lAST DAYS---VERY MUCH IN EVIDENCE

This was originally written September 8, 1993, almost 8 years before the twin towers suicide bombings. That is not a long time in God’s eyes. The same truths I wrote then are still the same truths for today. I write now with little more insight and updated. I forgot I had written this until I had some disturbing news this week; showing just how close it is hitting home. I will not give details at this time. ( I don’t even remember now what that would be!)

   Without any forethought of my own, the Holy Spirit is leading me to Second Timothy. Please pray for me as I write. We will start with Chapter 3, verse 1: “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” Perilous means dangerous, full of risk. In the Greek, it adds the idea of reducing the strength or furious. Is it dangerous when a young girl can go to her bus stop and be abducted into a car by a strange man, taken into the woods and tied to a tree? Is it dangerous when a person can leave work, get in the car and be shot in a drive by shooting? Is it dangerous when w woman can go into a variety store and have her throat slashed just for her little bit of money? This was in broad daylight with other people walking around. I can attest to that. I was in that store just after it happened.

   Is it dangerous when an aged woman can be sleeping in her bed, only to wake up to find a rapist hovering over her? She was so afraid of being alone and had invested in all kinds of protection gadgets. What good can they do? Only God and His angels can protect. I, myself have had many incidents where I was protected against all odds. Yes, Christians can sometimes be caught in the cross fire. God will give you peace in the midst of it. I have faced scarey situations. Although they had still happened, God turned them around and used them for His own glory. Someday, if I am so led, I will write about these as my testimony that Jesus will never leave us or forsake us. He is in the fiery furnace with us. Verse 11-12 “Persecutions, afflictions, which come unto me---but out of them all, God delivered me.”

   The devil can not do anything to us that God does not permit. Remember Job. These things may be allowed to test our faith and teach us something. I won’t elaborate on this.

   Verse 2 “For men shall be lovers of their own selves”. This is the “me first” generation. We love “me”; too bad for you. Of course there are always exceptions. All these “rights” people are fighting for cannot be from God. Cults and other groups against God want to “worship” as they please. They can do wicked things out in the open and no one can dare criticize them. It doesn’t matter who they hurt in the process. A woman can be a witch and practice her witchcraft on unsuspecting individuals. In these times, 2002, Harry Potter is a good example, a kid’s book teaching children all about witchcraft and spells, very explicit. Even younger Christian mothers don’t see the danger in the book. Oh, that God would open their eyes to the truth.

   Self love is the witch’s creed. She loves herself and her life style. She drags whomever she can into her trap. She pulls them away from God. Christians don’t have rights, though. They are taken away as fast as they can be. We are not allowed to talk about our beliefs in public. No prayer is allowed in school or any public place. The Ten Commandments are taken down. We don’t want to “offend” any one who doesn’t believe the way we do. Christians are offended every day. We just don’t count. We are inferior to everyone else. Students can’t pray or read and study their Bibles in the classroom but they can study about witchcraft and Eastern religions which have many gods or false ones. These anti God groups want nothing to do with our God. He has definite rules to follow. If they believed, they would not be free to do their evil deeds. Of course, the devil is in charge here.

More and more women have abortions. I am not writing to judge you. I don’t know what I would do if I was in that position... Circumstances my cause them to have one. One might be a young girl and the parents forced her to have one. Or the father was a married man and they didn’t know what to do. The man might have forced her to get an abortion. Some women see nothing wrong with this. This, too is “self love”. They want to have “fun” and not be tied down with a baby who would hamper their “free” style. The fetus is not a human being yet. Get rid of it before it gets too far along.

What does God say? The answer is in Psalm 139:13-16 “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” It is all from the first seed to the finished product.

   Babies cost money. The woman needs money to put on her back, her hair and her face. She wants to travel, work toward her career. You have to give up these things when you have a baby to look after. I must come first? Is this God’s way? Yes, these are perilous times and they are getting worse and worse. Do you love yourself more than God and before others? Your desires and wishes? Are we all guilty? Modern precept---do your own thing!

   There is so much more to this scripture. I will let this much sink in. Perilous times can trap godly people into the ways of the world. There are so many temptations. We have to stay constantly in the Word so as to avoid them. “There is no temptation taken you but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.” (I Corinthians 10:13)

   Today’s perilous times are accelerating with terrorist attacks and threats. Read all of Luke 21:5-32. Jesus is telling the apostles about the signs to look for before Jesus will return. More and more is being fulfilled. Again God’s timing is not ours. It is getting closer. We may not see it but we should always be ready for we will never know when the time has come. There are many wars and rumors of wars; earthquakes in different places; famines and pestilences. We get threats of germ warfare and poisoning of the waterways.

Recently I received a forwarded email about free samples of perfumes, lotions and even baby diapers (another way of killing babies?) being sent to people through the post office. When they were inhaled, some have died from poisoning. Man is playing God with their cloning; trying to create beings that won’t be humans. Will they be creating frankensteins? Which way do we turn? Only to Jesus.

Luke 21:26-28 “Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory, And when these things come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh.”

ch me. When the Holy Spirit got hold of me, I told him to get lost. No one really took me in a beginner’s class to teach me doctrine so I thought I understood deeper things before I could swim. The more I learned, the less I knew. And I trusted too many people. What is you thoughts on those two scriptures?

When I write I can only write under inspiration. I only write when I let the Holy Spirit teach me and I search the scriptures until I find the truth. As a Catholic, I wasn’t allowed to read the Bible. I might learn about the lies they were teaching. Even as a child I would sneak and read the big Bible that was on the table just for display. The first thing I read later that led me away was the one about heresy where they are forbidden to get married or eat meat. Priests and nun weren’t allowed to marry---they were married to Jesus Christ. We weren’t allowed to eat meat on Fridays and most days during Lent or go to hell if we didn’t obey. They changed the rule much later. What happened to the ones who went to hell. I thought if that was a lie, what other lies did they teach?

When I was young, I skimmed through the Old Testament. All I got out of it was if you obeyed God all would go well. If not, God would leave you..

I learned doctrine. I have been reproved and corrected and I was instructed. It took some time but it soon sunk in.

Times keep getting worse. Kids are killing kids and also their parents if they don’t get their own way. We need to pay more attention and make sure we don’t getr caught up in the ways of the world. Think about it. God bless you.