Cold Love.
"When reading Matthew 24 recently, I thought I was reading the headlines in the newspaper. Jesus is speaking to his disciplines saying, "And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these things are but the beginnings of the birth pangs . . . and because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered."
There have always been wars and earthquakes; are these really the end times? I have two observations: The increased earthquake activity and magnitude is noteworthy. Secondly, lawlessness. Seeing the insaneness of people believing that they can keep spending when they are already billions and trillions of dollars in debt is just incomprehensible. Yet tens of thousands of people will protest in order to keep on spending. It's like people are literally marching over a cliff with their eyes wide open and even while they are falling they continue to be in a state of self-denial.
In the end times lawlessness will be increased and the love of many will grow cold. People will lose heart . . . there will be no more fight left in them because they will see that the lawless continue to prosper and there's no way to stop them.
Well, take heart . . . because until Jesus returns, greater is he who is in us than he that is in the world. Jesus said that greater works shall we do than even he did! Why? Because the Spirit of God resides in us! People of God, do not lose heart . . . let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up." -Mark Hamby
**Updated Post** >
Lawlessness:
Cassie left a post on our blog: Strongs #458 anomia without Torah (anomos being "law").
Inspirational, no? Cassie and I were talking the other day about how many signs that the Bible talks about in Revelation are coming to pass. Any you care to share about?
~His Handmaiden
There have always been wars and earthquakes; are these really the end times? I have two observations: The increased earthquake activity and magnitude is noteworthy. Secondly, lawlessness. Seeing the insaneness of people believing that they can keep spending when they are already billions and trillions of dollars in debt is just incomprehensible. Yet tens of thousands of people will protest in order to keep on spending. It's like people are literally marching over a cliff with their eyes wide open and even while they are falling they continue to be in a state of self-denial.
In the end times lawlessness will be increased and the love of many will grow cold. People will lose heart . . . there will be no more fight left in them because they will see that the lawless continue to prosper and there's no way to stop them.
Well, take heart . . . because until Jesus returns, greater is he who is in us than he that is in the world. Jesus said that greater works shall we do than even he did! Why? Because the Spirit of God resides in us! People of God, do not lose heart . . . let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up." -Mark Hamby
**Updated Post** >
Lawlessness:
Cassie left a post on our blog: Strongs #458 anomia without Torah (anomos being "law").
Inspirational, no? Cassie and I were talking the other day about how many signs that the Bible talks about in Revelation are coming to pass. Any you care to share about?
~His Handmaiden