I am not an expert in eschatology, neither am I an authority in Christian apologetics, but a few days ago I came across some verses that blew my mind! I hear about end-time prophecies all the time and I always ask the Lord to explain things to me, because to mind sometimes the facts as presented seem to me, to be so subjectively esoteric as to be almost fueled by 'doomsday' fanaticism and a desire to invoke 'fire and brimstone' scare tactics with the aim to keep us holy and scared spitless with regards to sinning!
As with all forms of blindness when the light finally shines through, it introduces a whole 'nother level of sensory awareness that puts paid to all doctrinal disputes in the mind of the newly enlightened:
John 9:25
He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
This verse referencing the blind man that Jesus healed.
At the risk of droning and I hovering, I will share with you the verses that the Lord showed me. These verses were so on point as to the current state of world affairs with regards to recent happenings in Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya, that after reading through a few times, I could not but agree with my brother and sister end-time preachers out there that the end is near and God is firmly at the helm of affairs in the financial, political and world power tussle arena... He has a plan! And He wants His children at this time not to be fearful, but to watch, pray, preach the Word and be a witness...
Please take the time to read these verses and I pray that you will see what I saw: That WE ARE TRULY IN THE END TIMES!!!
Ezekiel 30
Egypt and Her Allies Will Fall
1 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying, 2 “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
“ Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’
3 For the day is near,
Even the day of the LORD is near;
It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.
4 The sword shall come upon Egypt,
And great anguish shall be in Ethiopia,
When the slain fall in Egypt,
And they take away her wealth,
And her foundations are broken down.
5 “Ethiopia, Libya,[a] Lydia,[b] all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword.”
6 ‘Thus says the LORD:
“ Those who uphold Egypt shall fall,
And the pride of her power shall come down.
From Migdol to Syene
Those within her shall fall by the sword,”
Says the Lord GOD.
7 “ They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.
8 Then they will know that I am the LORD,
When I have set a fire in Egypt
And all her helpers are destroyed.
9 On that day messengers shall go forth from Me in ships
To make the careless Ethiopians afraid,
And great anguish shall come upon them,
As on the day of Egypt;
For indeed it is coming!”
10 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
“ I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
11 He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations,
Shall be brought to destroy the land;
They shall draw their swords against Egypt,
And fill the land with the slain.
12 I will make the rivers dry,
And sell the land into the hand of the wicked;
I will make the land waste, and all that is in it,
By the hand of aliens.
I, the LORD, have spoken.”
13 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
“ I will also destroy the idols,
And cause the images to cease from Noph;[c]
There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt;
I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
14 I will make Pathros desolate,
Set fire to Zoan,
And execute judgments in No.[d]
15 I will pour My fury on Sin,[e] the strength of Egypt;
I will cut off the multitude of No,
16 And set a fire in Egypt;
Sin shall have great pain,
No shall be split open,
And Noph shall be in distress daily.
17 The young men of Aven[f] and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword,
And these cities shall go into captivity.
18 At Tehaphnehes[g] the day shall also be darkened,[h]
When I break the yokes of Egypt there.
And her arrogant strength shall cease in her;
As for her, a cloud shall cover her,
And her daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt,
Then they shall know that I am the LORD.”’”
I cannot claim to understand all of this and let me assure you that I have not written this to stir up any kind of controversy, but I write this as a prophetic word from the Lord, to encourage us actually, that God is in control and all these seemingly unrelated events are part of God's end time plan...
So what should we do about this? Certainly I cannot go to Washington, or carry a placard, I cannot go on the radio or make appearances on TV, but I can preach the Word, I can love my neighbors, I can lay my hands on the sick, I can support missionaries in the preaching of the gospel, I CAN PRAY, I can be Jesus' heart, hand and mouth to the people that he died for... I can like John the Baptist be
“ The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘ Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight.’”
Mark 1:3
Jesus IS coming back again!! And He died so that we may live through the coming wrath and judgment of God, and live with Him forever!!!
So as we rejoice, because we belong to HIM, we also set a goal to rejoice with the ones whom we shall bring to him as we continue to do what He has asked us to do, by His grace...
Maranatha.
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