Planet Earth is on the brink of disaster. And,
the impending crisis is as individual as it is collective. Winds of
the times-altering sort pervade and saturate life in our
communities–where we live most intimately. It is not just within the
nation and the larger society and culture, but within our very
living rooms that we are experiencing the transformation. Instant
communication brings wave after wave of the portentous change
invading our places of personal sanctuary. We cannot escape it.
It is much more than merely the historic firsts
that have thrust the enigmatic Barack Hussein Obama to the U.S.
presidency that ring alarm bells. Numerous developments pique the
spiritual sensitivity meters of those who observe the dynamics of
the times for possible prophetic application. Building events alert
the spiritually attuned to the likelihood that America and the world
have dramatically transitioned into an era that has brought this
generation to the precipice of something profoundly ominous.
Moral Morass
Loss of comprehension about what is the pillar
to which America’s national conscience was once secured constitutes
the core of the causes of the sea-changes that have swamped the
nation, and as a result have caused the planet to quake. The
following Scripture has never been more
apropos than for America
today in describing the moral morass in which we are mired: “Were
they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not
at all ashamed, neither could they blush…” (Jeremiah 8:12a).
One whose worldview is truly biblical cannot in
good conscience do other than acknowledge that the nucleus of the
crisis–the many crises—America and Planet Earth face is spiritual.
The end of all rebellion against God just before death is depravity
that flows from minds that have become reprobate.
The obvious similarity of proliferating signs
in this generation to the “perilous times” conditions the Apostle
Paul foretold can’t be shunted aside as mere coincidence. The
characteristics of end times man of which Paul vividly forewarned
fit perfectly in defining the generation alive today both in
American and world societies and cultures.
Perilous Times Manifested
The “perilous times” characteristics Paul
foretold for the generation that will be alive when Christ returns
are manifesting themselves in every aspect of life in America and
the world today. Let us examine that declaration to some extent.
(Read 2 Timothy 3:1-7 to get the overview.)
Men (and
Women) Lovers of Selves
Humans have, since the disobedience in the
Garden of Eden, been in
love with themselves. They fell victim to the serpent’s deadly
narcissistic venom. When Satan told Adam and Eve they would be as
God, the idea was so appealing that fallen man has since that time
marched in line behind Lucifer in saying “I will”…
Fallen man wants no one to rule over him –i.e.,
wants nobody getting in the way of his pursuit of doing what is
right in his own eyes. Oppressive regimes are for the most part the
result of it becoming necessary to bring under subjugation man’s
natural tendency to gravitate toward chaos and anarchy. Only when he
willingly submits to his Creator and the order God establishes does
man thrive under truly moral governance. The founding fathers of the
United States were wise enough to realize this governing principle.
Today entertainment and marketing/advertising
tell us to love ourselves above God or anyone else. The results of
love of self are divorce, children with broken homes, devilish
levels of crime, and even murder.
Generation of Proud Boasters
We have to go no further in searching for this
end-times characteristic given by Paul than to consider the most
recent election season. Pride –that sin to which Lucifer fell, and
which God says goes before a fall—permeated the political process
and the participating protagonists. “Me, myself, and I” were front
and center for the microphones and cameras to capture, project, and
broadcast so the audiences at the political rallies and across the
nation and world could see and hear the proud boasters.
The people of 21st century America
readily fell for propaganda not unlike the half-truths and outright
fabrications put out by Joseph Goebbles’ propaganda machine for
Adolf Hitler in the first half of the 20th century.
That’s because much of the populous of this most blessed
nation in history also manifests the characteristics of being proud
and boasters. How long before this leads to downfall, only God
knows.
Blasphemy Abounds
To understand the blasphemous attitude of many
in America, all we must do is think on the kinds of entertainment
millions love to cerebrally ingest, according to the DVDs, movie
tickets, and books they purchase.
Think about the Harry Potter series, which tugs
the thoughts of even Christians at record-setting levels to the dark
side (the satanic side) and away from the righteous side (God’s
side). Defenders of the Harry Potter series, including Christians
who find these novels harmless, fail to recognize the subtle siren
song that lures souls into these destructive shoals.
Books such as
The Da Vinci Code by Dan
Brown mock the deity of Jesus Christ, and it is a worldwide smash
hit almost instantly, with media fawning over the blasphemous
story-telling as if it were a work revealing newly discovered facts.
The
Raising of Rebels (Disobedience to Parents)
This characteristic of end-times man has grown
exponentially since the Supreme Court, by fiat in 1963, told God He
is no longer welcome in public classrooms. With the expelling of
prayer and Bible reading has come great increase in turning from
parental guidance to a disastrous turning of much of America’s youth
to everything deleterious society and culture has to offer. Gangs
have taken the place of families in raising many of the inner-city
youth.
Shortly after the 1963 expulsion of the
Almighty from public schools, the nation’s fires of optimism were
doused by a president’s assassination, the coming of a catastrophic
sexual revolution, and a war that for the first time in its history
saw the U.S. military unable to achieve victory.
The nation, in effect, became bankrupt with
Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty that failed to produce the “Great
Society” he and the big spenders envisioned. Along with the 50,000
plus dead in Vietnam came the assassinations of Martin Luther King,
and Robert F. Kennedy.
The drug culture and Woodstock spewed forth
with anti-American protestation by young people grown to be
full-scale rabble-rousers whose slogan was “Make love, not war.”
Shortly thereafter came the fall of a president
who had to resign because of the Watergate debacle.
It seems the biblical warning was proven true.
“God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man [or nation] seweth, that shall
he [it] also reap.”
Unthankful, Unholy Hordes
While America’s blessings have grown, the U.S.
population’s recognition of the One who blesses decreases by the
day. People in America are for the most part pleased for the things
they have, for the bounty of food they enjoy, and happy that they
aren’t in squalor like people of Third World nations. But, most
don’t stop to think for a moment to give true thanks to the giver of
all things good. As a matter of fact, most Americans don’t know the
God of heaven in any sense whatever.
The Thanksgiving holiday has, except for a
diminishing number of believers in Christ for salvation, become a
sham celebration, a reason for time off to watch football and eat
heartily.
The designations “unthankful” and “unholy” fit
the condition of today’s American society and culture very well.
Without
Natural Affection
For brevity’s sake –for this manifestation of
Paul’s perilous times forewarning could become quite extensive—I
will mention the two primary issues that speak starkly to the
characteristic of end-times man: “without natural affection.”
·
Homosexuality--A small
portion of the U.S. population that is homosexual has the
government, media, and corporate entities large and small
championing their abominable activities. God’s Word calls it
abominable, so don’t throw stones of hatred at the writer, who
merely gives God’s Word on the matter.
Homosexuality is not a lifestyle, but a
death-style. Homosexuality cannot by its abased nature reproduce
humankind. Diseases associated by and large to homosexual
interaction have brought about an incurable plague –AIDS. Other STDs
are spawned by the perversions of men having sexual relations with
men.
States like California, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, and others constantly deal with this small portion of
America’s populations seeking validation for their sexual
debauchery, which, again, God calls abominable.
Every major civilization that has come and gone
has at the very end of its life span been deep into the practice of
homosexuality, with, for example, Rome having degenerated to the
point homosexuality was considered as much or more the norm than
heterosexuality.
This is an abomination, the Bible says, and is
a way of death that is without natural affection.
·
Abortion--Killing babies
while in their mothers’ wombs is the most heinous manifestation in
our time of the Apostle Paul’s prophecy that the generation alive at
the time of Christ’s return will be “without natural affection.”
More than 50 million children have been thus
murdered–legally—since Roe versus Wade in 1973. The incoming Obama
administration, if we can depend upon the rhetoric of promised
legislative/judicial/executive-approved increase of “a woman’s right
to choose” in the coming months and years, will assure that many
millions more little ones will be killed.
Jesus forewarned about this, and all who would
harm children: “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged
about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend
one of these little ones” (Luke 17: 2).
Abortion is proof beyond any doubt that this is
a generation “without natural affection.” For a mother to allow–even
welcome--the killing of her baby goes against nature itself. Even
animals protect their young fiercely. Most abortions by far in these
closing days of the age are for expedience–birth control after the
fact. Children in the womb, because they are not wanted, are an
inconvenience. This is a sin for which America and the world will
pay beyond any penalty that has yet been experienced.
Trucebreakers, False Accusers
Setting aside the geopolitical history that
includes the infamous and never brought to light truce breaking and
false accusations, we think for a moment of the matter of marriage
in the United States.
There could be no greater truce breaking than
that of the covenant broken when divorce occurs. This form of truce
breaking–the marriage bond—is epidemic in this nation. Much of the
family break-ups come from the accusations that rage while husbands
and wives spew vitriol at each other.
False accusations leveled in order to gain
advantages over others in the personal and corporate worlds fly like
untamed winds across the land in today’s society. The young learn
quickly by watching the adults in their lives the luciferian black
art of lying to get ahead.
The
Incontinent
Bible prophecy forewarns of a time near the end
of the age and beyond into the tribulation when people will be
“incontinent,” as is the word used in the KJV. That people at the
end of the age will be “incontinent” doesn’t mean that they will
require adult diapers because of uncontrollable biological
excretions. The word means that people will be unbridled in their
lusts, their wants. They will give in to their addictions to the
point that their sins in this area will constitute a major
contribution to the times the Apostle Paul terms “perilous.”
The over prescribing and overuse of
prescription drugs, not to mention the illicit drugs that pervade
the American culture, are the tip of the iceberg. Overindulgences in
every kind of pleasure, in every area of life, demonstrate the
degree to which this generation has moved toward becoming the
“incontinent” of Paul’s prophecy.
The terms “shopaholic,” “chocaholic,” and other
designations we use in a humorous way belie the serious nature of
the truly soul-wrenching terms, “alcoholic,” “drug addict,”
“pedophile,” and other horrendous addictions that more and more
drive this generation toward the abyss.
These addictions and others are scheduled to
get infinitely worse during the tribulation, according to the
Revelation.
Fierce,
Despisers of Those Who Are Good
The evil characteristic, “fierce,” can readily
be seen on the world and national scenes today. Piercing anger that
threatens life and limb increasingly makes its presence known, and
fits with Jesus’ prophetic words: “And as it was in the days of Noe,
so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man” (Luke 17:26).
Jesus foretold that the world would be at the
very end of the Church Age (this present dispensation) much like it
was in the times of Noah, just before the Flood that destroyed all
human life. Jesus prophesied: “The earth also was corrupt before
God, and the earth was filled with violence” (Genesis 6:11).
Whether considering the viciousness of Islamic
terrorists who produced the horrors of September 11, 2001, and
suicide bombers who walk into the middle of civilian gatherings and
blow up themselves and others with them, or people who arm
themselves and go into America’s classrooms to murder as many as
possible, we are in a generation that is fierce.
The recent hostage-taking in India and the
ongoing piracy on the high seas of late testify to the treacherous
times. Violence fills the whole earth!
The second characteristic listed here by the
Apostle Paul is that there will come “despisers of those that are
good.”
In God’s economy, there is only one “good.”
That “good” is in God’s Son, Jesus Christ.
More and more there are assaults on the
principles Jesus taught and preached. More and more assaults are
perpetrated upon Christians because of their beliefs in Jesus as the
only way to God the Father and heaven for eternity.
For example, the fierceness with which militant
homosexuals continue to attack Christians–even in the pews of
churches--shows the rise in level of hatred in the hearts of those
who are despisers of those who are good.
Traitors, Heady, High-Minded
In my view, those who would betray America by
sacrificing the nation’s sovereignty upon the altar of a global
economic order are traitors of the most egregious sort. This is
occurring at a pace that is nothing less than astonishing.
The betrayal is happening at every level of the
executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. The
economic insanity is simply inexplicable, except in the context of
the prophecies that there will be 10 kings (or leaders of economic
world trade blocs that will give their power and authority to
Antichrist at some point during the tribulation era (read Revelation
17:12-13).
The heady, high-minded, one-world order elitist
types have incessantly thrust and sliced and chopped into America’s
autonomy. Finally, they have started the nation on an economic slide
that can end only in a collapse that will eventuate in the U.S.
being absorbed along with others into the long ago prophesied world
order of Revelation chapter 13.
Perilous times are here and now!
Lovers
of Pleasure More than Lovers of God
The last two categories of Paul’s “perilous
times” prophecies can be applied to the secular, non-religious
world, of course. Certainly, we don’t have to examine society and
culture in any in-depth way today to know that people in general
love the pleasures of the flesh more than they love the God who
created them. We take that as a given, so won’t consider it here; it
is too obvious.
The subtle, more devilish thing to consider in
examining these last two characteristics of the 2 Timothy chapter 3
account of Paul’s prophecies about the characteristics of end-times
man is the involvement of those of the many churches who name the
name of Christ. Looking into the churches–that is, examining those
who populate the churches of our time, gives profound insight into
exactly where this generation must be on God’s prophetic timeline.
Having a
Form of Godliness, but Denying the Power Thereof
The “falling away” of Paul’s 2 Thessalonians
prophecy is well underway: “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…” (2 Thessalonians
2:3).
To “fall away,” one must be first at a high
point from which to fall. Paul is talking here about true Christians
–those who have been born again in the family of God (John 3:3).
This, it should be obvious to anyone whose
spiritual ears are attuned to the Holy Spirit conviction of these
strange, troubled times, is the condition of much of the Church of
Jesus Christ.
This is not even to include the obvious
pretenders to the title “Christian.” These have never been born
again–have never claimed that Jesus Christ is the virgin born, only
begotten Son of the Living God, who alone has taken away the sins of
the world. These do not accept the deity of Jesus or that the Holy
Scripture (the Bible) is inerrant. They haven’t “fallen away” –begun
the road into apostasy—because they have never been at the high
point of being born again.
Paul’s condemnation here is for true members of
God’s family who have known the closeness required in the salvation
process, then have gone back to the ways of the world.
Sadly, tragically, this is the condition of the
vast majority of the Church today. The mega-church movement into
entertainment and merchandising, turning many into centers more like
social clubs than places of worship, makes manifest the end-times
condition of which Paul forewarned. Much of the Church today has a
form of godliness, but denies the power thereof.
Pastors who never speak of sin that separates
people from God, who never preach and teach the horrendous price
Jesus paid on the cross at Calvary to take away, to cover, that sin,
who teach only how to feel good about one’s self, are in the
majority. These get the most TV air play, receive the greatest
financial support from parishioners in their vast audiences. These
“pastors” tickle the itching ears of their
contributors/congregations. The preachers give the heads-in-the-sand
pew- and couch-sitters the non-doctrine pabulums they seek in order
to soothe their seared consciences, promising formulaic ways to
cause God to shower them with wealth and health.
These deny the true power of Christ –His sole
ability to save the souls of men, women, and children.
This “falling away” is an American catastrophe
that has taken the nation, perhaps, too far down the pathway toward
the abyss to ever be turned around. I believe that these are indeed
the “perilous times” prophesied by the Apostle Paul.
Two Churches in View
We are seeing on the scene today two religious
bodies foretold by the Lord: one the false, and the other the true
Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The ascended Jesus told the prophet
and apostle John of these two distinctive churches that would be on
the world scene at the time of His coming again.
The
Laodicean Church
Jesus’ prophecy about the Laodicean church was
transcribed by John while the old apostle was exiled on the Isle of
Patmos: “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;
These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because
thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of
my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched,
and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy
of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white
raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy
nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that
thou mayest see” (Revelation 3:14-18).
Jesus
Calls His Sheep to Come Out of This False System--This church
has among its huge multitudes the apostate believers–the ones who
have fallen away. It is condemned by Christ in harsh terms. Still He
calls those who have fallen away to come back to their family
status, that He might clothe them in righteous robes of godly works.
There are true believers in this body, and there are the lost souls.
Their shepherds are mostly of the ravenous wolf variety, I’m of the
conviction. This body, minus the born again among them, will go into
the tribulation hour when Christ calls “Come up here!” to all who
belong to Him.
The
Philadelphian Church
Jesus has no condemnation for this church, only
commendation. The King of all kings has some thrilling things to say
to this body: “And to
the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he
that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he
that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and
no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept
my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of
the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do
lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet,
and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word
of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation,
which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the
earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that
no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in
the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write
upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God,
which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God:
and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” (Revelation 3:7-13).
Fascinating Words--Jesus commends the church that has remained
true to His calling. This is the Body–His Bride—that will join Him
in the air when He calls. (Read John 14:1-3; 1 Corinthians 15:
51-55; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 4:1-2.)
There will be those who, if I do not clarify,
send notes asking if I, based upon this statement, believe that only
some Christians will be taken in the rapture. Let me be very clear:
ALL Christians, whether they are in or out of the holy will of God,
will go to be with the Lord at the rapture of the Church. This is
scripturally provable. The Apostle Paul said, under Holy Spirit
inspiration: “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1
Corinthians 15: 51-52).
Every single individual, dead and alive, who
has come to salvation will be changed in one moment of rapture. Paul
said “ALL” because God told him to say “ALL” will be changed. God
cannot lie!
It is fascinating to consider the Lord’s words
in this account of His love for the church of Philadelphia. Jesus
told John to write: “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of
Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I
will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that
I have loved thee.”
I do not think it far-fetched to see in the
Lord’s words a condemnation of those who declare that they have now
inherited the mantle of God’s chosen people, the Jews–the literal
nation of Israel. We call this replacement theology. This is a
terrible error in some cases, and a downright satanic lie put forth
in other cases.
No one and nothing has replaced Israel in God’s
never-changing regime. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever!
The literal descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will receive
each and every promise God made to them. Those promises have not and
will not be given to anyone other.
Jesus indicates here, perhaps, that those of
His faithful Church walking most closely in His ways will hold to
this truth about Israel and belief in the veracity of His promises
to the physical descendants of the patriarchs.
Perhaps Jesus is saying as recorded in
Revelation 3:9 that those who have denied that His promises to
Israel are any longer in effect will be brought to bow at the feet
of the faithful Philadelphian church. Possibly, they will have to
admit that the faithful Church was right and true in this
all-important matter to the God of heaven.
Another fascinating statement is found in
chapter 3, verse 10. Jesus told John to write: “Because thou hast
kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of
temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that
dwell upon the earth.”
The word “temptation” here means “testing.”
Jesus promises to keep from a specific hour of “testing” those who
have remained faithful to the word of His patience. The terms to
consider are “testing” and “patience.” The Philadelphian church,
Jesus says in this foretelling, has been faithful to His Word about
His “patience.” Those of this church will, therefore, be kept out of
the hour of “testing.”
Jesus said, as recorded in the gospel of Luke:
“In your patience possess ye your souls” (Luke 21:19). What
“patience” was the Lord referring to, here? The Apostle Peter
clarifies for us: “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as
some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not
willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).
The “patience” of the Lord is wrapped up in the
all-important issue of salvation of lost souls. This is God’s word
of His patience. Those who are truly in His family have kept in
their hearts the Word of His patience –trust in Him for their
salvation. These who are alive at the time before the hour of
“testing,” who keep the word of His patience, will not go into that
hour of “testing” –the tribulation era, Daniel’s seventieth week.
Does this mean that because believers “keep”
the word of His patience –hang on to our salvation belief—we can
lose it if we don’t “keep” the word of His patience? No. We can’t
lose the “word of His patience” because the Word is Jesus Christ:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any
thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the
light of men” (John 1:1-4).
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth,
and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:
6).
Jesus, who is the Word, who is the life
–eternal life—said, “My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater
than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's
hand” (John 10:29).
Finally, the Apostle Paul, through Holy Spirit
inspiration, nails down the truth that it is impossible to do other
than “keep the word of my patience,” as Jesus said it. “For I am
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord”
(Romans 8:38-39).
Testing Time for Nominal Christians
The term “nominal Christians” is used to
describe those who are Christians who claim Christianity as their
“religion.” These are, however, Christians of convenience. They
don’t mind the pretense of being associated with the name of Jesus
Christ, but truly living under His governance when the requirements
include their turning in repentance from their favorite sins is
something they refuse to do.
This is not to imply in any way that one can
lose his or her salvation once the person has truly accepted
(believed in) Christ for salvation. We looked at that previously.
One who is truly God’s child –and there is but one way to become His
child, remember John 14:6—will not continually wallow in the pig pen
of deliberate sinfulness. The child of God will, like the prodigal
son, at some point get out of the pig pen and return to the Father
for cleansing, with the intention of living in the Father’s house,
not in that proverbial pig pen.
Tragically, many of today’s churches are of the
nominal Christian variety. The pastors preach and the teachers teach
feel good earthly doctrine not unlike that of the secular and
corporate worlds. These are those of the churches Jesus prophesied
will NOT be kept out of the time of testing (tribulation).
The nominal churches have encouraged millions,
by keeping their pew-sitters in darkness, to believe all is well
with their souls. This is the attitude cultivated in those church
settings, even though deeply in the congregants’ spirits there is
the void that only Christ can fill.
The Mark
of the Beast
These nominal Christians–those who don’t know
Christ for salvation—will have to endure the time of testing –the
seven years of tribulation—if they do not come to Christ before the
rapture of the true Church.
Perhaps --even likely—it will be the decision
of whether to take the hellish mark of the beast (Antichrist) that
will be the most agonizing “time of testing” Jesus foretold that His
Church will not have to endure (Revelation 3:10).
The end-times signals are literally blaring at
this generation from every direction. Worldwide crisis is obviously
afflicting all nations, each of which Jesus prophesied will be in
great distress with perplexity (Luke 21: 25) at the time of His
return. The drive toward one world economy, government, and religion
is in our headline news on an hourly basis. Society and culture
reflect the violence and corruption Jesus said will make the time He
returns like it was in the days of Noah, and the times of Lot in
Sodom.
Tomorrow
Too Late!
The crisis overspreading the world might look
for a time like all will be clear and sunny again. Certainly, many
look to the new presidential administration as promising leadership
that will lead America and the world out of darkness that has begun
to close in on even the homes that shelter us. But, regardless of
temporal fixes to the monetary madness and the governmental
gyrations, the tribulation storm approaches with astonishing
swiftness. Only Christ can shelter from that monstrous tempest.
Tomorrow might well be too late. Don’t go into the time of testing
along with the world of lost souls. Accept Christ today.
“(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time
accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold,
now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.)”
(2 Corinthians 6:2).
