Are we in the End Times?    

NOV. 12, 2005, Sat.

Some people today will say We're Living In The End Times.  Others
believe Christ is coming soon!  Or fear that the world is on the verge of
Armaggedon.  While all this has been heard before, many years ago,
people then actually feared the wrath of God coming down upon them. 
Wars and Rumors of Wars is a verse out of the Bible that looks pretty
much like what's going on in the world today.

One of the most feared and dreaded books out of the Bible, that many
don't want to look upon or read is Revelation.  While some think of it as
just historic facts, others believe it's the foretelling of the future.  I think
that the John who wrote it was interweaving his present-past conditions
with the future.  Which is basically saying that the same evils & injustices
that happen in his time and how God put abrupt end to it, would be no
different in the present-future.  Simply put, God will not allow evil to reign
alone in the world.  John who wrote Revelation gave us earmarks of how we'd
know when such a time would arrive upon us.

The Bible says that no one, not even the Angels in Heaven would know
when Christ would come.  The Bible does say His second coming would
be Like A Thief In The Night.  'In The Night' surely makes us know when
it will happen, abruptly and without warning.  There is a chance it might
of already happened, which resulted in missing persons happening all
over the world.  Since the Bible has indicated that there'd be few
who'd make it, the scattered numbers of missing persons might of
been too low for it to be viewed as such.  Those who are left behind
and not caught up in such (Rapture) would be left behind to face the
time of TRIBULATION.  Those who wouldn't be taken up, to be with
Christ, are not ready- cause most of there life was not living in the
Way that is acceptable to the Lord.  Wavering and backsliding
is two of the worst downfalls of ever making right before the Lord.
What a person says, thinks and does will matter in Thee End.   In
the Biblical book of Romans, we are told clearly that it'll be
What's in our heart that will count upon Judgment Day.  The Heart
is the total sum of what a person was in life...Good or Bad.  Which
mostly has do with a particular choice we made, in either
living right before the Lord or being a total evil pawn of the Devil.

There are so many snares, traps and detours in which Satan will try to
thwart a person from putting the Lord first in their lives, over all else.  One
in particular is Evil's theft of tithing money, to the Church, through piles of
bills and desperately needed items.  Those who do not give their 10%
of tithes to the Church, is like stealing from the Lord and will suffer
some loss or experience problems as a result.  But those who faithfully
go ahead despite pending circumstances, will be surely blessed.
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