Watching the headlines across the country and around the world makes you wonder how bad it can get. Our economy is faltering, inflation is soaring, our border is being overrun and violent crime is rising. All of this is happening while innocent people in Ukraine are slaughtered, and Putin threatens nuclear war if we get involved. China seems untouchable after unleashing a devastating virus on the world with no repercussions and is preparing to take over the world. So, what can we do to stop the world from falling apart?
In times past we have united to overcome our internal problems and defend against external threats. Sadly, our nation has never been more divided, and our elected leaders insist on more of the same disastrous policies that got us into this mess. Our feeble president has frightened our allies into inaction and emboldened our enemies. Even as we struggle to survive, powerful forces within our country are bent on dismantling the very governmental, economic, and military systems we need to get back on our feet.
It occurs to me the world may not be falling apart but into place for what is to come. I used to wonder how things could get so bad that people would abandon their beliefs and follow the antichrist (2 John 1:7). Now I see people turning away from the faith of their fathers for convenience, comfort, and worldly pleasure, so why wouldn’t they turn away if they were cold, hungry, sick or feel threatened? Sadly, they would.
How could things be falling into place if they are this bad? JESUS said, “ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows” (Mat 24:6-8 KJV). The troubles we are seeing must happen before the end because they are setting the stage for what comes next.
Our headlines read as JESUS said, “then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another… false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many…because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” (thankfully there is more) “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Mat 24:10-14 KJV) and then look out! The gospel is being preached to all the world and men must turn to GOD and be saved before this comes to an end!
GOD did His part when He “so loved the world he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:16-17 KJV). JESUS did His part by dying on the cross for our sins and telling us “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6 KJV). I did my part by telling you and now it’s up to you whether this world is falling apart, and you will suffer loss or it’s falling into place, and you will receive great gain!
Wayne Lance (2022) – That’s Good News to Share!