Fires, Floods and Mudslides

Fires, Floods and Mudslides

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”                                   Matthew 24:7-8

To come up to today’s time; this year of 2018 has seen far greater natural disasters than I can remember in my lifetime. There have been unbelievable fires and so have died because of them. So many people have died because of shootings; people killing people for little reason at all. Many have died in floods this year alone and now there is concern about mudslides coming.

If God sees every little sparrow that falls, it’s hard to believe he doesn’t know about all these disasters.  While we watch this on the news, most of us can’t do anything about it, but we can pray and God hears the prayers of the righteous.  As we gathered around our tables thanking God for his mercy and grace this year on another Thanksgiving Day, how can we not think about those who lost so many loved ones?  Thousands lost their homes and everything they had is gone forever.

The above scripture in Matthew 24:7-8 should not surprise us.  As time speeds by we see more and more of these things happening and as bad as they seem, the Bible says that, “All these are the beginning of sorrows.”  You mean after all that has happened, there are worse things to come?

Have you read about “The wrath of God” in the Bible?  Revelation 16:1 “Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.”   There is a time coming when the true wrath of God will fall on this earth and what has not already been destroyed certainly will be. 

The times we live in today are only a preview of what is to come. These things are also a warning sign to those who are wishy washy about serving God.  I don’t say these things to scare you but to pass on what God has already told us. He has given us warning after warning in the Bible and most have not listened. What would you do if a red, blinking sign saying, Alert! Alert! Alert! Flashed across your TV screen followed by “It’s the end of the world!”  What would you do?  Would you start praying, swearing or screaming?

I think the real person you are would panic because you knew you were living a lie without Jesus.  The truth would come to the surface; you knew about salvation, but never accepted it.  There were too many fun things to do and places to go.  You never wanted to take the time to listen to what God was trying to tell you. Now is the time to listen to God’s voice, trying to tell you to turn your life over to Him.  He is your salvation; your way to escape the wrath to come; to be assured of heaven no matter of what’s to come and it will come.  Don’t wait!!!