Encouragement for the Bride From the Lord!

 

The other day, I was bemoaning to the Lord about my current situation. Half my family is caught in a cult, the other half are atheists, another group are living for this world, and everyone in my own house is lukewarm. Several members of my immediate family have taken the vaccine, including my 7 year old grandson, despite warnings from me. My 88 year old mother, who is the only strong Christian in the group, just had a stroke and may be dying soon.  In all honestly, I feel alone.  Add to that the people who feel it necessary to send me rude emails, calling me a false prophet, a fear monger, and a liar, or those who wish to argue endtimes theology with me. I'm tired, so tired. I tell you all this, not to bring attention to me, but rather so that you, who are suffering much the same things, can know you are not alone.   

As I was explaining my troubles to the Lord, I sensed Him asking me to look around (spiritually) at the path I was on. Was it crowded with people? He asked.  "No, Lord. I'm trying to tell you I'm lonely." I said. Then He replied, "that's how you can know you're on the right path."  That brought a smile to my face, along with other Scriptures He reminded me as I continued praying

 

How to know you're on the right path, especially now in the End Times

•  You are alone. There are very few in your life who know the Lord is coming, are living for Him and looking for Him. 

Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.  Matthew 7:13-14

• People get angry at you when you try to warn them about the soon coming Tribulation and Rapture

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 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. 2 Peter 3:3-4

• People mock you, call you names, and make fun of you, not only for your belief in the endtimes but your submission to follow Jesus and live a holy life. 

Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.  Matthew 5:11-13

• The path is difficult. There are rocks and holes you must traverse. Trials and temptations and heartaches. It's all uphill and seems you will never get there!
  These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. John 16:33

•  Family members and loved ones come against you

 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’  Matthew 10:35-36

However

• If the path you are on is crowded and many are walking beside you,
• If you take little concern for the Lord's return or think it's years away (Despite your view on end times, we are commanded over and over to watch and be ready)
  
• If the mention of the rapture makes you uncomfortable because you have plans
• If your life is pretty good and going along nicely
• If you get along fine with your family and friends (except the religious weirdos like me)
  
• If you think living a holy life is impossible and what does it matter because Jesus died for your sins, past, present, and future

You might be on the Wide Path

Am I saying that you have to believe we are in the endtimes and believe in the soon rapture to be saved? ABSOLUTELY NOT!  But I'm saying that those of us awake enough to see what's going on and know the times in which we live are going to be experiencing even more of the first list. More loneliness, more rejection, more mocking, more trials. Why? Because Jesus said so. Those who walk in the Spirit, who are close to Jesus will know the times of His Return.

 

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.  You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.  1 Thess 5:4-5

And because we walk in the Spirit, the World and those who live for the World will hate us. 

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. John 15:19

 

Other things I sensed the Lord saying:

 

Because we are so close to the end, expect more Spiritual Warfare. Gear up with the weapons and power of the Holy Spirit and stand your ground. Fast and pray. Yes, Fast. Remember that God knows how much you love your lost family, and He is working hard on their behalf. It may be that they have jobs to do in the Tribulation that will help save many. We don't know. God does. So, we trust Him!  

I believe the Lord also impressed upon me that He is dispatching special warrior angels to each of us during this time to help protect us and to escort us upward when the time comes.

 

So, be encouraged, Saints!  We are going home soon.

A good friend of mine sent this list to me below. I haven't had time to look up all the Scriptures, but I hope it encourages you. I would add to this list, the rise of the New World Order, the huge deception the world is under, the vaccine, and now the start of a possible World War.

 

50 SIGNS WE ARE IN THE END TIMES:
1) Increasing instability of nature. (Matthew 24:7 & Luke 21:11)
2) Increasing lawlessness and violence. (Matthew 24:12)
3) Increasing immorality. (Matthew 24:37)
4) Increasing materialism. (2 Timothy 3:2)
5) Increasing Hedonism. (2 Timothy 3:4)
6) Increasing influence of Humanism. (2 Timothy 3:2)
7) Depraved entertainment. (2 Timothy 3:4)
8) Calling evil good and good evil. (2 Timothy 3:3 & Isaiah 5:20)
9) Increasing use of drugs. (2 Timothy 3:3)
10) Increasing blasphemy. (2 Timothy 3:2)
11) Increasing paganism. (2 Timothy 3:1-4)
12) Increasing despair. (2 Timothy 3:1)
13) Signs in the heavens. (Luke 21:11,25)
14) Increasing knowledge. (Daniel 12:4)
15) Increasing travel. (Daniel 12:4)
16) The explosion of cults. (Matthew 24:11)
17) The proliferation of false christs. (Matthew 24:5)
18) Increasing apostasy in the Church. (2 Timothy 4:3-5)
19) Increasing attacks on Jesus. (Romans 1:18-19)
20) Increasing attacks on the Bible. (Romans 1:18-19)
21) Increasing persecution of Christians. (Matthew 24:9)
22) Increasing occultism. (1 Timothy 4:1)
23) Wars and rumors of wars. (Matthew 24:6)
24) Weapons of mass destruction. (Luke 21:26)
25) Increasing famine. (Luke 21:11)
26) Increasing pestilence. (Luke 21:11)
27) Computer technology. (Revelation 13:7)
28) Television. (Revelation 11:8-9)
29) Satellite technology. (Revelation 11:8-9)
30) Virtual reality. (Revelation 13:14-15)
31) Unification of Europe. (Daniel 2 & 7)
32) Far Eastern military powers. (Revelation 9:16 & 16:12)
33) Government toward world government. (Daniel 7:23-26)
34) Regathering of the Jews. (Isaiah 11:10-12)
35) Re-establishment of Israel. (Isaiah 66:7-8)
36) Reclamation of the land of Israel. (Ezekiel 36:34-35)
37) Revival of Biblical Hebrew. (Zephaniah 3:9; Jeremiah 31:23)
38) Re-occupation of Jerusalem. (Luke 21:24)
39) Resurgence of the Israeli military. (Zechariah 12:6)
40) Re-focusing of world politics on Israel. (Zechariah 12:3)
41) Russian threat to Israel. (Ezekiel 38 and 39)
42) Arab threat to Israel. (Ezekiel 35 and 36)
43) Denial of the Second Coming. (2 Peter 3:3-4)
44) Denial of creation by God. (Romans 1:18-22)
45) Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. (Joel 2:28-29)
46) Translation of the Bible into many languages. (Matthew 24:14)
47) Preaching of the Gospel worldwide. (Matthew 24:14)
48) The revival of Messianic Judaism. (Romans 9:27)
49) The revival of Davidic praise worship. (Amos 9:11)
50) The understanding of Bible prophecy. (Daniel 12:8-9)
 

This list could be greatly expanded, but the 50 examples above should be sufficient to show that we are living in the season of the Lord's return. The Bible clearly teaches that God never pours out His wrath without warning for He is a just and loving God who does not wish that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9). That's why He has provided so many signs to alert us to the fact that we are living on the threshold of the Tribulation. 

 

Blessings! And Keep looking up!