We’re living in the
Last Days before the return of the Lord, and dreadful things are happening too
rapidly, things that clearly are in fulfillment of so many of the prophesies in
Luke 21, Mark 13, and Matthew 24.
Consider these:
·
WARS AND RUMORS OF WAR, NATION AGAINST
NATION, KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM – This is easy to see. The Middle East situation increases daily in
complexity, and now the US and the West is involved in a mess the complexity of
which they likely do not understand. The
barbaric behavior of ISIS in particular, a behavior that kills Christians and
non-Christians in horrible ways and tortures children, shocked the West into
action. Beyond all the fighting against
terror groups, and the ongoing wars in Syria and Libya and Afghanistan and
Iraq, there is the on again/off again war between Israel and Hamas/Gaza, and
the looming threat of the nuclear capability of Iran. Outside the Middle East we have Russia taking
over Crimea. Militarily, the world is
more unstable than it has ever been for most alive now, those born since WW II.
·
PESTILENCE – Yes, that is here too. Recently in Dallas the medical world has had
to confront Ebola, no longer just in Africa.
They were prepared only in part, and are slowly making their way through
this. As a reporter said, I do wish the
CDC and other experts would stop speaking with such forceful confidence as if
all is under control and everything is known.
This disease was just discovered in the 1970’s, and all is not known
about it. Initially the CDC said people
could only be infected by contact with fluids from an infected person. Now the warning is to stay at least three
feet away from such a person.
(As
for Africa itself, I have in the past several times been in Liberia and Sierra
Leone and I know those countries do not have the means or wherewithal to deal
with the rampant spread of this disease there, at least not without great help
from other nations.)
Ebola
is not the only such frightening pestilence in the US today. There is a terrible mysterious disease making
its way around attacking children, paralyzing children. One thought is it may
have come into the country through the porous southern border, but that is not really
known. It is an unknown disease.
·
FEARFUL EVENTS – Well, if the wars above
and the horrible diseases noted are not fearful enough, there are fearful events
related to the wars. The behavior of
ISIS in particular in the Middle East is terrifying. Recently a town of 12000 was surrounded by
ISIS. We have learned that in that town
every three or four houses graves were dug.
The plan of the residents was, if ISIS broke through, for the men to
kill the women and children, and then for the men to kill themselves, all in
order to avoid being taken by ISIS.
You
may not have seen this. In recent days
ISIS or its supporters have on the INTERNET called for sympathizers to find the
addresses of the families of American military fighting in the Middle East, to
go to those addresses and to slaughter the families. The military in the US has warned the
families, but what are they to do? Flee? Go live with parents or friends? Take in some powerful weapons? (I doubt the gun control lobby is going to
have much influence today.).
·
GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN – I do not know
what God considers a great sign from heaven, but we should pay attention I
think to the current sequence of four blood moons occurring right at the
beginning of Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles in two successive
years. The first of these occurred this
past spring, and the next one is on October 8.
This is rare and extraordinary, looking at history. I wrote more on this subject many months ago
and can send you a copy if you wish.
Certainly the intensity of dire things happening has increased since
this past spring.
·
ONE WORLD ORDER - Believers who know the
Bible and have some understanding of prophecy certainly understand the effort
and objective of the anti-christ and the false prophet in the last days to rule
the world. (Nowhere in the Bible is it
said that their empire contains the entire world.). Many poo-poo all this, but it is there. As I have tried to warn in fairly subtle
ways, there are organizations on the earth – very sophisticated ones with
wealthy and sophisticated members – who work toward this end steadily. In one or two newsletters I mentioned a
couple odd things I have encountered about all this.
Recently
I came across these comments on this that you should be aware of:
·
From the leader of ISIS: “A day will soon come when the muslim will
walk everywhere as a master.”
·
From the leader of Hamas, the group that
so terrorizes Israel: “We say this to
the West – by Allah you will be defeated.
Tomorrow our nation will sit on the throne of the world.”
Not
just local Middle East groups fighting for local Middle East objectives, are
they? It certainly appears now that the
muslim world, in particular militant islam, is the great evil military opponent
in the end times. Not quite like we had
anticipated, is it. Not quite like those
sophisticated groups of wealthy people who have worked toward the one-world
government have anticipated either, I expect.
- DECEPTION
AND FALLING AWAY FROM GOD – I am not even going to write about these two
prophecies since they have been my focus in publications for months. If it is not readily apparent to you
this is going on at all levels of society and life, I suggest you spend
some time praying and contemplating all that is underway.
You cannot deny the
horrors and difficulties the world faces now and the general feeling of unease
so many have. There is much more that
could be written. If you would like more
information, I suggest you read our September 2013 newsletter on our website
and more recent newsletters; also, watch some of our videos there or get some
of our CDs on this subject. And
encourage others to get on our distribution list.
I just close here with
two comments. First, Jesus’ words in
Luke 21:36 (NIV):
Be always
on the watch, and pray that you
may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to
stand before the Son of Man.
And second, these words
that are on all our publications and stationery and that come from God’s words
to me at night while I was walking all alone by the ocean:
(October
2014)
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