Today,
reply is on discerning the end times in agreement with sacred
knowledge and divine process, rather than in accordance with
natural events and human affairs. While Christian believers are
recruited to plant, water, and labor for a divine harvest, believers
can do nothing to bring about the end so much as they are to appear
in judgment as eye-witness to the righteousness of GOD. Believers
are not to request displays and interventions by GOD to establish the
legitimacy of things already “finished” by having been once and
for all divinely proclaimed, promised, and prophesied. Ones
certainty, conviction and ability to discern the presence of sacred
operations and spirit content from GOD within events, other persons,
practices, etc., must derive from faith and other inseparable spirit
substance imparted from the makeup of GOD. The fighter
in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality
who uses the ID “I trust the count” (Level 7 with 277,497
points, a member since March 02, 2006) posted the following:
Do
you believe we're nearing the end times?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and
tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He
answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will
be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It
will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O
ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye
not discern the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous
generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given
unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and
departed. (Matthew 16: 1-4, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Prophecy And Divine Process (04/15/2019); The
Solutions From GOD (04/03/2019); His Words About Returning
(12/02/2018); “The End Is Near” (03/14/2018); Recognizing Jesus
in Glory (02/05/2017); Sharing The Correct Message (01/30/2017);
Filled With The Cross? (04/17/2016); About The End Of The World
(08/30/2015)
“I
trust the count”, currently, many are seeking to identify the end
times on the basis of worldly and secular knowledge, or
carnal, material, social, and even weather events (e.g., hurricanes,
tornadoes, storms), rather than rely on sacred knowledge and
spiritual proclamations, promises and prophecies existing among us.
Yet, the end times signal upheaval no more than the labor pains that
ordinarily accompany birth. The multiple streams of sacred truth
that address end times for those on the earth include prophecy,
revelation, and visions. The sacred character, process, and
substance of these different forms of divine communication result in
different levels of awareness, emphasis, and focus on the end times.
For many, the holy writings address the resolution of human conflict,
the elimination of sin, and the settlement of all disputes among the
living. For others issues of apocalypse, final judgment, and eternal
life are in view. Still others, acknowledge the fulfillment of
eternal purpose wherein the living GOD is exalted and glorified
having dominion and sovereignty over all that exists. Where men
examine end times events and issues as a matter of their own
condemnation and punishment for sin, they tend to become
disheartened, fearful, and weak in faith. Where it is understood
that divinity receives release from continuing confrontation,
controversy, and lingering dissatisfaction from the earlier Creation,
awareness will should turn to faith, hope, joy, trust and eternal
companionship with immortal, incorruptible divinity. Consider the
following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Matthew 24: 3-13, King James Version (KJV): 3 And as he sat upon
the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying,
Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the
sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus
answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see
that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to
pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are
the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be
afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations
for my name’s sake. 10 And then
shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate
one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall
deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many
shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same
shall be saved.
2.
Matthew 24: 21-31, KJV: 21 For then shall be great tribulation,
such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no,
nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s
sake those days shall be shortened. 23 Then if any man shall say
unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and
shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were
possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told
you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is
in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret
chambers; believe it not. 27 For as the lightning cometh out
of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be. 28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will
the eagles be gathered together. 29 Immediately after the
tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon
shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and
the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 And then shall appear
the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes
of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the
clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send
his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 3. 2nd
Timothy 3: 1-5, KJV: 1 This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own
selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away.) Even so, I
trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your
faith.
AN
AFTERTHOUGHT: There are multiple meanings in use where Christian
believers speak of “the end.” When referring to “end times,”
many intend the period leading up to the final completion or
fulfillment of prophecies and visions that are recorded in the Bible.
Destruction, punishment, the
second
death,
and the termination of duration
and existence for the devil, for sin, and for the man-made belief
system intended to ensure human survival (we say, the world) also are
the focus for many presentations. Christians are cautioned to
remember that their salvation begun through repentance and rebirth is
an eternal life that is a new creation. When the end of mortality
appears, followers of Jesus Christ will be continued through
judgment, resurrection, and transformation to exist as life
companions to immortal, incorruptible divinity. Nor will there be an
end to the immutable, unchanging word of GOD.
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