So much hate and persecution. For the past four hundred years or more, our world has caused so many of our problems and even made many of our problems worse because we refused to see that we are far more alike than we are different. Can we do anything about this or will it continue? I don’t have an answer to that. The different cultures in our world and so adamant about their way of seeing things that most of them persecute each other because of those cultural ways.
Can we get past these cultural taboos and get on with our lives? In my opinion, the only way will be after Jesus comes to rule the world for one thousand years. Will there still be divisions? Very likely, but those divisions will be dealt with more decisively than what happens today. In today’s world, it is always the “system” or some group that is calling for change and they usually make up a tiny percentage of the population.
Have we experienced persecution in America? It is beginning. You can see it and hear it in the news because every day there is some person or group of people that put down Christians and believers. They don’t want to hear the gospel and we hear about them almost every day because many of them are part of our government. Before Jesus calls the church home, the persecution here will become worse than it is today and it may happen in the next few years. Can you understand what that means?
Life and living in this world are going to become harder and much worse than we are feeling today. This will happen even before Jesus calls the church home. Some of it may not be truly horrible but after the church is taken up, if you are still here then you will be seeking Jesus and the world around you will be ready to kill you if you have determined to follow Him. That kind of persecution is coming so make sure of your salvation today before it is too late. Because it is your choice to follow Jesus as your Savior and it is your choice that determines your eternity.
Revelation 20:12-13: 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.…
All of us are in some way. A little bit and some of us are a bit more. The point is that the Lord calls broken people to work for His Kingdom. None of us are perfect in any real way but by following Jesus we can strive to be more like Him. Will we fall or fail? Yes, but He still picks us up and brushes the dust off, and gives us the ability to go on.
Every person that has been called by Him has a broken story in some way or they wouldn’t have been seeking Jesus in the first place. Does that mean that we are useful to Him? Yes! It does! But…you don’t have to be broken and you won’t stay that way because He fixes broken people and situations. Life itself is part of a broken sinful world and it doesn’t matter if it is your life or mine or even the rest of the world, everything is broken because when sin came into the world it broke the relationship that we were supposed to have with God.
As the apostle Paul wrote, “Creation groans for redemption“. It will continue to be in opposition with God and His statement that everything He created was good until Jesus comes back and restores the world to its rightful dignity. Some don’t believe that this will happen because the Bible is an old book written by men. The Bible is the inspired Word of God and the Author of it is the Holy Spirit because He inspired the men to write the words contained in it. He inspires me to write the posts that I write here because I could never write so many pages/posts on the same subject for more than a decade if the words didn’t come from Him.
The world is broken, and we are a part of that broken, sinful world but when He comes back to rule for a thousand years…everything will be put back the way it was intended to be.
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