Signs are starting to show up which will lead to a short war against ISRAEL ,the killing of Iran's top nuclear scientist will soon lead to war which will include Russia,Turkey.Iran,Iraq.Read Ezekiel 38--39 and it seems that the USA will not enter to help Israel.God will destroy this nations.Its in the future could be years or months ,but its coming Iran has a hate for Israel and does ALL MUSLIM countries.Just take a guess why Muslims countries hate a small country the size of New Jersey who only protects itself from attacks DAILY
Maybe, CJM.
Who has known the mind of the LORD ? Or who has been his counselor?
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways.
The early church lived in expectation of the imminent return of Christ, as do we, and rightfully so, but as Peter wrote,
be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Timothy does not leave any doubt we are living in the last days, as much and even more so than those living under the rule of Roman Empire in the early church.
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
When the disciples asked Christ
“Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" he told them straight out. Mt. 24.
And he warned, you will be hated by all nations, many will fall away and betray and hate one another, many false prophets will rise up and lead many astray.
Here's what it comes down to CJM, how it was explained to me... anybody who has ever named a date, sold all their belongings and went up on top of a hillside to await the return of Christ, cut and pasted the headlines of the current day and twisted the scriptures to make them fit, entertained wild speculation of what may be, what might be... all these, every last one, have been frustrated by the power and the glory and the magnificience of God's plan. All of that is an idle and vain pursuit, a spinning of wheels and running in circles to no purpose.
It comes down to this, what would it matter, how would it change how you live if Christ's return was today or in another 1,000 years?
I ask you plain, what would your nation have amounted to, what would the world look like today, if the founding fathers and each subsequent generation that followed did what many in the church did in the 1970's, abandoning the hope and optimism and the faith of building towards a better future?
Goodness CJM... if you got oil in your lamp, man, keep it burning!