THE END TIMES:
DON’T LET IT CATCH YOU BY SURPRISE
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He’s coming! He’s coming! He’s coming! Who will hear His Words and prepare the way for the Lord’s coming? Are you right with God, or are you still thinking He’s not coming yet?
God is a God that changes not (Malachi 3:6) and shows us some things to look for to tell us when His glorious Son Jesus is coming back to set up His kingdom.
In Genesis 1, we read God created all of creation in 6 days and rested on the seventh day. On the sixth day, He created man and beast, or animals. As we can see by creation, the number used for completion, or perfection is seven. As God rested on the seventh day from His works, He commanded His people to do work for six days, but the seventh day would be hallowed, or to be kept holy unto the Lord. Ex 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
The word Sabbath means rest. This was one of God’s Ten Commandments to the people when He delivered them out of bondage from Egypt. The land also was to rest every seventh year (Lev 25:2-4 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD. 3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; 4but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.) God provided more in the sixth year for the people to be able to eat than the other years (Lev 25:20-23 And if you say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?" 21 'Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. 22 And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.) You see, when we listen to God, we will be blessed.
At the end of every 49 years, God told the people to make the 50th year, a year of liberty for the people (Lev 25:8-17 And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. 10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. 11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. 12 For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field. 13'In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. 14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.
15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. 16 According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops. 17 Therefore you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.) Praise God, it was a time of canceling debts, people returning to their own families, and a time to be able to start over again. When we follow God and do it His way, there are blessings we receive because of it. Hallelujah! The year of Jubilee!
There are many other references to the number seven, like for example, the sprinkling of the blood before the curtain of the sanctuary was done seven times (Lev 4:6), Naaman the leper was to be dipped in the Jordan River seven times to receive healing from leprosy (II Kings 5:10,14), Jesus cast out seven demons out of Mary Magdalene (Luke 8:2), and Jesus fed the 4,000 men, besides women and children who were there, with seven loaves of bread, and a few little fishes (Matthew 15:32-39).
You might at this time be asking yourself, what does this have to do with the coming of the Lord? If you would trace back the genealogy from Jesus to Adam, you would find it was 4,000 years, and from Jesus to now about another 2,000 years. This makes civilization about 6,000 years old. Ps 90:4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night. 2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. One day with the Lord is like one thousand years, and a thousand years, is like one day. Around 6,000 years have gone by in the year 2006, and with the Lord, this is like 6 days. Remember, after six days we should rest or have a Sabbath unto the Lord. Ex 20:9-12 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. After this 6,000 years there is coming a time of rest for God’s people, or a Sabbath.
Rev 20:1-15 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. 7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. 11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hell delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
The next thousand years, or 1 day, or the seventh day, or until the 7,000th year, the saints of God will reign with Christ in Jerusalem. There will be no devil on the earth at that time. Who knows exactly when 6,000 years are up, or when this will begin? Over the years man has used different calendars, so keeping track of time precisely has been hard to do for the last 6,000 years. The seventh day is about to begin sometime in the near future. Is your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life? Are you ready for the return of our Glorious Lord Jesus Christ to come and receive His people?
Another place in scripture it talks about the return of our Lord, and when it will happen. In Hosea 6:2, the Word says, After 2 days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Jesus came 2,000 years ago, or 2 days ago, and it says in the third day he will raise us up to be with Him, or the next thousand year period.
Matt 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. No one knows the day or hour He’s coming, but Jesus also said, “we would know the season or when it is near”. Matt 24:32 "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.
We will know when summer is near, or when it is the time for the harvest. The fig tree is Israel talked about in Hos 9:10 "I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. Joel 1:6-7 For a nation has come up against My land, Strong, and without number; His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he has the fangs of a fierce lion. 7 He has laid waste My vine, And ruined My fig tree; He has stripped it bare and thrown it away; Its branches are made white. By looking at these scriptures we can see the fig tree is Israel.
The nation of Israel didn’t even exist until May 14, 1948 when they became independent. God had scattered His people around the earth until He was getting ready to receive them back as His people. The parable in Matthew 24:32 is talking about when you see Israel as a young nation and its people are coming back to the nation, the season is near when Jesus is coming back. Jewish people all around the world are heading back to Israel by the multitudes. God is assembling His people to receive them as His. God made a covenant with Israel, or Jacob (Gen 35:9-12 Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and blessed him. 10 And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name." So He called his name Israel. 11 Also God said to him: "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body. 12 The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land.") to give them this land of Canaan, now called Israel.
Jer 32:28-44 Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it. 29 And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come and set fire to this city and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger; 30 because the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands," says the LORD. 31 For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My fury from the day that they built it, even to this day; so I will remove it from before My face
32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger--they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 And they have turned to Me the back, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. 34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 35 And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.' 36 "Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, 'It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: 37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. 38 They shall be My people, and I will be their God; 39 then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me. 41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul.' 42 "For thus says the LORD: 'Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. 43 And fields will be bought in this land of which you say, "It is desolate, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans." 44 'Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captives to return,' says the LORD."
God drove the people of Israel into all countries because of His anger and says He will bring them back and keep His covenant with them. We are seeing this promise coming to pass in these last days. He could not have come back without Israel being a nation first. How could God have prophesied about Israel in Jeremiah’s time, or around 585 BC, when the Book of Jeremiah was written? Remember, Israel didn’t even exist as an independent nation until 1948. God knows everything, that is, the only true God does.
Matt 17:1-3 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2 and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. 3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Notice the scripture says, after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John up into a high mountain. This shows us again, that after 6 days, or 6,000 years, Jesus is coming to set up His kingdom on this earth. Hallelujah!
Look at the story of Lazarus in John 11. In John 11:6, Jesus stayed in the same place for 2 days. When He came to the grave of Lazarus, his body was in the grave for four days already. After 4,000 years, Christ came, and was risen from the dead, or after 2 days. Remember Hos 6:2 After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight. After staying away for 2 days He came to raise up Lazarus from the dead like He will do with the church after 2,000 years, raise us up. Hallelujah!
Look at the first miracle Jesus did in His ministry at Cana of Galilee when He turned the water into wine in John 2. It happened on the third day or after 2 days again. There will be a wedding after 2 days, or two thousand years since the death and resurrection of the Lord. This wedding will be the bride of Christ being joined together with the bridegroom, the Lord Himself. Hallelujah! The Lord saves the best for last and the best wine will be the wine served at this wedding feast – Revelation 19:7-9 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
Summer is near. Are you ready to be a part of the harvest by the Lord and put in His eternal Kingdom? We live in awesome days watching the bible speak to us from the pages. Jesus is coming! Keep watch, and do not miss it for anything. Pay close attention to Israel and know it isn’t much longer before we see our wonderful Jesus come again.
Jesus gave us other signs to look for His coming. Joel 2:23 says that the former and latter rain will be poured out at the same time. The former rain is what fell in the Old Testament and during Jesus’ ministry and the latter rain fell at Pentecost or the beginning of the church. Rain produces a harvest and the former and latter rain has never been poured out at the same time before. We are at the brink of the greatest outpouring of the Spirit of God mankind has ever seen. Nothing like it has ever been seen before or experienced. What a wave of glory is coming for the church to finish up the church age.
Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. The Lord is coming back for a glorious church, holy, and without sin or spots in it. The only way this can happen is by the Spirit of God purifying the church with a mighty outpouring upon the people of God. God is a consuming fire and change takes place when someone is in God’s presence.
Saul of Tarsus experienced His wonderful glory on his way to Damascus and was never the same again, but labored more than they all. King Saul received the Spirit of God upon him and he became a different man – 1 Samuel 10:6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man. Even Peter himself after denying the Lord three times when they questioned him about knowing the One who they beat was changed when the Spirit of God descended from heaven on the day of Pentecost. Peter preached a marvelous sermon that day in Jerusalem about the Lord Jesus Christ and accusing the Jews of His death so that 3000 souls were birthed into the kingdom.
Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. 2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. This is our second witness about the former and latter rain being poured out at the same time. The former rain would prepare for seed planting and early growing, but the latter rain is for the harvest. What God’s Word is saying to us is planting and harvest will come at the same time. This will cause a great worldwide revival and many being touched by the wonderful presence of the Lord.
Amos 9:13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. The plowman is the one who prepares for the seed to be sown and in Amos the bible tells us that who is doing the plowing will also be doing the reaping, or in other words; there is coming a day when you sow you will also reap at the same time. It won’t be a separate season of sowing and waiting to reap a harvest of what was sown. Glory to God! When you sow, you will reap at the same time. The treader of grapes is the one who processes the harvest and will overtake the sower, or will keep processing the grapes from the harvest and it won’t run out. Our cup will run over in other words and will just keep coming – Ps 23:5 my cup runs over. The harvest will be on-going or not change seasons but just keep producing. You won't need to sow anymore but enjoy the harvest God is blessing. Wine or grape juice comes from grapes and the Spirit of God will keep being poured out like never before in these days that are coming. The mountains dropping sweet wine is the Spirit of God comes from above or the highest place. The mountains feed down to the valleys where the trials and tribulations are. The enemy will be defeated and the hills shall melt, or our enemies that stand in our way for victory. The Spirit of God will be poured out upon those in the valley to defeat those of what oppresses, possesses, or keeps them captive. It’s hard to come out of a valley when hills stand in your way. What days are ahead for the church of Jesus Christ or the true church!
The Word of God warns us of a different kind of a church in the last days.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. The church is currently welcoming in philosophies, programs, social activities, wisdom of men, and not after God. The churches seem to be more focused on getting people in the church then getting people to be Christians or saved. More attention is given on attendance and dollars than purity and salvation.
In Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where I’m from, we have as many bars as churches, around 130. Now the only way this could be is if many of the church going people are the same ones sitting on the Saturday night bar stool and living double lives. The preachers tell them it is okay to drink and God loves you so come back next Sunday and let me tickle your ears some more. The hardest people to reach and get saved are the ones who think they are saved. Why would they need to get saved if they have that already?
Many churches have the 12 step program for the deliverance of drugs and or alcohol. They teach the people that they are sick and have a disease so they can’t help themselves. Drinking and drugs is a sin, not a sickness. Well, okay they are right to a degree because when you are not saved you are spiritually sick – Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he says unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Drunkenness and drug abuse is listed in the sins that will prevent anyone from making heaven –1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
The Greek word witchcraft used in Galatians 5:20 is pharmakeia where we get our word pharmacy from, meaning medication or drug use. [1] If drunkenness or drug abuse is a sickness or disease, then how can the Lord call them sin and keep you from entering into His kingdom? A sickness or disease you couldn’t help for being like that, so we know it is sin and people can make a decision, like any sin, to turn away from it with the power and help of the Lord.
1 Timothy 4:1-2 Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron. We have perverse versions of the bible and have caused some to depart from the truth because the truth is changed into a lie. The New International Version Bible omits verses and changes others, yet this version of the bible is probably the most popular in today’s church being promoted by preachers in pulpits using it and encouraging the congregation to also have it as their choice for their bible. It promotes water baptism can save you by omitting verse 37 in Acts 8. Acts 8:36-38 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?" 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. King James Version - Acts 8:36-38 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what does hinder me to be baptized? 37 And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, you may. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. Some of the NIV bibles give foot notes on the bottom of each page stating the verse is included in some versions, or in other words saying it does not belong in the bible so we took the liberty of taking it out for you. This is only one example with many others.
We need to believe first and repent of sin then be baptized showing we have been buried and a new person has risen from the grave. Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Mark 16:16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned. Baptism can’t save anyone but by the scripture according to the NIV it can.
Even the New King James Version is deceiving and has not just taken out the thee’s and the thou’s as many believe. The truth is truth unless someone changes it and then it is no longer true. King James Version - 2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. New King James Version - 2 Cor 2:17 For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.
What does peddling mean in the New King James Version verses corrupt in the King James Version? Do you get corrupt out of peddling or it is confusing and not really understood?
This scripture is taken also from the New King James Version Bible and what does Hades mean? The word should be hell, which is in the King James Version. Matt 16:18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. There are other examples as well for this version of the bible. Why are these versions changing meanings and scripture? Some are being influenced with the Ecumenical movement of unity and accepting others. God is being modernized and His glorious truth is being changed into man’s ways of thinking instead. God’s Word is eternal and unchanging Psalm 119:89 says, For ever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven. 1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. It doesn’t need changing, it is ongoing or perpetual. It is to all generations – Psalms 100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endures to all generations. The only way to receive copyrights to a new bible version is that the new version must be drastically changed. There are no copyrights to the King James Version and anyone can print this version.
God’s Word will work any time, any place, with any body that will believe it.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works also in you that believe.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. The man of sin the bible is referring to you is the antichrist. There will be a falling away first from the truth or God’s Word. We are in these days of activities more than prayer meetings. Bingo gatherings along with ice cream socials instead of having God's house a house of prayer – Isaiah 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. Matthew 21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves. The church should be of the truth – 1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou may know how thou ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
We now have followings of churches okaying homosexuals and lesbians becoming ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Homosexuality is an abomination unto God – Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Again they are telling and teaching people they were born this way so they too can’t help it. People always ask me of how a lesbian or a homosexual doesn’t see in the bible where it says it is sin to live this type of lifestyle? They are taught if you’re born this way then you didn’t have a choice of being this way, so then it’s not sinful. They call themselves born gay, born again Christians. Homosexuality is not natural and it is a sin, not a genetic inheritance, and will be punishable by eternal separation from God – Romans 1:27-32 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperer 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents 31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Again if homosexuality can’t be helped by those that participate in it, then how can God call it sin and unnatural and will be punishable by death, or eternal separation from God?
The falling away is here with the true church that believes and practices holiness is diminishing every day as we hear about others who are falling even in ministry. Holiness comes with a price and that is to keep seeking the Lord and His power will keep us in His ways as we depend upon Him. We need His strength, not our own, His wisdom, His ability, His direction, and His know-how.
Now that you see the last days are upon us, what are you doing in your life? Heb 10:25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. Are you assembling with other Christians to stay strong in Jesus? The word church in the Greek language (the language the New Testament was translated from) is eklesia, which means an assembly, a calling out with others.[2] Find yourself a good bible teaching, believing church and do your part for the kingdom before He comes. After He comes, it is too late to change what you have done in this life, because then you will be judged for what you have done for Him. Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
That is all that will matter on that day. Do not be sorry, make a commitment to Jesus today, and be ready, hoping for the day to come, instead of fearing for the day to come. Get Jesus in your heart today, nobody is guaranteed a tomorrow. To receive Jesus in your heart, read Romans 10:9, 10, 13, Revelation 3:20, and ask Jesus to come into your heart.
Remember He is coming only with a Grand Entrance with His church rising up with the Spirit of God upon them and going in battle to defeat the enemy as His soldiers. Hallelujah! He wants you to be a part of that army, victorious and clothed with His glory - 2 Thessalonians 2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The End Times, Don’t Let it Catch You By Surprise – It’s Here, Now. Luke 12:40 Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not. Things are about to change.
Written by Pastor Michael J. Wilson