A Sense Of CountDown!

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As a popular TV preacher said, "We're no longer in Kansas, nor the Land of Oz." Like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz", we're looking around and seeing that everything is different. Everything we once took for granted and considered normal has been fundamentally transformed and usually not for the better.
But God is allowing it all, even if He isn't orchestrating chaos, as He is not a God of chaos.
Have you noted recent major stories and how they confirm the words of those of us saying that things aren't falling apart, they are falling in place. Stories like . . .

Russia and Iran co-operating and conspiring (Ezekiel 38-39).
Gog is stirring. Russia has been relatively quiet for decades, but now Vladimir Putin is on the move.
With ISIS marching towards Damascus, Syria is begging Israel to fulfill Isaiah 17.
The United Nations, Barack Obama, the Pope, and many more, are clamoring for global government (Revelation 13). All of these men may have interesting assignments in the kingdom of Antichrist.
Because of the increase of wickedness, love is growing cold. (Matthew 24:12) Can you say Planned Parenthood? Have we returned to those predicted "days of Noah" where such evil as this was rampant? (Matthew 24:37)
How about those "perilous times" (II Timothy 3)? Who other than deluded, power-drunk men and women, would give billions of dollars and nuke capacity to the mullahs who want to bring international chaos on the world so their Mahdi can return? Why would Westerners give such power to ayatollahs who want to ignite EMPs above the free world and send us back to the 1800s? Does the Mad Hatter rule?

Yet world leaders are crying in a Chamberlain-esque manner, "peace and safety!" (I Thess 5:3) They are calling evil good (Isaiah 5:20). Lighting the spark for Armageddon is good. Wiping out Israel is good. Making Iran the Mid East power is good. Allowing mad mullahs to mount nukes on their ICBMs, aimed at Western capitals, is good. This is leading to world peace! And the world will be one. Strong delusion!
Europe is imploding. Barack Obama has dismantled America. The world is fundamentally transformed, thus it is awaiting a man, somewhere in the shadows, known as the Antichrist. He will make things right, turn darkness into day, re-distribute wealth, and more. As Paul Henri Spaak, former Secretary General of NATO, said of a future "Mr. Fix-It," if he could lift us out of an economic morass, "be he god or devil, we will receive him." Note the adoration of Pope Francis. This is a foreshadowing. He is warranting the largest security effort in U.S. history. You would think he represents the Second Coming.
Apostasy is so bad in many churches that people no longer attend church (II Timothy 4:3).
The predicted evil is rising (II Timothy 3). The Hindu goddess Khali was beamed onto the Empire State Building a month ago. Perhaps she is the new matriarch of America, replacing our founders' dream of a God-inspired America.
And ALL nations are having "distress with perplexity" (Luke 21:28). ALL nations have dilemmas for which there are simply no solutions which is the meaning of "distress with perplexity".
I could go on and on but you get the point. We can't let breaking news interpret the Bible but we can see that a newspaper in one hand and a Bible in the other is complimentary. This doesn't have to be newspaper exegesis.
Scripture says that when we see these things BEGIN to happen, we are to lift up our heads and know that our redemption draws nigh. That BEGAN to happen in 1948 with the re-birth of Israel. How much closer are we now?
Everyone who is watching the signs of the times has a sense of urgency. A sense that there is a countdown. A sense that things are not the same and will never be the same again.
And we don't have a yellow brick road that leads to a fantasy-land where all the good times will resume, but we do have our Heavenly Home where all things are perfect.

 

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[SIZE=medium]People today are mostly in denial of what the future may hold for them. Worldwide natural disasters and manmade problems seem to be proliferating with no easing up or solutions in sight. It may just be possible for mankind to overcome its economic woes,[/SIZE] [SIZE=medium]resource shortages and rebuild earthquake damage, etc, but a prospective World War 3, starting in the Middle East, has the potential to practically wipe us out and pollute large areas of the earth. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]A lot of people do not want to be concerned about the future, it’s hard enough just to get by without any extra worry and it is right that we must carry on doing what we have to for survival. Those whom God has called for a specific task must continue to do it and we all need to plan and provide for the future as though things will continue as usual. It is a mistake to sell up and withdraw to a hideout, as many failed doomsday proponents have shown.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]However, ‘[/SIZE][SIZE=medium]You, [/SIZE][SIZE=medium]My friends[/SIZE][SIZE=medium] are not in the dark’ [/SIZE][SIZE=medium]about end times events[/SIZE][SIZE=medium]. ‘It is ‘While [/SIZE][SIZE=medium]they [/SIZE][SIZE=medium]are saying: All is peaceful – sudden destruction will come upon [/SIZE][SIZE=medium]them[/SIZE][SIZE=medium]’. 1 Thess. 5:3-4[/SIZE] [SIZE=medium]‘My friends’[/SIZE][SIZE=medium]- those who love the Lord and keep His commandments.[/SIZE] [SIZE=medium]Luke 21:34-36[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]‘they/them’[/SIZE][SIZE=medium]- godless people, who don’t know that God Himself will act against them. Micah 4:11-12, Psalms 83, Hebrews 10:27, Revelation 6:12-17[/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]The Bible [and the Apocrypha] have a very large amount of unfulfilled prophecy, that is not there for no reason; God expects us to take note of what He has told us through His prophets. Because so many incorrect ideas and notions about what God has planned abound in the church and in the secular world, it is difficult for us to overcome them and just simply believe the literal words of the prophets. Excepting for the obvious allegories, which are used to describe events and scenes unknown in their time.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]As 2014/15, is the last year of the decreed exile for the House of Israel, [the Northern 10 tribes] soon the many promises of the redemption and restoration for all the 12 tribes can take place. With the current world situation as it is, then we must expect some dramatic events to occur to enable that to happen. The Lord had told us, through the ancient prophets, what this will be – in over 100 prophecies, of the great and terrible day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, a judgement of fire that destroys His enemies. We are clearly informed of the nature and extent of this event, it will be a gigantic fireball exploded from the sun – a coronal mass ejection of superheated particles that will envelope the earth and cause all the vividly prophesied disasters. But there will be plenty of survivors, just a matter of staying under shelter until the CME passes and fervent prayers for the Lord’s protection. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]The so called prophecy gurus, don’t have the truth and while their motivation is money and adulation, God will not enlighten them. Demonic entities can perform certain signs and wonders and I guess they know what the Bible says, therefore they may give [/SIZE] [SIZE=medium]mankind information or dis-information, for their own reasons. So, people are now without any real idea of how and when this huge threat will impact their existence. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]The fulfilment of the Lord’s Day of vengeance and wrath is ‘the Elephant in the Room’, the event that ‘[/SIZE][SIZE=medium]comes like a thief’[/SIZE][SIZE=medium], but we who ‘[/SIZE][SIZE=medium]are His friends’[/SIZE][SIZE=medium] can and should know of what the Lord has planned for His creation.[/SIZE]
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