Is the time near?
Have you noticed in the past year or so the mainstream media and Hollywood have increasing focused on making films and documentaries about the end of the earth and the end of mankind and how all over the world people are becoming more and more worried about coming cataclysmic events? There is a new apocalyptic film coming out soon starring Jon Cusack that envisions a Mayan prophecy coming true involving the end of the world occurring in less than three years, called “2012, Who will be Left Behind”, the trailer of the new film began: “How would the governments of our planet prepare six billion people for the end of the world?”
Also a new poll finds 64% of Israelis believe the time has come to build the Third Temple, prophesied as happening in the “last days” of history. The Radical Muslim leaders of Iran say the end of the world is at hand, and are seeking nuclear weapons to bring it about. The Radical environmentalists say doomsday is coming quickly due to global warming. The History Channel kicked off 2009 with a week of documentaries about End Times prophecies, and dubbed the series, “Armageddon Week.” Evangelical Christians, like me, believe global events are lining up just as Jesus Christ and the Biblical prophets said they would in the “last days.” Books about the End Times repeatedly hit the New York Times best-sellers lists, and prophecy conferences are increasingly sold out.
Picking up a thread of this trend is an intriguing story in Friday’s Wall Street Journal headlined, “Hollywood Destroys The World”. The article explains how Hollywood is increasingly consumed with making “end of the world” films, in part because film-makers themselves fear actual disasters are just over the horizon.
Excerpts from the story:
“Director Roland Emmerich has nearly destroyed the world three times already. This time, he means to finish the job,” notes the Journal. “In his next movie, ‘2012,’ which comes out in November, the earth will rip apart, fulfilling an ancient prophecy. The director previously leveled civilization with an alien attack in the 1996 movie ‘Independence Day,’ unleashed Godzilla a couple years later and orchestrated a climate disaster in 2004’s ‘The Day After Tomorrow.’ His new film, he says, reflects a darker world view. ‘I’m really very pessimistic these days,’ he says.”….
“Most of the storytellers say they are reacting to anxiety over real threats in uncertain times: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, two U.S. wars abroad, multiple pandemics, a global financial crisis and new attention to environmental perils. ‘The Road’ even weaves in footage shot during recent disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, into its scenes of destruction. ‘For me, I feel like I live in an apocalyptic world with global warfare, a recession, and resource scarcity,’ says Jesse Alexander, writer and executive producer of NBC’s ‘Day One.’”….
“’Day One,’ a series coming to NBC in March, follows a handful of neighbors trying to survive and understand a calamity that erased the world’s infrastructure. ‘The Colony,’ now airing on Discovery Channel, is a reality show set in an imagined end-times period in which contestants hunt for food, water and shelter after a presumed disaster.”
It is amazing that even the secular world is picking up on the events happening recently and how they even feel the "end" of the world is at hand.
But fortunately they are mistaken, the end of the world is not coming, Jesus is coming! What they do not understand is that all they need to do is read God's word and what is says about the future. The world will not end; the world will be renewed with Jesus as King!
After the Rapture, when true Christians are "caught up" with Jesus in the air to be with Him forever, the tribulation will begin. After 7 years of the calamity that Hollywood and the History Channel attempt to portray, (actually the tribulation will be much worse then they portray) Jesus will come back down to earth and rule forever!!! After the millennium here on earth, God will create new heaven and earth! See, the world will not end, but sin will! We will finally be back to the Garden of Eden, exactly what God envisioned for His creation.
We must pray for the lost out there, Jesus died not only for us, but for everyone, tell everyone you know and come in contact with about the good news of Jesus Christ!
Hebrews 9:27-28 says "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment"
Everyone knows the truth after they die, but unfortunately for many it is too late, because in Philippians 2:8-11 says "Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-14, 13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Will you enter the wide gate or narrow gate?
Come to Jesus before it is too late, as it says above, ALL will bow before our King!
Feel the love, the peace of Jesus Christ our savior, He is coming soon, are you ready?
God Bless,