Friday, 3 June 2022

The End of All Things is at Hand (CW25)

    World War 3 is at Hand

1 Pet 4:7-8  But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."
    In the last days when we come before God in prayer we must be
i) serious - for it is a matter of life and death if we ignore God's warnings of the perils facing Christians in the last days.
ii) watchful of the fulfillments of prophecies, the depravity of Christianity and our repentance.

1. Last Days Scoffers
2 Pet 3:3-5  knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." For this they wilfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,
   Within this generation, with fulfillments of the depravity (sodomy) of men just like in the days of Lot and the great wickedness of men just like in the days of Noah, are you not convinced that we are now living in the last days?
   Repent of your blindness and heresies!

2. Last Days Hypocrites
2 Tim 3:1-5  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!
   These Christians have lost their salvation and we are told to avoid them - the dog returning to its own vomit.
2 Pet 2:20-22  For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire."

3. Hoarders of Treasures
James 5:1-6  Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
    End-time (Laodicean) unfaithful Churches and Christians are robbing God of His treasures by hoarding them in properties, stocks and deposits in banks thereby depriving funds needed for
God's various ministries (mission, charitable homes, etc).
   Repent, otherwise the sufferings of His labourers and reapers will reach His ears and you will be judged during World War 3.
1 Tim 6:17-19  Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.