1. The beginning of sorrows:
Jesus says:
Matthew 24:6-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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People will scoff and say: Since the beginning of time we have seen wars and famines and pestilences and earthquakes ... so what make this period of time different?
Coronavirus: a pestilence that covered the entire earth in a matter of months
This was certainly a "trumpet" to me.
We who are the elect of God should not be unaware of the seasons leading up to the return of Jesus and the end of this world.
I Thessalonians 5:1-9
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
(Let us strengthen ourselves even more in things of God: Meditating in scriptures, remaining calm in the midst of the violence of this world ... exhorting one another and even more as we see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:25)
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ (The Word).
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
(Let us strengthen ourselves even more in things of God: Meditating in scriptures, remaining calm in the midst of the violence of this world ... exhorting one another and even more as we see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:25)
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ (The Word).
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When we warn others, those of the world will scoff.
But the elect of God will not scoff for the elect knows Bible and the elect sees the wickedness increasing all around this world and knows irrational violence is one of the signs of the season.
And we know the devil will be exceeding fierce. Revelation 12:12 ... Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Most people of this world are unlikely to even believe there is a devil.
The world is asleep and blind today. They think everything can be solved by men taking action. They race toward the day of judgment without recognizing the steep cliff that lies ahead in their path.
💥 Dream given to me several years ago: A stagecoach was out of control with no driver. Four black horses were running frantically toward a steep cliff. I saw a silly woman looking out the opening on the door of the stagecoach. She had a big grin on her face and had long blond curls and had no idea she was in danger.
This is the way this world is today.
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Coronavirus got their attention because it kept them from doing what they wanted to do ... but now they are back on the airplanes enjoying themselves again as they did before the virus hit. Most of them are not even wearing masks for they think their vaccinations have solved their problem.
(But the virus is still with us.)
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They think "peace and safety". Sins are open before all to see in most of the world.
Homosexuals and lesbians once kept their lives secret. Now they seek sympathy of the world.
An example: Brittney Griner, basketball professional, is being kept in a Russian prison on a charge of possession of drugs. She is a lesbian. She calls another woman "her wife". This week this other woman called Britney Griner her wife. They both call each other their wife. (2 wives and no husband: how perverted)
The world will in many cases think this is just the way it is and will accept them as lesbians.
But we who are of God will know the sin of homosexuals and lesbians as stated in the Bible and we are not deceived or swept away by their story.
(Their story just signals the coming of the Great Tribulation and the return of Jesus where HE gathers the dead in Christ and the elect of God to take them to the new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. 2 Peter 3:13 & Revelation 21:1-5 ... and the destruction of this present heaven and earth by God.)
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Romans 1:24-28 (Concerning homosexuals & lesbians)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 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;
(The world that knows not God or truth of God by the Bible accepts and even approves their sins. But we, the elect of God, know the Bible and know evil in the sight of God and the sins stated in the Bible.)
Many "simple" people of this world are swayed by homosexuals and lesbians as they testify that they were born "that way" as homosexual or lesbian.
Jesus says: Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
God turned them over to vile affections. (Romans 1:26)
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The apostle Peter tells us in the last days there will be "scoffers"
2 Peter 3:1-10
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 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.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning HIS promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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.
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Today's world races to their own judgment claiming their right to live as homosexuals, lesbians, or adulterers and fornicators and abortioners (murdering their own unborn children.). Denying there is a day of judgment whereby they will each be judged by God according to the Holy Bible.
Galatians 5:19-21
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Repent! and turn from sins against God. And conform to the scriptures of the Holy Bible to the end of your life on this earth. And have the hope of the salvation that comes through Jesus's blood.
You cannot continue to live in sins of the flesh against God and be saved.
Jesus said to the woman taken in adultery: "Go ... and sin no more."
(She could not continue to live in adultery. Neither can a person continue in fornication or in homosexuality and in being lesbian ... nor as a drunkard or any other of those works of the flesh named in the Bible.)
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of HIM.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
For the day of the judgment of God comes.
2 Corinthians 10:9-11
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;
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We are now living in the season Jesus called: The beginning of sorrows
Next will be the season of The Great Tribulation where the judgments of God are loosed on this present earth before the return of Jesus.
Then the power of heavens will be shaken immediately after The Great Tribulation.
Matthew 24:29-31 Jesus says:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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Elect of God awaken.
Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Strengthen yourself with Bible reading and meditation upon scripture. Be doers of the Word.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Next: The Great Tribulation
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