SundayReflection
20th August 2023
Roderick C. Meredith shares
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SIGNS ANNOUNCING JESUS' RETURN
Do you know what events will signal the biggest event of all time - the return of Jesus to this earth?
Learn what to watch for on the chaotic world scene so you will not be confused or caught unprepared.
Do you know what lies ahead in your future?
What about the future of your nation and the world?
We are not living in ordinary times. We are nearing the end of an age - the end of a civilization.
Presently, the news media is randomly reporting tragic events, explaining their significance in a way that the average man or woman can understand.
You need to know that the progression of disturbing news stories is not random and inconsequential.
In fact, they foreshadow remarkable key trends and specific events that will change everything you are familiar with in the next few decades!
How can anyone know the future for sure?
Who really understands the big picture?
There is one Source who really knows what will happen.
Did you realise that about one quarter of the entire Bible is prophecy, and that about 90 percent of all prophecy is for "the end time" - the time just ahead of us?
These predicted events are sure.
Of course, some people are not interested in Bible prophecy.
But they should be, since it will affect their own lives, their families, their jobs, and their futures.
There is a real God, and the Bible speaks His word.
God inspired the words of these prophecies, and they are sure.
Notice what the Apostle Peter wrote about the Bible's prophecies:
"So we have seen and proved that what the prophets said came true.
You will do well to pay close attention to everything they have written, for, like lights shining into dark corners, their words help us to understand many things that otherwise would be dark and difficult... For no prophecy recorded in Scripture was ever thought up by the prophet himself. It was the Holy Spirit within these godly men who gave them true messages from God" (2 Peter 1:19-21, The Living Bible).
Why did God preserve these prophecies for us?
Because the great God is working out a marvellous purpose here below, nationally and individually.
We need to study God's inspired prophecies if we wish to understand His purpose!
Do you know what the most important news story of our generation will be?
What is the biggest event that will shake the entire earth within the lifetime of most of you?
The Second Coming of Jesus will be the most important event of this generation.
Make no mistake about it. Jesus' return will not happen secretly, in some cave with no one knowing about it.
Jesus will literally come back to the city of Jerusalem, to the top of the Mount of Olives, to begin governing the entire earth!
There will be a divine, one-world government.
What a shock that will be to all humanity!
This event is specifically predicted throughout the Old and New Testaments of your Bible.
Hundreds of millions of people, at least superficially, believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God.
The Second Coming is predicted in each of the four gospels, in the book of Acts, and in the epistles of Paul, James, Peter, and John. Jesus' return is the focal point of the entire book of Revelation. If you believe the Bible is the inspired word of God, then you must believe in the Second Coming of Jesus.
You can know what the signs are that will precede Christ's coming and watch for them.
Why stay in ignorance about the meaning of the events taking place around you?
Jesus commands.
"Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).
Tomorrow's World
is sponsored by the Living Church of God, with active congregations in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia,
with more than 239 ministers serving over 401 congregations around the globe, under the leadership of Evangelist Gerald E. Weston, who was appointed in 2016 to succeed the late Dr. Roderick C. Meredith upon his death.
Roderick Meredith was one of the original evangelists ordained in December 1952 by the late Herbert W. Armstrong.
Your entire life is about to change. Events will unfold soon to destroy the Western world's way of life as we have known it.
The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke each contain an account of Jesus teaching His disciples what to watch for before He returns.
Luke wrote,
"So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away" (Luke 21:31-33).
So, Jesus is coming back to this earth, but not right away.
Not until these signs have occurred!
Soon, mankind will suffer through the most devastating, bloody war in human history-called, in biblical terminology, the Great Tribulation.
"For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved [alive]; but for the elect's sake [for the sake of God's repentant, obedient people] those days will be shortened" (Matthew 24:21-22).
Do you understand that our degenerate, corrupt nations are headed for a big fall?
Do you fully realise that America's national debts are almost out of control?
Can you grasp the full meaning - in God's eyes - of the spiritual and moral toboggan slide of our entire Western civilization?
If you consider yourself a follower of Jesus, then you should pay close attention to His instruction to you:
"Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).
