ELECTION: Sign of the times

Elections; we do not fret over the trials of our day; rather they reveal to God’s children, the signs of the times?

1st sign: Wanton immorality: 

In Noah’s day Gen. 6:5. “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

Luke 17: 26-27. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. They were carrying on the events of their lives without a single thought of the judgment of God.

Mt. 24:37. Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” Have we arrived on the precipice of God’s judgment? Are the hearts of people today only evil continually?

2nd sign: False teachers:

In Jesus’ day: Mt. 7:15 (NIV): “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.”

Gal. 1: 8-9. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

The repetition is not redundant — it is emphatic. Paul’s double statement leaves no room for doubt: anyone — whether a fellow apostle, an angel, or any other messenger — who teaches a different gospel is under God’s judgment

2 Peter 2: 9. If this is so, (The signs) then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

BOB HOLLIDAY

Post Falls