WHY DID WE NOT LISTEN TO CHRIST?

WHY DID WE NOT LISTEN TO CHRIST?

HE TOLD US PRECISELY WHAT WAS COMING_BUT IT WAS TOO FANTASTIC_TOO MUCH LIKE SCIENCE FICTION_TOO FEARFUL FOR US TO BELIEVE_SO WE PASSED IT OFF AS SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM_IMAGINING OTHER MEANINGS FOR HIS GREAT SIGNS!

WHAT CHRIST SAID ABOUT 2012 [or a time very soon and similar to come]

[The Lord did not name a date _ but He gave us numerous signs _ and……........ THEY ARE HERE!!]

THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS:

You say…. “Oh-no__ not another dooms day prophet”! ____ I think that I need to tell you a little about myself. I have been married to my teenage sweetheart for 50 years, I am also a father of three, a grandfather of seven, and I love them all very, very much. I care very much for my friends, my neighbors, and everyone around me. Am I perfect? No! …. Absolutely not! I still mess up way too much! I still make wrong decisions at times, I still get mad on occasion, and I am getting quite forgetful… I am getting old though_ [70 years], and no__ I have not become senile, at least_ not yet. My age means that I have seen a lot, and experienced a lot in this world. [I’ve been around the block more than a few times]. I have spent 38 years working in the field of science and technology… in the positions of:   Research Laboratory Technician; Electro-Optics Engineer; Engineer-Scientist; and Technical Staff Member. I do realize that an educated person can become neurotic, go off the deep-end, and lose touch with reality. … “But I have not”. So why would I want to write about The Great Signs of the Bible? ….Some 45 years ago I had an encounter with our creator… “Jesus Christ” [God the Son], when I met Him face to face. No… I did not see or touch Him physically__ He filled my mind with His image on the cross, to the point that I could not see or hear anything else [not even my wife right beside me], though I was in an auditorium filled with people. As I stood there, Christ was revealing to me what He had done for me on the cross [and for you too].  It has changed my entire life from that point on, and for the better… much, much better. I now have purpose for my life, [I know why I exist]… God is now my Father and loves me very much. God is with me every day, He leads me, watches over me and my family, helps me with everything in life [including my work], helps me share my faith with others, and He has given me a great gift… the understanding of great prophetic mysteries of His [God’s] word. He has given me a hunger for prophecy for more than 40 years.  I believe that He has been teaching me and preparing me for this very day in which we now live…. Why me? ... Why now? .... I truly­­ don’t know about myself_ “why me”. But I ask you to please read what God has given me. It could change your life now and forever__ and keep you from the great catastrophic end day events that are coming! … But I do know “why now”….. God’s time is now! ... [The Bible Signs are all around us!] Some people say that “every generation has thought that Christ was coming in their time” [This is true because God planned it that way. You see, when we look for the Lord’s-Coming it brings righteous living, the desire to tell others about Christ, and it strengthens our faith (I-John 3:2-3)]. But Christ’s second coming could not have happened until now! It is my generation that has seen the events come to pass, that fulfill the preparatory scriptures, allowing Christ to come for His Church {denomination does not matter with God} [Christ’s church is all true believers even if they do not have a church … or have never set foot in one], and usher in all the rest of the end day prophecies. The main-events that have come to pass are: _the rebirth of the nation Israel [in the year 1948]; and all the signs that are present with us today! [We will talk in more detail on this later.] 

THE BIBLE IS FILLED WITH THE GREAT SIGNS OF CHRIST’S RETURN

THIS YEAR OF 2012 WILL "NOT" BE THE END OF THE WORLD OR MAN! God has many prophecies yet to be fulfilled. But they will come soon and will all occur in just a few years time. The early ones are in progress now and are growing in magnitude as we speak. I know that the ancient Myans and a few other civilizations have predicted the end of the world in 2012, but they were not God's prophets. But our Bible has been written by our creator's chosen men and are without error in the original documents. All of the various translations do have errors in part. That is why we need to study from many different ones.

      I know there have been numerous movies, and documentaries made, and articles, books, and internet blogs written, about 2012, depicting great happenings in the cosmos and on earth.  But God beat them all to the punch … His account of great cosmic and earthly events, preceding the second coming of Christ, is thousands of years old. The New Testament disciples Mathew (Mat.24:1-31), Mark (Mk.13:1-30), and Luke (Lk.21:5-32), as well as the apostle Paul (I-Thes.4:13-18), the apostle Peter (II-Pet.3:3-10), and the apostle John (Rev. chapters 6-19, Rev. 19:11-16) all saw the signs, of Christ’s second coming, 2000 years ago. The Old Testament prophets were shown by God also:   the prophet Ezekiel saw the signs nearly 2600 years ago (Ezk. 32:7-8); the prophet Isaiah saw the signs over 2700 years ago (Isa.13:9-10, 13) (Isa.7:14 /Isa.9:6-7); the prophet Joel saw the signs 2800 years ago (Joel 2:30-32); the prophet Moses saw the signs 3500 years ago (Deut.33:2 /Deut.18:15,18,19) [Heb.11:24-26]; the patriarch Abraham saw Christ’s coming 4000 years ago (Gen.12:3/ Gen.28:14) (Gal.3:8, 16) (John 8:56-58); and the prophet Enoch saw the signs more than 5000 YEARS AGO (Gen.5:24/ Heb.11:5/ Jude :14). In fact all of the Old Testament prophets saw Christ’s first /second advents to the earth. The prophet Daniel (in Daniel 9:25) saw Christ’s first advent ~570 years before it happened. He prophesied that “Messiah the Prince” would come 483 years after the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem (Dan.9:25). [Commands made by the Persian Kings: Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes (Israel was in Babylonian exile) (Ezra 6:14). _ {The culminating command [that finished the work] was made in the ~year 445 B.C. by our Gregorian calendar _ it is not exactly in align with God’s}].  When that is taken into account as well as using a 360 day year, [God’s 360 day year-which He is still using, instead of 365 and 1/4 days. Yes_ we have an imperfect solar orbit (which requires the leap year system in our calendar, to keep the seasons in sync). _ I believe God created the earth’s path around the sun a 360 day, 1-degree/day, year [with a perfect orbit], but it changed during the great seismic upheaval of the Flood {“the great fountains of the deep were breaking up” (a global event)} [Great gravitational fluctuations allowed the earth to slip slightly outward in its orbit adding 5.25 days] (Gen.7:11) (Isaiah 13:13)]. The Lord Jesus Christ was then indeed born exactly as Daniel prophesied (also see Mat. 1:23-25). Daniel then prophesied Christ’s second coming, to setup His Kingdom on earth, [yet future] to be seven years after Israel signs a peace pact with the One World Ruler [The Antichrist, who is soon to come on the world scene (Dan. 9:20-27)]. See also (Rev.19:11-21, and Rev.20:4-6) on Christ’s-Second-Coming and His-Kingdom-On-Earth.

THE CATASTROPHIC EVENTS WILL NOT UTTERLY DESTROY THE EARTH

These tremendous _ cataclysmic events, coming upon the earth, will be the worst the world has ever seen (Mat.24:21-22). The whole earth will look like a war zone, or hurricane aftermath, but the earth will not be completely destroyed. _ God has future plans for it. Scripture says there will be a great uncountable multitude saved out of the great devastation /Tribulation (Rev.7:13-14). These signs that are coming now are just the start of the Great Signs in the Heavens. The signs will keep coming for several years, before things get really bad, and before Christ comes down to the earth. [But God’s removing of all Christians (100’s of millions) from the earth in_ “the blink of an eye”_ could happen at any moment.] God’s purpose, for the signs and world-wide Tribulation that follows, is to get man’s attention, to get him to repent, ask for forgiveness [“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God”(Rom.3:23)], and come to Christ and God the Father for eternal life. [“As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one” (Rom.3:10)]. Tim Lahaye in his book Revelation Unveiled states: “All of the end time events are designed to bring everyone possible to Gods wonderful amazing grace”. God is giving the whole world one last chance to receive Christ… before it’s too late. Christ Jesus said: “There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And on the earth, nations will be in great distress and perplexity. The sea and waves tossing and roaring, men’s hearts failing them from terror, for fear of what is coming on the earth, FOR THE POWERS OF HEAVEN SHALL BE SHAKEN” [“sun, moon, and stars” {the cosmos}] (Luke 21: 25, 26). …. [This verse is the culmination of the signs that are beginning now.]….. There are other signs preceding the Signs in the Heavens and we need to look at them first, in order to understand fully. Let us examine these other signs which have already begun, and are increasing in number and intensity as we speak. [The Signs in the Heavens are the last group.]

THE GREAT SIGNS BEFORE US:

Most people do not see the signs at all. They believe things continue on as they have for many centuries past. The Apostle Peter in the Bible in (II-Pet.3:3, 4) said: “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own evil desires, and saying: Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation… But they forget that long ago… the world, that existed then, was flooded and destroyed by water”. Then the Apostle Paul in II-Timothy gave us a list of signs of how man’s character will be in the last days, just before Christ’s second coming. Yes, it could be said of these signs that they have always been with man. This is true to a degree, but God is trying to tell us these things will become unusually prominent. They will become the characteristics of the great mass of the world’s peoples.

THE MINOR SIGNS:

In (II Tim.3:1-5) the Apostle Paul says: __ “Know this also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For people shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without self-restraint, fierce/brutal, _ despising those that are good. They will be traitors, headstrong, haughty, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than of God.” (KJV) ….. Let us now take a close look at these signs:  

·        “Lovers of their own selves” [Indicating the exclusion of most everyone else.]

·        “Covetous” [Wanting material things above all else, even above the welfare of others].
·        “Blasphemers” [Routinely or even continually cursing God].

·        “Without natural affection” [They are cold of heart _ not caring at all about other people].

·        “Trucebreakers” [As soon as it is to their benefit _ they will break their word].

·        “False accusers” [They lie about others without hesitation].

·        “Without self-restraint” [They can’t hold themselves back from any desire, _ nor, do they do not want to].

·        “Fierce/Brutal” [So many are becoming cruel and hateful to the point of neurotic, uncontrollable, physical violence… even in very small… matters].

·        “Traitors” [As soon as they can gain anything significant, by betraying you, they will].

·        “Despising those that are good” [They detest those who try to live right before God].

·        “Lovers of pleasure” [They live for sensual pleasure _ without thought of God _ or of anyone else].

LET’S GO BACK TO PAUL’S STARTLING OPENING STATEMENT: ___ “Understand this, in the last days will come PERILOUS TIMES of great stress and trouble, __ times hard to deal with and hard to bear.” (Amplified Bible) 

(ALMOST EVERYTHING WILL BE IN GREAT PERIL)

WHAT ABOUT THE TIMES WE LIVE IN TODAY ?

What about: Drug trafficking; drug wars; murder; armed robbery; serial murders; sex crimes; child abuse; abused women; school violence and murder; gang killings; drive by shootings; road rage violence and shootings; violent crime increase in the USA in the past 50 years is nearing 800% _while population increase was only up to 172%; and all other types of crime have seen similar increases. Then there is...Corruption in Business: _ Company Management: _ sending jobs out of the country to increase their profit margin [leaving hundreds of thousands of Americans jobless!] {no wonder our unemployment rate is so high!}; _ Company management awarding themselves with mega salaries and bonuses, while laying-off huge numbers of workers, even those nearing retirement age; _ companies taking employee’s health benefits from them, and spending their retirement funds; ….. Corruption in Politics _ Politicians involved in: _ sex scandals; _ manipulation of bills favoring their investments; _ unethical / illegal business dealings; _ doing anything to gain votes to attain/keep their seat; _ not caring about the people but only themselves. What about the World of Science playing with DNA Manipulation… Genetic Engineering… Cloning… and justification of abortion for the purpose of Stem Cell research [Babies should never be killed in the first place _ PERIOD!] … I have to wonder what they are doing in secret!

WHAT ABOUT WARS /THREATS OF WAR /REVOLUTIONS AND UNREST

Let us look back into the past say ~100 years or so__ in places like:  Afghanistan/ Iraq/ Kuwait/ Iran /North Korea/ Pakistan/ Yemen/ Syria/ Egypt/ Cambodia/ Indonesia/ Russia/ Chechnya/ Bosnia/ Serbia/ Kosovo/ Sarajevo/ Philippines/ Somalia/ Ethiopia/ Kenya/ Rwanda/ Congo/ Uganda/ Zimbabwe/ Angola/ Mozambique/ Rhodesia/ Libya/ Sudan/ Nigeria/ India/ China/ Laos/ Vietnam/ Thailand/ Israel/ Lebanon/ Syria/ Golan Heights/ West Bank/ Jordan/ Saudi Arabia. [These are only a few of the places in the last few decades _ not near all in the past 100 years.] Some of the ones I haven’t named are the 28 countries in World War One, and the 58 countries in World War Two. …. What about the two small 20-kiloton-Fission Atomic Bombs that were dropped on Japan? _ 132,000 people were instantly killed (the lucky ones) with as many injured and deformed with radiation burns and poisoning… how many died later? __ [This is a partial list, just off the top of my head, of world unrest]

WHAT ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW WEAPONS

Things like Large Scale Chemical, Biological, and Megaton-Nuclear-Fusion [greater than 1000 times fission] weapons? What about Super Powerful Lasers, Rail Guns, Satellite- [orbiting]-Weapon-platforms. Directed Beam Weapons: such as Particle Beam; RF/ Microwave Beam; X-ray Beam; and Gama-ray Beam.  Then atomic powered weapons: like nuclear generated Electro Magnetic Pulse Weapons for destroying all electrical, and electronics over a very huge area [with a single blast], thus rendering the electronics controlled weapons of their high technology opponents useless. Also there is the work on the anti-personal Neutron Bomb, which when detonated at high altitude, would kill huge numbers of people over very large areas. But the Neutron Radiation would leave structures, factories/ manufacturing complexes, utilities, and equipment intact. The nation and all its facilities after being neutron irradiated would just be waiting for the enemy to come in and occupy it.

WHAT ABOUT WORLDWIDE TERRORISM

This warfare of Terror is something new to the world scene in the form of stealth and deception. The enemy comes without uniforms, and they fit right into today’s multi-nationality society [they cannot be readily identified]. They come without the slightest warning, and without declaration of war. Their attacks include: suicide bombings, videoed-executions, chemical /biological attacks, and bombings [or attempted attacks] of:  Ships; _ Airplanes; _ Trains; _ Embassies; _ Subways; _Skyscrapers and Military Targets [Sept. 11^th 2001_3000 dead]; and even in the postal service [chemical /biological mail]… Then this Warfare of Terror could progress to a much higher level! Chemical and Biological large scale weapons are so scary [they could possibly spread over multiple nations as they mutate into something uncontrollable]. We hope that they are never ever used!! Then there is the Backpack Miniature-Dirty-Nuke that a single terrorist could carry into a large city and detonate!! These things are happening in numerous nations. What’s coming next? [Are there other weapons being kept secret from us? __I think we can be very sure that there are__ and that new ones are being designed as we speak and will continue to be in the future!!]

WHAT ABOUT THE PERILOUS TIMES OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE?

Hitler and his Nazi’s murdered more than "6" million captive, helpless, unarmed civilian-Jews in Death Camps, Starvation, Gas Chambers, Blazing Furnaces, Firing squads, Torture chambers, and Medical experiments. They were being exterminated like they were non-human vermin.  Many countries in past history like: [the ancient Roman Empire, Spain, Russia, Italy, Germany, and now a large number of the 25 Arab Nations] have ruthlessly persecuted the Jews. The Bible says this conflict between Israel and the Arab Nations is going to escalate into the greatest war ever_World War III... “Armageddon”  … All Nations… will be gathered to gather against Israel… attempting once again to exterminate the Jew from the earth, but One-third of the world’s people will die trying!! (Zechariah 12:3, 14:1-3) (Revelation 9:18 /16:14, 16 /19:11, 19)

WHAT ABOUT OTHER VERY SCARY THINGS?

Such as: man experimenting with things he should never touch_ like manipulation of DNA to try to make super beings…. What about the terrifying AIDS Virus that we have not been able to stop? What about now that the abortionist’ have slowed the runaway birth rates, with their abortion slaughter,_ they are talking now about the greatest population increase coming from the elderly…. [People are living longer]. _ Will they soon be talking about instating a maximum age for a person to live_ with a mandatory life termination? [Anyone who will murder innocent babies, will murder the elderly].

WHAT ABOUT CRITICAL WORLD CONDITIONS?

Global Warming: Man’s pollution of the upper atmosphere is only a small contributor to global warming.  All the planets in our solar system are warming [NASA Report_ solar system] _ the sun is getting hotter_ because of increasing sun storms. …. Ozone Layer Depletion: More of the sun’s radiation is getting to the earth’s surface causing skin cancers and eye damage. … Tropical Rain Forest Destruction: Man is cutting down 100’s of acres of forest a day in South America. Many of the exotic plants needed for medicines are destroyed in the process, and they are burning the limbs and leaves polluting the air. …. World Oxygen-Regeneration Depletion _caused by tree and plant life destruction_ (they renew the earth’s oxygen) [All construction worldwide depletes trees and plant life]. ... Earth’s Magnetic Field Decay_ it deflects the harmful charged particle bombardment of earth from the sun. It also aids in living cell reproduction affecting all life. Since man designed the magnetometer instrument in the 1800’s he has seen a continual degradation of the earth’s Magnetic Field.... Earth’s Seismic Activity Increases _ causing: Earthquakes; Volcanoes; and Tsunami’s [it is increasing at an astronomical rate]. … World Sickness and Disease…. World Population Explosion… Worldwide Abortion…. World Hunger…. World Oil and Gasoline Depletion…. and now possible Earth Orbit Crossing Meteor Threats that could be more destructive than all the nuclear bombs in the world _ combined [see NASA’s NEO web site]. What other things are being kept from us?

WHAT ABOUT THE WORLDWIDE NON-NATURAL DEATH TOLL

IT HAS BEEN ENORMUS IN THESE PERILOUS TIMES OF THE PAST CENTURY. In this very small part of history, _in this last ~100 years, the death toll has totaled in the billions, “yes billions”. Millions and millions have died all over the world in earthquakes, Tsunamis, volcanos, hurricanes, tornados, automobiles, ships, airliners, fires, floods, disease, wars, and more wars, in this past century. The biggest killer has been Abortion. It alone, takes 50 million lives a year!! [Internet: “World Population Statistics”] …The statistics add up to the death of Billions of babies _since its introduction… The USA joined most of the rest of the world in 1973 legalizing abortion, and taking a substantial part in the death of 50 million babies a year since that time. In the year 1996 The U.S. Congress enacted a bill Banning Partial-Birth-Abortion in the U.S.A. President Clinton then vetoed the bill immediately. Let us stop for a minute and do a little math: If we take the 50 million babies, times the 39 years since 1973, it equals 1,950,000,000 babies’ lives ended. That is almost 2 billion human babies lives terminated / snuffed-out by other human beings since 1973. Other countries like China, India, Russia, Africa, and numerous others have been aborting babies for many, many decades/centuries before 1973, which numbers are not included in these calculations.____ Tell me _ what do you think? __ARE THESE TIMES THAT WE NOW LIVE IN… PERILOUS???

THE MAJOR SIGNS_ FROM CHRIST HIMSELF:

In the Bible, 2000 years ago, in the books of (Matt.24:3, 6-8), and (Luke 21:5-6, 8-11) _ Christ Jesus and His disciples were coming out of the Temple in Jerusalem. The disciples were admiring the beauty of the Temple, Jesus then told them that “every stone of the Temple would be thrown down”. This was so shocking to them that they were not able to respond to Him until they left the Temple grounds and had hiked up the Mount of Olives to the Garden of Gethsemane. [The Temple was Israel’s national Icon / their national pride]. The disciples then asked Him:

(QUESTION--#1) _ “TEACHER WHEN WILL THESE THINGS BE?

The Lord then answered: “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near” (Luke21:20). This first fulfillment of this prophecy that Christ gave us, of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, was precisely fulfilled in 70 AD, when the Roman-General Titus and his world conquering Army overran Jerusalem. They destroyed the city and the Temple, overturning every stone of the Temple, and carrying away survivors to every nation (Luke 21:20-24). [This was done ~37 years after Christ’s ascension back to Heaven.] Seeing that this first prophecy was fulfilled literally and exactly to the letter, __all intelligent logic tells us that__ we are justified in believing that Christ’s following prophecies will also be fulfilled literally and precisely to His every word!! It seems a little strange to us older guys for someone to speak lightly of Israel as a nation, because there was not a nation-of-Israel from 70 AD until 1948 (No-Nation for ~1900 years). I was 7 years old when Jews started gathering back to their land and through a complex set of events, were reinstated as a nation. [Events of the two world wars and the multi-nation politics that followed] Bible Scholars say that this event, God’s giving physical rebirth to Israel as a nation is the single greatest fulfillment of prophecy since Christ’s first-advent! See: (Rom.11:26) (Isa. 65:8 /Isa. 45:17, 25).  There are so many prophecies concerning Israel and the end days. Israel had to become a nation again, and The Temple of God has to be rebuilt… Jesus said in (Mat.24:15): “When you see the abomination of desolation standing in the Holy Place (the Temple) flee to the mountains”, where God will protect and feed them for three and a half years (Rev.12:6, 14). [This has not happen yet, but will at the half way point of the Tribulation.] God also said in (Ezekiel 37:24-27): “I will set my sanctuary in the midst of them [Israel] for evermore.” Israel is feverishly preparing to rebuild God’s Temple. (Read Grant Jeffrey’s book _ “The New Temple and the Second-Coming”) Let us begin looking at the Lord’s answers to the disciple’s other two questions.

CHRIST’S ANSWERS TO QUESTION #2_ [INCLUDES 7-SIGNS]

(QUESTION-- #2) _ “WHAT WILL BE THE SIGNS OF YOUR COMING?

[SIGN #1] BE ON HIGH ALERT FOR DECEPTION

JESUS SAID: “WATCH OUT THAT NO ONE DECEIVES YOU FOR MANY WILL COME IN MY NAME, CLAIMING ‘I AM THE CHRIST’, AND WILL DECEIVE MANY.” (Mat.24:4-5) (Luke 21:8)

There have been more false teachers_ false religions_ false prophets_ and false Christ’s in the last 100 years than all of previous history put together. There are many false, manipulated versions of Christianity [by false Christ’s] in the world today, where they “SPIRITUALIZE and DISTORT SCRIPTURE” with their vain imaginations, because they do not want to believe all that the Bible says. A few of them you will recognize like:  Jim Jones, David Koresh, Marshal Applewhite, and Adolf Hitler. Yes Hitler made numerous claims to be Christ. He said “what Christ started, I will finish” __ also “My 3^rd Reich will last a 1000 years”. [The bible says that Christ will reign on earth for 1000 years, prior to eternity]. Hitler also said “like Christ changed the calendar, so my victory over the Jews will be the beginning of a new age.” The most glaring statement that Hitler made was on a giant billboard, with a picture of himself, and the caption … “In the beginning was the Word” [This is a partial Bible quote from (John 1:1)]. The rest of the verse says “the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (God the Son) [The Bible calls Christ “The (Living) Word of God”, then in (John 1:14) it says: “The Word became Flesh and lived among men” {as Jesus indeed did}] … Hitler and all of these men claimed to be Christ to their people.  There are many other false teachers, preachers, and priests, in so called churches around the world who distort the Bible and make themselves out to be all righteous and holy__ “even divine”. The Bible says “For all have sinned” [all of mankind_ these false orators are sinners too]… “There is none righteous, no not one” (Rom. 3:23) (Rom. 3:10). But despair not, God still wants to remove all our sin and make us all his very own children, we just to listen to Him. Also there are still a lot of good /sound churches in this world.

[SIGN #2]  GREAT WARS WILL RAGE IN THE WORLD

CHRIST SAID: “NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM” (Luke 21:10)

He was telling the disciples that a very unusual war was going to happen. [We need to realize that God is not into “small-talk” or “idle-talk”, He is always serious, and everything He says is of great importance.] Christ meant that a time would come when many nations and many kingdoms would come together to battle at the same time. ….. In the year 1914 this did indeed come to pass, this war was so great that 28 nations/kingdoms were involved. And for the first time in history the war was named _a “World War”.  Then World War Two came right on its heels, only 20 years later, with 58 countries fighting.  Between the two wars 27 million military lives were lost, and civilian casualties were even more. The Bible also tells of the greatest war of all… yet to come …… ARMAGEDDON, where all nations will gather around Jerusalem for the purpose of destroying/ annihilating the Jewish people from the face of the earth [men, women, children and babies included]. This is the second/final fulfillment of (Luke 21:20-24). ... But when it looks totally hopeless for Israel, they will call upon the Lord, and Christ will come and save them. We see this greatest war brewing now in the Middle East between Israel and the Arab nations [What we see now is the catalyst which starts the great-war] (Zechariah 12:2, 3). And hatred for the Jew is now growing world-wide. All nations will blame Israel for the world’s problems. The time is very near!

[SIGN #3]  MIGHTY EARTHQUAKES RAVAGE THE EARTH

CHRIST SAID: “THERE SHALL BE MIGHTY AND VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES IN PLACE _AFTER PLACE” (Luke 21:11) {Amp}

Seismic instruments have been in use for 140 years, monitoring the earth continually:  For the first 70 years, quakes averaged “2.3 quakes” per decade of time reaching 6.0 or greater on the Richter-Scale [the earth was stable for the first 7- decades] …. Then in the 1950’s there were “9 quakes” reaching 6.0 or greater… During the 1960’s there were “13 quakes”…. During the 1970’s there were “51 quakes”…. During the 1980’s there were “86 quakes”... During the 1990’s there were “376 quakes”…. During the past decade of 2000-2010 there were “1603 quakes” reaching 6.0.  [US Geological Survey] ....Is this planet_ this world we live on about to shake itself apart? What in the world is going to happen? The answer: __THE EARTH IS BUILDING UP TO A SEISMIC EVENT like man… has never seen. … It is building up to: The­ ­……  GLOBAL-WORLD-WIDE-QUAKES   … of Revelation! (Rev.6:12-14/ 8:5/ 11:13/ 16:18)_ Revelation 16:18-20 says… that “every city of the world will fall, and every mountain and Island shall disappear”!!!

[SIGN #4] _  GREAT FAMINES WILL COME

JESUS THEN SAID: “AND THERE WILL BE GREAT FAMINES IN VARIOUS/ {many} PLACES” (Luke 21:11)

Millions died in India, Ethiopia, and Africa in famines in the 1980’s. We saw their poor bodies of skin and bones wasting away on the news. The USA and other-prosperous nations delivered food and modern farming machines to these nations and other poor nations.  We then taught them modern farming methods. The famines were resolved for the time, but this was with a world population of only 4 billion people. We now have a population of 7 billion and still growing.  __The famines will return!

[SIGN #5] _ “THERE WILL BE GREAT PESTILENCE IN MANY PLACES”

(Luke 21:11)

There are many deadly flu viruses and diseases in the world__ with new ones appearing every few months, propagating around the earth. They are literally flying everywhere on the world’s airlines spreading so quickly between countries…. We also have food source contamination incidents, one after the other, covering large areas and endangering hundreds of thousands.   But the AIDS disease, which is running rampant around the globe [like in Africa], which we cannot control, is the most hideous plague_ man has ever seen.  AIDS has infected more than a hundred million, with no cure in sight. We’ve slowed its advancement a little, but no cure! The Bible says that there are even more devastating, unbelievably hideous plagues to come!

[SIGN #6] _ "GREAT SIGHTS OF TERROR"

CHRIST SAID: “THERE WILL BE FEARFUL EVENTS AND GREAT SIGHTS OF TERROR”

When I first saw the two World-Trade-Center buildings crumble to the ground, [as chills ran down my spine] my first thought was … “GREAT SIGHTS OF TERROR”.  Terrorist Attacks and Terrorist Attempts _ around the world continue in great number. I believe terrorist attacks will continue to escalate. How can we stop an enemy we cannot identify? … One who does not wear a uniform, who does not declare war, who blends into today’s multi-nationality world, who comes undercover suddenly without warning, and is willing to give his life so readily. I believe terrorism will continue until the evil man, who will become world ruler, stops terrorism and war [before the great tribulation] all around the world [“he {the Antichrist} will speak great swelling words” (Rev.13:5-7) (Dan.8:25)]. He will speak great things and appear to be a great man of peace and intelligence, but a few nations refuse his coalition and consort to form a 200 million man army against him. But the Antichrist’s armies will then retaliate as he attains TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION. But a third of the world’s population is killed in the battles (Rev.13:8). He then sets up his image in the third Jewish Temple yet to be built and CLAIMS TO BE GOD __demanding that everyone bow down and WORSHIP HIM _“OR DIE” (Rev.13:15) (II-Thes. 2:3-4). In spite of this threat, multitudes turn to Christ, but are slaughtered for their faith by the One-World-Ruler, the False-Prophet, and the False One-World-Church to come. But scripture tells that all the tribulation believing martyrs have… eternal life, and are already in heaven before the Tribulation ends (Rev.17:5-6) (Rev.6:9-10) (Rev.7:9, 14). The Bible says that there will be a One-World: _ Leader; Government; Currency; Capital-City; False-Prophet; False-Church; and Military. __ [Israel just announced that plans for construction of the New Temple are in works now: _ the blue prints have been completed; a model has been created; materials are being collected; and the huge stone blocks are being hewn.]

[SIGN #7] “AND THERE WILL BE GREAT SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS”

Jesus the Son of God made this statement in (Luke 21:11) using the word “heavens” as being plural, telling us that it means both the atmosphere around the earth and also the heaven of cosmic space. The “signs in the heavens”, have already begun. __ A huge 7-mile-long comet in the year 1994, [called Shumaker /Levy 9] came into our solar system, and broke up into 21 mountain sized pieces as it was pulled into the tremendous gravitational force of our solar system’s largest planet _ Jupiter. Each mountain sized piece impacted Jupiter causing imprints on the planet, each larger than the earth.

MAN HAD NEVER SEEN AN IMPACT OF HEAVENLY BODIES BEFORE

If any only one of those chunks, of Shumaker /Levy-9 {SL-9}, had collided with earth, it would have devastated /destroyed our planet_ taking out multiple nations in a single impact. Each impact released unbelievable energy, ejecting from Jupiter's surface 2000 mile high plumes of smoke and debris into space. If all 21 chunks of this comet had impacted the earth, they would have totally destroyed our planet. This was a very great shock to the astronomical-world. They had no idea of the immense impact power/energy that a large mass traveling at more than 40,000 mph could release. A respected European astronomer and mathematician then calculated the impact energy of a meteorite of 1.0 kilometer diameter [about mountain sized] traveling at 40,000 mph and colliding with a much larger, essentially immovable, mass [such as our earth]. His calculations showed the impact would expend roughly the energy of one-million-Hiroshima-atomic-bombs! But with time and study of the great amounts of data taken of the event, scientists have determined that the energy produced was very much greater than first thought. With new information from the wikipedia web site, I have just found out that comet SL-9 was traveling at 133,200 mph, that is _ 3.33 times the speed first estimated. _ With the velocity squared [E=mc2] the increase in  energy was 11.1 times. But it was also determined that the sections of SL-9 were much larger than first thought, with the largest piece being 1.24 miles in diameter which increased the mass dramatically.) That "one" largest piece produced the energy equivalent of 6-million-mega-tons of TNT. That is 600 times the entire world's Nuclear Arsenal. And there were 21 pieces of this comet. Therefore estimating the declining size of the other 20 pieces, the estimated total impact energy was roughly 31-Billion-Hiroshima-atomic-bombs!!! [The equivalent of 31-million nuclear fusion Hydrogen bombs].

A COMING GALACTIC ALIGNMENT:

Some scholars are now telling us that a GALACTIC ALIGNMENT is about to occur on Dec. 21^st, 2012. __ This-alignment of our planet [on the winter solstice]:  with our sun; and with the black hole at the center of our Galaxy: [Black hole: … A massive dark star which has all the stars in our Galaxy (~100 billion) in captive orbits around it (Its mass exceeds the total mass of the rest of the Galaxy), and light cannot escape from it because of its’ great mass and gravity]; and we will also align with our galactic/ecliptic plane [The ecliptic plane:  is a line drawn thru the center of the Galaxy on edge, representing the gravitational and magnetic balance plane of the total mass of the Galaxy (strongest plane of fields)]. They think these alignments may cause catastrophic events on the earth. They believe the combined and aligned magnetic and gravitational forces may put great stress on our planet, our moon, and sun. They believe the earth’s crust could possibly make a significant slip on its molten core changing climatic/ seasonal conditions dramatically worldwide. They also believe the Galactic Alignment could possibly cause world-wide: earthquakes… tsunamis … and volcanoes … and they could come all at the same time. NASA calls these men “Pseudo-Scientist [they are not professionals], and NASA says that “there will be no catastrophic events with these alignments."  

BUT .........

NASA SAYS SUN STORMS MAY BE RECORD BREAKING THIS YEAR According to Prophecy News Watch .com …“A_ NASA-Report indicates that our sun could be building up to the point of giving off great eruptions of solar storms [starting in 2012]. Could this build-up in the sun’s activity be caused by the approaching Galactic Alignment? NASA says that “the sun will most likely have Coronal Mass Ejections, expelling Solar Particles and Electro-Magnetic-Pulses (EMP), which could bombard the earth. These ejections could possibly destroy electronics and electrical devices in: the national power grids, our homes, our automobiles, machinery, assembly lines, and industrial-production-lines, phones, computers, TV, satellite, the International Space Station, and every other electrical system on earth and in orbit. What about our banking systems [everything is on computer now] and our money? This could instantly throw us back into the 18^th century.” It is my opinion that this sounds very much Like “SIGNS IN THE SUN”! (Luke 21:25). The pseudo-scientists also say that “Man has never seen a Galactic Alignment _ therefore no one really knows what will happen, and there won’t be another for 26,000 years!”

I am not sure if these things will happen, but NASA is much more qualified to access this event. I will say this though: … Even if no catastrophic events occur with this alignment_ I believe it will still be a significant cosmic “Sign in the Heavens” [Seeing that it is occurring at the same time as all the other signs] ..... and I believe there are lots more ... Signs-In-The-Heavens ... to come!!!

THE TIMES AND SEASONS OF CHRIST’S RETURN

After Jesus gave these seven signs to the Apostles, He talked about the worldwide tribulation that would follow these signs, and then about His return to set up His Kingdom on earth. He then said: “When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your head, because your redemption draws near.” (Lk.21:28)… and then… “Truly I tell you, this generation (those living at that period of time) will not perish and pass away until all has taken place.” (Luke 21:32 Amp) The word “begin” takes us back to sign #2 [the oldest historical sign], which was World War One (the years 1914 - 1918). Christ is telling us that the generation that was alive in 1914 - 1918 will not all die before all of these prophecies are fulfilled. The people who were born in 1914 - 1918 … [and still living] will be 100 years old in the years 2014 - 2018. Their numbers must be very, very small, and they physically cannot live much longer [but only one has to be alive]…….. You say __ go ahead and set a date for the Lord’s return! ...  I can’t, I don’t know, no one knows. Christ said: “No one knows the day or the hour” (Mat. 24:36). You see… we can’t know how much longer, that one person, who was born in 1914 - 1918, will live [maybe 5, or 10, or 15 or even 20 years… longer? [A news report several years ago showed a woman at age 121 years]. All that we can know is the “times and the seasons” (I-Thes.5:1-6).  But the time has to be getting very, very near. The “Great Signs in the Heavens” [The last of the seven signs] are Warnings of JUDGMENT TO COME!”… And of CHRIST’S SOON RETURN. These signs will last for a few years as they escalate in intensity, and will be fearful, but not nearly as fearful and destructive as what is to come after that!

THE GREAT TRIBULATION:

At this time the Great Cataclysmic End-Time-Events that the Bible speaks of will begin. The Bible tells us that, just before Christ sets up His Kingdom, there will be a time of trouble [7-years long] like the world has never seen.  In fact Christ Himself in Matthew 24:21-22 said: “For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world to that time_ and never to be equaled again… If those days are not shortened no one would survive.” This Great Tribulation starts with a man coming on the world scene, as a great speaker declaring to be a peace maker, and appears to have the answers to the world’s problems. He will bring an apparent [temporary] peace to the world… stopping terrorism and all wars, even between the Arabs and Israel… But his goal is to become world ruler. He gains much political power as more, and more, nations follow him. Then soon world-wide economic collapse and famine start to become a huge problem (Rev.6:5-6). We can see it coming now_ with all nations involved in this Global-Market-Economy_ all nations will be devastated when it totally crashes. We have some secular economic experts today, telling us that they see a probable market collapse ahead, greater than any in previous history. This soon to be world-ruler’s false peace starts to fall apart, and wars begin to break out. There will be an army of 200 million men that will rise up and in the battles a third of mankind will die (Rev.9:16-18).  But the Antichrist’s armies are greater and force those nations to concede to his will. He then attains Total-World-Domination (Rev. 13:5-8). … After that, GREAT-GLOBAL-EARTHQUAKES will come [The entire earth will quake simultaneously]… the 5^th one will cause “every city in the world to fall, and every island and mountain to disappear”. In the Apostle John’s vision he sees the “Great Signs In The Heavens” [in both the air and space]:  “The sun turned black as sackcloth of hair, the moon turned blood red [The global earthquakes will no doubt cause many volcanoes, on the fault-lines, which fill the upper atmosphere with great amounts of volcanic dust causing the sun’s and moon’s color changes], and the stars fell to earth (Rev.6: 12, 13). Jesus said: Men’s hearts will fail from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the earth, for the heavenly bodies shall be shaken” (Lk.21:26).

GREAT BURNING METEOR STORMS FALL FROM THE COSMOS

John also said: “THE STARS WILL FALL (BURNING METEORITES) TO THE EARTH LIKE RIPE FIGS FALLING FROM A TREE... SHAKEN BY A MIGHTY WIND” (Rev.6:13) [The greatest meteor showers [“STORMS”] in man’s history]. Some meteorites will be large as mountains…. One very large one, the size of a great burning mountain, will impact the ocean _ releasing more energy than a thousand hydrogen bombs. It will cause great worldwide tsunamis’ [greater than man has ever seen] that will destroy a third of the ships in the oceans, and many coastal cities around the world. [Tidal waves can travel thousands of miles.] The meteorite will also release deadly minerals into the ocean’s waters that will kill a third of sea life (Rev.8:8-9). Another huge meteor will explode in the upper atmosphere spreading poison‘s in the air that circle the earth and fall out into a third of the world’s drinking water sources (Rev.8:10-11). And of course the meteorites that impact the land itself no doubt will be tremendously destructive [See Meteor Crater in Arizona which is approaching a mile in diameter (made by a small meteorite about the size of a car)].  One large meteorite that hits the earth will be very dense and be traveling extremely fast, because it will penetrate the earth’s crust to a great depth, “RELEASING TREMENDOUS SMOKE LIKE A GIANT FURNACE” [It will Likely be the greatest volcano man will have ever seen.] The disturbance of the earth releases insects that man has never seen before, which will have an excruciating, indescribable, sting that will burn for five months, and those stung will try to die but cannot. “Death will flee from them” (Rev.9:1-6, 10).

THE STARS _ THE HEAVENS _ AND THE EARTH SHAKE VIOLENTLY

The Old Testament prophet Isaiah said: “The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.” “Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger” (Isaiah 13:10, 13). The earth literally being shaken out of it's orbit {it's place} sounds horrendously fearful to me. I'm sure glad that we believers won't be on earth during the great time of wrath {great devastation/ great trial/ great tribulation}. Some people say that it doesn’t matter how we live, how much we sin, and break God’s laws. “But it sounds to me like it makes God very angry.”

THE SUN BEGINS TO PULSATE

The sun will then begin to pulsate in intensity scorching men, causing great and terrible sores to come upon them (Rev.16:8-11) [The Antichrist’s kingdom became worldwide in (Rev.13:7)]. This great coronal-mass-ejection event on the sun will likely produce EMP-radiation powerful enough to take out all of earth’s power grids, and every other electrical device [even flash-lights] meaning no power for lights, cooling or heating. The sun’s radiant heat will also destroy much of man’s food crops. At this point man will want all the cooling that he can get because of the blistering heat {but without electrical power there will be no air-conditioning} [How hot could it get .... 120 degrees? 130 degrees? 140 degrees? I don’t know … it would depend on the intensity, and the duration of the sun-storms]. But after the scorching heat, man will want all the heating he can get, because the sun will then swing downward and shut off. But without electrical power, man will be in absolute bitter cold, [with his unbelievable-excruciating sun burns, hunger, and now total darkness, for a few days. I believe it will be three-days like in Egypt (Exodus 10:21-23) in Moses day. [The scripture in (Rev.16:8-11) says that the Antichrist’s kingdom will be in total darkness]. With no sun light touching the earth anywhere for 72 hours, the earth will get mighty cold in one big hurry, as our total solar system becomes super frigged without any heat from the sun. The surrounding space of the solar system will pull the heat off the earth like a sponge! You say we will just have to build big fires to keep warm and use torches for lights. Fires and torches were the means the Egyptians used in Moses day, but apparently they would not burn, because the verse says that “they were in total darkness for three days, they were afraid to move from their place, and that the darkness was so thick that they could  feel it” (Exodus 10:21-23). I believe God probably increased the moisture level in the atmosphere so high that combustion could not occur. If our creator wants man in darkness, man will be in complete and total darkness! Speaking again of how cold it could get with no sun radiation:  The reason we have frozen polar caps on our planet is because those regions get less sunrays because of the tilt of the earth's poles/axis. What will happen when all regions get … “No Sunrays?”… nada … nothing… zip … a Big Zero??  The total absence of heat from our sun cannot last long or no living thing would survive.

GREAT GLOBAL STORMS /HURRICANES ON THE HORIZON

We hear of all of the record breaking floods, droughts, wild fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, strange seasonal changes in many areas of the world, with deserts expanding, ocean levels and currents shifting, and polar caps melting. [These are all signs of the end times.] We wonder what is going to happen on our planet. God has revealed to us what some of the greatest weather events will be in the last days, just before Christ returns. God told His Old Testament prophet Jeremiah that “GREAT WHIRLWINDS will rise up FROM THE COASTS of the earth, and the slain of the Lord in that day shall be from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth” (Jeremiah 25:29-33 KJV). During the Tribulation this scripture will be fulfilled…. there will be GREAT-GLOBAL- STORMS /HURRICANES like nothing man has ever seen, that will traverse the globe, with indescribable_ “wind_ voices [angels voices out of the storms?] _ thunder_ lightning_ and hail stones” … [each stone weighing more than a talent (75 pounds)] … “raining down upon the earth” (Rev. 16: 18, 20, 21).  Few structures will remain intact [this would literally level a normal home or building to the ground], “and there will be too many dead to bury” (Jeremiah 25:33).

THE ENTIRE WORLD COMES TO BATTLE

Then all the armies of the world will gather to the Middle-East to destroy Israel [they will blame Israel for all the problems and devastation upon the earth]. [We thought the 200 million man army was big … this will be all the armies of the whole world… there will likely be more than a billion solders in this battle (Luke 21: 20-24) (Zech.12:1-3, /14:1-3). This war is the last war, the greatest war of all time, and will come at the very end of the tribulation….. It is called Armageddon!! (Rev.16:14-16, /19:19-20). When it looks like Israel is doomed _ they will finally call upon Jesus as their Messiah /Christ /and God. Jesus will then come back to earth defeating all the world’s armies, and saving Israel. [Scripture says that “the blood from this battle will fill the valley of Megiddo for 1600 furlongs [176 miles] up to the horse’s bridles” (Rev. 14:20).] Christ will then set his feet down on the top of the mount-of-Olives, it will split in two and swollow up the armies there waiting to try to kill Him. He will then cross the Kidron-Valley and when He reaches the Eastern Gate, He will speak to it and all the stones that seal it will move out of His way [It was sealed after He walked through it on His first advent and will stay sealed until He returns at this time.] (Ezekiel 44:1-3). He will then go into Jerusalem to set upon His throne where He will rule the entire earth (Ezekiel 43:1, 2, 4, 7).  This will begin His Kingdom of true, lasting peace, and blessings [The Kingdom of God on Earth] (Rev.19:11-16) (Rev.20:6).

YOU ASK _WHAT CAN I DO?

THE BIBLE SAYS THERE IS A WAY TO ESCAPE ALL THESE THINGS __See _ (LK.21:36) (I-THES. 4:13-18) (John 5:24).

The Bible says that only those who become true Christians will be translated from the earth to heaven_ before things get really bad. (Rev.3:10, 4:1/ I-Thes.5:9-10, 4:13-18, 1:10/ Cor.15:51-57)… You ask __“HOW CAN I BECOME A TRUE CHRISTIAN?” God says that “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God”… [The glory (His righteousness) that He designed us to have, in our [man’s] creation (Rom.3:23)]… Also “There is none righteous no not one” (Rom.3:10)… Also the reason for the Law is: _ “that every mouth may be stopped, and all-the-world may become guilty before God” (Rom.3:19). None of us have been able to keep the Law. “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his [our] own way, and God has laid on Him [Christ] the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6). We must first believed that we have sinned  against God our Creator [broken God's Laws]... and would contaminate His home if we were to come into it in our present condition. You and I wouldn't want to let a little orphan child all covered with filthy sewer mud come to live with us in our beautiful clean home filled with fine furniture and things, without giving him /her a bath first. That's all God wants to do, just give us a bath, to make us clean, then bring us into His home to live with Him forever.  But we have to admit to ourselves and God that we have sinned.

WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? (EX.20: 3-17)

(#1) _“THOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME!”

Anything that is more important to us than our Creator_ becomes a god to us! [That includes: our jobs, our cars, our boats, our hobbies, our sports, our parties, our friends, our money, our homes, and anything else that we put first]

(#2) _ “THOU SHALL NOT HAVE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE!”

We are to have No Idols of any kind _ for only our Creator is God!

(#3) _ “THOU SHALL NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD YOUR GOD IN VAIN!” He is your Creator even if you don’t believe. How many times each day do we hear someone cursing God? God says that _ “we will give an account for every idle word”

(#4) _ “REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY!”

One day a week God wants us to set that day aside to honor and worship Him. How many of us have broken that law?

(#5) _ “HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER

 _that your days may be long upon the earth”.

How many of us have disrespected our parents in some way?

(#6) _ “THOU SHALT NOT KILL”

Christ said: “If you hate your brother (fellowman) _you are guilty of killing him in your heart”

(#7) _“THOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY”

Christ said: “If you (only) look upon a woman with lust, you have committed adultery with her already, in your heart”

[This includes a woman looking at a man with lust.] [We are to only have intimate relations with our own spouse]

(#8) _ “THOU SHALL NOT STEAL”

If we take even a very inexpensive thing from someone else, we have stolen from them [even from our employer, parents, grandparents, siblings, kinfolks, neighbor, etc.].

(#9) _ “THOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS”

We have all told lies, things that were false, things that were not true, and probably more times than we would care to admit.

(#10) _ “THOU SHALL NOT COVET ANYTHING THAT IS THY NEIGHBOR’S”

You and I have also, most likely, wanted something that belonged to someone else, at some time in our lives. In James 2:10…the Lord tells us “if we have broken the Law in one part, we are guilty of all”

YOU SAY: _ BUT DOES NOT GOD HAVE ANY MERCY?

Yes He is more merciful than any of us_ He has been putting off His judgment for more than 5000 years. In fact, He is complete mercy, love, and righteousness. God loves you so much that He has provided a way [the only way] for you and me to be cleansed [to have our sin removed] and receive eternal life… You see, No one has ever been able to keep the law except Christ, but God loves us and does not want anyone to perish (II-Peter 3:9)… God is Holy and Righteous therefore He will eventually have to judge all evil, in order not to become a party to it. God gave us all free-will to make our own decisions, He doesn’t want puppets. He wants those who love Him for what He has done for us on the cross. God saw that we couldn’t be perfect in keeping the law and sent Christ to be His perfect man and sacrificial Lamb in our place. Scripture says that _“Christ bore our sins in His own body on the tree [the cross]” (I-Pet.2:24). It also says that we cannot receive eternal life by works… we can’t even help the Lord, in the payment of our sin. It is by God’s Grace (His Love and Mercy) that we attain eternal life. The bible says it is God’s gift to us and not of works (Eph.2:8-9) _ Christ has paid it in full. There is nothing that we can do to pay anything toward having the righteousness of God_ because our sinfulness would contaminate the work. All we can do is _ give it all to Jesus wanting His Payment, wanting His Salvation that He paid for…. in full and completely on the cross “for you” and me… Then trust and rest in His mercy and love. [This is what’s called… “The Grace of God”] [We can do nothing… so He did it all]. When He cried out on the cross… “It is finished”… indeed it was! (John 19:30). God the Father accepted His Son’s [Christ’s] payment for our sins, and raised Him from the dead, as proof of who He was and is, and to certify Christ’s payment in full forever! (Luke 24:1-7)

CHRIST SAID: “HE THAT COMES TO ME, I WILL IN NO WISE CAST OUT”

(John 6:37); He also said: “Who so ever has the Son [in their heart:  believes /receives Christ as Savior] has eternal life, and who so ever does not have the Son of God, does not have life eternal” (John 3:36); …. “He that hears [receives] my word has eternal life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life” [from eternal death… to eternal life] (John. 5:24); ... And Jesus said: “I am the way [to God], the truth [of God], and the [eternal] life [from God]… no one comes to the Father, BUT BY ME.” (John. 14:6) …. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that who so ever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting [eternal] life.”…“The Son came into the world not to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”(John 3:16, 17)… Jesus said: “I am the resurrection and the life, he that believes in me, even though he dies, yet shall he live… and whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die.” (John 11:25) … “If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed” (John.8:36) … [Our soul and spirit will never die… then later we get a new glorified, impervious, perfect, eternal-body]. This will happen at the “Rapture” when Christ comes to take all believers home with Him in the blink of an eye (I-Thes.4:13-18) (I-Cor.15:51-53).

THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS SAID:

“For God commended His love for us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Rom.5:8, 9) … “There is none other name [Jesus] under heaven whereby we must be saved” (Act.4:12) … “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom.3:23). … “For all we like sheep have gone astray and God has laid on Him [Christ] the iniquity of us all” (Isa.53:6) … John the Baptist pointed to Jesus in the distance and shouted__ “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29)… “For you know that we were not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and gold_ but by the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot.”(I-Pet.1:18, 20) … “For Christ Himself bare our sins in His own body on the tree [the cross]” (I-Pet. 2:24) … There was a period of time on the cross that Jesus was paying for your sins and a period of time when He was dying for me. How could He die for all of mankind in just a few hours? .... He is the Creator-God [God the Son], who is all powerful, all Knowing, all righteous, all holy, and is an Infinite-Being… therefore He could pay for an almost infinite number of sins in a finite amount of time. God has provided His very own Son to pay for sin … and He has not provided anything else in this world or universe to give us eternal life … “There is none other name [CHIRST JESUS] under heaven, given unto man, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) … “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.” (Acts 16:31) [Saved …Eternal Life] God loves you and wants to give your life meaning. He wants you to be His child [His son or daughter] and He wants to take care of you forever.  He also wants to light up your life_ with Christ_ giving you unspeakable peace and joy! __ No matter where you are, or how much sin you have [or how little_ “for all have sinned”], or what you are doing now… Just talk to Christ … with your heart [He hears and sees your heart… it does not need to be out-loud] Ask Jesus to come into your life and be your savior and God… “He will”… “I promise_ because I know He loves you very much.” And just as important, He has promised you… “You who come to me _ I will in no way cast out” (John.6:37)… He will not turn anyone away who comes to Him for eternal life. Do not go anywhere else for everlasting life… Stop at Jesus… He is the right one… He is the right place to leave your eternal destiny. For Jesus said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father… but by me.” (John 14:6).

DO NOT EXPECT TO HAVE A BLINDING LIGHT EXPERIENCE

That is, like the apostle Paul _ when you come to Christ.  I believe that God has to approach each of us differently because we all have our own emotional make-up and personality. I have heard many wonderful Christian brothers and sisters give their accounts of coming to Christ, and none of them were like the Apostle Paul’s or mine. Most were a very gentle realization and acceptance that Christ is God’s Son whom He sent to die on the cross to be their savior. But their lives changed because they truly believed, and that’s “faith”. Also, do not worry about your feelings, our emotions are very fickle, they change with the wind. Also Satan is a master at messing up our feelings, he will tell you at every turn in your life… ‘See what you just did… a real Christian wouldn’t do that.’ Or he will say ‘Christ may have died for others, but you are just too unworthy, He wouldn’t die for you!!’  Don’t listen to him… he is the father of lies! (John 8:44) … Just remember that Jesus is the Savior that God sent to redeem us from our sins. In (1-John 5:1) scripture says: “Who so ever believes that Jesus is the ‘CHRIST’... is BORN OF GOD” [Christ: “the anointed savior sent from God”] As long as Jesus is the .....chosen-empowered-Savior that God sent [who died in your place, for you and me], you and I are safe. We are born again into the family of God, and we are safe in His care forever and ever. “Nothing can pluck us out of His hand” (John 10:27-28).

WHEN WE GIVE “OUR ALL” TO CHRIST:

That is our life; body; soul; spirit; and total-existence to Him, for His safe keeping, it sets us totally free [“If Christ shall set you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36)] [“He has set us free from sin and death” (Rom.8:2), as well as all other things]. [All of this happens as we give our lives to Christ even though we may not be aware of it]… We no longer need-to-worry about anything, including whatever comes in life… It is all-totally in His hands from that point on. This doesn’t mean that life will be all perfect with no problems, because all the people in your life have self-will and God will not force them to do what is good/right. Then God’s enemy-Satan will attack you if you stray too far from God [that is out from under His umbrella of protection]. Also God has a purpose in this world that pre-empts all other things, and that is that He is working all things for the good of His purpose … of reaching everyone possible in the world for Christ [The Preaching of the Gospel]. “All things work together for ‘THE GOOD’ … to them who are called … according to GOD’S PURPOSE” (Rom. 8:28). Everything that happens to us will be for the furtherance of God's purpose. Therefore we may have to suffer some hurts so those around us will see our faith in Christ and want it too. I have been honest with you up front about the hurts in a Christian’s life. But I still say “You can trust Him” (“I know, because… I did”), and “the peace that I feel is beyond understanding” (Phil.4:7). He only wants the best for you… He died in your place… “for you” … just trust Him]. God did not turn me into a puppet. He does not force me to do anything. He leads me letting me see what He would like for me to do, but I can still say, Father I really don’t want to, and He says OK my son, I still love you, its OK. But most of the time [but not all] I go ahead and do what He wants, because I love Him and want to please Him. There was a time when I thought that Jesus may have died for others, but not for me, because I would [and still] sin at times. But the Lord led me to these verses: [The apostle John was talking to Christians in his epistles saying:] “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (I-John 1:8); [We all still sin at times and will, until the redemption of our bodies at the Rapture]. Again John in his first epistle wrote: “And He [Jesus] is the propitiation [the sacrificial payment] for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world” (1-John 2:2)... You and I are definitely part of ..."the whole world".

CHRIST DIED FOR EVERYONE INCLUDING YOU!

You see He died for everyone… Mankind’s total sin debt has been paid… He didn’t leave anyone out (1-John 2:2). But we have to believe it [want it] [love it] to receive it. Then in the Gospel of John: “For God so loved the world… [meaning: all-the-world] that He gave His only begotten Son” (John 3:16).   Joy will come and joy will go, but the closer we walk with Jesus the stronger ourfaith will become, and the more joy we will have. After we receive Christ as our savior, we no longer need to worry about the wrath of God, because Jesus took all-our-wrath for us on the cross, there is none left for us to pay. That is why the Lord is going to rapture us from the earth before He brings His wrath on the world. “I will keep you from the great trial [wrath] that will come upon the whole earth” (Rev.3:10). “And to wait for His [God’s] Son from heaven [Believers are waiting for Jesus to come and rapture us from earth to heaven… to save us from the judgments to come.], whom he raised from the dead, even…  Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come” (I-Thes.1:10 /5:9-10) (II-Thes.2:1)… Praise_ be unto: “The Great God and our Savior_ Jesus Christ”; A-men, and A-men! (Titus 2:13).

This next section on Question-#3 will only be seen by those left behind.

{This is the time that all prophecies will come to final fulfillment or culmination}

[This will be the climax, or pinnacle of the Great Tribulation]

(It will be after the Rapture of believers from the earth) 

(QUESTION-#3)­ __ SIGNS OF THE END

The disciples asked Jesus: WHAT WILL BE THE SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE?

Christ said: “And there will 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.” [These things will all be happening at the same time with great intensity] AND THEN SHALL THEY SEE__ THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY” (Luke 21:25-27). The apostle John in his visions saw: “The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a mighty wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?” (Rev.6:12-17) … “Behold, He comes with clouds and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him [God will apparently open a window to allow those in hell to see]: and all peoples of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so _ Amen” (Rev.1:7).

JUDGMENT OF THE TRIBULATION SURVIVORS

Jesus again said: “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, He will set upon the throne of His glory. And before Him shall be gathered all people of the nations, and He will separate them one from another like a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. He shall set the sheep on His right hand, __ but the goats on the left.”… “Then the King will say to those on His right, come, you who are blessed of my Father, take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.”…  “Then He will say to those on his left, depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” (Mat.25:31-34, 41).   [This judgment is of the Tribulation survivors… Not the Great White Throne judgment that comes 1000 years later.]

IF WE BUT GIVE OUR LIVES TO CHRIST:

ALL OF THESE TERRIBLE THINGS WILL CEASE TO EXIST FOR US!

[The Lord will not turn anyone away (John 6:37)]…. “For Christ has delivered us from the wrath to come” (I-Thes.1:10). Yes, there will be a Great Multitude that will be saved [receive eternal life] during the Tribulation. The apostle John saw this vision: __“After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count [or number], from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.” “Then one of the elders asked me, 'These in white robes who are they, and where did they come from?' I answered Sir, you know. And he said, these are they who have come out of The Great Tribulation, they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” [“the Lamb”:_ “CHRIST, the sacrificial Lamb of God”] (Rev.7:9, 13-14) (Mat.25:31-33). I know you say _ I can just wait and see what happens, but when Christ comes for believers it will be "like a thief in the night, and in the blink of an eye" (Mat.24:43-44) (I-Cor.15:51-53). If you put off giving your life to Christ, you live in great danger of having to endure the horrendous physical suffering of the Great Tribulation. 

GOD IS STILL GIVING ETERNAL LIFE RIGHT UP TO THE LAST MOMENT

Don’t you see the blessed grace of God, here at the last moment, He gives eternal life to all who will receive Christ, His Son [God the Son], the living Word of God, the creator of all things, (John 1:1, 3, 10) (Colossians 1:12-19) (Hebrews 1:1-13), “the savior of the world” (John 4:42)… But don’t wait and have to endure that unspeakable time of God’s Wrath. Give your life to Christ now_ so that you won’t be left behind _to face the Great Wrath of a Holy, Righteous, and Almighty God.  God loves you and does not want you to take the chance of missing out on eternal life… “For God is not willing that any should parish, but that all should come to repentance.”  [Repentance is:  _ to turn from sin, and turn to Christ [in your heart _believing He is the Christ, the savior of the world (and yours too) (John 4:42)]. It is not possible to turn physically and mentally away from all sin because our old nature is still in us, but as we grow in Christ (by reading God’s Word and talking to Him daily)… we can see our sin slowly going away. But I‘m afraid that some sin will still be with us until Jesus comes for us in the Rapture.] “Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep [die], 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 in Christ shall be raised incorruptible, and we who are alive and remain [believers who are still alive] shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (I-Cor. 15: 51-53) (I-Thes.4:13-18). [We will be changed into a perfect, eternal being. (Changed in: … body, soul, and spirit) … Our old nature will be gone (no desire to do evil anymore _ “Oh Thank God!”)… Our bodies will be impervious to all disease, all physical, and spiritual harm. And we will be holy, like Christ our Lord. I wish this for you, and that God might watch over your life, leading you in all His ways.

(Scripture was taken from the: NIV, KJV, NKJV, YLT, DNT, NLT, ASV, NRSV, ESV, and Amp versions of the Bible.) (Some verses are paraphrased from a combination of these versions in order to clarify their meanings.)                                                                                                             8.7R-27.22G-11.41R