I've mentioned this on a few occasions. If I can only write as what is on most other Christian blog/websites.....then I would be more or less wasting my time and yours.....for they do what they do very well....and there are thousands of these sites. I see things often from a different perspective....or at least try to explain things differently....and for better or for worse.....that is what my posts are. The following is an example of this....for I am going to comment or opine once again on biblical prophecy....decide for yourself whether the perspective is a little bit different.
The key for what is going on today in the world is 1948. I would ask you to use common sense and logic on this. Israel is a nation once again....after roughly 2000 years! If you believe that the Lord will tarry in His return for even another forty or fifty years....then think again about Israel's miraculous reestablishment in light of that....as 100 years would then have passed by? It does not make sense. What does make sense is that God gave Israel's return to us as a sign....to get ready.....to prepare.....to get our houses in order.....for whatever the countdown is....it has started....and seventy years would fit in nicely with God's perfect way of doing things.The entire nineteenth century stands by itself in utter astonishing events. The Titanic....which many boasted of being unsinkable....sank....quickly....on its maiden voyage.This was a message to us on what was ahead. Consider World War I....and how we responded to it after it ended....with The Roaring Twenties....and then the Great Depression! Do you need more? Hitler comes out of nowhere.....driven by his hatred for the Jewish race....the Holocaust begins.....should this not in itself have woke us up....and then World War II.....and then nuclear weapons!
And that is only half of the century! Have you ever considered what life would be like if we go on like this......drones everywhere.....cameras everywhere....more and more smaller countries developing nuclear weapons....handled by crazy dictators.....which is what Putin is?
MAGA....'Make America Great Again'....really? God has been laying us low with judgments.....increasingly.....for sixty years now.....warning us....how far back do you expect to go with MAGA.....1620? Or would it be 1776....a time when the gospel was packed away somewhere....for twenty years later George Washington himself wondered if Christianity would survive in America....or do you think that Reagan's America would be enough to please God?
Here's a hypothetical just to consider....would your life change if it appeared likely that we were already....already in what God's Word described as the Tribulation? For instance if it turned out that the world changing disaster of the pandemic turned out to be what the rider on the white horse in Revelation symbolized....the 'crown' of the coronavirus....and 'bow'....from the Greek toxon....or poison? Would a nuclear war....even a limited tactical one....(a rider on the red horse)....make you look for the Lord's coming more than you may do now?
We are violent to our core....the earth is shaking....and the cosmos is threatening. Have you ever....I'm directing this to evangelicals....have you ever read or studied in-depth how a.....(I'll use the word they use).....'progressive' Christian.....actually uses God's Word? It is frightening.....for they talk and write as if they love this blessed Lord of theirs....when everything else about their belief system denies everything God tells us in His word! This is a present evidence of what God warned us that will come about.
One last attempt in this post to generate some serious thought on where we are today....at what point exactly would you actually believe that our Lord is about to return? What would it take? Spend a little bit of time on this. Take the challenge. And if you can come up with an answer....then ask yourself....be honest here....if you might at that time wish that you knew a little bit earlier.....so that you could warn your loved ones.....and that you yourself might make some adjustments in what is....and what is not important....in this pilgrimage that we travel?
