What is the Day of the Lord? What will happened in the End Times? What do we do in the meantime? Joel and other prophets received prophesies from God about the future. Many of these prophesies have already happened. Many are yet to come. The purpose is more than just showing us the future. It’s to prepare us for it, lead us to God, to change people’s hearts and bring them to salvation.
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Watching for the Day
Are you watching? Do you know what to watch for? What are we looking for? Why should we watch? There will be a day when God will judge the earth. Sounds scary, doesn’t it? There will be seven years of tribulation that will be really bad here on earth. Not the most encouraging news we could hear. But, there will also be a day when God makes all things new. When Jesus returns and takes us home. When there will be no more tears, or sorrow or pain, no more disease or death. No more evil. For those of us who trust in Jesus and are children of God, it will be a glorious, wonderful occasion when we will be in His presence. That is why we watch. With anticipation. Not with fear, but excitement! Continue reading “Watching for the Day”
Coming Troubles
Things in the world seem to be getting crazy lately. We have the corona virus and the panic because of it in the stores, in the stock market and our retirement investments. Within the past year, there has been conflict with North Korea, and Russia and China, not to mention the Middle East. There have been several uprisings, protests and riots in many countries. We had fires in the west and Australia and the Amazon jungles and elsewhere. A plague of locusts is sweeping through Africa. We had hurricanes and earthquakes and other natural disasters. Just yesterday in Eastern Washington where we used to live, there was an earthquake, a tornado, hail and snow. People seem to get offended much more easily than they used to and it seems like there is more bickering going on in our government (as well as many of us with each other on social media) than working on solutions. Things that were never accepted before are now being accepted that should not be, even in some churches. Living our faith and talking about God is often being met with tension or hostility (this has been the case for a long time in many countries, but it is beginning to happen here in the U.S.). Many who profess faith in God do not live it, or we are either complacent or judgmental or unloving, or perceived to be. Are we entering into the end times? Perhaps. Is our country in for a fall? Perhaps. Is it all gloom and doom? No. There will be hard times ahead. There are hard times now. But, there will also be glorious times ahead for those who trust in Jesus (we will talk more of this in the next post). Continue reading “Coming Troubles”
Signs of the Times
In my fifth post on the return of Jesus Christ, let us go through some of the signs to look for. The Bible tells us to watch and be ready, so let’s explore what to watch for. There are many authors and people with their ideas of today’s world events and how they tie in to the signs talked about in God’s Word. With the Super Blue Blood Moon occurred this morning, I am sure they will be talking about that. While this is intriguing, I am going to stick with scripture as far as things to look for. Jesus’ tells us that it is not for us to know the hour but to watch, but we can know when the time is near and I believe we are now in that time. Continue reading “Signs of the Times”
My Daily Scriptures 