Amen bro! These are the times we live in. With scoffers, with boastful and proud folks who think they’ve got it all figured out without God.
Jude 1:18
They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
Romans 1:21-22
“Although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.”
We’ve done our duty in warning them. Thank you for this very timely post!
1Thess.5:3 is very interesting.
“For when they shall say Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail a woman with child, and they shall not escape.”
I believe this refers to the day of the Lord concerning His coming for the Body of Christ. And not the day of the Lord concerning His second coming.
The reason I think this is two fold: first Paul’s Apostleship concerned the creation of the Body, the care of the Body, and the end of the Body on earth.
Chapter 5:9 is clear this is to the Body of Christ.
“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.”
There is going to be a time during all the apostasy and evil that is happening all around us, that suddenly there is going to be peace and safety. I think this is going to be the point we are Raptured at. They hate our guts now because we tell them things they don’t want to hear.
These people wail and gnash at born again believer.
This *peace and safety”, IMHO, is what they are literally going to say and feel when we are no longer here to remind them of the finished work of Christ.
The sudden destruction will be the beginning of the end, the Antichrist making himself known after 3 1/2years. The first 3 1/2 will better than the last 3 1/2, but it won’t be without real problems. Why else would they follow up the Antichrist and False Prophet if the first 3 1/2 years were great?