NEARER THAN YOU MIGHT THINK

When I was small, summers would be spent at the homestead of my Grandfather and Grandmother. Grandma Elsie May was the family Bible scholar and each evening, just before bedtime, she would read scripture out loud to us. Many of the evening bedtime Bible sessions would be reflective of the days events, usually events involving me, and often, the scripture was from Proverbs! More than once, I feared that by the time morning returned, I would awake and find my seven-year-old body in the fires of hell. Elsie was powerful in sharing Solomon's life lessons.

One evening, following a thunder storm, Grandma Elsie began reading about the end times. “They are nearer than you might think”, she said. Moving from book to book, verse to verse, Elsie painted a mental image that had me spellbound, and scared out of my wits! Woe is me, I thought.

In the days of our Savior Jesus, the end times were near. Mat 24:3 As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him [Jesus] privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?" In the minds of those listening then and reading those words now, we certainly are quickly approaching the end times today. Assuredly, we are much nearer to the end today than where we were two-thousand years ago.

God is eternal. He does not wear a wristwatch. While in this flesh, we are tied to the clock. God is not. Don't be lulled into a false sense of security that two-thousand years after Christ revealed His Revelation to Saint John, that we still have plenty of time. 2Pe 3:8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. This is a deadline you should not miss!

How close are we? Well, let's look around at events that paint a truly frightening picture; (ripped from the news headlines):

TEEN KILLS SISTERS, MOTHER THEN SELF

ENTIRE FAMILY OF THREE SHOT DEAD BY DAD

SON SUES MOM AND DAD FOR ALLOWING HIS BIRTH

MOTHER SAYS TO DAD, I'VE KILLED THE GIRLS

BOY SAYS, I SHOT HIM TO WATCH HIM DIE

And the Bible says: Luk 12:53 "They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

The hatred, the nastiness, the absence of moral responsibility and evil is off the charts. It gets worse by the day. The endless 24-hour news cycle and quality 4G service keeps our brains bathed in this wretched slop. We know how its going to end. Its in THE BOOK. No one knows when. My sense is that its nearer than you think!

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?