10%. Yet now, they are offended by a few 10
commandment statues and plaques because the word of God offends them? I wonder
what is next. Knocking down churches to the ground because they have crosses out
front? I know in the state I live in a few years ago they outlawed placing
crosses on roadsides where a love one died in a car wreck or drive by shooting.
Grieving families and friends would plant a small wooden cross with flowers at
the area where the accident occurred. Well, these so-called freedom fighters
were offended at that too so they got the lawyers to have them removed as well.
I think they said we could place a star instead. Is this ridiculous? All so that
they would not be offended. I tell you this and I feel that I speak for all my
fellow Christian brothers and sisters. I am offended at your worldly TV shows,
your movies, your music, your bumper stickers and little Darwin fishes on the
back of your cars. I am sick and offended that you have allowed homosexuals to
commit sodomy as a legal act. I do not like to go to the grocery store and see
two men in a deep passionate kiss while my children and I are looking for some
ice cream for after dinner tonight. I am offended that you will not let our
children say a prayer in school or wear a t-shirt that says Jesus on it yet you
teach them the religion of witchcraft and sorceries and let other kids wear
shirts that promote satanic music, sex and violence. We are offended at your
acts and deeds oh world because we as Christians have to live in your world for
now and it vexes our spirits just as it did Lot in the days of Sodom and
Gomorrah. Yet you won't find us praying to your lawyers or your wanna be gods in
their great black robes up on a hill in Washington. You will not find us on the
Bill Maher show or some other talk show whining about how we want this or that
song removed from radio because it talks bad about God or says He does not
exist. No, instead you will find us on our knees in prayer to the Only God, to
Jesus Christ of Nazareth the Son of God. You will find us praying for those who
are being deceived by your satanic inspired movements. You claim to be activists
in freedom yet you shy away from your convictions if it means public
embarrassment or being physically accosted yet we as Christians would count it
as being a medal of honor to get beat up and even killed for our beliefs. Soon,
very soon, as this is already happening all over the world, violence against
Christians who stand up for their beliefs will be more of a common occurrence.
Even in this country, I am sorry to say. Seriously, what is next after all the
10 commandments are gone? Church steeples? Crosses? It may sound far fetched but
look at all that has happened in just the past several years? This world has
slowly been turning into a giant cesspool of sin and not only the sin, we all
sin and are sinners, but the practice of loving and enjoying the sin. We are the
minority in this world but we have a God who is majority over all. All we can do
is fight the good fight, convert others to Jesus or rather let Him use us, as
tools to do His will. Although from where the world is standing they think they
are happy but we know they are not. Yet if they see the joy and love in us
through all the tribulations that we go through how can they not seek and desire
to be where we are? For they know inside they are unhappy and helpless. They are
just doing what they have been taught. Like cattle to the slaughter. Not too long
ago an evangelist, who deals in spiritual warfare, went to a California high
school to give an hour-long sermon about Jesus to the school. The school at
first thought he was going to give a speech about spirits, you know like there
are spirits out there unseen and we can tap into them and such like with a ouija
board. However, when he got there and they found out he was a preacher and he
was going to be teaching people about Jesus they denied him his sermon. They
would not let him speak a word yet that very same day a few women from a witch's
coven came and gave their sermon to the English class. This man wanted to sit in
just to see exactly what they were saying yet he was warned very strongly not to
even mention the word Jesus or else he would be removed and very possibly be put
in jail. So he witnessed these witches pull out a big black blanket and they
started writing on this blanket satanic symbols and such and then they lit their
candles and had a type of a séance ceremony.
Now, the law states and this is
what the atheists and all the little civil rights groups and all are complaining
about is separation between church and state. But aren't the wicca witches,
muslims and satanic groups religious organizations as well? They have their
ideals and they gather to worship often. If it is to separate church and state
then why do these other religions get to share their views but if a Christian
stands up to speak of God, we are going to jail. Apparently, their only agenda
is to remove God from our society and it is working. Strange don't you think?
Not really, not when you look back to all the prophets in the Bible. They except
for a chosen few were murdered, imprisoned, executed, tortured, shamed, spit on
and laughed at. (
Matthew
23:34-35) They were the minority and
the world did not like what they had to say because it was from God so they took
care of them. (
John
15:18-21) What happened to Jesus?
Same thing. His apostles, all the followers after that except of course for the
'self-proclaimed' followers. You know the ones who live in million dollar homes
and drive expensive cars. They make a pretty penny off God's good name yet they
do not do to the least of Jesus brethren as they do unto themselves. These
people are false teachers and false christs. They have made being a Christian be
a bad thing and have turned away many. Probably one of satans greatest tricks.
Because if he can make a self-proclaimed man of God get busted for things that
he preached against what would you think? I used to think before Jesus saved me
that all of that Jesus stuff was a joke because of these self proclaimed men of
God. I mean look at these people, they prey on old widows inheritances, they say
all the youth is evil because they listen to rock and roll yet at the same time
they snort cocaine off of a whore while their wives sit at home high off their
rocker on their own prescription dope piling on more makeup then the law should
allow. I bet the cost of one day's makeup would feed a family of four on the
streets for a week, maybe 2 weeks. How do we as Christians look upon such
behavior? We are sickened by it. How do you think those who do not believe in
God react? They know that they can't turn to Christianity because those people
can't even practice what they preach. So where do they turn? The only other
place to turn is the world. What is everybody else doing? I tell you within days
of writing this statement, I have seen on the news that a new show called 'Queer
eye for the straight guy,' which is a show about five homosexuals who seek out
straight men and make them fashionably acceptable. They change their wardrobes
and their home decorating and everything. What kind of show is this and who
would watch it? Well it is on basic cable but last week they aired it on a major
network. Guess what? It was the second most watched show of that week. Well, if
that's what the people want then they will get more of it. Expect more of these
kind of shows in the future and probably more provocative as well. I remember
when the Walton's and Little House on the Prairie were the popular shows. Now
its gay guys converting straight men and violent cops who cheat on their
wives/husbands. We have been conditioned as a society that this is normal
behavior. I am sure that before the flood came the world didn't become filled
with the love of sin overnight. I bet it was gradual. Satan doesn't pop out of
the shadows with a monster mask on and say boo I am the devil. If he did, no one
would follow him or his ways because it is too scary. But he is smarter than all
that, he gradually drops seeds of filth that captivate peoples' minds and slowly
but surely what we once thought was filthy is now not only acceptable but
embraced as normal behavior. They tell us it is a healthy change and that we are
growing inside and becoming more accepting of all kinds of different people and
their behaviors. That is a lie, we are becoming brainwashed and the only result
is spiritual death, which is what satan wants. Satan doesn't want to be alone
for eternity for he knows what is coming in his future. (
Revelation
20:10) Catholic priests who
'self-proclaim' to represent God on this earth are molesting little children and
getting away with it. The ACLU in the name of freedom has removed God from our
schools and our public buildings. What is next, our homes? If we wave a flag in
our front yard with the cross of Jesus Christ, will that offend our neighbors
who are atheists? Meanwhile we, as Christians, have to be offended at the filth
that we see just driving to work on billboards, in passing cars and even at the
workplace. We may have to listen to
Bob's husband whom he
found cheating on him and all the people there feeling sorry for Bob. I don't
care what the world says is right and acceptable it is not acceptable with God.
A friend of the world is an enemy of God. (
James
4:4) That's the truth.
The world did not like what all the past prophets were saying and they are not
going to like what we are saying either. So what are we to do about this
situation? We after all are God's representatives in this world. God did not save
us and call us to be in Heaven with Him forever just for us to sit around and
count the days until He comes back. We are to go and spread the good news to all
creatures on this earth. (
Mark
16:15) What is the good news? The
good news is that we do not have to be a slave to satan's ways anymore. We do not
have to be accepted by this world and by our peers to be able to feel good about
ourselves. All we have to do is recognize in true and complete honesty with
ourselves that we are lost, that we are sinners against what we know is right
from God's laws and we cannot save ourselves. There is a God. We are here because
He created us. We need to accept that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He
died without ever sinning for us that did sin. (
Romans
5:6-8) So do we do as the Muslims do
to convert others or as the Catholics used to do? Do we say believe in our way
or die? NO... So what do we do? Do we form militias and fight those who try to
crush us underfoot? NO ... (
Revelation
13:10) Do we, so as to be accepted
by others that believe in something a bit different, change our beliefs so that
we can all just get along? NO ... (
Galatians
1:6-9) We do what Jesus said to do.
LOVE one another. For when the world sees that you LOVE one another they will
know that we serve Jesus and that we are His disciples. (
John
13:34-35) Jesus also said that when
we are brought before worldly leaders that we should not practice on what to say
but the Holy Spirit will speak through us in that hour. (
Mark
13:11) People; imagine if all the
filth and sin and anti-christian mentality floating around in our world today
was mud. If we did not constantly shower and clean the mud off us, we would soon
be overtaken by the mud and then we would become the mud as well. So we must be
constant in prayer and constant in cleansing our spirits from the spiritual mud
that tries and covers us daily. It's either that or we become consumed and die
off. We all know the trash out there and we all know how vexing it is to us. Yet
we can overcome it by loving one another and especially those who are lost. We
need to be the light so there is something they can see for they are surrounded
in darkness. (
Matthew
5:16) If we do not shine the light
God has given us who will? Satan is transformed into an angel of light. (
2
Corinthians 11:14) His light is all
over the place yet it is fake. It is like a light bulb that flickers and
eventually burns out. But the light of God that burns inside of us will never
burn out. Those who know Jesus voice will come to the light. Many of them now
are lost. Jesus said those who know His voice would hear Him and come to Him. (
John
10:16) Read your
Bible
then turn on the news. Read the
End Times page on the
Christianity Oasis website and look
around at the world we live in. This is the end times; it has just been creeping
up on us slowly. It is going to get darker and harder for those of us who
believe but if we withstand until the end we will live forever in peace. We are
going to get dirty, that is a fact. But we must not be overcome with the dirt.
We must overcome evil with good. Spiritual warfare is rampant around us. The
board game Monopoly was for many years the number one selling game in the US.
Now it is the Ouija board. Kids are killing themselves and practicing witchcraft
because of what these evil spirits are telling them through the Ouija board
medium. The woman who wrote Harry Potter claims that her books are fantasy. Yet
she also admits that all of the witches and warlock ceremonies and ingredients
are exactly how it is done by those who practice witchcraft. She did her
research and learned it all from a witch's coven. The people who publish her
books are Scholastic publishing. These are the same publishers who publish all
of our children's schoolbooks. What are they teaching our children? I tell you
what they are not teaching them…God. How much longer will it be and is already
happening now until our children are practicing witchcraft? A little 12-year-old
girl told her mom she is a witch. Her mom asked her why would she say such a
thing? She told her mom that her teacher in school, who is also a wicca witch,
told her that if there are black spots on her privates then she is a witch. A 12
year old little girl people was told this by her teacher in school, her mentor,
an adult she looks up to and believes what she says. A 15 year old boy who
learned from the Ouija board the day he was going to die. This boy was so scared
and was told by all his friends that it was true he really believed it. The day
of his foretold death was his 16th birthday, the day before his birthday this
boy put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. These are not even a needle in
a haystack of incidents occurring all over the world. Why isn't the media
telling us these things? How come they only pick and choose what to tell us?
Well CNN is owned by Ted Turner, he is the biggest professing atheist out there
and he has the money and power to back up his beliefs. We as Christians do not
need money or worldly power. David as a humble shepherd boy killed Goliath by
the power of God. (
1
Samuel 17:42-51) Elijah
lived in caves yet he had the power from God to raise a child from the dead. (
1
Kings 17:17-24) Paul by the power of
God was able to blind a sorcerer who was hindering Paul in saving souls for
Jesus Christ. (
Acts
13:9-12) All the prophets
and people of God have power because it is not our power it is His. We as a
Church have become weak. Why? Because we have lost our faith. The world has
broken us down so much that we do not believe in the Spirit and Power God has
given us all who believe in Jesus anymore. We do not believe that Jesus promised
us that when He is in Heaven and we have the Holy Spirit in us, which we do, we
can do even more miracles then Jesus Himself did. (
John
14:12) I do not mean slapping people
on the forehead and saying you are healed and by the way send me your money. I
am talking about what the apostles did. They stood up to those who told them to
stop preaching in His name. They spoke out boldly not caring what was done to
them. They had nothing to lose and yet everything to gain. (
Acts
4:16-21 &
Acts 5:40-42) We have
become too comfortable. Just like in the Rocky movies. Remember when Rocky was
poor and struggling through life but he wanted to be a boxer no matter what.
Everyone told him he was no good and wouldn't make it yet he kept on and on.
Finally, he got his break and when he did, he fought with all he had because he
knew that he had nothing to lose yet everything to gain. He succeeded, he had
passion, he had the eye of the tiger. But later after he was rich and got
comfortable, he lost his edge and he lost. He lost because inside he felt he
already got all he wanted, if he lost, he would still be ok. But he wasn't. Yet
he came back and went back to his roots and he won again. We can do that too.
Jesus said to the church of Ephesus in Revelation You have lost your first love.
Go back and find that love again. (
Revelation
2:4-5) That's what Rocky did and
that's what we need to do. We feel that we know we are saved and if we lose we
will still be safe. According to Jesus in His Olivet discourse when He was
discussing end times He said, Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and
whoever loses his life shall preserve it. (
Luke
17:33) Why would He say that out of
the blue in the midst of describing end times? With the end coming closer and
closer it is not a time for us to sit in ease and comfort with our salvation, it
is a time to get out there and risk our lives for Him by saving those who are
lost and by standing up and not conforming to worldly ways which we know are
wrong. When we were first saved, we felt the power, we felt the boldness, we
felt we could take on anything. Yet after time goes by we get complacent. We
need to earnestly pray for that first love to return to us. What good are we as
soldiers in the faith if we cant even stand up much less fight for what's right?
People ... we were dead. Literally dead, He saved us; He bought us with the price
of His own blood. We are His now. That means we can't fail if we let Him use us
as He will. It's when we get our own ideas on what we should do and how we
should live, that's when the enemy satan gets a foothold in us and slowly takes
us back to where we were. We were dead. We are now alive. We need to feel and
live the power of God in our lives again because the time is at hand. Look
around, people will say oh, there were always homosexuals there was always wars
always murder and sexual immoralities and sin. Yes, that is true but Jesus said
it is like the birth pangs of a woman. As the child gets closer the pangs get
more often and more stronger. We can't get through one day anymore without a new
war or new immoralities and now not only is the love of sin run rampant God is
being taken away from our society. Our God is a jealous God and an all-consuming
fire. He knew this was going to happen and He knew what He was going to do. It
is upon us as saved believers to do something. If we do not stand up in the face
of our enemies and Love one another and stand up and speak out against the
injustices we will be just like them. Someone once said Evil is triumphant when
good men do nothing. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
We have nothing to fear, we have God in our corner. If He tells us to do
something and we go do it, can anything hurt us? Will He not take care of us? If
we do not believe that He will, then why did we go do His bidding in the first
place? If we do what He says then we believe He is real. So with that same
belief we should believe His other promise that we will live forever. It is time
to make a stand. Pray globally and act locally. But remember, Jesus came not to
condemn the world but to save it. We are not here to judge others we are here to
save. Yet, when we see injustice, we need to speak out. Did not Jesus when He
saw what they were doing in the Temple making money off God turn their tables
over and proclaim that they were wrong? (
Matthew 21:12) Yet when they came to kill
Him did He not allow them to do so? I believe He is giving us a strong message
here. When He saw God being mocked or offended, He spoke out. Yet when it was
His self that was being attacked, He allowed it. All through His time here, He
tells us to lose ourselves for His sake and we will be saved. Love God first
with all your heart and love our neighbors as ourselves. He who would gain the
whole world but lose his own soul then what kind of trade is that. We stand up
for our God and our brothers and sisters but if someone offends us, our self, we
are to turn the other cheek. There is a difference and we all know it between
someone offending our pride and someone offending our cause. Our cause is God
and His work. We need to pray and find out from God what His purpose for us is
here on earth. If we do not already know what His plans for us are, we need to find out. And when
we do and if we do already know, we need to act. It is time. For time is ticking
away. Watch and prepare. Get prepared is a constant in Jesus preaching. (
Mark
13:35-37 &
Matthew 24:42-51 &
Luke 21:34-36) If we are caught sleeping when it is time like the five unwise virgins were, it will be too late
for us. (
Matthew
25:1-13) Let us go out as
sheep amongst wolves and stand up for what is right in God's eyes and bring our
lost brothers and sisters home. Stay blessed and keep your eyes open for I think
we all know there is not too much more that can happen to make this world as it
was in the days of Noah and in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah. Read about
Noah, read about Lot read about all of God's people
and see what they did that made God proud of them. For God and Heaven (Our
Country) ...
A fellow servant of Jesus Christ and Soldier in the
Spiritual Fields of Battle ...
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