GOD is the giver of all gifts to
carry out His plan and purpose. I pray that
this prophetic word God has spoken through
me today will open your hearts to the TRUTH
of His Word and the imminent return of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is a word
the believer and non-believer alike MUST
read. Please do your part to get it to
everyone that you know, post it on every
message board and chat room you can. GOD IS
TELLING US THAT JESUS IS COMING BACK-AT ANY
MOMENT!
The other day I read the most
accurate description of our world today I
have EVER SEEN. Let me share it with you,
"For although they knew God, they neither
glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him,
but their thinking became futile and their
foolish hearts were darkened. Although they
claimed to be wise, they became fools and
exchanged the glory of the immortal God for
images made to look like mortal man and
birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore
God gave them over in the sinful desires of
their hearts to sexual impurity for the
degrading of their bodies with one another.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie,
and worshiped and served created things
rather than the Creator-who is forever
praised. Because of this, God gave them over
to shameful lusts. Even their women
exchanged natural relations for unnatural
ones. In the same way the men also abandoned
natural relations with women and were
inflamed with lust for one another. Men
committed indecent acts with other men, and
received in themselves the due penalty for
their perversion. Furthermore, since they
did not think it worthwhile to retain the
knowledge of God, he gave them over to a
depraved mind, to do what ought not to be
done. They have become filled with every
kind of wickedness, evil, greed and
depravity. They are full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant
and boastful; they invent ways of doing
evil; they disobey their parents; they are
senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Although they know God's righteous decree
that those who do such things deserve death,
they not only continue to do these very
things but also approve of those who
practice them."
Actually, this came from GOD
Himself in Romans 1:21-32. I, especially,
like the line in verse 25, "They exchanged
the truth of God for a lie." If that doesn't
describe our culture today perfectly, I
don't know what does. Satan, the great
perverter, has told the lie enough times
that people have now accepted the lie as the
truth, and rejected the truth as a lie
exactly as God said they would.
I know there is much debate and
controversy within the Body of Christ as to
exactly how the events of the end times will
unfold. One of the interesting things about
Bible prophecy is that you really can't tell
someone they are wrong since these are
events yet to occur. While the study of
eschatology or the end times is interesting,
my focus is on our real day to day lives and
how to live victoriously in the context of
the Christian faith. However, there are some
end time events nobody will dispute and one
of those is the imminent return of Jesus
Christ.
The Bible clearly teaches that NO
MAN, only God knows the hour of Christ's
return. But make no mistake, this is NOT a
Hollywood movie, it is a very real event
that will take place. One thing is certain,
when Christ returns whatever final events
that must take place will quickly unfold and
this world as we know it will no longer
exist. Even though only God knows the exact
moment Christ will return, the Bible clearly
tells us what the last days prior to His
return will be like. My friend, you do not
have to have a Doctorate in Theology to read
God's Word and know that without a doubt, WE
ARE IN THE LAST DAYS.
In Paul's second letter to his
young disciple Timothy, in chapter 3 verses
1-5, he describes the last days. "But mark
this: There will be terrible times in the
last days. People will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money, boastful,
proud, abusive, disobedient to their
parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love,
unforgiving, slanderous, without
self-control, brutal, not lovers of the
good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers
of pleasure rather than lovers of God-
having a form of godliness but denying its
power. Have nothing to do with them."
Peter also shared the signs of the
last days in 2 Peter 3:3, "First of all, you
must understand that in the last days
scoffers will come, scoffing and following
their own evil desires." Peter and Paul
could have been writers for the USA Today
commenting on the state of our world in the
year 2004 with their words.
Jesus commented as well on the
signs of the last days in Matthew Chapter
24. His disciples asked Him point blank what
will be the sign of His return and the end
of the age. Jesus answered in verses 4-14,
"Watch out that no one deceives you. For
many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am
the Christ,' and will deceive many. You will
hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to
it that you are not alarmed. Such things
must happen, but the end is still to come.
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom.There will be famines and
earthquakes in various places. All these are
the beginning of birth pains. Then you will
be handed over to be persecuted and put to
death, and you will be hated by all nations
because of me. At that time many will turn
away from the faith and will betray and hate
each other, and many false prophets will
appear and deceive many people. Because of
the increase of wickedness, the love of most
will grow cold, but he who stands firm to
the end will be saved. And this gospel of
the kingdom will be preached in the whole
world as a testimony to all nations, and
then the end will come."
You see my friend, this is why
those who know Christ as their Savior have
to be busy about the work of the Kingdom. We
are clearly in the last days, the night is
coming and we must work while it is still
light. The imminent return of Jesus Christ
is a message you will not hear in the church
very often because too many pastors either
don't believe He is coming back, or they
have lost sight of how soon it will happen.
God's people need to not only be ready
themselves for Christ's return, but must be
busy sharing this Good News with the lost
and dying world that we live in. The Bible
tells us it is only God's patience that is
delaying the last chapter from being played
out because it is His desire that none
perish and ALL come to repentance.
I will be praying for you to take
some time today and PRAY over these words.
It is no accident or coincidence that you
are reading this today, God is speaking to
you. For those who have never made a
commitment of your heart and life to Jesus
Christ by faith, the Bible says that TODAY
is the day of salvation. Take a moment right
now, pray and ask God to open your heart and
go to the following link and read the words
there: www.liveprayer.com/bdy_salvatn.html .
For those who know Christ as your
Savior, this is a wake-up call from God that
the time is short and you need to be giving
all you have each day in serving Christ.
Serving Him is not an option but a
requirement of ALL His children. God calls
most to serve Him right where they are at,
in your neighborhood, at school, on the job,
where you recreate, in the various hobbies
you have. Every day the Lord brings people
into your life who will never go to church,
never read a Bible, or never watch Christian
media. You are the only connection to God
they have. God has put them into your life
so that you can share with them the hope and
love of Christ. Never forget, when your life
is over the ONLY thing that will matter for
eternity are those lives you impacted for
Christ.
Based on what God's Word tells us
about the last days, you can hear the
trumpeter in the back room warming up.
Christ came to this earth the first time
unannounced to the world, born in a lowly
manger in an obscure village. However, He is
preparing for a triumphant return at any
moment that the entire world will witness as
He comes back "with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trumpet of
God."
If I can help you in any way you
can contact me through my personal email at:
bkeller@liveprayer.com