Friday, December 1, 2017

Christmas is Coming- So is the LORD.



In twenty-five days we will celebrate the birth of our LORD Jesus Christ.  There are many who see this celebration as a time of giving and receiving gifts, maxing out the credit cards, visiting family, sending greetings to friends we fail to visit during the year and take the kids to have pictures with Santa.  There will be some who will remember what the celebration is all about and keep Christ in Christmas.  Like the shepherds and angels on the night of Christ birth, they will honor him as the King of Kings and LORD of lords. 

Unlike those during the time of Jesus who were looking for the Messiah to come a deliver them from the oppressive hand of Roman, we look forward to the Second Coming of the LORD.   As we look around the world, our own country, state and even our cities and towns we see the decay of societies and cultures that display evil in the form of violence, hostility, aggression, sexual abuse, drug abuse, anarchy, and hypocritical dishonesty in every part of our lives. 

Everywhere you look there is a pathological insatiable desire to commit evil.  It has accelerated in the past twenty years to the point of unprecedented levels of cruelty and brutality.  The world has become calloused towards evil to the point we are no longer shocked at the number of murders, rapes, and injustices that take place.  What is sad about the condition of evil in the world is its growth appears to be exponential.

 No matter where you go, we cannot escape the fact that we are living in the time when we should be expecting the Second Coming of the LORD.  In the recent events of the sexual abuse of those in the  news media, entertainment, and government, one wonders how much lower our society will go before God brings even greater judgment upon on our nation? 

Much has been written by the “prophecy experts” on the End Times.  Their message is we are in the End Times but the Second Coming of the LORD is still in the future.  Not being a “prophecy expert,” the way I believe all Bible prophecy has been fulfilled except for the economic collapse of the economy as predicted by the Apostle James in chapter 5.  That prophecy is taking place right now as we see the financial collapse of country after country.  The warning has been given that the stock market will crash, and many will be left with nothing. 

Natural disasters are increasing, too, unexplained fish kills, whole flocks birds falling out of the sky for no reason, earthquakes in divers places and the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 has been killing off the sea life in the Pacific Ocean, radiation has now reached the West Coast of the United States, that's just the tip of the iceberg. The Second Coming of the LORD could occur at any time.  I know there are those who believe there will be a great revival before the LORD returns but how do they explain, 2Th 2:3, "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first . . ." So scripturally, not a revival, but a great apostasy comes before the return of the Lord and what do we see in this country today, a decline in those who genuinely serve the LORD. 

It should be the intent of every Christian to share with everyone the message that Jesus is coming again.  As you sing the song “Joy to The Word” hear the message, of the Second Coming of Jesus.

Joy to the World , the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the World, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the
curse is found,
Far as,
far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and
grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And
wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.

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