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[Lera]I hasn’t started yet.

Most people are looking for grand signs and wonders. They are waiting for something official. A consensus among people. Most people it seems don't have faith in themselves enough to make the call. They assume that everyone will know it before them.

The Jews did this at the time of Christ. They were looking for something grand and couldn't recognize that the simple man in front of them was the Son of God.

This is the pattern of God, to be simple. Jesus was so unassuming that the Romans couldn't pick Him out of a crowd, Judas had to point Him out.

1 Cor 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

Remember this life is a test. And God tests us by not choosing the obvious. He makes us go look for it, to seek out answers. Mainly in order to humble ourselves and ask our Father in Heaven to show us the answers.

Acts 2: 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:

The earth will be consumed by blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.

Rev 8:
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Something big is going to happen to the earth itself. Volcano or Asteroid or nuclear war. But something is going to cause a lot death and a lot of smoke and burn up a lot of the planet.

All of that is the climax and the Lord returns to put an end to it all.

The build up to the climax is still the tribulation. It doesn't need to be over analyzed. The signs are there.

The problem a lot people have, again is they are looking for the sensational. Hollywood has made movies depicting a grand charismatic leader called the "anti-Christ".

The anti-Christ always has been the devil. He is the anti-Jesus, like anti-matter. The world is giving him power right now, he is rising to his greatness. The devil has no power of his own but what people give him.

The great destruction that's about to come on the earth is because of the great wickedness mankind is doing. It's not a punishment. God uses destruction to humble people so that they will remember Him and call out to God for deliverance. He's trying to recover people, get them to repent. But this time it's on a global scale because the wickedness and evil is global.

Peter prophesied about that time:
Acts 2:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Moses had the same experience, he told the Israelites if they would just simply look at his staff they would be saved from being poisoned.

Same thing with Abraham and Lott. If they could find a righteous person in Sodom...if anyone in Sodom would have listened to the prophet and followed Abraham they would have been saved from the destruction of Sodom.

This is the pattern of God.

God has set this pattern up in the last days for the destruction that's about to happen.

Rev 11, two real prophets in the last days, among many, that will lead the people to safety if, as Peter said, they will call upon God.