THE END IS NEAR
                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                By W. G. Guy

          Jesus’ disciples asked Him what would indicate the end of this age, and the time of His return.  He then gave them signs and things to look out for.  Some of those signs would be so terrifying that men’s hearts would be failing at seeing those things as they begin to happen.

Luke 21:25 – 28 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;  men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.  And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.  And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

          However, before these final events take place there would be a period of great deception with the defrauding of morality and Godliness: just as we are seeing now.  This was prophetically identified by the apostle Paul:

2 Timothy 3:1-5 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,  traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

          It is quite obvious that these are the conditions that we live in today.  These conditions are also prevalent in many churches which have a “form of Godliness but deny the power thereof”.

          Thus explains why we have all of this political and social craziness manifesting today.  It is because we are nearing the end of this age, just before the return of Jesus Christ to set up His Kingdom on the earth for the next thousand years.

          What we see, (if you have eyes to see), is that truth is gone; real science is gone; real intelligence is gone; real law is gone; real justice is gone; America’s Constitutional Republic is gone; and much of real Christianity is gone being replaced with religious pretense that has no power to change lives.

          This means that the next things that we shall see are what Jesus warned would occur.  This includes terrible wars; severe natural disasters like tornado’s, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos, and the like; as the earth itself reacts to the vile wicked state of mankind on the earth. 

Leviticus 18:25 – …and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

          The question that everyone needs to be able to answer is, “Are you ready for what is coming”?  The only place of security from these end-time events is to be a child of God by accepting what Jesus Christ, God’s own Son, provided for all of mankind.  However this divine provision is obtained by faith in Jesus Christ as paying for the penalty of your sin and adopting you into the family of God; as recorded in His Word, the Holy Bible.

John 1:12 –  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 

John 3:16-18 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

1 John 1:8-2:2 –  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:  and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

          There is no other way to escape the consequences of sin and the coming end of this age of sin and wickedness.

Luke 21:31-38 – So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.   Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.  Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.  For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

          We all have a choice; what do you choose?