“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against (across from) the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?” Mark 13:3,4
The greatest question in human history. Since Jesus ascended back into heaven after his resurrection, everyone has wanted an answer to this.
Even the disciples who believed that he would return during their generation because the wickedness was so great and we can see why they would think that with all the tortures and demonic evil of the Roman persecution.
Slow burning Christians to use as torches for the city and to light their parties. Pure evil, as the demonic rises in every generation.
But we can certainly understand why they thought that with that kind of evil the world was surely coming to end,
They saw vicious cruelty; we have seen wicked perversion and the slaughter of innocents.
Just as Jesus warned in advance our society would become as violent as Noah’s day and as sexually perverse as Sodom and Gomorrah.
As the world awaits Eclipse 2024, it is a great time to get people thinking about the Gospel but there is also no need for his children to be horrified.
He does not want us to be afraid because when everything is fulfilled, we will be with him, and he will reign over earth, and it will be beautiful.
We just fear the unknown, and I will tell you, for me personally, the thought of the sky, all the clouds, the entire firmament of what we see as humans looking up, to just roll back as if you rolled up a sheet of paper, is horrifying.
The knowledge that an earthquake so strong that the earth will literally rock on its axis is horrifying. Even though we know that it is part of the return of the Lord and that he will keep us safe and never harm us in anyway, it is still horrifying.
That is one of the reasons, in my belief, that he removes us, obviously to save our lives but to protect our minds, we couldn’t bear witnessing the carnage and the destruction, so we are moved safely away.
For sake of not being redundant, I just want to highlight a portion of his teaching on the end-times.
You can read a more detailed post on my sister site by clicking here. Hopefully that will also help ease the fear, you can also use that search bar on the site and search end times for much more on the topic.
But for today, let’s check out what he said:
“But in those days after the tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great glory.
And then he shall send his angels, and shall gather together his elect (people) from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven,” Mark 13:24-27
There will certainly be many scary events that take place as time fulfils, Jesus even told us that men’s hearts would fail them for fear of things coming upon the earth.
But we are not to be afraid because we are his, and he gave us these signs to watch for so that we would know what is taking place as it unfolds.
Scripture tells us that not even Jesus knows the time of his return, not the angels, no one except the Father.
As he also taught us, his return will be as a thief in the night, which means it will be a complete surprise to the secular world, only understood by those who are awaiting his return.
Which will be without further warning to those who have rejected the warnings and rejected Christ. These events will be supernatural, and it will never be as easy as science having advance knowledge of such things, as they do solar eclipse and meteor showers, when this happens it will be cataclysmic,
It will not be something people will travel to watch as am entertaining journey. The end time events will literally be the powers of heaven shaken and that will be a terrifying event.
Love & Peace till next time!
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