I don’t think it is a shock to most people that we are living in the last days. Some people will scoff at this, if they read it, denying what their very own eyes see and their ears hear. Some people will say we have seen and heard all this stuff before and all you are trying to do is scare people.
This message is not about fear, but about trust, faith and standing on the Word of God. Paul, as well as Jesus and others, spoke to the believers many years ago about what it would be like in the end of time. What was said should scare non–believers to the core. They talk about events that will take place in the end times in several books of the Bible. The fact is, it will be a devastating and traumatic time when these things take place, things that have never been seen before.
It will be a time when your talk will have to be your walk, and not just your talk. We Christians have gotten very good at talking, giving advice and quoting scriptures to people, but there is a time coming when all we will be able to hang on with is our faith and the promises of God. Don’t get me wrong the Lord will never leave us or forsake us and we will have the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, if we have been born–again, but if we have been just talking the walk and not walking the talk we may buckle under the things that are about to take place instead of overcoming them.
If you are a person given into fear, anxiety and doubt, you may be overwhelmed and become a basket case at what is taking place all around you. This is a time when we need to be pressing into God more than ever before, reading and studying the Scriptures and getting ahold of the promises of the Lord and also witnessing.
We also need to be praying and keeping ourselves from sin by resisting temptation. If we are living in sin in any way we need to confess our sins, repent and not hold onto anything that we have against anyone. It says in 2 Thessalonians 2:8–10, “And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.”
This is a heads up for the believer, but a warning for the non–believer. For the believer this is not a time to be idle, this is the time to know the truth so that we will know the counterfeit when it happens. This is also not a time to play games with Christianity either, you are born– again or you are not. This is not a game, so if you are an unbeliever repent and cry out to the Lord before it is too late. Tell Him you are sorry for your sins and ask Him to forgive you and to be the Lord of your life, don’t put it off. It goes on to say in 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12, “For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.”
There you have it, in black and white, from the Scriptures, please don’t reject, it but act accordingly and do the right thing and the Lord will bless you. Have a great day!
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