It’s Nice For The Moment – So Don’t Delay, Share Jesus Today!
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘<Jesus says,>“Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.”’ (Revelation 22:12)
With the world we live in today, things seemingly are better after the apparent spiraling downward of events over the last decade. We are years past the Global War on Terror, COVID with its vaccine ‘mandates’, the Ukrainian-Russian War and the Israeli-Gazan/Iranian Conflicts are on the verge of ending, and a cautious pause is in the racial and social divisions we have here in the US; what should we anticipate as coming? Will the the downward spiral reemerge (if it indeed has stopped)? Can things continue to upswing? (Inquiring minds want to know.)
In today’s verse, Jesus spoke these words to the Apostle John during John’s spiritual travel to Heaven to receive the Book of Revelation. It is the culmination of all things that have occurred and have yet to occur. So the short answer to all the questions above is ‘YES!’, things will get much better, when Jesus comes back, at least for His Church, His Followers who have fully accepted Him as Lord and Savior. However, things will unfortunately get worse, as Scriptures tell us – especially for those who do not know or accept Jesus as the Christ.
But there continues to be a ‘great reset’ (as stated by those of the ‘New World Order’); in Daniel 7, we read of 4 kingdoms, 3 that have come with sinful implications from man (Babylon, Persia, and Greece/Rome are what most consider as accurate) and the 4th that will come (or as some believe is starting) that is of Satan, the Anti-Christ, and the False Prophet.
These 4 kingdoms or governments have and will bring great despair to the people of God, and each will have to run their course before the 5th and final Kingdom, the Kingdom of God, comes and reunites Heaven & Earth together anew (Revelation 21). There are and will be ‘little -t’ tribulations, which occur throughout our history, involving wars, famines, pestilence, and death prior to the Great Tribulation. The ‘Big-T’ Tribulation will bring great suffering through the Judgements of the Seals (Revelation 6-8), Trumpets (Revelation 8-11) and Bowls (Revelation 16) until Jesus takes the reigns for all Eternity.
The question is, are we coming to or have already entered the start of the 4th sinful Kingdom as prophesized by Daniel? Has the Great Tribulation started? It is too soon to tell, but I can say we are one day closer to these events than we were yesterday. If you are in the camp of ‘pre-Trib’ rapture (the call by Jesus to take His flock, all who have accepted Him as Lord, away to be with Him) we have not entered the ‘Big-T’ times; we are going through a somewhat major ‘little-t’ tribulation period right now. If you’re a ‘mid-Trib’ or ‘post-Trib’ rapture camper – maybe we are, maybe we are not – but we can say we are experiencing the ‘birthing pains’ Jesus foretold in Matthew 24.
As is every day, but especially now in a quiet pause, share the Gospel of Jesus with someone who needs to hear His message, who needs to receive His gift of Salvation. The time is short for all of us; compare this year to our lives. It’s already the end of February, and it seems like we just celebrated the New Year. Time continues to march onward. We are in the middle of a gift of a pause of relative peace and optimism, but it is not guaranteed to last.
No matter what the time is, today is a great day to share the Gospel of Christ to those who need to hear it, as people need to know that in their despair of waiting, they do not have to anticipate the worst in fear but instead anticipate the best in Faith in Jesus Christ!
Amen.