Friday, December 8, 2006

Its the End of The World as We Know it

Those who know me know that I firmly believe the world is ending soon. I also believe the rapture is near and that the 70th week of Daniel is just around the corner...The Lord is even at the door.

You may wonder what is the rapture or even the 70th week of Daniel for that matter.

The rapture is the snatching away of the church, the removal of the Holy Spirit which is fast at work keeping Satan from his plans of world domination. You may say there have been many antichrists all through human history. To that I have to say, absolutely. Satan also does not know the day or hour of Christ's return so he has always had to have someone in the wings so to speak waiting.

The funny thing about Satan is he hates all the fighting too! Satan would much rather we were obedient, like the religion of Islam, Satan hates free will. God, on the other hand, offers you a gift of Salvation, no strings attached. And besides offering the free gift, once you accept it, it doesn't matter if you screw up (because He knows you will, the future is not a mystery to Him) Even if you don't want the gift any more, He keeps it for you.


Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

How do you get this free gift? You believe on the Son.


1Jo 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Sonof God.

You just tell God in the privacy of your soul that you agree with Him, that you are a sinful human and you need His righteousness to be worthy of acceptance into Heaven. That you accept the death and resurrection of His Son, Christ as satisfaction for the debt you have accumulated by your sins. That is all, nothing else. Salvation is based on what you believe, not on how you behave. Once you have accepted Christ as your salvation, you might want to consider what Peter wrote starting at 2nd Peter 1:4

Whereby are given to us exceedingly great and precious promises (not just any old promises, but exceedingly great and precious ones - you might want to see what these promises are) that by these we might be partakers (participants) of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (the wanting to have stuff)And beside this giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperence, and to temperence patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity. (most scholars refer to this as the stair step virtue, I think of it as a plan for spiritual growth) For if these things are in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

It is up to you where you will spend eternity. No one gets to the Father except through the Son.

As I said before I believe the rapture is coming soon, though you can spend this time frolicking around like a grasshopper, it might be wiser to work like the ant and store up the treasures that are God's words and commandments.

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