* WATCHMAN WARNING: WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON - THE FINAL STEPS

  

There will be fearful events, Jesus said of our time.  People will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea, he said.

 

All that just happened.  No one on the west coast of Florida, the Gulf Coast side, ever expected the storm Helene to have serious impact on them.  It was over a hundred miles away and supposedly heading north to come ashore in the panhandle area of Florida.  Then suddenly there was the many feet of storm surge and terrible destruction of cities and houses on that west coast.

 

Far away, five hundred miles north, in the mountains of NC people were living in Asheville and Boone and smaller towns like Chimney Rock and many more.  Five hundred miles!  Hurricanes were for the coast surely.  But not so this time.  Helene arrived at an area already saturated with many inches of rain.  And it just poured more on.  Then a flood ensued unlike anything anyone living had ever seen.  Massive destruction and loss of life.  We still don’t know the full extent.  The rescuers haven’t gotten everywhere to check it all out yet.  Too many trees down, not like we are used to seeing – a tree here or there.  No, this is piles of trees all together that take long, long periods to remove.  Buildings and cars wrecked and piled up.  Hundreds of roads damaged and cut off.  Bridges out.   And hundreds of people still missing.

 

The flood is of Biblical proportions some say.

 

Some try to compare it to the great flood there in 1916 but of course no one was around then.

 

And at the same time this is happening Iran sends many missiles into Israel, and the Middle East is turbulent indeed.  And the Ukraine war just continues.  Nation against nation.  Wars and rumors of wars.

 

Final signs.  These are part of the final signs.  Jesus outlined events of the last days.  Those days are here.

 

We are at the time of the Lord’s return.  Most people just do not know.  Serious believers know if they are paying attention.  Not anyone else. 

 

So we wait to hear his command, the angel’s shout, and the trumpet.  And we will be off, leaving behind huge numbers of people who do not know Jesus, including no doubt a significant number who thought they were Christians but were not born again, not born of water and the spirit as Jesus said was a requirement.  They had been let down by their church or by their own thinking.  They did not do the will of Jesus’ father.  They did not have the same innocent faith as little children.  And evidently they just did not truly believe.  So many in their churches and in some places their pastors themselves will be left behind.

 

Time.  It’s time.  You can continue to try to wake people up, to tell people the truth.  Lots just don’t want to be bothered.  They don’t want to hear.  Lots already have been caught in the deception of the evil one and even have fallen into delusion.  Some have just never paid attention or apparently even been able to hear the truth of God.  Many others get angry and protest in cities and universities for anti-god causes although they can’t understand they are on the wrong side,  They line up in support of vicious and blind opponents of the Jews and they support the LGBTQ movement in all its ramifications.  They are spiritually lost and will live in the Tribulation.

 

We believers all have to keep in mind that only God the Father can draw anyone to Jesus.  We can’t.  We can speak to others about Jesus and the gospel and the return.  We can pray for God the Father to draw these people to Jesus.  But then we have to let God be God.

 

Soon.  Soon the Lord will be here.  And we believers will be gone.  Comfort yourselves also with realization that some come to know the Lord during the horrible Tribulation period.  In Revelation John the disciple sees countless Tribulation saints in Heaven.

 

I don’t know how many more storms like Helene will occur or how extensive the wars will become or how many other natural or human disasters will occur before Jesus arrives.  Hopefully none.  One thing is for certain.  He will be here soon.

 

Another thing is certain too:

 

Some things are now happening on earth we have little or no control over.  Not all, just some.  I think we still apply the power of prayer in all situations and use the authority Jesus has given us at all times.  But just realize there may be moments that possibly we can’t change.  Jesus is coming indeed at the appointed time.  That time is set.  And it is soon.

 

 

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* WATCHMAN WARNING: MY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LORD

Jeremiah recorded God’s words above regarding his people in Jeremiah’s day (Jeremiah 8:7).  It surely applies to many in our day.

Yes, there are of course requirements of the Lord, all that guidance God gave regarding how we are to live, all the wisdom and commands Jesus gave regarding life and what humans are to do. 

There are even specific requirements for anyone hoping to be in the Kingdom of God.  Yes there are, even though many have never heard them.  It is certainly true that it is by grace you have been saved and not by works, so that no one can boast.  Paul said that.  Jesus certainly paid the price, a horrible price, for each person to have the opportunity to be saved, to be with him in the Kingdom.  But Jesus said more on the subject of salvation:

• Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit (John 3:5). A person must be born anew, or born again.  They must be washed clean of all sin and receive a new spirit; in essence, God himself becomes their father.  This is the transformative moment in the life of a believer in Jesus.  I know this  can be difficult to understand.  Perhaps a great scripture that helps is this scripture from Ezekiel in which God is talking about returning the exiled Israelites to their home, the ingathering of the Jews:    “I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.” (Ezekiel 36:25-27)

• Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 7:21). A person must do the will of Jesus’ father in Heaven; they must do God’s will (not their own independent will.).

• Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it (Mark 10:15). A person must be like little children in their faith; i.e., their faith must be innocent and absolute just like the way little children believe their parents.

• For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16). As I have said before, this word translated believes here is absolute belief – for example, you believe there is enough oxygen in the room where you are now to keep you alive or else you would be running out.  That kind of absolute belief.

Elsewhere in many other verses Jesus talks about specific behaviors and actions of people that will keep them out of the Kingdom.  I’ve written about these before.  Here is a specific list that Jesus covers from Revelation 22:15:

• Living a homosexual lifestyle; said another way, living a deviant or sexually immoral lifestyle. I list this first because it is so obvious in our modern society. God considers homosexuality an abomination.  There are many different scriptures pointing this out, and there is no reason for anyone to miss the message unless they intentionally just don’t want  to believe.  Here are some key scriptures: Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 22:13, Romans 1:18-32, 1 Timothy 1:9-10, 1 Corinthian 6:9-10, and Revelation 22:15. So the LGBTQ movement is an eternal sentence to hell for its members.   
• As a general overall comment on deviant sexual lifestyle, Jesus says in the last page of the Bible that the sexually immoral will be outside that Kingdom. There is even a scripture in Deuteronomy 22:5 where God describes a man’s dressing as a woman or a woman as a man as an abomination.
• Another specific behavior keeping people out of the Kingdom is practicing falsehood. Liars in other words.  Perpetual liars.  Habitual liars.  Out government is full of those, even at the very top.  So too the media.  You know that.  Well, there is a cost to such behavior, an eternal cost, the greatest cost imaginable. 
• Idolaters will not be in the Kingdom either. Idolaters of course are people who put other things at the top of their priority list above God, like getting more and more money and more and more power as so many of our corporate top executives and highly wealthy elite seem to live today (and some of the top politicians as well.).
• Those who practice magic arts are also excluded from the Kingdom. Those are people who practice all sorts of bizarre actions to influence and control others.   Another translation is sorcery.
• Jesus also says dogs are excluded, meaning ungodly people with impure minds exercising immoral ways. That is a hard word for us to understand, but that is what it means.
• Murderers too are excluded from the Kingdom.

Of course, those who are simply not believers, who do not fulfill the points I listed earlier that Jesus said are necessary to be in the Kingdom, will be excluded.  So I expect that in addition to all true atheists and agnostics and followers of false religions like Islam and Buddhism and such, many of those who attend those lost and dry churches on Sunday mornings will be left out as well. 

Today how many of those who say they are Christians understand at all the requirements of the Lord and live in them?  How many?  How often do you hear of any churches teaching any of this?  For that matter, notice how so many churches never teach or operate in the Holy Spirit and his gifts.  Or teach of the imminent returning of the Lord or the fullness of the gospel and all God has for us or the authority we have in Jesus.  It is a power gospel, and Jesus’ believers realize that and live in it.

Well, soon the Lord is returning.   Really really soon.  Keep your eyes on him.  Above everything else, keep your focus on Jesus.  “Watch” was his command at the end of his remarks about his return.  “Watch!”

Stay in the  right relationship with him.  Don’t drift away.  Don’t backslide.

One further point - we know from Paul that having the Holy Spirit is in fact a guarantee of our salvation, like a stamp of approval or badge.  Something to be devoutly sought and possessed.  Does the Bible say that?  Yes it does:  ¹³ And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴ who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory. – (Ephesians 1:13-14)

That seal is a wonderful thing to have, surely!  And the Holy Spirit and his gifts are an invaluable guide through life.

Certainly if God was troubled that his people in Jeremiah’s day did not know his requirements, I expect he is troubled today by so many not knowing his requirements.  The difference is that we are living at the very end of this age.  It is not the Babylonians coming to take people off to their land.  It is Jesus coming to take his people off to be with him, and then it is the beginning of the terrible Tribulation for those left behind. 

Everyone who knows the Lord, WATCH!  BE READY! 

And everyone who does not know or is not sure that they are saved, get serious about it.  Ask Jesus to be the Lord of your life.  Ask him to forgive your sins.   And seek to receive the Holy Spirit too.  Find a Spirit-filled believer if you can to pray for you to receive the Spirit. Or if you can’t find such a person, just ask the Holy Spirit to come to you in power.  Guidance by the Holy Spirit is a great benefit in these times.  

Let me just say, we are not living in a time of discussion and conjecture about Jesus and some future return.    This is the real deal now.  A dividing line is being finalized, between those who truly believe and know Jesus and those who don’t.   The imminent return is close at hand.

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