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A lot of people in tbe church get very agitated when one talks about the end times and the closeness of the final sands draining out of the hourglass of time. I often hear them counter with, "Yes, but there have always been tnings like we are facing today. Really?
Look, when people in the world who have no hope of Jesus returning talk about an approaching apocalypse, we have turned a corner somewhere. Consider that corner officially turned.
I did a college report in 1970 on tbe threat of overpopulation. It stood at three billion and was expected to double in 30 years It did. 6 billion. It will double again by 2030. 12 billion. Natural resources will be reduced greatly. Pollution, lack of clean water and air, melting polar caps taking away thousands of square miles of densely populated land. Cities under water. Increased storms and stronger hurricanes. Oh, and all the new affluent in India and China will want cars, not bicycles. And houses, not hovels.
The worldwide migration crisis will continue to get much worse, as the have nots want what the others have. Wars, nuclear options, dirty bombs, biological warfare. These are just a few of the things that no other generation has faced before. Guess what? We do.
Scientists and ecologists talk about a tipping point, when, once passed, there is no fixing it. No reverse. We are right there, right now. I fear Christians refuse to look at things staring us right in the face amd wave off any possibility of concern because a) they are one of the 'haves', and sorta like their lives just as they are and do not want to think about the alternative.... hunger, wars, riots in the streets, or a one world govenrment that promises to fix the mess we humans have made..... or b) they do not feel prepared to meet the Lord in the condition they now find themselves, with secret sins that they either can't or do not want to have fixed. OR, both of the above.
Either way, if we are lucky, we may have 30-40 years left (I am being very generous here) and that is NOT some prophetic utterance. You do not need to be a prophet to connect the dots and realize that this world cannot continue as it always has. We are at a convergant point of all the problems into one big human pimple ready to explode. Throw in a selfish, materialistic, pleasure loving society where evil is waxing worse and worse, and any reasonable man or woman will conclude that the die is pretty well cast, if we have the nerve to look at it long enough with an honest heart. Hiding our heads in the sand of weekly religious services like ostriches, believing that God would never allow any of His own to suffer, so it can't be true.... guys, that is definitely not the way to go.
It is sad but a sign of the times when unbelievers who have much to lose agree that the end of things as we know them is looking unavoidable and yet children of the king are found asleep, not watching at all, not preparing at all, content with things just as they are, feeling like they have need of nothing. Does that remind tou of anyone?
It is time to blow the trumpet. God's watchmen, if you are one, need to speak up, regardless of the blowback. It is time we as His people wake up and seek the face of God. Those who do, who dig deep, will be blessed. Those who do not will continue to be in great peril.
blessings,
Gideon
Look, when people in the world who have no hope of Jesus returning talk about an approaching apocalypse, we have turned a corner somewhere. Consider that corner officially turned.
I did a college report in 1970 on tbe threat of overpopulation. It stood at three billion and was expected to double in 30 years It did. 6 billion. It will double again by 2030. 12 billion. Natural resources will be reduced greatly. Pollution, lack of clean water and air, melting polar caps taking away thousands of square miles of densely populated land. Cities under water. Increased storms and stronger hurricanes. Oh, and all the new affluent in India and China will want cars, not bicycles. And houses, not hovels.
The worldwide migration crisis will continue to get much worse, as the have nots want what the others have. Wars, nuclear options, dirty bombs, biological warfare. These are just a few of the things that no other generation has faced before. Guess what? We do.
Scientists and ecologists talk about a tipping point, when, once passed, there is no fixing it. No reverse. We are right there, right now. I fear Christians refuse to look at things staring us right in the face amd wave off any possibility of concern because a) they are one of the 'haves', and sorta like their lives just as they are and do not want to think about the alternative.... hunger, wars, riots in the streets, or a one world govenrment that promises to fix the mess we humans have made..... or b) they do not feel prepared to meet the Lord in the condition they now find themselves, with secret sins that they either can't or do not want to have fixed. OR, both of the above.
Either way, if we are lucky, we may have 30-40 years left (I am being very generous here) and that is NOT some prophetic utterance. You do not need to be a prophet to connect the dots and realize that this world cannot continue as it always has. We are at a convergant point of all the problems into one big human pimple ready to explode. Throw in a selfish, materialistic, pleasure loving society where evil is waxing worse and worse, and any reasonable man or woman will conclude that the die is pretty well cast, if we have the nerve to look at it long enough with an honest heart. Hiding our heads in the sand of weekly religious services like ostriches, believing that God would never allow any of His own to suffer, so it can't be true.... guys, that is definitely not the way to go.
It is sad but a sign of the times when unbelievers who have much to lose agree that the end of things as we know them is looking unavoidable and yet children of the king are found asleep, not watching at all, not preparing at all, content with things just as they are, feeling like they have need of nothing. Does that remind tou of anyone?
It is time to blow the trumpet. God's watchmen, if you are one, need to speak up, regardless of the blowback. It is time we as His people wake up and seek the face of God. Those who do, who dig deep, will be blessed. Those who do not will continue to be in great peril.
blessings,
Gideon
