* Keeping ourselves ready for the return of Jesus.

Jesus says:   Watch ye therefore  (watch yourselves, watch how you are choosing to live), and pray always (pray over everything daily that troubles you), that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36

Before Jesus returns, the powers of heaven will be shaken.  There will be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars.


Luke 21

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Dream from God given to Joan Boney:  The earth slipped on its axis.  People were terrified.  Governments, scientists, and religious leaders all over the world were meeting to see what could be done about this.  (Nothing could be done for this was from God and no one can stop that which God ordains.)  A television newsman was so frightened that he stopped speaking in the middle of his broadcast and just walked out of the broadcast studio.  The powers of heaven were shaken by God.

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First, the powers of heaven are shaken ... and then comes Jesus.

27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

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To be ready for this, the apostle Peter tells us the following:

II Peter 3:14   Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.

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Here are the ways we can live in peace continually, daily.

We must learn to pray moment by moment over everything that troubles us:  Through prayer, we connect to God and enter into peace.  

Philippians 4  

6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

If we are troubled right now over anything (past, present, future) ... we are not ready for the return of Jesus.

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Then comes the great tribulation of the wrath of God and then the destruction of the heaven and the earth by God, by fire from God.

Isaiah 34:4

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

Revelation 6:14   

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

(We live at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.  Every time we come out of our garage and I see the mountains, I say to them:  "Oh … I see you're still here!")

II Peter 3

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

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