May 24, 2022 – Click here to listen
I was watching a fishing show on television the other night. I was amazed at the number of commercials and the clever way they try to retain viewers interest. Before each commercial they load up on telling all of the interesting segments that will soon be aired. I try to use this same strategy in the books I write. I try to end each chapter with something that makes the reader turn the page to find out what happened next.
Wouldn’t it be neat if we could do that with our lives: “Coming up footage on marriage to high school sweetheart and move to North Dakota. Details on honeymoon spent in Bahamas fighting 500 LB Blue Marlin on light tackle for four hours!”
But it might not be so rosy: “Coming up, fiancé runs off with carnival worker. Exclusive footage of boat sinking in the Bahamas while Marlin fishing.
Nonetheless we do have a desire to know the future and the good news is that we can! I suppose God had a very good plan in not allowing too many of us to know what will happen in our day to day individual lives. He did, however, give us prophecy galore in His Bible that tells us what will happen in the big picture. Most prophecies were foretold hundreds of years in advance and have already occurred and been fulfilled. Every prophecy that God through His Bible has uttered has been fulfilled except the ones that are yet to come, and they’ll be fulfilled just as surely as the ones that have been fulfilled in the past.
Based upon my study I feel sure that He is winding things down. The prophecy of the Jews returning to their homeland in 1948 after being scattered throughout the world was analogous to lighting the fuse that will ignite the end-times of the world as we know it.
Much of what is to come is dire and uncomfortable to even think about much less dwell on, but it is there for a purpose and we should take note. The world is predicted to get more and more evil right up until the moment God comes back to stop it.
I was reading an article by David Berg and he made many excellent points that we should consider. I’ve edited it for space, but this is a sample: “Most of today’s youth seem to almost instinctively realize that they are living on borrowed time. After all, we are the first generation that has had to live with the knowledge that we could completely destroy ourselves. People want to know what to do about it, or if there is any way to avoid it or prepare for it, to survive it.
You’ll find that God’s Word is specific and clear. Its prophecies tell you exactly who and where and even when. So if you’ve been wondering, “Where did we come from? Where are we going? What’s happening?” this wonderful book, the Bible, tells you all about it, exactly what’s going to happen. You don’t have to worry about it; you don’t have to fear. You don’t have to guess at it. It’s all here just as plain as can be.
What God has determined and prophesied, He’s going to do. Whatever God has said He’s going to do, He is going to do . . . Not one prophecy shall be without fulfillment; every single one shall be fulfilled.
God has given man thousands of years to try to solve his own problems and run the world and bring peace and happiness, and he has brought nothing but war and misery. God has given man his chance and he has done nothing but make a mess of the world. And now, finally, man is able to destroy it. And if God did not step in and intervene in this last hour of history, man could completely destroy it and totally annihilate himself.
Let’s face it, man is destroying himself. He’s killing himself with his pollution and with his destructive nature, and if God doesn’t intervene and stop it, man would eventually wipe himself off the map!
The Bible predicts that in the last days of man-made regimes on earth, a totally godless, anti-Christ world government will arise, led by a Devil-possessed dictator, Satan incarnate, who will bring a temporary false peace on earth and a counterfeit utopia. Its price will be enforced worship of him as the imitation Messiah. All of his subjects will be branded with a credit number in order to buy or sell or obtain food or employment, and all those who refuse to cooperate will be hunted, persecuted, and slaughtered by his commandment. This will be a time of Great Tribulation.
This anti-Christ government of anti-Christ forces under the leadership of the Antichrist himself, this superhuman world dictator of man’s last one-world godless government,
will then set up its headquarters in Jerusalem, his capital, and unite all peoples of the world into a one-world worship of this demon-demagogue and his magical image which can speak.
These startling events will immediately precede the Second Coming of Jesus Christ,
which is the major end-time event, the grand climax, as the Lord Himself returns and wipes out the Antichrist and his followers and sets up the last and most lasting and only perfect government the world has ever known, and “the meek shall inherit the earth” (Psalm 37:11).
It’s wonderful to be able to read a newspaper that tells you what’s going to happen–not just what’s already happened. Anybody can tell you what’s already happened, but the Bible tells you what’s going to happen. Newspapers are not really newspapers; they’re history papers. They tell you what’s already happened – past news. But God has given us a lot of later news about today, the time in which we’re living right now, and what’s going to happen next. So the Bible is not just a history book, it’s a news book. It not only tells you about yesterday, it also tells you about tomorrow . . .
You don’t have to know the future and all the marvelous details of end-time prophecy. These events will happen whether you know them or not. But it’s a good thing to know and to understand these things so that you’ll be able to know what’s going on and what’s happening, as well as be able to teach and warn others.
All Things Change, but Jesus Never!”
I encourage you once again to read the Bible and enroll in an excellent Bible study. You will enjoy seeing things predicted eons ago actually happening before your eyes. Most of all during these distressing times you can maintain confidence and know peace. The Lord Jesus has those who love and follow Him in His palm and He isn’t about to allow anything to separate you from Him.
Romans 8:39
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.