Sent In The RSVP....Checked Off....'Chicken Cordon Bleu'....Just Forgot To Take Note Of The Date

                 I have a wedding to go to in a few weeks....Lord willing. The date is set....I'll have my boots polished and my sports coat cleaned and pressed. (that's about as formal as I can get) The bride will be in white....hair done....nails probably sparkling....with an radiant smile on her face. 
                Most of evangelicalism today acknowledges that Jesus....the Bridegroom....will be coming for His bride....the church. The only thing is that we don't know the date....so we're not prepared at all! We're not clueless....just stiff-necked....for God has given enough information for us to know that the reception table is already set.
                It's a little like the typical wedding today where after the vows are exchanged....the people have to wait for a fairly long time at the reception hall while the bride and groom are having pictures taken....where we are all dressed up....just waiting for the newlywed couple to come through the door. We don't know if it will be five minutes or ten or a half hour.
                As it pertains to the church today....if we had more than just looked over the RSVP....God's Word of prophecy and judgment within it....it's not fine print....we would know that this is it....there's no twenty or thirty or forty years to wait. It would take a book to list all the scriptural evidence that the King of Kings is mounted....along with His holy angels....hands on their swords...and ready for the command to take them out of their scabbards and brandish them....shining in the brightness of the Lord's countenance...which is greater than that of the sun!
               There simply is no getting around 1948. You can add to that Israel today that is split down the middle....with us....its stabilizing force....no longer stable ourselves. America is essentially gone. We on our side at least used to hold the high ground....but we were enticed off of it. No one occupies that high ground today.
               We are not going to escape AI. That's pure biblical prophecy folks. The violence is....literally....everywhere. That's Noah's day. Forty years ago we were always bringing up the old....frog in the kettle....where the heat was slowly turned up and the frog never knew what hit him. That's what happened to us folks....past tense.
                All you have to do is read God's Word. Well we got a little problem there because we  don't seem to define the word 'read' the same anymore. I'm not talking about the fifteen minute....fill-in-the blank....bible study....on topics that should have been committed to memory twenty years ago in most of us....or the even worse....read-the-bible-in-a-year plans that handcuffs us to a schedule when the Holy Spirit is telling us to go somewhere else.
                I'm talking about the sun is setting....and your gas talk is just about on empty....and you are in the middle of nowhere....and you are desperately trying to figure out on the map where the nearest highway is! That is how to read God's Word at this time.