Wait for The Final Days
The most popular these days is the 2012 doomsday scenario which has infected the wide stream. Fear has overcome many people while others find themselves skeptical about the thought of it. Now, the talk of the town is the final days! Should we be afraid of the Last Days? Or should we be glad waiting for it?
“I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.” – Luke 4:43
Jesus Christ once said of the Kingdom of God that will eliminate all evil and change the World to be a Paradise. But what are the signs of the Last Days? You may ask.
Unlike the obscurities of the Mayans and Nostradamus, God clearly stated in the Bible the signs of the last days.
“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.” – Matthew 24:7
“And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” – Luke 21:11
“And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” – Matthew 24:12
Millions of lives were claimed by ruthless wars that came in history. A huge number experiences hunger and food became scarce because of lack of space to plant. Major earthquakes happened recently, like the Samoa quake. Pestilence rises even though medical technology progresses, just recently Influenza A H1N1 strain shook the whole globe. Also, crime is rampant everywhere!
Apostle Paul also described what people will be those days. He said “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
Jesus said that in the last of days “this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.”(Matthew 24:14). Observe your surroundings. Isn’t God’s Word everywhere? What great scenery!
Yes, the Last Days will be full of burden to mankind but there’s a lot of things we should be excited about. Why, you may ask. The Last Days does not mean the last days of Earth but instead the last days of Satan and his disciples (2 Thessalonians 1:6-9).
There’s a great tomorrow waiting for us!
“God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” – Revelations 21:4
“But the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.” – Proverbs 2:22
“Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the lame shall leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the dumb sing.
For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness,
And streams in the desert.” – Isaiah 35:5,6
“And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”;
The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.” – Isaiah 33:24
“There will be an abundance of grain in the earth,
On the top of the mountains;
Its fruit shall wave like Lebanon;
And those of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.” – Psalms 72:16
“They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat” – Revelations 7:16
The Last Days will come rushing like a man who left his shoes. We never know when it will come, maybe tomorrow, maybe this day. Why worry about 2012?
