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How About Some Good News about the End Times?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.
The opening lines from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
These words penned by Charles Dickens accurately reflects a modern-day comparison between the frustrations of an increasingly Godless world and the hope of God’s people in the face of what many are calling the End Times!
There are so many news events that seem to point to the inevitable conclusion that we are indeed in the last days. This is why, for instance, News2morrow has come into existence. The news is rife with comparisons to Biblical prophecies, as we’ve outlined in various articles in News2morrow.
While we can easily see the harsh realities of these days, we don’t often speak about the benefits of living in these last days. And there are many. Here are seven.
EXPLOITS – Those who know Jesus will do exploits, miraculous things
Referring to the end times: “…but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits” (Daniel 11:32).
Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father” (John 14:12).
In a world that grows increasingly dark and hostile towards Christians, God’s people will be granted an ability to carry out supernatural activities that we only thought were possible in the first century church. (See related link on “Our Finest Hour!“)
Think of Jesus’ miracle of the feeding of thousands from a few loaves of bread and few fishes. Can you ever imagine that there might ever be a need for such a miracle again, what with the growing potentiality of natural disasters and nuclear war? Jesus says that “greater things” than He has done will be done by His people. And Daniel pinpoints the time to the days we are living in now.
The key ingredient to moving in the miraculous is to know the Lord! It is not just a religion that they follow, but a deep, abiding relationship with Jesus, where they commune in intimate fellowship.
POWER – God’s Spirit will be poured out upon many people in the last days
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit (Joel 2:28-29).
God’s main focus is preparing a people that will be harvested in these last days. The joy He has in appropriating that which is His comes forth in this loving expression of spreading forth His Spirit abundantly, to those how know Jesus, that they may have access to all that is awaiting them before and after His return.
Prophecies, dreams and visions will be given prolifically to average, simple people from all walks of life. Servants and handmaids signifies that one doesn’t have to be a popular TV evangelist to be filled with His Spirit to do great things in His name. God will even empower the least of us to fulfill great purposes.
Yet, News2morrow is sure that God’s mercy is such that when He says all flesh, He means all flesh!
How many of you know that preaching to Muslims today is not only difficult, because one has to break through their deep-rooted religious mindset, but it’s often dangerous, as Muslim-on-Christian persecution has increased exponentially worldwide. But God has a way of breaking through the hardness of people’s hearts (link).
We now hear of reports of Muslims coming to know the Lord Jesus through dreams and visions. God is able to pierce through to the heart of people in cultures that prohibit Christian evangelism.
(For the rest of this article, go here)
“Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father” (John 14:12)”
So then, how many of the god fearing do you know of, either living or posthumously, have overturned the money lenders tables, fed the hungry, given the shirt off their backs to the poor, performed genuine healing miracles, publically spoken up about the truly corrupt, and sacrificed their lives for anarchy by preaching to meet in fellowship anywhere, let alone do greater than that?
Revelation means ‘to reveal’, not ‘end of world’. If you have no skeletons in your closet that can be revealed, then why are you troubled?