Posted on 09/02/2023 6:08:45 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
All of us were heartbroken at the images coming out of Maui in early August. Everyone said it was like the end of the world. It was apocalyptic. The scenes remind us of images from WWII when dozens of cities looked like Lahaina, Maui.
But this wasn’t a wartime ordeal. This was a peaceful day in paradise that was interrupted by the unthinkable. A wildfire of suspicious origin violently ended the lives of hundreds, and potentially thousands, of people whose day started like any other and ended in a hellish ordeal. We see why the Bible says, “Today is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2). Life can end abruptly and unexpectedly. No one is promised a tomorrow.
The word “apocalyptic” is being used all over the world as the planet groans, awaiting the liberation of Jesus Christ when He will set it free.
Elsewhere in Europe, a month of rain fell on parts of Slovenia in a single day. China experienced devastating floods. Crops throughout the region were completely wiped out, and the property damage that has been done is off the charts. Devastating heat has tormented millions of people around the world. Hail pounded Germany. Fires in Portugal created an “apocalyptic inferno.”
This, and much more, as we are in a run-up to the Rapture—the ultimate apocalyptic event.
And divine judgment must also be considered as we see reprobate activity. “Go Gay Hawaii” welcomes everyone to gay-friendly Maui on a website built for just such promotion.
The website says, “The Maui gay community is substantial and accepting. There are numerous LGBT and gay-friendly businesses on the island, exclusive Maui gay resorts, and plenty to see, do and experience on this magical island. Maui Gay Pride is a staple event taking place each year around the first weekend in October.”
The promotion continues, “In 2011, when Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie signed legislation legalizing gay marriage in Hawaii, he sealed the State’s fate as one of the top gay destinations in the world. We welcome you to plan your Maui gay vacation or wedding today!”
And interestingly enough, about the only structure in Lahaina not destroyed was a church, though it was not a gospel-preaching church.
During the seven-year Tribulation, every city and nation will look like Maui. Can you imagine? I cannot. The city of Lahaina is a preview of things to come. The earth will reel from earthquakes, meteor showers and asteroids, stars falling from heaven, and the moving of mountains. One-third of the trees will burn up.
The sun will go dark, and the moon will turn to blood.
Mankind will hide in caves and rocks and plead, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” (Rev. 6:12-17).
When things are at their worst, Christ will suddenly appear on planet Earth during His second coming, or “no flesh would be saved.” (Matthew 24:22)
God is warning the unbelieving world about what is coming. Billions perish during that unprecedented time, and modern-day disasters are a pale foretelling of things to come.
If you have Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your life, none of this is of concern. Believers escape the wrath to come in the Tribulation (Rev. 3:10). But all of us have loved ones who know little about God’s plan of the ages. They have never been told about eternal life. They are unaware that God’s wrath is not destined for true believers—unless you tell them. And, unless you outline the plan of salvation to them.
Do so today.
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Maranatha!!!!
Bkmk
We complain, but THE FUTURE OF OUR REPUBIC IS IN OUR HANDS.
God WILL MOVE and heal our nation - IF we are willing to obey Him...
The only real thing that matters.
Let me just say ... don't be disappointed if your still here when the anti-christ is revealed.
If we go before then ... great, just don't be disappointed if we don't.
gird your loins... put on the whole armor ... it's about to get real
Amen!
many are choosing to do nothing, even church going Christian/believers “it’s the end times, God’s judgement is on us” like that means you don’t evaluate yourself and repent? Just keep focused on worldly things as you been?
Agree. Various interpretations, but we are to be ready for whatever may come. Run the race, don’t slack, finish in a way that all glory is God’s.
Repentance not needed??
Polygamous “prophet” Carl Jung also wrote a book on UFO-type phenomena. Such apparitions and monsters (old word meaning something that shows) manifest at moments of catastrophic transition. Historical paradigm shifts. These entities slither in through cracks in our social reality and bring with them powerful, tangible “proofs” of their bona fides. (I’d argue male fides)
To be honest, are the ravings of UFOlogists all that different from the “sinister boo-talk” genre of popular “Christian” literature? You know — the stuff farted out by Hal Lindsey (actually, his ghost writer Carole Carlson), David Hunt, John Haggee, and their ilk. You can’t nail their hides to the wall for false prognostications, because they can also tart up their toxic memes with new costumes, then re-sell them to their gullible publics.
Yes, we are headed toward it.
Unfortunately many christians will fall away.
Perhaps because it will be so bad here on earth, and the they had always believed in the rapture BEFORE things would get bad.
So, knowing ain't none of us getting outta here alive, prepare for your personal end-times.
Yo CptnObvious!
Who said no repentance is needed? Nobody...
We repent daily if we are True to Him.
If they fall away, were they ever “Christian”?
John 6:39
This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
Only one question really matters: “Are you born again?”
Why do some people like to assume the worst about those of us who are anticipating the rapture?
We get accused of all kinds of stuff like that, but all it does is reveal the hearts of those who are making those assertions. They are projecting because they're assuming everyone thinks like them and that's what they would do.
Newsflash, anticipating Jesus return and deliverance from God's judgment does NOT preclude the need to exam ourselves and repent nor mean that we are focusing on worldly things.
Where do you come up with such nonsense?
Believers usually see the need to keep short accounts with God and be ready tom meet Him ANYTIME, whether by the rapture, or death. Because while nobody knows when the rapture is going to happen, neither does anyone know when they are going to die.
The lord has appointed
“watchmen”
It is his way as “surely the Lord will do nothing unless he first tell his servants the prophets”. Knowing this we must pray. A watchman today uses as his guide the Word of God and it is sequential.
Revelation is sequential. Each event leads to another. The “rapture” or catching up must occur at a given point. So where are we in this walk?
What we see now are only birth pangs...the begining of events. These things will get worse. Much worse, and then ...a worldwide earthquake.
The Rapture will come at some point in this structured process that God has ordained. We only must be prepared so our lamps are full of oil. Physical...spiritual and mental
Agree with MM.
I’m not sure of the poster b4me’s intentions, but it sounds like a nice broadbrush accusation at those of us who will be Crowned with The Crown of Righteousness by The Lord Jesus, because we loved His Return and eagerly await Him.
This is a direct commandment from the King too BTW...
He should know better...
It will be business as usual when the Rapture hits as birth pangs keep getting more routine.
Jesus said so Himself:
Luke 17:26-29
26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
We are living in the end times described in Luke 14:23 just before the rapture, the Seven-Year Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven (can’t wait), and Daniel’s horrific 70th Week on earth.
Our job as believers now is to let the light of Christ in us shine forth and “compel” unbelievers to “come and dine” with Jesus and us.
I believe we’re on the threshold of a great worldwide incoming of souls (Luke 14:23) who God wants to rescue before terrifying darkness and destruction falls.
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