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"If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14.
Today I received an email about this verse, and the need to pray right now for our country, and it included a discussion about the end of the world. My readers have asked why I don't approach this subject often, and I honestly was not sure of the answer. After a lot of prayer, now I understand.
Usually, when people hear the words "end times" or "rapture", many feel a sense of dread or fear. I know because I grew up under that fear. However, my eyes have finally been opened to the truth. First, I want to tell you all that this is not a time to be fearful, but a time to be active. For many years as a child I was taught about the end of the world before I was taught anything else such as Noah's Ark or so many other stories that are child friendly so to speak.
Now I realize this is not a time to be afraid. Every time you watch the news and hear about a child murdered and kidnapped, you long for justice. You crave to see the killer pay for what they did. That is what this time is about. When Jesus returns, the justice you have been craving will take place, and you will finally see good triumph over evil. So many look at their own lives in fear and look at their family and think "I don't want my child to not grow up." But believe me, if you are on His side of things, it is not the end, it is only the beginning of everything good you have wanted for yourself and your family for so long. It is nothing like the fear that people want you to think it is. If you ever doubt, you think of that loving God that loved you enough to send His only son to die to save you. Would He want you to suffer?
Absolutely not. When we think of "the end" we think of the nuclear wars, the mass destruction, and everything our minds possibly can. Stop and think since the year 2000 what all has taken place. Yes, in the past we had horrible times such as World War II and the Great Depression. However in the past there were years in between many of those events. Since 2000, we have seen 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, hurricanes hitting Florida repeatedly over and over in 2004 and after, the 2004 tsunami from the Indian Ocean Earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, child abduction after abduction and so much more. In 9 years, more has happened than has happened for centuries.
And many will tell you that people have been saying that end times were going on for centuries, but anyone familiar with the Old and New Testaments knows what is really going on right now. No it is not a time to fear, but it is a time to be serious. Everyone speaking of this issue is not insane, but they are paying attention to the entire Bible, and that Bible includes a discussion of these times. Knowing that, it is time to get busy. There are many who are out there who need to hear God's word. There are many who will be given a second chance through an extremely tough trial period, and they need to know the truth so they can hang on.
People have no problem telling others that we should live as if today is our last day. Ironically, that usually means doing what we want, but the truth remains that today may be our last day. We should spend it making sure as many souls as possible get through the narrow gate Jesus described. "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it." Matthew 7:13.
Stop worrying about Jesus coming back on New Year's Eve in 1989 or 1999 or sometime in 2012. God is smarter than that, and He tells us it will be at a time that is "unexpected". Stop worrying about the little things that do not matter, and stop making the same mistakes over and over that you know are wrong. Stop worrying about how big your house is, your car is, who is out to get you and everything else that God will resolve in the end. Do you really expect to live in a house on Earth after you are dead? Do you really expect sympathy for a dent in your BMW when God's children are starving all over the Earth? Start getting serious about the bigger issues at hand no matter what the cost is now.
God is not some mean horrible God that is ready to do everyone in. Rather, He wants everyone to see that good, pure good, the kind of good that is not selfish, self-serving, hateful, conditional, and the like, ends the day. And He will end the final day teaching humankind that lesson.
He tells us that His word will not return to Him empty but that it will accomplish all it says, and it will. You don't have to watch many history channel specials to see that even Sir Isaac Newton and so many other scientists were fascinated with the Bible to the point that they knew that everything in the Book of Revelation will take place, and spent time predicting it. Newton's documentation on this issue was not discovered long ago. And it will happen, but if you are following God, it will not happen in the way you fear, but instead it will happen in the way you really wanted.
And you don't have to watch the news much to want that.
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