by Pastor Mike Taylor
1 “Again
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son
of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When
I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man
of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If
when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and
warn the people;
4 Then
whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning;
if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own
head.
5 He
heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall
be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his
soul.
6 But
if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the
people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from
among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I
require at the watchman's hand.” (Ezekiel 33:1-6)
We are in
unsettled times. Dark clouds are gathering and danger is all around
us. As it was in the days of Israel and Ezekiel was called to be a
watchman of their spiritual condition, so today God has set up men
who will warn His people of the coming dangers in their world, either
spiritual and/or physical.
In the history of the Israel, the
people would appoint a man to stand guard on the wall towers, or
along the wall and he would scan the horizon for signs of danger. He
was the ancient idea of a first warning system. When an enemy was
spotted making advances on the city, the watchman would sound
an alarm.
It could be his voice calling out, or could be blasts of a trumpet,
or a striking of a large
gong.
Whatever was used, it was designed to give the people first hand
warning of impending danger and give them time to prepare for the
coming advance on their city. Today, as times have changed, so too
have the methods of warning the people of impending danger. To reach
as many people as possible, the best method is use of the internet.
This warning system can spread to all corners of the globe and to
those who will listen, give them an advance warning of the coming
disaster.
In this era of the last days of modern history
before the coming of the tribulation, men stand on the proverbial
wall and scan the news of the day, the signs of impending danger that
threatens all of us, and then send out warnings based on a
solid foundation of
events foretold in the only true predictor of human events to come,
your bible.
A
DANGEROUS WORLD
Everyone
knows that danger is in the air, if they have their senses alert.
They feel it, they see it, and they even smell it. This sense of
something big is about to happen is coming from all avenues of life
on this planet including the secular humanist, the man on the street,
especially the awake Christian, and every human being that sees the
conditions of this dying world. Everyone has their feelings of dread
and fear what is coming upon the population of earth. The only
portion of humanity that has a handle on what is coming, is the bible
believing Christian, as they have the playbook right in front of them
and they know how the history of mankind is played out to it's
divinely appointed conclusion. The rest are in confusion and fear
grips their minds or embrace a false hope.
Jesus gave us the
signs of the coming of the Son of Man in the clouds of heaven and
spoke of the conditions that will be the first signs of His impending
return. Matthew 24 gives us a play by play of those signs. But let us
explore how this passage is being enacted right before our very eyes,
in real time. Let us take portions of this passage and see how it is
being fulfilled in our eyes and ears. Begin in Verse 4:
4 “And
Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive
you.5 For
many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive
many.” (Matthew 24:4-5)
How many men have proclaimed to be
the chosen one, the Messiah? You say, many and you would be right.
From Jim Jones, David Koresh, Sun Myung Moon, to individuals whose
followers claimed them to be the messiah coming from Jewish,
Christian, and even Muslim sects. All are leading up to one man, when
the world is in ultimate chaos and they look for someone to make
sense of this world and give them some type of “hope”. This
ultimate evil ruler is known as the Anti-Christ.
PAST MR. HOPE
AND CHANGE??
What
gave me pause was the advancement of an unknown political figure, a
junior senator from Illinois, that came out of no where and became
president of the United States. I don't mean this to be a political
piece, but we must understand that a man will arise that will fulfill
what Jesus said. Many believed that Obama was the prophesied “man
of sin”? I don't know as I don't have evidence that he is or was,
but I believe he is a precursor if nothing else. Obama embodies the
level men and women will give their allegiance to one man and blindly
follow him. Many have called this man, the “black messiah” that
has come to liberate his people and the African-American community
has been looking for such a man for 200 years. I saw magazine covers that depicted this man as Christ on a cross with out stretched hands and crown of thorns on his head....blasphemy? Yes it was. I was reading an
article that caught my attention and the details put me back in my
chair of a man by the name of Paul Robeson. Doesn't ring a bell?
Neither did it me, until I saw the connection to previously labeled
Mr. Hope and Change. Here is the excerpt of that article:
“Paul
Robeson was called the “Great Forerunner” (of the black messiah
to come). For a time it was thought that he could be the
prophesied, black messiah, who has been anticipated in the black
community for 200 years or longer, a mystical leader, who would
overturn the satanic white system and liberate the blacks of the
world.
Robeson was the mentor of Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s
own mentor. For this reason it is believable that Davis put the idea
of the mystical black messiah in Obama’s head at a very early age.
He had contacts via Paul Robeson to people, who could provide funds
and help advance Obama in his education and in politics. It was no
accident that Obama joined Jeremiah Wright’s church which had a
black liberation theology, based on a black messiah, who would be an
ordinary man.”
How else can we explain the sudden meteor
like rise of an unknown junior senator from Illinois, the lack of
facts surrounding his background, the sealed documents of his
schooling, selective service, and even his birth certificate that
came into question? Now, I'm not into conspiracy theories, but the
facts surrounding this man are most troubling to even a casual
observer that has their ears and eyes open and not “drinking the
Kool-Aid”. The main stream media had nearly deified this man in
their zeal for their liberal philosophy and may be playing into a
nefarious plan to bring America to embrace social justice, a buzz
word for spread the wealth around …AKA Fascism. What is Fascism? On
page 218 of
author Robert Paxton's ground-breaking book, "The
Anatomy of Fascism",
Paxton defines Fascism as, "...a form of political behavior
marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline,
humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity,
energy, and purity, in which is a mass-based party of committed
nationalist militants..." Therefore, Fascism is an extremist
ideology. Is this where America is heading? Now Obama is no longer
President, but he lurks in the background with his “deep state”
cohorts trying to sabotage anything that benefits this
country. Today we see CRT and wokeism, and those who cry out that the white people are white supremist and should be persecuted and riots in the streets from BLM (black lives matter)affirm this position.
JESUS
FURTHER WARNED
Let us go on with what Jesus spoke of further
into these verses:
6 “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All
these are the beginning of sorrows.(Matthew 24:6-8)
You say
there have always been conflicts in our history, and the history of
the world. Correct, except for one thing, not to the extent that has
been our history in the last 100 years. I wrote a sermon on that very
fact of the amount of people who have died in wars in the last 100
years compared to all of human history that is recorded. It is known
that over 250 million people have died in just the last 100 years or
the population roughly ¾ of the USA. That's more than all of
recorded human history combined. But this is just the beginning. I
went on to say that in the pages of the book of Revelation, God
reveals and numbers the amount of the slain to be 3/4 of all mankind
or roughly 6 billion people at the end of the age called the
Tribulation. Makes the last 100 years of the war dead pale in
comparison, doesn't it? That's 20-25 times the amount killed in the last
100 years in only 7 SHORT years. Can you smell the loss of life? If
you witness it, you most undoubtedly will. Folks, the wars being
fought now, are just the warming up for the carnage that is coming.
We read or hear nightly of the dangers of a Middle East conflict
involving Iran and Israel and possibly sending the world into WWIII.
It's not a possibility, it's a fact that will be played out, just as
the bible spoke about and will happen in the future sooner than any
of you may want. Even now a general in the Iranian army says that
they have enough firepower to destroy Israel completely. And you see
the build-up of forces from Turkey, Iran and Russia coming ever
closer to the Golan Heights preparing for an “invasion”? Can you
say Gog-Magog war brewing?
NATURAL
DISASTERS INCREASING.
What
about famines and pestilences? Have we ever seen the amount of
drought, loss of crops, and natural disasters that we have seen in
the good ole' USA that we have seen in the last 10 years that has
been growing in intensity since the mid 60s? Especially in the last 5 years, the southwest part of the USA is running out of water and ability to grow anything. America has by history
been the bread-basket of the world, but we may be fast approaching
being unable to feed the world, let alone ourselves. What happened in
the mid 60s? Oh, yeah, we ended, by Supreme Court decree of the right
of prayer in our schools brought about by a lawsuit by an atheist
known as Madelyn O'Hare. We have been ever more kicking out our
Creator from the halls of the government ever since. A nation that
was founded upon the principles found in our bibles embodied in the
Ten Commandments has steadily become more and more secular and
abandoning our founding principles. How about earthquakes? The earth
is violently shaking to the point that a day doesn't go by that you
don't hear about another quake and loss of life. Like a pregnant
woman, the birth pains are drawing closer and closer. Then you hear
the prediction that if the Yellowstone Cauldron Volcano erupts, not
if, but when, then it would destroy most of the USA by impact and the
famine it will produce.
As the USA has become more and more a
nation with a government that defends every conceivable deviate
notion of live and let live, we have entered into the age of
“tolerance” that only come from one place, demon and satanic
inspiration. In the last 50 years, what have we done, or should I say
allowed into our land? First came the misguided “separation of
church and state” which is not found in our constitution or bill of
rights, then Roe V. Wade that made it legal to kill an unwanted
child. The Supreme Court granted evil men and women to have illicit
sex without the fear of raising a child, which could be conveniently
and without remorse, aborted in the beginning of the gestational
period. Oh, but we didn't stop there, as it evolved into partial
birth abortion that allows a “so called doctor” to either severe the
spinal cord of a half birthed baby from the mother's womb or stab it
in the back of the head and suck out it's brains before it is fully
delivered....We have destroyed in this nation a full generation of
tax paying citizens that deserved the right to live. How dare we say
we need entitlement reform, when what we needed was a transformation
of the heart to prevent such an atrocity to be perpetuated in the
first place. God help us, as we have become an abomination in the
sight of God for killing our children. There was another time and
place where God pronounced judgment on a people such as
ours:
4 “Because
they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned
incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their
fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the
blood of innocents,
5 and
have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the
fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake
it, neither came it into my mind:
6 Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more
be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley
of slaughter.
7 And
I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place;
and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and
by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I
give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of
the earth.” (Jeremiah 19:4-7)
This
was the disgusting practice of appeasing a pagan god by giving their
little ones, sons and daughters to be burned in the fires of an idol.
Have we not done the same? Has this nation killed their sons and
daughters in the name of their pagan god, “sexual immorality” and
lust of the flesh? We all know it has been done to the tune of 60+
Million of potential USA citizens whose only crime was their right to
be born.
Let's us not forget those who wish to be a privileged
class amongst us!! I speak of the homosexual crowd. Since the
beginning of ancient history, there has been evil among us. God has
shown His disgust and condemnation of those who practice this deviate
lifestyle. When God came to Abraham during the time of the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and it's surrounding cities, the
sin was mainly the sin of homosexuality. Genesis,
4 “But
before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both
young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the
house;
5 and
they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight?
Bring them out to us, that we may know them." (sexual
perversion of the same sex)”(Genesis 19:4-5)
It's quite
possible that disease was rampant among these people because of their
sin, the bible doesn't say, but it would be in line with what has
happened in our own society in the scourge of AIDS and STDs. God wiped the
earth of these people with fire and brimstone that could be
correlated to what a nuclear blast would be like...it was complete.
Paul speaks of this abomination in Romans,
24 “Wherefore
God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own
hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who
changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.
Amen.
26 For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their
women did change the natural use into that which is against
nature:
27 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............
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.” (Romans 1:24_27, 32)
Even
from ancient times, homosexuality was condemned by God along with
sexual uncleanness: Leviticus,
21 “ And
thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech,
neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the
LORD.
22 Thou
shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination.(Leviticus 18:21-22)
Does
that not describe our culture and it's “tolerant” view of this
change to human existence? Of course it does. Jesus goes on to warn
of the sign of the end of days, Matthew,
12 “And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax
cold.
13 But
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And
this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a
witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When
ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand:)
16 Then
let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let
him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of
his house:
18 Neither
let him which is in the field return back to take his
clothes.
19 And
woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in
those days!
20 But
pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath
day:
21 For
then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning
of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” (Matthew
24:12-21)
Most
all of these signs have been fulfilled. The love of a neighbor, or
fellow human being is non-existent. More so in other countries, as
women and children are viewed as cattle and expendable, but we are
just as guilty here in other ways as they are. The murder rate is
exponentially increasing. Men destroy other men financially,
emotionally, physically, and ultimately spiritually. Jesus said that
the gospel will be preached in all the world, THEN the end would
come. In the age of technology, the use of satellite TV and more
importantly, the internet, the Gospel has reached the four corners of
this world. No one who is listening and willing to repent, has failed
to hear the name, Jesus Christ and the coming Kingdom of God. In the
last part of what Jesus warned, comes the warning to Israel, the only
part starting in verse 15, that is still future, as I have many times
advocated that Jesus was speaking to Israel in particular and the
focus of the coming tribulation is bringing that nation to the
realization and acceptance of their Messiah, Jesus Christ.
WHAT
TIME IS IT?
But
back to what I started. I believe this country is scheduled for
judgment. That judgment was slowed due to the administration
that we had, because of Trump being a nationalist instead of
“One World Advocate” and is reported to have been saved by the
leading of an Evangelist that prayed with him and other ministers
laid their hands upon him and confessed Jesus Christ as Savior. It is
why the left and the leftist media hate him so much..He is standing
in their way...Otherwise, although we may have received a short
reprieve from judgment, it has been coming on for a generation or
more. No nation in all of the annals of history has been so mired in
the sins of the flesh, that has not had the judgment of God come down
about their heads. The USA was an idea like no other in all of
history. In a sea of human suffering, men who put their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor on the line for freedom to speak
their mind, to worship or not to worship the God of the Bible, and to
be responsible for their own destiny as found in the opening lines of
our Declaration of Independence. “We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness” formed
this republic called the United States of America. I remember reading a person asking Ben Franklin what we had just formed....His answer was, "a republic, if you can keep it".
What can we
do? Much like Israel and other nations who turned away from God,
maybe not much as there comes a time when God's patience wears out
and He passes judgment and the sentence is carried out. Now we have a puppet in the oval office doing the bidding of the globalist elite who want a "ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT". Are we in Obama 2.0? Note that the man has an office close by the White House and could be a hidden advisor to this mentally challenged man who got into office by hook and by crook.
When it comes past the time of delaying judgment, God's will may be set and it will come to pass. Can I say that it is too late for America? No, I'm not a prophet, only a watchman sending out a warning who sees what is happening and am sounding the alarm to any and all who will listen. We as citizens of this country, and citizens of the coming Kingdom of God in the near future, must stand for righteousness. We cannot stand silent and by our silence condone what we know is against the laws of Almighty God.
We look at the political climate that affects
all our lives and wonder what has become of our government and our
God given freedoms? Is this not what we sent our elected officials to
do in our name? Are not our elected representatives there for us, not
for themselves or their own lust for power? Will we get another reprieve in this coming election? Maybe, and maybe not.
IS
AMERICA TO BE DESTROYED?
I
was truly saddened by the debacle that was displayed by the party of
Truman, Roosevelt, and Kennedy at a prior Democratic (sic)
convention. It seems the “party of the people” is now populated
with atheist, Muslims, and secular humanist liberals who have a
disdain for their Creator. How can any Christian support a political
entity that takes three voice votes on if God should or should not be
part of the language of the party platform?
If you saw the
proceedings, you know that 2/3 voice vote was not achieved to ratify
the words God and Jerusalem, the latter as the capital of Israel. I
believe that at least half of the party delegates are anti-God and
anti-semitic. This party has added to their platform language
positions that support abominations that I have just covered. This is
on top of where our country is economically, politically, and
ultimately spiritually. Economically, we have been at the cliff's
edge. The stock market is at an all time high, but everyone knows
that it sits on a very inflated bubble. Collapse could happen at any
moment. It could get really hard to feed your family, or yourself. Inflation is rampant. Gas prices beginning to soar, and our southern border is porous as a sieve colander. Marshall law could be enacted to bring order of the resulting chaos
of people looking out for #1 and riots like what happened in the past in Greece could develop.
Things could get really dicey, really
quick.
A
LEADER PLACED BY GOD FOR JUDGEMENT
So
what have we got to look forward to in the next two years or beyond,
if we have that kind of time before Jesus Christ burst through the
clouds and says, “come up hither”? If you look at the last Democrat administration, I expected more of the same or worse. There is no doubt
in my mind that the job Mr. Obama wished to finish, or the final nail
in the coffin that was the United States of America that we have
grown up with. I believe that is what he means when he said “Forward”
which is a Marxist slogan of days gone by. If it comes to pass, gone
will be our freedoms we have enjoyed. Gone will be our right to speak
our mind. Gone will be the ability to worship as we choose. And gone
will be our rights given to us by God, but replaced with the
government who knows all, sees all, and controls all. It is all
falling into place. Now our present "POTUS" (sic) speaks of "build back better" which is another saying of the Marxist ideology. We are being invaded right now, by illegal
immigration and those who are bringing diseases into this country in
the name of “amnesty” and illegal immigration. Why? They are trying to expand the base of the Democrat party so that they never loose another election is my theory. There was a big push for a physical wall to
protect this country from this southern invasion. What president
would allow an invasion of our country by executive order, all for
political gain to swell the ranks of his party and destroy the
American dream? Obama sure tried, and Trump tried to push it
back, but those in Congress that used to want a border wall, now are
against it, because Trump was for it. Now Biden has taken the funding for finishing the wall away...Only states like Texas have taken charge to finish what borders their state.
What president in the
past upholds the right to destroy human life through abortion and
claims to be a Christian? What man, be he president or the common
Joe, embraces every secular humanist philosophy known to man and
claims to be a proponent of the Bible's clear teachings? You can put
lipstick on a pig, but it doesn't make him a Christian pig. This big
brother government has attempted to muzzle the religious community by
enforcing by intimidation a law called the “Johnson Amendment”
passed in 1954 by voice vote, that prohibited the right of Christian
pastors to speak politically in the pulpit. I, for one, won't be
silenced. (Praise God, our past POTUS signed a religious freedom act to
protect our God given rights) As men ordained by God, pastors must
stand for what is right in this country. Who do we follow, God or
man?
After all, this is not Iran, yet! America could very well be in the throes of judgment right now. Have you ever seen the like of natural disasters that have come upon our own land from the West, into the Midwest, and up into the Northeast down to the Gulf? We’ve all seen things get pretty crazy before, but not to the extent we have seen in the last, say 10 years and more in the last 5 years. It seems to me, that our nation has gone near stark, raving crazy in it’s lunacy surrounded by natural disasters. Until that time comes when Jesus breaks through the clouds with a trumpet call, all we can do is be in faith and believe Psalm 91 and it’s promises of protection and continue the work Jesus proclaimed us to do, in His Name.
ISRAEL
IS AGAIN FRONT AND CENTER IN PROPHECY
The
political climate is near ripe for the coming of the lawless one. We have seen Israel and the Palestinians fighting (in the past recently) a long overdue
war from Gaza and Israel believes it has a right to defend herself
from non-stop salvos of missiles being fired at their citizens. Or
the trouble at the Gaza border trying to invade the country...Or the
push for a two state solution that the Arabs do not want. The only
thing Abbas and his kind want is to push Israel into the sea and
drown them. I hear many pundits calling on Israel to stop “war
crimes” against humanity.
What other country, and especially here
in the USA, would allow missiles to rain down on their citizens?
Would we tolerate Mexico or Canada doing the same as Hamas? No, we
would not tolerate it, and invasion would be imminent against the
perpetrators for this act of war. Human rights bleeding hearts and
the lame stream media fail to realize that Hamas started this fight, and I pray Israel finishes them with God's help.
I
read just the other day, that many of the surrounding nations are
considering coming to assist and fight along side Hamas in this Gaza
conflict….if that happens, can you say Psalm 83 that is prophesied
that Israel will destroy those who come against them in a siege to
remove them as a nation and as a people? Read the passage and judge
for yourself. With God’s help, (behind the scenes for the
moment), Israel will be victorious and it is promised that they will
own or conquer land from the great river in Egypt to the Euphrates to
the east and north into Syria and south into Arabia….It will be the
only time that Israel can claim to be in safety and security when
their surrounding enemies are neutralized. How long will that
security last?
Will it be two years, ten years, or will it be less.
If Israel is allowed to control their own economy and expand their
discovery of natural gas and oil, they will own a majority of all oil
producing wells in the world, plus billions of metric tons of natural
gas to be exported to Europe and the surrounding Middle East. Who is
the major supplier of natural gas for that population now? That would
be Russia, the old Soviet Bear is rising in the region and will it
allow a major competitor into their territory? Can you say Ezekiel
38-39?
AGAIN, WHAT
TIME IS IT?
Readers,
how much time do we have? A week, a year, two years, or maybe a
little longer? God only knows, but Jesus said “Occupy
till I come” (Luke 19:13b). We
must be about our Father's business, and that extends to our
obligation to promote what is right in our own lives, our community,
our town/city, and by extension to our country reaching as many as we
can with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We must get Jesus to the people, and people to Jesus. We cannot be silent. We cannot
stand idly by and say there is nothing we as God's people can do. In
all things, exercise your individual convictions based on your only
source of truth, God's Holy Word. Time is running out for salvation
for your neighbor, your family member, or even yourself to make a
decision for Jesus Christ. When America falls, you may just look
around and wonder where everyone went? I for one, will be at a
marriage feast. Till then I plan to fight the good fight and stand
for up for righteousness...won't you join me?
We
are at the very end of the Age of man's rule of this planet, as Jesus
proclaimed that when these things begin...that's BEGIN to happen,
then...
28 “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.” (Luke 21:28-32)
As I have spoken of many times, Israel is the door to end time prophecy and Jerusalem is the key to end time prophecy. Jesus said the generation that saw Israel reborn in 1948 will still be alive when Jesus breaks through the clouds and cries, “Come up hither” and we will be changed in the twinkling of an eye. That generation according to Psalm 90 was completed in 2018, as Israel turned 70 years old as a nation again. The outside is 80 years by strength, so how much longer will Jesus tarry? No predictions allowed, but it reveals just how close we actually are to the end of this age, known as the Church Age, and the beginning of the Tribulation.
We see all this happening around us now. And I ask you, ARE YOU READY for the return of our Savior and King Jesus Christ? It could happen at any moment. Don't be caught by surprise and drowning in your own sins without forgiveness or repentance. How must you be ready? Two short passages give you the way to be ready to meet the Lord in the air, what we call the rapture...
16 “ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:16-18)
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8 “But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:8-13)
There are many other verses that address your lost condition, but these two passages give you the recipe to find forgiveness of your sins, and become a child of God. Don't wait, for as a minister that sees the landscape forming for the coming of our Lord.....remember these words again.
28 “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Luke 21-28)
This
is Pastor Mike Taylor praying God's salvation comes into your life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. If you need counseling, prayer, or
just a friendly ear, email me at pastormiketaylor@yahoo.com,
or visit me online at www.pastormiketaylor.blogspot.com,
for more biblical lessons from the Word of God.
God
bless you all, till we meet at Jesus feet.
