What to do
"Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.
For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
All these are the beginning of birth pains.
“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.”
Matthew 24:4-9.
I don’t know when Jesus will return to this earth no one does. Anyone who says they do are deluding themselves.
I see in the media many preachers that are trying to predict when Christ will return.
They look at every minute bit of scripture and say it could be soon. Perhaps they are right perhaps not. I believe that Christ will one day return to this earth. When I haven’t a clue.
I look to the above quoted scripture Matthew 24:4-9 and can see these things happening now. Christians all over the world are being persecuted. We Christians are now the most persecuted group in the world.
Christians are being put to death for simply being Christians.
There are wars all over the place and there are people trying to deceive the individual Christian into believing wrong things.
Still a look back at history shows this kind of thing has been happening for centuries. It just seems that now in the twenty-first century it is happening globally on an industrial scale. But then it must have seemed like that to those living under the Nazis in Europe during world war two.
The question however still remains. If we are in the end times what should we as Christians be doing?
The answer comes from Matthew when he records Jesus as speaking to his disciples and saying,
“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20.
Put as simply as it can be. If we are indeed in the end times we should be evangelizing and evangelizing with more fervour than ever before. We should be making disciples.
There is nothing we can do to change the inevitable Christ will return to judge the world that is a fact the Bible makes abundantly clear.
There is one thing we can do. That is lead those who do not know Christ, those who are heading to a Christless eternity, to Christ.
The purpose of the Church from the day it started is to the present day is as Jesus said,
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:19, 20
Our job in the last days is not to try and pin point the exact hour Christ will return. Our job is to reach out to the lost with the Love of God. To make disciples and teach them all we know about Christ and God.
Please think about it.
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