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.
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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