When I watch the prophecy shows on Christian TV, I envision big screen monsters and utter helplessness on our part.
However, I think of the Tribulation a bit differently.
I believe that Our Lord has been preparing us for the long haul over the last 40 years precisely to ready us for the big fight.
We will be ready for the fight and He will decisively win and it will be quick.
He said that he would return as a thief in the night and he wants us to have our oil lamps full (meaning filled with His grace) so that we will share in the fight and in His victory.
I know that is not part of the general narrative we hear from the preachers, but it is the one that makes the most sense to me.
I will be ready for whatever happens - and I am not buying gold, guns or dehydrated food.
Always remember the Antichrist comes first, before the Second Coming. This is why the Apostle Paul said, let NO MAN deceive you. I have seen many churches try to twist other Scriptures.
1 Thessalonians 5 King James Version (
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-9King James Version (KJV)
2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Glad to have you as one of us watching the Signs of the Times!
I can’t afford gold but once in awhile canned food.
Though some jerky is good stuff!