Preparing for the Coming Hostilities!

Preparing for the Coming Hostilities!

Christian should be warned, particularly those at ease: a time of hostility is at hand and everyone need be prepared!

Matthew 10 prophesies of Christ tells us that much. There shall be religious persecutions from organised religions and their leaders verse 17, there shall be governmental persecutions by officials and antiChristian laws and policies verse 18 and there shall be general persecutions of all men verse 22.

And the coming of Christ in His glory shall be during this moment.

There shall be a lot of falling away during this period. Out of fear brothers shall betray brother and there shall be great conflicts even within households for Christ's sake. Many would prefer to join the persecutors to be spared and so abandon their faith in Christ.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Timothy 4
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Doctrinal imbalance and disagreement will be sharp and intolerance for the sake of personal safety and economic security and ordinarily because of demonic deception.

Ignorance will also be a weapon in the hands of the enemy as many Christian organization would neglect teaching the truth of the gospel to concentrate on temporal matters instead of spiritual and eternal issues due to satanic deception.

As usual God will be criticized to every limit, His love and salvation plan maligned and His person seen as wicked in the bid to discourage people from following Him.

Satan and his angels will cover up as angels of light. Pretending as the true lovers of men as they put all the blame for the evil they do on God: whereas they'll step up their evil deeds and messages of hate and unleash terror on humans to make men see God as wicked in their desperate last efforts to gather people behind them...

Many human philosophies shall contend with the truth of the gospel even on Christian pulpits and on all other platforms of communications to cast doubts on the truth of the gospel and many distortions on God's word will make many scoff at the word of God, asking where the promise of His coming was written.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 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.

And now in our day, we are here witnessing how these things are playing out before our very eyes...

Unbelief and heresy have always been but the dimension today is unequaled! Yet, evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse...

[My Offline Bible] 2 Timothy 3
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

So the situation will become worse...and denying it won't change anything. So we have to brace up.

We must not count it strange or buckle under the pressure but rejoice that our salvation is closer than when we first believed!

[My Offline Bible] 1 Peter 4
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

We must not fear, rather we need to see these things as a sign of the truth of what we believe.

Meaning each one must revisit his or her conviction in Christ and in His gospel of the kingdom.

It is time to develop a personal relationship with God though that's becoming an issue among organised Christian religions, but that'll be the way of escape...otherwise you don't know who's going where, possibility to follow false Christs will be rife!

It's time things are judged by the word that's rightly divided, checking from the teachings and the practices of Christ and the Holy Spirit within to know what's true. Sticking with Christ's interpretation of the Old Testament is key...He is the Saviour, His sayings keep the house strong in the coming storm!

To think that people will see the obvious truth is to be self deluding. Many won't see, and many will be antagonistic and persecuting even within those who claim to name the name of Christ!

To think that the world would suddenly become sympathetic to the cause of Christ is to be in dreamland.

This is the reality that must become clear to us today as Christians...

There is a very stern hostile season coming, it will be a shaking and we need to latch on to the grace of God to survive!

Shalom! Peace!

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 12
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
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The Bible Class, TBC
Non Denominational Bible Discussion Class

Let's search the scriptures on those issues that divide us and see what the stand of scriptures is on them...that the truth of the gospel might continue and that we may all come in the unity of the knowledge of the Son of God unto the perfect man!

Every Wednesday 6:00pm

Havila Place
#46 DF Street
Opposite Bobcat Hotel
Mosan Road
Shagari Federal Estate
Iyana Ipaja
Lagos

You'll be blessed coming!
Jesus is Lord!