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 2008 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.
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 as well as watch the
special video clip there:
http://www.liveprayer.com/plan.cfm
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