Wars
and Rumors of Wars
“And
you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things
must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Matthew
24:6
With so many are asking
“What’s Next”, I decided to write a 3-part series about wars of the future;
“Rumors of Wars”, “The Battle of Gog and Magog” and “The Battle of
Armageddon”. We will begin with rumors
of wars.
There are wars going on
across the world, but for some reason or other, we do not call them
‘wars’. One right now is the ‘conflict’
of Russia and the Ukraine. Russia says
it is not a war, but just taking back what belongs to them. There are the ongoing attacks with al Qaeda,
a global terrorist group that is responsible for the 9-11 attacks on the Twin
Towers and the Pentagon. Now we are involved in a conflict with ISIS (Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria). The President
call it ‘ISIL’ which stands for (The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant which
includes (Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and southern
Turkey)).
In this day and age it
is difficult to understand why such care is taken to not call an act of
terrorism what it is. Major Nidal Hasan
at Fort Hood army base, shot and killed several US soldiers and wounded many
others while shouting, "Allahu
Akbar", or "Allah is greatest”.
He was not called a “Terrorist”. The
man in Oklahoma had recently converted to Islam when he beheaded one woman and
stabbed another was not called a terrorist.
Why are we afraid to call it what it is?
Who is it we may offend in our country of the United States of
America? Regardless of the fact the
President of the United States say we are no longer a Christian country. We surely aren’t an Islamic country! Their Allah is not our God.
This country was founded on the Christian belief in an Almighty God and
whether you believe it or not, the Almighty God is still our foundation. You better pray that God does not take His
hand off this country or you will see and experience things you don’t even want
to think about. God still hears our prayers and we need to be praying more than
we ever have before.
Wars and rumors of wars are all around us like never before. Yes, there have always been wars in this
world, but in order to believe this scripture is for us today, we need to look
at the whole scripture. Continuing on in Matthew 24, the disciples asked Jesus
to tell them about the end times and these are the words he spoke to them. Verse 7-8, “For
nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be
famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are
the beginning of sorrows.”
Take a look around you and you will see how this fits in the picture of today’s
times.
Ethiopia,
Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, among several others are having famine’s
effecting from 2.3 million to 6 million starving people per country. Never in history have there been this many
people in the world who have almost no food. No one country in the world can
produce the food needed to help feed them.
Millions will die of starvation in these last days. As for pestilences, new viruses are appearing
around the world and the threat of Ebola will no doubt reach plague
numbers. Did you think it wouldn’t
happen in America? Now it has. One man has infected over a hundred people
that they know of. Thousands in Africa
have already died of Ebola and there seems to be no way to stop it from
spreading to other countries.
Most
of us don’t realize the increase of earthquakes over the last 50 years. Did you know that there are were over 500,000
earthquakes over the last year around the world? Many aren’t even felt but they show up on the
Richter scale. Many of them we don’t
even hear about, but there is such an increase that many place are getting
concerned. Just think – California had
10,000 recorded quakes in a year’s time.
Did
Jesus know what he was talking about when he spoke these verses in Matthew
24? I’m sure he did and what he said
2000 years ago is happening today. Wars
and rumors of wars? We might not call
them wars, but our country alone is fighting on several different fronts. We hear rumors of what might take place
shortly and most don’t even think about it.
We never thought our country would be attacked, but it happened. We never thought the scripture in Revelation
20:4 would really happen in our country or to our Americans. Well, it happened. Two Americans were beheaded by ISIS in Syria
and one woman here in Oklahoma. Who is
next?
If
you think this is bad, Jesus said in verse 7, “the end is not yet”. No, this is not the end; there are other
battles to be fought and things will get worse.
Next week we will talk about the Battle of Gog and Magog and when it may
occur.
In
the meanwhile, “Now
when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your
redemption (Jesus Christ) draws near.” [Luke 21:28]
He is coming one of these days and we don’t know when, but He is
coming for us. This is not the time to be afraid; it is the time to make a stand for Jesus Christ and trust Him.
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