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2020 SIGNS - ARE YOU AWAKE YET? - IT'S COMING! - YOU CANNOT STOP IT, BUT YOU CAN BE READY FOR IT!
We are living in unprecedented times! So unprecedented is the time that we live in today, that the WHOLE world is now talking about this one particular subject. The questions on many people's lips are - "what is the future for this world?" ... "Is the world going to end soon?" Believers and non-believers alike are asking the same question. Even the stones are crying out - IT'S COMING!, IT'S COMING! But what is coming?
Matthew 24:27 ...'For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.'
2 Peter 3:10 ...'But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.'
What's coming? The return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the destruction of this earth. And how do we know this is going to happen soon? Just look at the signs given in the Bible.
Daniel 12:4 says "knowledge shall be increased." - Matthew 24 says "there shall be false Christs, wars, nation rising against nation, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, persecution, iniquity abounding and love waxing cold." - 1 Timothy 4:1 says "many shall depart from the faith." - Hosea 4:3 says "the land shall mourn with with the beasts of the field, fowls of heaven and fishes of the sea taken away." - Luke 21:25-26 says "upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring." - 1 Thessalonians 5:3 says the world will be pushing for "peace and safety." - 2 Timothy 4:3-4 says "the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth." - 2 Timothy 3:1-5 says "in the last days men shall be lovers of their own selves, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God" - 2 Peter 3:3 says that "there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts." - Revelation 11:18 says "the nations were angry" and that man would be "destroying the earth."
ALL of these things are taking place at the same time right now in the world! And what did Jesus say in Matthew 24? ... when ye shall see ALL these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." - It's coming!
This world is marked for destruction ... "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." (2 Peter 3:7). And all who hold onto this world will be destroyed along with it. But God has provided a way of escape from the coming destruction of this earth, and none need to be lost, for God is willing that all be saved, and He has no pleasure in the destruction of the wicked:
1 Timothy 2:4-6 ...'Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.'
Ezekiel 33:11 ...'Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die.'
Thus saith the Lord ... "Why will ye die? Turn ye from your evil ways and LIVE!" ... This world is going to become dust! Why hold onto dust?!
God has provided a way for ALL of us to LIVE. And that way is through faith in His Son Jesus Christ and the sacrifice He made for us to atone for our sins. Sin brought death into this world because our heavenly Father who is holy, cannot abide with sin, therefore sin separates us from God. But our heavenly Father showed us just how much He loves us by giving His very own Son to take the penalty of sin, so that we can be reconciled to the Father and have LIFE.
John 3:16-18 ...'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God'
There are only two choices. We can either reject God's Son, holding onto this world and be destroyed with it, when Jesus returns. Or we can BELIEVE in Jesus Christ and what He has done for us, letting go of this world, surrendering our lives to Him, and have ETERNAL LIFE! But we CANNOT have both the world and Christ. We have to choose one or the other.
James 4:4 ...'know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.'
Matthew 6:24 ...'No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.'
If we hold onto this world, we are holding onto sin. And sin separates us from God (Isaiah 59:2). This is why we must let go and surrender our lives to Christ.