The Word of God says, "And let us not be weary in well
doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." (Galatians
6: 9). Jesus promised He would come, "In my Father's house are many mansions:
if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive
you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14: 2-3).
Are you really looking for Christ's coming? It is one thing to say it with your lips and another to believe and yearn for it in your heart. He said He would return and you can be assured that Christ will indeed come, "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry" (Hebrews 10: 35-37). What Christ promises, He will do, "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh" (James 5: 7-8).
In your heart, do you really believe He is coming? You may think that you are really looking for Christ and preparing for His return, but check your heart, "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkeness, 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" (Luke 21: 34-35). In spite of all the tribulation and calamities taking place on the earth when Jesus returns, Christ said that His coming would be at an hour that only the Father knows, "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh" (Matthew 24: 42-44).
Notice that Jesus is addressing this to His followers, those that serve Him as Lord and are admonished to, "................be ye also ready................." (vs. 44). The implication is for those, His followers, to keep close watch and belief of His appearing, for it will come, ".................in such an hour as ye think not..................." (vs. 44). Jesus did not address this to the world. He addressed it to His servants, "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 24: 45-51).
Do not let the cares of this life steal away your victory in Christ. Start out each day thinking upon Him and the fact that He promised He would come again. In a recent time of great discouragement, The Lord rebuked me for failing to look up and rejoice in the consolation of His soon appearing. When The Lord speaks to us, He sometimes tells us things about ourselves that we do not want to hear. He was telling me, that even though I was feeling that my walk of faith was insufficient, that I needed to shake off this lie from Hell, get up, get busy, do what I know to be the Truth, and get back to really looking for His coming!
As a loving, Heavenly Father, He rebukes and chastens His children, And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? (Hebrews 12: 5-9).
The point I am making is, we can be thinking on, talking and reading about, and proclaiming Christ's coming, but if we are not constantly looking up and expecting His return, we are failing to be properly prepared. I spend a great deal of my time studying, researching, listening, and teaching on Bible prophecy. The purpose and priority of my life revolves around looking for Christ's return and encouraging others to do the same! But, if I become distracted by the enemy's lies of hopelessness, despair, and unworthiness, will I be watching and waiting for Jesus at the hour of His return? Remember, Jesus said to His followers that He would come at an hour that you think not.
Satan will lie and try to immobilize our faith by making us believe we have lost all hope. But, Satan is a LIAR and a Deceiver and there is NO Truth in him! He is the father of lies! The accuser of our brethren does accuse, and he does it before our God day and night. He comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but Jesus comes that we may have life and that more abundantly! It is our job to run to Jesus and let Him do the battle for us, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded, Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up" (James 4: 7-10).
Jesus tells us, ".................In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 16: 33). He promises, "...................I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee" (Hebrews 13: 5). In our moments of doubt and despair, we have to encourage ourselves in The Lord, as David, "And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God" (I Samuel 30: 6). We must not look to ourselves, but look up to God, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth" (Psalms 121: 1-2).
We must take heed to what Jesus says, "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, (Luke 21: 25-28).
Without question, the signs are pointing to Christ's return. In the news, weather, wars and rumors of wars, devilish violence and lust, in everything--those with eyes to see can see that we are at the time of the end! At the time of this writing, several separate school shootings have taken place with lust driven motives. One can see that because of all of the violence and pornography, people's minds are being taken over by evil. Also at the time of this writing, rumors of war with Iran are escalating. I have seen reports of U.S. Naval ships being prepared for deployment to the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast. All the while, Russia stands by, ready to arm and back Iran if attacked by the U.S. Israel just ceased fighting with Iranian-backed, Hezbollah, and that skirmish, along with the Palestinian and Hamas conflicts, could reignite at any time. Syria is involved in the fighting and Damascus will surely be leveled at some time according to Bible prophecy (Isaiah 17: 1). The Middle East will continue to be a powder keg and international blame, hostilities, and hatred will ultimately be directed at Jerusalem according to Zechariah chapters 12 and 14.
Couple this with the church's failure to be uncompromising and the technology available to implant chips in people's bodies, and you have the groundwork for the mark of the beast under a one world religion. Many spiritual leaders are concerned about offending someone. The question we should ask is are we offending Jesus Christ! Are we obeying Him! He will return in flaming fire, taking vengeance on all them that know not God. We are at the time of the end.
Prepare for very difficult days ahead because we are soon to see great devastation and destruction come to this nation and the world. Calamity upon calamity shall soon descend upon this nation and land. Tumult upon tumult is coming to descend upon this nation like a flood. The floodgates of judgment are being poured out upon a dry and dreary land. Days of darkness and gloominess are right ahead and God is demanded a recompense, "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..................." (Hosea 8: 1-7).
A time of sowing and reaping, of harvest and judgment, is coming, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting" (Galatians 6: 7-8). Run to God with all of your heart and weep and howl for the days that are soon to come upon the face of the earth, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (Romans 1: 18). "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day" (II Thessalonians 1: 7-10).
Are you looking for Jesus? He is going to come! You must be fully convinced! This must not be a lazy, hazy, distant thought, but a daily, vivid realization of His triumphant return! He will return at an hour when you think not. The Word of God clearly tells us this in Matthew 24: 44. So, be ready and watch! Prepare for Jesus Christ's return and for the great tribulation leading up to His return!
I will close with this. The mind of man cannot conceive of the judgment that is coming to America. You may be shocked to hear this, and I grieve and hesitate to write it, but I feel the time is now to sound the alarm and sound the trumpet, without holding anything back! Unparalleled judgment has been determined for this nation. Unless God decides to change His course, we are soon to see unprecedented judgment coming to this nation. No one ever thought that September 11th and Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma would've all hit within four years of each other in America, but it happened. We have been given a time of grace to repent and that time is coming to a close. I grieve at the thought of this, yet it must be said. We must be prepared. The Will of The Lord be done.
Blessings to you all in The Name of Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
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Are you really looking for Christ's coming? It is one thing to say it with your lips and another to believe and yearn for it in your heart. He said He would return and you can be assured that Christ will indeed come, "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry" (Hebrews 10: 35-37). What Christ promises, He will do, "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh" (James 5: 7-8).
In your heart, do you really believe He is coming? You may think that you are really looking for Christ and preparing for His return, but check your heart, "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkeness, 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" (Luke 21: 34-35). In spite of all the tribulation and calamities taking place on the earth when Jesus returns, Christ said that His coming would be at an hour that only the Father knows, "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh" (Matthew 24: 42-44).
Notice that Jesus is addressing this to His followers, those that serve Him as Lord and are admonished to, "................be ye also ready................." (vs. 44). The implication is for those, His followers, to keep close watch and belief of His appearing, for it will come, ".................in such an hour as ye think not..................." (vs. 44). Jesus did not address this to the world. He addressed it to His servants, "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 24: 45-51).
Do not let the cares of this life steal away your victory in Christ. Start out each day thinking upon Him and the fact that He promised He would come again. In a recent time of great discouragement, The Lord rebuked me for failing to look up and rejoice in the consolation of His soon appearing. When The Lord speaks to us, He sometimes tells us things about ourselves that we do not want to hear. He was telling me, that even though I was feeling that my walk of faith was insufficient, that I needed to shake off this lie from Hell, get up, get busy, do what I know to be the Truth, and get back to really looking for His coming!
As a loving, Heavenly Father, He rebukes and chastens His children, And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? (Hebrews 12: 5-9).
The point I am making is, we can be thinking on, talking and reading about, and proclaiming Christ's coming, but if we are not constantly looking up and expecting His return, we are failing to be properly prepared. I spend a great deal of my time studying, researching, listening, and teaching on Bible prophecy. The purpose and priority of my life revolves around looking for Christ's return and encouraging others to do the same! But, if I become distracted by the enemy's lies of hopelessness, despair, and unworthiness, will I be watching and waiting for Jesus at the hour of His return? Remember, Jesus said to His followers that He would come at an hour that you think not.
Satan will lie and try to immobilize our faith by making us believe we have lost all hope. But, Satan is a LIAR and a Deceiver and there is NO Truth in him! He is the father of lies! The accuser of our brethren does accuse, and he does it before our God day and night. He comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but Jesus comes that we may have life and that more abundantly! It is our job to run to Jesus and let Him do the battle for us, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded, Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up" (James 4: 7-10).
Jesus tells us, ".................In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 16: 33). He promises, "...................I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee" (Hebrews 13: 5). In our moments of doubt and despair, we have to encourage ourselves in The Lord, as David, "And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God" (I Samuel 30: 6). We must not look to ourselves, but look up to God, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth" (Psalms 121: 1-2).
We must take heed to what Jesus says, "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, (Luke 21: 25-28).
Without question, the signs are pointing to Christ's return. In the news, weather, wars and rumors of wars, devilish violence and lust, in everything--those with eyes to see can see that we are at the time of the end! At the time of this writing, several separate school shootings have taken place with lust driven motives. One can see that because of all of the violence and pornography, people's minds are being taken over by evil. Also at the time of this writing, rumors of war with Iran are escalating. I have seen reports of U.S. Naval ships being prepared for deployment to the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast. All the while, Russia stands by, ready to arm and back Iran if attacked by the U.S. Israel just ceased fighting with Iranian-backed, Hezbollah, and that skirmish, along with the Palestinian and Hamas conflicts, could reignite at any time. Syria is involved in the fighting and Damascus will surely be leveled at some time according to Bible prophecy (Isaiah 17: 1). The Middle East will continue to be a powder keg and international blame, hostilities, and hatred will ultimately be directed at Jerusalem according to Zechariah chapters 12 and 14.
Couple this with the church's failure to be uncompromising and the technology available to implant chips in people's bodies, and you have the groundwork for the mark of the beast under a one world religion. Many spiritual leaders are concerned about offending someone. The question we should ask is are we offending Jesus Christ! Are we obeying Him! He will return in flaming fire, taking vengeance on all them that know not God. We are at the time of the end.
Prepare for very difficult days ahead because we are soon to see great devastation and destruction come to this nation and the world. Calamity upon calamity shall soon descend upon this nation and land. Tumult upon tumult is coming to descend upon this nation like a flood. The floodgates of judgment are being poured out upon a dry and dreary land. Days of darkness and gloominess are right ahead and God is demanded a recompense, "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..................." (Hosea 8: 1-7).
A time of sowing and reaping, of harvest and judgment, is coming, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting" (Galatians 6: 7-8). Run to God with all of your heart and weep and howl for the days that are soon to come upon the face of the earth, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness" (Romans 1: 18). "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day" (II Thessalonians 1: 7-10).
Are you looking for Jesus? He is going to come! You must be fully convinced! This must not be a lazy, hazy, distant thought, but a daily, vivid realization of His triumphant return! He will return at an hour when you think not. The Word of God clearly tells us this in Matthew 24: 44. So, be ready and watch! Prepare for Jesus Christ's return and for the great tribulation leading up to His return!
I will close with this. The mind of man cannot conceive of the judgment that is coming to America. You may be shocked to hear this, and I grieve and hesitate to write it, but I feel the time is now to sound the alarm and sound the trumpet, without holding anything back! Unparalleled judgment has been determined for this nation. Unless God decides to change His course, we are soon to see unprecedented judgment coming to this nation. No one ever thought that September 11th and Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma would've all hit within four years of each other in America, but it happened. We have been given a time of grace to repent and that time is coming to a close. I grieve at the thought of this, yet it must be said. We must be prepared. The Will of The Lord be done.
Blessings to you all in The Name of Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Rich Fyke
Eternal Life Ministries
P.O. Box 23453
Belleville, IL 62223-0453
etrnlife@midwest.net
http://home.midwest.net/~etrnlife/
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