John 14:1-3
Good To Go (Series On End Times)
We have every reason to have great hope for our future.
John 14:1-3
Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, that you also may be where I am.
Hope is uncommon in our world today. Are we looking at the future through eyes of fear, or eyes of faith? Don’t focus on the present fears that lead to anxiety, instead, focus on your eternal destination.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.
The future is not frightening if you know the future and the One who is in complete charge of the future.
The Messiah will come back for us.
(2 Cor 4:17-18, Acts 1:11, 1Cor 15:14, 1 Cor 19-20, Luke 21:11, Matt 24:8)
According to Matthew 24:4-14, Mark 13:5-13, Luke 21:11, what we are seeing is to be expected.
Luke 21:11
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Matthew 24:8
All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
The question is, is it time for the Joy of birth?
Genesis 26:3
Live here as a foreigner in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. I hereby confirm that I will give all these lands to you and your descendants, just as I solemnly promised Abraham, your father.
What other nation has been promised land by God, then been removed from the land, and then return to it?
Almost all the key events of the End Times, require the existence of Israel as a nation. (Dan 9:27, Num 23:19, Is 2:1-4, Dan 12:11, Mark 13:14)
Shortly before 1948 a Jewish repopulation of Israel was impossible. For the first time since A.D. 135, there are more Jewish people living in Israel than any other place on earth.
This resettlement is a sign that End Times are imminent. (Jer 30:1-5, Ezek 37, Zech 10:6-10)
God lets us know what to expect not to scare usbut to prepare us.
