* SIGN OF THE TIMES - ON OUR WAY HOME

 

Sometimes in a world in turmoil we just need a moment of quiet and reflection, a moment of peace.  So here it is.

We believers in Jesus are on our way home.  We are always on our way home and have been ever since (1) he rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, and (2) we accepted Jesus as our Lord.  Up to now this going home has always involved the process of physically dying, but now we are so close to the Lord’s return to collect his believers that we realize many living believers will never die physically but will go with Jesus when he comes to collect his believers.

We have never felt truly at home here have we, not on this planet with so much mayhem and confusion and godlessness and evil around.  The whole world is under the control of the evil one, as John tells us in 1 John 5:19.  Our true home is where Jesus and the Father are.  Eternal life is being with them. 

Over the years I’ve written often about home, and I’ve been thinking about that wonderful subject again. One of my favorite writers, Robert Frost, wrote about home long ago in his Death of the Hired Man poem.  In a conversation there between a husband and wife, one says:

                             'Home is the place where, when you have to go there,

                        They have to take you in.'

The other replies:

                        'I should have called it

                        Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'

These two incredible sentences capture it all, don’t they.  Home is a place you don’t have to deserve.  Heaven is our home, being with the Lord, with God.  We can’t deserve that.  We don’t deserve that.  But we believers get in anyway.  Why?  They have to take us in, because we are believers in Jesus! 

We don’t deserve to be there, but because of Jesus and our faith in him they have to take us in.

Home.  I’m ready for that place, and I expect you are too.

Here is my own poem on this subject written years ago.  You may have already seen it.

 

                              WE ARE NEVER HOME     

                                     by John Newlin

 

                        We are never home.

                        Not now.  Not here.

                        No matter how we try.

                        We cannot get there.

 

                        The moments of joy

                        Family and friends bring

                        Cannot dispel

                        The longing of our hearts.

 

                        Harsh though the words,

                        God’s children are

                        Strangers in a foreign land,

                        Aliens on planet earth.

 

                        This is not our world.

                        But we will soon be home,

                        That we know.

                        Our hope is secure.

    

There is no doubt we believers are on our way home.

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                                                                                                     March 2026

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* SIGN OF THE TIMES: DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE

  

Surely this is true for the Jews even today.  Few indeed of them know who Jesus is and have accepted him as their Lord.  So the overwhelming bulk of the Jews on earth will have to live through the horrors of the Tribulation; Jews living in Jerusalem will have to suffer all the horrors described about that time in Zechariah 14 and elsewhere.

 

But this verse also applies to some believers in Jesus today who just do not know all that God is and what he has for us.  So many are just unwilling to spend the time studying or reading the Bible and being guided by the Holy Spirit.  They prefer to attend church like going to a theater, to watch and hear what some other person has to say.  Even if that person is an excellent teacher and preacher, he has only a limited amount of time in these formal services to teach a point.

 

Without knowledge, so many of God’s believers do not know all the tools he has for our protection.  They do not know the reality of divine healing.  They do not have revelation of what is happening and soon to happen.  And they make life decisions without the divine guidance that is so crucial and valuable.

 

I know of a very famous pastor who was led into his life’s work by the above verse.  He was sitting in an audience at some type of religious service.  People were called forward for some reason, and as they went forward he saw them as stick figures, as line pencil drawings.  He was horrified and called out to God, what is this?  God answered with the above verse from Hosea.   And his ministry really was born.

 

In the book of Jeremiah, God describes his people then (the Jews, for there were no Christian believers then) as being foolish, not knowing him, being stupid children, not having any understanding (Jeremiah 4:22) .  The book of Isaiah explains why the northern Israeli tribes had gone into captivity by saying they have no knowledge (Isaiah 5:13).

 

In this most difficult of times in which we are living, do your best to read and meditate about the Bible every day.  Ask the Holy Spirit to guide your understanding, reveal truths, even  to guide you to the specific section you should be reading at a particular time.  Use our materials and those of other serious Bible based ministries to help.  You don’t want God applying Hosea 4:6 to you.

 

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                                                                                   January  2026

 

 

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