After a while I realized how deceived we who live in this world in flesh bodies truly are. The more I discovered, the more amazed I became. I couldn’t stop studying! I started seeing that there are these layers of incredible information in God’s word, and when I started understanding one part of the story, before long, that same story became deeper. It is like peeling layers from an onion – and it doesn’t seem to stop. There is always more, it continually gets deeper, all from the same words.
I’m just a
normal middle class person living in America, with a normal middle class life,
and now retired. I got married, we raised kids.
There were grandkids, now there are great-grandkids. We worked in jobs,
we moved a few times, we didn’t get rich or famous. Now we’re old, and God has
blessed us by allowing us to “get it” – and to know that the story is really,
really BIG… and even more so now in this time of the world.
The trouble
is – hardly anybody knows there is a big story that is affecting their current
lives every day and is going to affect their eternal life from the day they
leave this earth. And that not being aware of it really IS going to make a
difference, unfortunately. Pastors don’t teach it, churches water everything
down, and people are truly deceived. BUT, it doesn’t have to be that way, and I
encourage every person reading this to start moving forward from those church
pews where a little inspiration on Sunday really takes you no place except back
to the same pew the next week. It doesn’t do much for your spiritual life at
all. Now don’t blame me for being critical – I sat in those pews many, many
weeks during my life – and never got out of kindergarten, so I know what I say
is true.
There’s a
story, God wants us to know it, and He wants us to realize that we are living
in the time of the end, which makes it that much more important. Stuff is going
to happen! It is happening, all around us, but just like watching a child grow,
it happens very slowly, day by day, week by week, and we hardly notice.
Unless we
become “watchmen” and steeped in God’s word and His story and plan, well, then
we are wandering around with a tiny bit of information in our heads and hearts,
and when the big things happen and it’s too late to really understand – it’s
like when your child suddenly leaves home for good – how the heck did that
happen? Why wasn’t I paying more attention?
It’s way
more important for us all to pay attention to God’s word than to realize how
quickly our kids are growing up. Way more important.
So, I
encourage you. Find out what happened in 1948 that tells us we are living in
“end times” now in 2017. Understand what happened back at the beginning – if we
don’t get that part, we won’t understand what is happening at the end. And,
it’s upon us, whether we want to think that the generations are going to
continue forever or not – it’s upon us and we don’t have much of a choice about
the timing.
It’s the
best time to live, right now. Doesn’t seem like it until you know the plan and
realize – some of us are going to be serving God in a different, bigger way
than we ever supposed. And, those who understand it are excited! Ready! We are
going to stand strong at a time when nothing is the same as it has been. And we
are going to see the most momentous occasions of mankind’s time in history
ever, and be blessed by it.
But not if
we don’t know the plan – then we will be deceived, and it will be the greatest
deception ever seen, and many will be fooled. It will cost them their eternal
lives. It won’t be God’s fault – He has given us the word and the story, and
the ability to read. The rest is up to us.
Again, I
encourage you - don’t keep living in your day to day life without adding a very
close connection to God and understanding of His word into it. It will be time
well spent.
God bless
you in that endeavor!
