Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Signs of the Times II

Watch out that no one deceives you.
Many will come in my name, claiming, I am He
and will deceive many. When you hear of wars
and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed.
Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom. There will be earthquakes
in various places, and famines.
These are the beginning of birth pains.

                                                  Mark 13:5-8

Jesus warns us of false prophets...
Many will come in His name,
People will claim they are of Christ, only to lead you down the wrong path.
The Church today has become so convoluted.
If we don't seek Gods word for ourselves,
and we only listen to what a Pastor says, then we have failed.
We are suppose to test the spirit,
seek Gods word.. to see if what is being preached is of God or not.
Some don't like to even touch Revelations or the coming of Christ,
while others, that is all they focus on.
Some like to say there is no gifts of the spirit..
While others believe there is.
We are all so confined in our little boxes,
so inclined to push each other away
falling into our little denominational ways,
that I really can see a lot of us are
being blinded by false teachers already.
Jesus wanted us to be ONE not divided.
Not only are we so far away from what we should be,
What do christians today stand for?
What does the church stand for?
It seems to me, not only has the church become pharisaical,
but they, in the end, really stand for nothing.
They only stand up for what they believe is right,
not Gods morals or laws.
We seriously don't have time for all the bickering and bullcrap,
In these difficult times, and the times that are coming..
We must put aside the differences.
We must stand up and lift up the fallen...
to be the example we are suppose to be.
Or we can be just another person knocking on that door..
begging Jesus Christ to let us in.
This is what God says about the church
and where it will stand in the end times.

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot.
I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you
are lukewarm-neither hot nor cold-
I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

                                                   Revelation 3:15-16

Listen when it comes to End Times Prophecy
I know it's easy to get lost in it,
it's easy to be confused and not understand a lot of it.
Daniel/Ezekiel/Revelations ..
are not exactly reader friendly.
There's plenty of people online..
ready and willing to tell you what they mean.
I'm not going to ever claim I know something that I don't,
I pray for Gods wisdom when reading the word.
I urge you to do the same, pray God reveals the word to you,
and maybe we can help each-other understand it.
Don't be blinded by false teaching and people claiming they know
the exact day of Christ's return.

Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come
until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawless-ness is revealed,
the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt
himself over everything that is called God or worshiped,
So he sets himself up in God's temple,
proclaiming himself to be God.

                              2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

The man of Lawlessness is of course referring to the anti-Christ.
There will be a man who comes and does miracles,
and great wonders...who will proclaim himself as God/The Christ.
Everyone will be in awe of him, and the world will unite under him.
Those that don't will be persecuted.
He will set himself up in "God's temple"
meaning he will set himself up in Israel.
I don't claim to know exactly how it's going to go..I'm just quoting
verses that plainly tell it like it is.
Most believe the Jewish temple will have to be rebuilt
before this all happens. That temple was destroyed in 70 A.D
by the Romans. The plans are already made,
and they have the place picked out.

When you see the abomination that causes desolation
standing where it does not belong-let the reader understand-
                                                                                   Mark 13:14

He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven'
In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice
and offerings. And on a wing of the temple he will set up
an
Abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is
decreed is poured out on him.

                                                 Daniel 9:27

Many believe this means, when the jews rebuild the temple..
they will bring back sacrificial offerings.
Then when the man of "lawlessness" aka "The Anti Christ"
takes over the temple he will put a stop to sacrificial offerings.
Some say it's just simply talking about the day "The Anti Christ"
sets up his throne in Jerusalem. That will be a day of
"Abomination that causes desolation"
Before it gets all confusing, lets just establish this one easy fact..
When you see a man coming and claiming he is your "savior"
and when you see that same man persecuting "believers"
just know that the true Christ is not far away.
Don't become confused with details, and dates...
and this and that. I believe we don't have much time left...
people claim 2012...2017...blah blah..
just be ready and realize, He is coming soon!
The day and the hour is unknown,
and he will come in a twinkling of an eye.
if you think the economy and your life is bad now...
just wait, because it's going to get a whole lot worse.
However do not be depressed, don't be down...
because the glorious day of Christ's return is not far away...
HIS TIME IS UPON US!
Ready yourselves now,
be ready to stand up for Christ be ready to lay down your
life as he did for you.
Life is already fleeting as it is...
and I'm telling you we don't have time to argue!

Israel has returned as a nation as most said would have to happen.
1947/1948 it happened, and most have come to understand
that the prophecy has been fulfilled.
To this day Jews in the former soviet union
are trying to return to their homeland.
Most believed this prophecy had to be fulfilled before
more of the end-times prophecies could begin.
Jesus said interestingly enough..

Even so, when you see these things happening,
you know the kingdom of God is near.
I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away
until all these things have happened.

                                                     Luke 21:31-32

This is why most people believe the time is near.
If you add 70 years(the life expectancy of a human life)
to 1947(the year Israel was reborn) you come up with 2017.
Hence that "generation" of 1947
and as Christ said:
"That generation would not pass away,
until all these things have happened"
could be just another prediction of man made error..
However with all that is happening in todays world,
how far we have come from just a decade or two ago.
In my eyes, Christ can return at any moment..

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