God doesn't want anyone to perish.
But for all to repent & believe in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who gives eternal life to each one of us as a free gift. Do you want that gift? Don't miss out on being with Jesus forever.
The inspiration for this post came from a movie I watched, and it explains how society has gone downhill, how the devil has taken Jesus Christ out of movies/TV shows, education, government and in the family homes and how people love their sin rather than reading the Bible, knowing about Jesus and following His Commandments. This is the movie: Time Changer.
As we all have seen, times have certainly changed. Biblical morals have gone out the window, sin is affirmed and celebrated, people are all about themselves and what they can get from others instead of helping and freely giving without wanting anything in return, and when the name of Jesus is mentioned, people run away, they insult, call names, mock us because of our faith and blaspheme Jesus’ name. So, God’s warnings do have a purpose. We go back to the days of Noah and Lot, people were going about their business without a care in the world living day by day, they saw no need to surrender their lives to God, so much evil, people loving their sinful lifestyle, homosexuality, sexual immorality, murdering, and their pride kept getting worse seeing that they didn’t want God as their Savior, so Genesis 6:5 says, “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” God saw nothing was going to get better and Genesis 6:6-7 says, “And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” God created 2 genders, men and women in His image, but He saw so much evil that He wished He never did. God could’ve but with so much compassion, love, grace, mercy and forgiveness that He gave to the people in those days, He gave them in Noah’s day 120 years to turn to Him and repent of their sins before He wiped out the whole world with the Great Flood and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone. What did the ungodly people do? Up until the day that Noah, his family and all the animals were getting on the Ark, they were still doing the same old thing without a care in the world, mocking and laughing at Noah, God shut the Ark door, and everyone was wiped out with the flood except for Noah, his family and the animals. Same with the people in Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot’s wife looked back as well as everyone who didn’t want to leave, Lot’s wife became a pillar of salt and only Lot and his daughters survived as Sodom and Gomorrah burned down because of the rampant sexual immorality that was taking place. Those were God’s severe warnings to everyone back then, and now we move forward to today.
God has kept His promise never to destroy the world with a flood again, He made that covenant with Noah by placing His rainbow in the clouds and we see the rainbow still. For that amount of time God has been so patient, merciful and given us so much grace that people take advantage of His lovingkindness, that they can still do whatever they want without a care in the world as it was back in Noah’s and Lot’s day which are those days we’re living in. Pride has become greater, the love of many are growing colder, the sin of homosexuality/people claiming they’re transgender is intensifying, babies are being murdered along with adults at an increasingly high rate, people don’t have the natural affection anymore as it once was, children are being disobedient to parents, the Bible, praying and God’s 10 Commandments aren’t being taught in schools or in the family household not the way it used to be, Hollywood promotes sinful behavior and unrighteousness where blaspheming Jesus’ name, adultery isn’t hidden any longer and Satan is able to be out in the open as much as he wants laughing at everyone who blindly worship him but they still don’t see him, good has become evil and evil has become good, (Isaiah 5:20-21) people won’t take responsibility for what they’ve done so they blame others and won’t apologize, all glory belongs to man and what they’ve done by the world’s standards but all praise, glory, honor and gratitude belongs to God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. When Christians stand on the truth of God’s Word, preaching the whole unadulterated truth and the true Gospel to every creature, we get brutally mocked like Noah did, we get reviled, called horrible names and persecuted because of our faith in Jesus, but we’re absolutely blessed because we don’t love the world anymore like we used to, we focus on the heavenly things and never on earthly things as the world is passing away along with its lusts. The world as we know it is going be consumed and destroyed by fire in the seven-year Tribulation period before Jesus’ Second Coming. All the praise and the glory belongs to Jesus Christ for everything He has done and continues to do for those who surrender their lives to Him and follow His Commandments. I love You, King Jesus!
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! - 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. - Romans 1:28-32.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after 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 the creation. - 2 Peter 3:3-4.
Heavenly Father, I pray for people to understand that we’re going straight towards difficult times ahead, heading directly towards persecution and the seven-year Tribulation period, where we’re in the days of Noah and Lot, that they don’t continue doing things the way they’ve been doing them, and I pray that they’ll read and study Your Word daily, turn from their evil ways and turn to You having a personal relationship with You with the time they have left, Father. All we ever want people to know, Father, is Biblical truth, especially at a time such as now more than ever which is a very crucial time in society where the world is upside down, backwards and turned inside out, people having no idea where they’re going from day to day, and when we do proclaim Your Biblical truth, we’re hated, mocked, reviled, persecuted, falsely accused and even to the point where people want hell so much more rather than actually reading Your Word and wanting a personal relationship with You, with Jesus Christ and with Your Holy Spirit, Father, that’s how bad the world has gotten, especially stated in Romans 1:18-32. Isaiah 5:20-21 says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” When we as true Christians do our best to hold onto the truth of the Bible and the morals and commandments of God, the world system will consider that to be evil and we’ll be painted in a negative light as the world belongs to Satan for the time being, but when it comes to wickedness, perversion and sin being celebrated, the world system will consider that to be good and anyone who goes against the system will be hated and persecuted as Jesus said would happen when we’re true followers of Him, but those who are friends of the world make themselves Your enemy, (James 4:4) and I pray that people see and know the truth, Father. To be saved and to receive Your free gift of everlasting life, people must confess with their mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord, believe in their heart that You have raised Him from the dead, repent of their sins and turn away from them, believe that Jesus died on the cross to pay the atonement for their sins when they confess them, surrender their whole lives to You with the time they have left, be obedient, fully committed to You and follow Your Commandments. I pray for people to understand the times we are living in and that Jesus’ return is imminent, Father. I give You all the praise, the glory, the gratitude and honor for everything You have done and continue to do for us, even though we don’t deserve it, Father, thank You so much and I love You with all my heart daily. It’s in the Mighty Name of our Lord Jesus, that I pray. Amen. Turn to Jesus Christ today, because tomorrow is never promised at all for anyone. God Bless everyone!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. - John 3:16-21.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord, If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for My name’s sake, because they know not Him that sent Me. - John 15:18-21.
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