"...All these are the beginning of sorrows...
then shall be great tribulation,
such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time,
no, nor ever shall be."
(Matthew 24:8 and 21)
When Jesus's disciples pointedly enquired of Him concerning the End Times and His return, He reeled off a number of things to look out for - chief of which was deception, note well! - which He categorized as "the beginning of sorrows." This would be the prelude to a period of "great tribulation," the fulfillment of the 70th. year of Daniel's prophetic time-line (see Daniel 9:24-27) which the Jewish people know as "the time of Jacob's trouble." (Jeremiah 30:7).
The Olivet Discourse, as it is known, speaks forcibly into the world situation today; it is critically important to figuratively wake up and smell the coffee, and understand of a certainty that "the beginning of sorrows" is no longer future tense, but present! What follows is an acronym I've been much moved to compile, from the Scriptures and from personal observation to emphasize that this is so. It is a list - a very far from exhaustive one! - to describe what is being witnessed everywhere right now, as the whole world is relentlessly prepped for the arrival and rule of Antichrist.
Tyranny;
Hedonism;
Economic collapse;
Biblical Christianity butchered;
Earthquakes in divers places;
Genocide of the unborn;
Incarceration of freedom itself;
Negation of normality;
Nullification of individual choice;
Idealizing of immorality;
Nation rising against nation;
Good rendered bad and bad rendered good;
Overturning of human rights;
Famines and pestilences;
Same sex marriage;
Official narrative being cunningly scripted fiction;
Repression of dissension;
Rioting and lawlessness;
Ousting of the old world order;
Wars and rumours of wars;
Subjugation of the masses.
Yes, the world we live in now is a real shocker. Covid-19 is but the final nail to be hammered into the coffin of the lives we once led and the liberties we once knew and took too much for granted. The above acronym represents just a fraction of the great evils that are being seen and experienced globally. Nothing that has gone before compares with what is happening now, as the entire Earth, like a woman in the throes of labour, cries out as her contractions get ever more severe and closer together.
These are indeed completely unprecedented times; world affairs have the unstoppable momentum of a runaway train, very shortly to career with its whistle screaming through the dark tunnel of the Tribulation, ultimately to smash headlong into the buffers at the end of the line: Armageddon.
FRIENDS, IT'S NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU STAND! IS IT ON THE ROCK? OR IS IT ON THE SAND? AS THE WORD OF GOD IMPLORES US ALL, "SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND, CALL YE UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR." (ISAIAH 55:6)
"And that, knowing the time,
that now it is high time to awake out of sleep:
for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand:
let us therefore cast off the works of darkness,
and let us put on the armour of light."
(Romans 13:11-12)
