The following was first posted in January:
With a beautiful grandson to laugh with and thank God for...I somehow found time to sneak the warning in on the perilous days in which we live. I always do. I feel that I should remind our son again and again. Not that he doesn't know it but it is of such importance that it's better to be safe than sorry by remaining vigilant.
They are words that one could easily pass over but they are part of the very Word of God and therefore never to be glossed over. Here they are....2 Peter 1:12, 13...."Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth being present in you. I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder." Peter knew that he was nearing the end of his life.....yet he felt it necessary to remind again and again.....the more important words of truth from God's Word.
I never tried or even hoped that some readers to these posts would come back day after day as if they were some famous pundit's podcast. I have always been more concerned with how many people hear some of these warnings at least once.....and yes maybe a few more times than that.
Among those warnings that appear most often are these. In what was nothing short of miraculous, God in 1948 established Israel as a nation unto itself once again. He in effect told us in this that we are not looking at centuries before His return but rather decades at the most. We ourselves began to unravel in November of 1963 but slowly coinciding with the coming decade of violence and rejection of God came the reaffirmation that one had to be....born again....to be a Christian. A flash flood of conversions gave America one last breath of life before the spiral began. I was swept along in that flood. We even had the last president of whom we could at least implicitly trust in Ronald Reagan.....we may never have another one.
God began a long slow process of warning us that we as a nation......and the world....were going to be judged. We in America underwent judgments one after another in quick succession....assassinations....abortions.....riots.....terrorism.....a communist president....a final blitzkrieg against God's commandment against homosexuality....and now in effect a people that bears little to no resemblance of its former self.....yet these judgments did not even phase us.....in fact we now have a president who boldly proclaimed to the nation that there has...."Never been a better time to start living the American dream."
Even though God's Word tells us that when they say "peace and security" that "sudden destruction" will come upon them....even though this is very clear.....we are right now celebrating just that....the coming...."peace and security!" We actually think that God gave us Donald Trump to make America great again. We don't care at all what he is like. We have an excuse for everything that he does. All we have to do is compare him to Barack Obama....a former judgment from God. Our economy looks good right now.....and we are totally oblivious that this could turn 180 degrees in one single day!
I have lived sixty-eight years and some odd months. (sixty-nine and some odd months now) I was able to partake in the America of our heritage.....before that America succumbed to the same temptations that ancient Israel succumbed to before they were judged by God. I remember that heritage....and weep at what we have replaced it with. I have given nothing to stop the downward spiral....in fact I added to it. I am but one person....one of many....who God for some unknown reason had mercy upon. Even my warnings are tinged with pride and arrogance....but I continue to warn....for if Jesus felt it to our benefit to warn us....and if Peter warned us....and Paul warned us....and John warned us....and Christians ministers such as Billy Graham.....just to name one.....of whom I have no right to even stand beside....if they felt....and feel it necessary to warn those that God gave them to minister to.....then we all have no choice but to at least warn our neighbors and friends....which in reality is all that these posts are....words to neighbors and hopefully friends....wherever they may live!
With a beautiful grandson to laugh with and thank God for...I somehow found time to sneak the warning in on the perilous days in which we live. I always do. I feel that I should remind our son again and again. Not that he doesn't know it but it is of such importance that it's better to be safe than sorry by remaining vigilant.
They are words that one could easily pass over but they are part of the very Word of God and therefore never to be glossed over. Here they are....2 Peter 1:12, 13...."Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth being present in you. I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder." Peter knew that he was nearing the end of his life.....yet he felt it necessary to remind again and again.....the more important words of truth from God's Word.
I never tried or even hoped that some readers to these posts would come back day after day as if they were some famous pundit's podcast. I have always been more concerned with how many people hear some of these warnings at least once.....and yes maybe a few more times than that.
Among those warnings that appear most often are these. In what was nothing short of miraculous, God in 1948 established Israel as a nation unto itself once again. He in effect told us in this that we are not looking at centuries before His return but rather decades at the most. We ourselves began to unravel in November of 1963 but slowly coinciding with the coming decade of violence and rejection of God came the reaffirmation that one had to be....born again....to be a Christian. A flash flood of conversions gave America one last breath of life before the spiral began. I was swept along in that flood. We even had the last president of whom we could at least implicitly trust in Ronald Reagan.....we may never have another one.
God began a long slow process of warning us that we as a nation......and the world....were going to be judged. We in America underwent judgments one after another in quick succession....assassinations....abortions.....riots.....terrorism.....a communist president....a final blitzkrieg against God's commandment against homosexuality....and now in effect a people that bears little to no resemblance of its former self.....yet these judgments did not even phase us.....in fact we now have a president who boldly proclaimed to the nation that there has...."Never been a better time to start living the American dream."
Even though God's Word tells us that when they say "peace and security" that "sudden destruction" will come upon them....even though this is very clear.....we are right now celebrating just that....the coming...."peace and security!" We actually think that God gave us Donald Trump to make America great again. We don't care at all what he is like. We have an excuse for everything that he does. All we have to do is compare him to Barack Obama....a former judgment from God. Our economy looks good right now.....and we are totally oblivious that this could turn 180 degrees in one single day!
I have lived sixty-eight years and some odd months. (sixty-nine and some odd months now) I was able to partake in the America of our heritage.....before that America succumbed to the same temptations that ancient Israel succumbed to before they were judged by God. I remember that heritage....and weep at what we have replaced it with. I have given nothing to stop the downward spiral....in fact I added to it. I am but one person....one of many....who God for some unknown reason had mercy upon. Even my warnings are tinged with pride and arrogance....but I continue to warn....for if Jesus felt it to our benefit to warn us....and if Peter warned us....and Paul warned us....and John warned us....and Christians ministers such as Billy Graham.....just to name one.....of whom I have no right to even stand beside....if they felt....and feel it necessary to warn those that God gave them to minister to.....then we all have no choice but to at least warn our neighbors and friends....which in reality is all that these posts are....words to neighbors and hopefully friends....wherever they may live!
