END of DAYS

Have you looked at many of the shows playing on the History channel, Discovery channel and many others? It seems that there are at least two or three shows each week on the world coming to an end. There are many reasons why according to these different groups, but in the end it is destruction. It could be an asteroid, nuclear war, oil spills, or aliens returning to claim their world.

If you are a Christian, how would you answer these questions today if you were asked? How would you explain to someone watching all these shows how the world will end? Today this is a very probable question for anyone claiming Christ as Savior and Lord. They may watch and see that the Mayan calendar is ending next year and we better be ready. Bunker homes are up nearly 1000% percent over the last year, so why not buy one of those? For $25,000 I can reserve my spot in a bunker in Nebraska to prepare for Armageddon.

There really is only one way to give someone an accurate description of how the world is going to come to an end, per a Christian perspective. And that is by reading, learning and teaching the book of Revelation. Sure, many of the other books give us some information about Jesus coming back, which is awesome, but it does not give us the detail that Revelation does.

I have heard Christians say that they do not read Revelation because it is too hard, too weird, or just too difficult to understand. I was one of them for a while. This is all the more reason to understand. Within the wonderful book we see the signs to watch for the second coming of Christ, what is going on in Heaven and what the New Earth and New Heaven will be like. If there was ever a book to learn and understand, it is this one.

This is the only book that comes with a warning, Revelation 22:18-20

says, “For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Because of this warning, we should learn it in order not to teach it inaccurately. Claiming ignorance will not work, because there are too many resources and available materials historically to help us understand.

When God uses us to lead someone to Christ and they are excited about their faith and Jesus, and they ask you about Heaven; how can you tell them without Revelation? How can you tell them about the Second Coming, true signs of the times, and what Heaven will be like without Revelation? Don’t miss the blessings of this great book because you don’t feel it is necessary to “understand,” or it is too “difficult.” Wrestle with it and you will be blessed!!