End Times

II Peter 3:4 – I was talking with someone this past week about living right, reading the Bible on a regular  basis and about the 2^nd coming of Jesus.  As soon as I started speaking about the ‘end times’ and the ‘signs of the times’, she immediately said, “people have always said Jesus is coming soon.”  Yes, they have and yes, Jesus is coming soon – even saying that 2000 or even 1000 years ago, we are still right in saying ‘Jesus is coming soon’!  God is timeless; whereas, we are confined to time.  Nonetheless, it is obvious by the signs in society, as well as the signs in the heavens, that Jesus’ coming is imminent.  Not only are the prophesies almost all have come to fulfillment, but the signs in the heavens and on the earth are increasing.  Just look into the upcoming bloodmoons.  We are on the threshold of the greatest revival of all time, the greatest falling away of all time, and on the verge of the tribulation (book of Revelation).  It is time NOW to get right with God, because we are at the door of eternity and there are only 2 choices – heaven or hell!

There is MORE proof (that for ages, many have tried to hide and withhold knowledge from the public) for creation and God than there is for evolution.  Why is it easier for people to believe in aliens, spaceships that will come to rescue us, or evoke demonic activity, than it is to believe in the God of the Bible?  We saw an awesome video last night on the Hovind Theory (http://freehovind.com/info).  A few years ago, we had Rick Oliver of Confound the Wise Ministries (www.confoundthewise.org) come to speak in Ashland.  He was once a devout atheist – he holds a PhD in Evolutionary Biology – who became a Christian and a Creationist after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. 

Anyway, we watched video #8 of the series last night about the judgment, the flood, the ice age, and the re-population of the world.  Then coming to Gen. 11, we find that after the flood, people went from living over 900 years to Peleg (v16) who only to be 2 hundred and something.  As it pointed out in the video, that something major switched about 100 years after the flood and life spans got extremely shorter and shorter to where we have Abraham who only lived 120 years and so on to where we are today.  Pre-flood times, we had a greenhouse effect throughout the entire world (including the artic regions) to post-flood times, where we have extremes in weather and death came sooner to people.

Anyway, the point is, not only is our earth ‘dying’, but so are we, due to sin – judgment MUST come, as the end of the world and humanity, must come to an end.  There is NO saving this planet, there is NO redemption of mankind without Jesus!  As II Peter 3:9 states: “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise [the promise of His 2^nd coming AND judgment on the world], as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

We need to get over the fact that WE are NOT God, and that God owns this planet (He created it) and He owns ALL people(because He created them all) on this planet and therefore CAN and WILL cast judgment.  As v11-12 states: “Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?”

As the video pointed out in Noah’s time, it had never rained before (greenhouse effect – it never needed to), but that didn’t mean it never could!  Noah preached to the people of the imminent coming of the flood and the need for repentance – he said “it’s going to rain and flood the earth” and the people scoffed, just as people scoff today.  Just because no one has ever heard angels sound a trumpet in the heavens and all of God’s people (visually) will be gathered together into the clouds (the rapture) and go to heaven (Matt. 24:31), that doesn’t mean it won’t happen!  Don’t scoff at God’s word and don’t mock God – judgment is severe for those who do!  Read all of Matt. 24 – we have come to that time and time is running out!