The song we have sung many times says “Ready or Not” the Lord is coming, ready or not he’s coming again, will your lamps be trimmed and burning…ready or not he’s coming again, is becoming more of a reality everyday. These last few days as Micheal Synder wrote are ending with a bang. “U.S. has bombed targets in Venezuela, the Caribbean, the Eastern Pacific, Nigeria and Somalia. The Saudis just bombed Yemen, Ukraine and continue to pummel each other, the Israels are gearing up to hit Iran again and the Chinese just launched missiles as they practiced for a blockade of Taiwan.” He also said that “At least 10 rockets were launched in quick succession…across the sky toward the seafront. If those missiles had actually been aimed at Taiwan, we would be in a state of war with China right now. We are far closer to the kinetic phase of World War III than most people realize.”

There is still a bit of good news here, we’re the generation, that is witnessing the grand finale. You might just be one of those professing Christians in mostly name only, being among those who confess Jesus with your lips but your heart is far from Him. I could go on and on, but I want to challenge you to a New Beginning. First of all, do what 1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” If you are lost, turn your life over to the Lordship of the Lord Jesus.

The Lord Jesus who is seated at the right hand of the Father is ready to plead your case and forgive you of your sin and give you a beginning in the new year, but you must turn from your way that seems to be right in your own eyes, “but the end thereof is the ways of death.” (Pro.4:12)

Oh, how I pray, (Rev.3:20) you are hearing the Lord Jesus knocking at your heart’s door right now, which means if you’ll open the door, He will come in and sup with you. My friend you can be sure, to have Him to come in and sit with you. he wants to break bread with you, (then your heart can’t help but burn as it did with his disciples in you.)

Please hear me, all those pleasures that you don’t think you can live without (1John 2:15-17) will very soon pass away. There won’t be no ball games to go too, or Superbowl’s to watch, and car races for you to be more excited over than seeing a soul saved on their way to Hell. You may never want to read any of my post again, but I will not have your blood upon my hands, because I tell you the truth. None of us will lay down at Christ feet, the pleasures we may have enjoyed here, while passing through. No, the only thing that we’ll be able to lay at Christ feet, are those things of eternal value. Wake up, the uncommitted, disobedient, unfruitful will be among those foolish virgins, whose oil has run out, many will loose out altogether, who are (Matt.24:48-51) the evil servant.

My dear friend JD Collins said that only 25% of the Church as a whole (according to Matt.16:27-28, 17:1) will go in the Rapture. This is serious. My friend Gary Harper years ago went on a 40 day fast and he said, the scripture that came to him the most was 1 Pet.4:17-18 “For the time is come that judgment must first 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? And if the righteous scarcely (with difficulty, barely) be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”

My heart is heavy, for so many that were one time faithful, had a least some fear of God, but it seems the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches have choked the Word, and their life is no longer fruitful. I am not your judge, in some sense, but I can sure tell a tree by the fruit it is bearing. John 15:1-8 is clear, if there is no fruit on the branch, Jesus will cut it off and throw it into the fire. I beg you get right with God and one another if you have not. There is still room at the cross. I ask you a most sobering question in this short time we have left before the door is shut to the church age and the dark night of 7 years of the wrath of God is poured out (2 Thess.1:8 in “flaming fire”) upon this world. “What are you going to do with the rest of your life (the time remaining).

Think what you will, but you have (if any) but a short time to wake up and go out and win the lost. When you come to the end, nothing else will matter, but that your house is in order!!!

Maranatha!!!