Showing posts with label The End of The World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The End of The World. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2015

What will the end be like?

You already know.
The last day, the final day, will involve exactly what today involves.
The decision you are making right now, if unchanged, will be the decision you make on the last day, your last day, in the end, in your end.

What decision?
Do you accept or reject God as God, as your God, as The God?

The end will be like the focus of your first consciously chosen thought for the day, and the last consciously chosen thought before you sleep:  What am I living for, and what am I willing to die for?
Now to die for something may not be as dramatic as martyrdom.  It simply means that you are willing to give up everything to get the thing that you want more than anything.  You do it already.  What do you spend most of your time doing?  Why do you work, even when you don't feel like going to work?  Or what do you persistently do or refuse to do no matter the consequences to you or others?

Whatever it is that you can't and won't give up, you won't give it up in the end, just as you don't give it up when each day ends.

The only difference will be this:  Your decision for that day, the last day, in the end, will be final.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

When Will THE END OF THE WORLD Come? (Part 1)

"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come."  Matthew 24:14

 

When the whole world has a testimony of The Good News, then the end will come.

Two questions must be answered to understand this revelation:

  1. What is this "Good News?"
  2. How do we EXPERIENCE the Good News?
Listen to Jesus:
After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.  “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Mark 1:14-15


This is the Good News Jesus proclaimed:

  • The time has come.  No more waiting.  The wait is over!
  • The Kingdom of God has come near.  It's no longer a distant hope.


The reign of God on earth has begun.  Right here.  Right now! 
But how do we know?

The prophet of all prophets, the greatest prophet according to Jesus, also wanted to know if Jesus' proclamation had actually happened:

When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples  to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.  Matthew 11:2-5

The Good News of the Messiah was manifest or made certain by the power of the Holy Spirit!

The proclamation of God's kingdom on earth consisted of four things:

1. Powerful Preaching
2. Powerful Teaching
3. Healing
4. Casting out Demons

These four things made the truth of the proclamation of God's coming kingdom undeniable, irresistible, and irrefutable!



THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN ALL OVER THE WORLD AS A TESTIMONY OF THE GOOD NEWS: 
THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH. 
 
THEN THE END WILL COME!
 
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When Will THE END OF THE WORLD Come? (Part 2)

"Repent and believe the good news!”  The Lord Jesus Christ
 
 
Change your mind! 
Change the way you think about the world!
Change the way you think about the governments of this world!
Change the way you think about The Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ!
 
In Jesus' day this meant the Jews had to change their idea about the Messiah and His Kingdom.
They thought the Son of David would politically destroy all enemies of Israel and subjugate the Gentiles under the authority of the Nation of God!  By military power unprecedented the Messiah would crush the nations!
 
But they had to repent! To change their minds!  To accept the Messiah and God's kingdom as it is, not as they imagined it!
 
We must do the same in America!
We must do the same in the Church!
 
America isn't "the second Israel!"
The Good News isn't merely "The Sinner's Prayer."
 
The true Israel of God, the true people of God, are ALL who trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as The ONLY ONE who died for EVERYONE'S SIN'S and rose from the dead!  Neither America NOR ISRAEL are special.  All who believe in Christ are God's children on earth, no matter where they are.
 
And the true gospel isn't just a tract or piece of literature with verses from the book of Romans!
The true good news is a message backed by power!
Or power that is backed by a message!
 
Before the Lord returns, every nation will hear that Jesus is Lord and Savior.
But they won't just hear it!
 
  • They'll see it and know it!
  • They'll see people healed of diseases!
  • They'll see demons come out of those enslaved to sin and insanity!
 
They'll hear truth so clear and real that it will cause immediate freedom to know God or fierce hatred towards God.
 
They will have never heard or seen anything like the Kingdom of God!
Then the end will come!
But not until then.
So what will you do today, right now, at this moment?
 
  • Will you go on as if America is exempt from The Real Good News?
  • Will you go on with church as usual?
  • Or will you hear and believe that the Kingdom of God has come?
  • Will you change your mind and enter God's Kingdom by accepting God's King?
 
Change your mind.
Change the way you think about America and the church.
Change the way you think about The Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ!