As in the days of Noah, it’s beginning to rain…
I was listening to a Dr. Chuck Missler youtube video the other day. He was teaching on the first few chapters of the book of Genesis in the Bible. As many of you know, Chuck’s such a gifted Bible teacher.
During Chuck’s talk, he made some sobering comments that really impacted me. So many are not going to Heaven and the end times are drawing to a close. Pray for anyone you know who has not yet made a decision to follow Christ. And, thank God that He called you to be with Him, forever, in His Heavenly Kingdom.
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
James 4:4
Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
1 John 2:15-17
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2 Peter 3:3-7
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Galatians 6:7
Dr. Chuck Missler (Editions, Mine)
When the flood happened, all of the theological arguments of that day were over. The door on the ark was closed. Anybody who had difference of views didn’t matter now, the door was closed. You were either in the ark, or you were outside it. There is a time when the door is open (a time to receive Christ as your personal Savior), but there’s also a time when the door is closed and it’s done, the choices are made. Those outside the ark probably begged Noah to let them into the ark. But it was too late. They’d made their decision to live outside the ark, outside Christ. We’re, quickly, heading towards this same kind of ending.
Of all the people who lived during Noah’s day, only eight were saved – eight. Once the door on the ark was closed, the vast majority were destroyed in the flood.
Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matthew 7:13-14
Remember, unlike this earthly life, Heaven is forever! Take time to contemplate Heaven this weekend.
God bless,
Mark