Hasten the Day of His coming Week 36, 2014

Today’s news read like a commentary on the Bible...

“How?”

Everywhere I look the end time signs are there.  In Africa alone there are wars in Nigeria with Boko Haram which spill over to Cameroun, fighting in Libya, Central Africa Republic and Sudan. What of Europe and the Middle East? But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, stop being alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet,   because nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom Mk 13:7 (ISV). Strange new diseases without cure are ravaging mankind; we hear of “the worst Ebola outbreak in history”, and bacteria that no antibiotic can cure. The worst flooding “in a decade”, “in half a century” have all been reported in the news. For the trouble at that time will be far more terrible than any there has ever been, from the beginning of the world to this very day Mat 24:21(GNB). There are earthquakes occurring with greater frequency and severity. Men’s hearts are failing them for fear. People will be so frightened that they will faint because of what is happening to the world Lk 21:26(CEV).

“Jesus should just come quickly o. Ah Jesus come and deliver us. Our redemption is nearer now than we first believed. Let us look up in faith.”

Amen, but things will get worse still yet before He does. Did not Rev 9:12  say One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

“Why for goodness sake do you say so? Can you claim with certainty that Revelation passage is being fulfilled now?”

I don’t mean to draw us into a debate but to point out there is something we need to do to help end all these. Jesus referred to these sufferings as birth pains (All these things are like the first pains of childbirth Mat 24:8(GNB)), and we need to do what will bring this labour to an end. Until the pregnancy ends we can only expect more frequent and severe birth pains. That is why I believe so.

“Are you suggesting it is our fault these things are happening? That we have sinned as believers and so these problems are here?”

I am saying we have a role to end it: And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come Mat 24:14(ISV). We must evangelise more seriously.

“Is that really up to us? Is it not God who has all things in His hands?”

Why then does Peter encourage us to hasten the day? Since everything will be destroyed in this way, think of the kind of holy and godly people you ought to be as you look forward to and hasten the coming of the day of God2Pt 3:11, 12(ISV). In God’s plan for the earth there is a role for God and a role for His people. How seriously are we taking purity, and the effort to pray and give towards missions? And the Lamb's bride has made herself ready Rev 19:7.