Why is it that 99% of Christians I meet have ZERO clue about the times we are living in? If I bring it up, they shrug and offer some company line about "not knowing the day or hour" or Jesus isn't coming for years... or we can't understand end times...etc.. etc... Then there are those who say they are just living their life now, enjoying what God has blessed them with... and not focusing on negative things.
Yet throughout the Scripture, we are told to WATCH and BE READY. I don't think Jesus was making suggestions...but rather commandments. He also warned us over and over about being deceived. I've covered these topics many times here on this blog.
I've come to the conclusion that most of the people who have no idea we are so close to the end are people who love this world and their lives here in this world. For that reason, they can't conceive of being taken out of it. Some don't want to leave. Others are excited about future plans, college, marriage, vacations, grandkids, etc. Or that new car or job! Blows my mind. Can't they see the evil growing all around them? Even the unbelievers can see it.
I recently was chatting with a Christian lady and she mentioned something about a plan she had in 3 years, and I said, "I don't think we'll be here in 3 years." And she sort of huffed and waved off my comment like I was insane.
Yet Scripture plainly tells us that if you love this world and the things of this world, the love of God is NOT in you. I would say, especially NOW, in this wicked world when immorality is at an all time high and corruption and evil are everywhere. How can any God-fearing person love a world where fornication, adultery, violence, homosexuality and transgenderism is celebrated all over our media, TV shows, news, etc. Where child trafficking, child mutilation, children being sacrificed to Baal, is being exposed to the public. And the perpetrators are those in high office and our movie stars, musicians and idols! WHAT? And you want to stay here? You want to embrace this? Or do you just have your head stuck in the sand, believing all the lies of the mainstream media?
We see digital currency rising, AI surveillance, Digital ID, Social credit scores and no Christian thinks anything of it. Have they never read Revelation? My bet is no. And their pastor isn't talking about it either. In fact many pastors don't even believe in the rapture anymore.
How convenient it will be for these ignorant believers to fall for the Antichrist when he arrives, claiming to be Jesus.
But I digress. That's not the point of this post. The point is simple. If you love this world and the things of this world, you are not in Christ. Whether that means you're saved or not, is not up to me. God will sort it out in the end. But let's look at a few alarming Scriptures!
Anyone who loves his life loses it, but anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. Whoever has no love for, no concern for, no regard for his life here on earth, but despises it, preserves his life forever and ever. John 12:25 Amplified
If you belonged to the world, the world would treat you with affection and would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world [no longer one with it], but I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. John 15:18
For Demas has deserted me for love of this present world and has gone to Thessalonica; 2 Timothy 4:10
In the above Scripture, Paul is talking about a fellow believer who left him and the faith because he loved the present world more.
You are like unfaithful wives having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God! Do you not know that being the world’s friend is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God. James 4:4 Amplified
Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15
Now, I know we have to live in this world and go about our daily tasks, working, paying bills, cleaning, cooking, caring for children and the elderly in our family... and it's not at all wrong to plan for a vacation or save money for college, or even plan a wedding. As long as we are here, we have to live. What I'm saying is are you living FOR those things. Are the things of this world what excite you, what you look forward to, what you live for? If so, then there might be a problem. Are you seeking FIRST the Kingdom of God, or your own kingdom?
However, here's what I believe the Lord wants me to warn you about. If you love this world and the things of the world more than Him, you are at great risk of being deceived in these last days. There is already so much deception going on, but it's going to get worse. If you aren't close to Jesus and putting Him first in your life, it's going to be very easy to fall for the false Christ they bring on the scene. You may say "No way, I would fall for that". Don't be so naive. I pray for discernment every day. I pray not to be deceived every day. Check your heart. Make Jesus your first and only love. If He isn't, if your eyes are not on Him, but on the world, you're going to believe the lie.
This world is passing away. There is no Golden Age coming. The Tribulation is coming. Everything you've known and loved about this world is about to be eaten away by the darkness.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus! Look full in His wonderful Face. And the things of this Earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and Grace!
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