Birth Pains

   

      The World Economic collapse.  Lawlessness everywhere.  Anti- Christian philosophies being uplifted.  Strange Astronomical occurrences.   Earthquakes.  Floods.  Famines.  Apostasy of the church.  War.  The alignment of the Nations against Israel.  The forming of the Ecumenical Movement.   Everyone's talking about it.  Some make fun of it. Some are scared.   But one cannot help but sense that things are spiraling out of control.  If you are a true Christian, you have nothing to fear.  Your destiny is secured.  But to those who deny the Good-News of Christ, I challenge you to examine the evidence before its too late.   


   Signs of the End of the Age

     "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.  You will hear of war and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.  Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.  Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.  There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.  All these are the beginning of birth pains."
    " Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.  At that time many will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.  Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.  And the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."  - Mathew 24: 4-14
    

Godlessness in the Last Days

    But mark this:  There will be terrible times in the last days.  People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God- having a form of godliness but denying its power.  Have nothing to do with them.  They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. - 2 Timothy 3:1-7