Thought of the Day

A World of Unrest
Fulfillment of Prophecies
2 Timothy3:1

I was reading an email I received about Missionaries being in high danger in Africa. I don’t personally know all the information, but it reminded me of the scripture in where Paul wrote to Timothy, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.”
Anyone who really studies God’s Word knows that the end times are closer. If we look at the world as a whole, we find people anxious and busybodies everywhere. People are doing just what God’s Word teaches they would. In 2 Timothy 3, we find that Paul describes people, and things they would do, that are currently happening today. Wars and rumors of wars; other religious trying to push their beliefs upon Christians, people being persecuted and tortured all under these humanistic ideas. Descriptions of bad things happening to Christian people everywhere is on the news also.
The word ‘perilous’ means dangerous. Can anyone remember of any more dangerous times than there are now? Our children can’t play outside without being fearful of their lives; People cannot feel safe, because of drive by shootings and other murders, and America still has, for now, freedom to preach God’s precious Word. There is no safe place in the world now, anywhere. America comes close to being safe, but we have to worry about Americans killing, hurting, or destroying each other, and of course the terrorists too. How important is God to America? How important is God to people who are faithful in church? Would we stand up for God if our lives were in trouble? Would we? A lot of people, who stand under the name of Christ can’t be man or woman enough to stand up against what God’s Word teaches, but we say we love God, don’t we?
The missionaries I’ve read about are great men of God. They have to deal with situations that we, in America, only read about happening in the Bible. Some missionaries loose their lives and/or their families for standing up of Christ. This will get worse too. My statement is based upon what the Bible tells us. Still we sit at home and enjoy our freedom and leave God out of our day to day living. We also try to ignore God when He is trying to get our attention too.
It’s time for us to start getting over our petty differences and start preaching the gospel and living for the Lord while we have the freedoms to do so. Missionaries literally give their lives to preach Christ and Him crucified to people who need HIM. We waste our time on other things, because after all, we go to church. There are many scriptures that point to the returning of the KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS, but yet the prophecies have not yet all been fulfilled. I read an article that a man said he thought we were in the great falling away part of the prophecies, and even though people are walking away from God, we haven’t seen the worse part of it, I don’t believe. Prophecies are hard to interpret, and I’m not one that is well versed enough to describe them all, but it is plain to see that we are seeing one fulfilled – PERILOUS TIMES. We are definitely in the latter days, but there is much more to happen. Jesus told the disciple that ‘the fields are white unto harvest,’ but where are the harvesters? So, while we wait on His coming to come to pass, let’s get busy doing what we’ve been told to do. Do you remember what that is? “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:” We need to remember our directives, and we can also be reassured that when HE said, ‘lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world,’ HE meant it.