St. Matthew, Chapter 24, verse: 30f; The Power and Majesty.

 Our paragraph topic is:  (Darkening of sun and moon) Part 10. 

It reads like a movie script, this last section of sentence 30, a science fiction movie where everything is going to piceces and the earth is ending in destruction with no salvation.  The sun does not shine, the moon does not give up its light, the stars fall from the heavens, all is dark in the sky.  What is mankind to do? What is happening?  What is the explanation?

We know that wind has great power and rain has great power that man has not conquered.  Definitely water has such destructive power that we all run from its force.  So what is happening now that all these things are occuring?  Is the earth falling out of orbit, spinning out into space?  Is mankind doomed to certain death?  Is there no hope for us?

Christ has predicted that these are signs of his coming, signs of the last days when the judgment will take place.  He has fortold what will take place so that mankind will have written history two thousand years before it actually happens that those who are not believers can believe.  

We are seeing some great power happening today with hurricanes and fires and volcanos erupting all over the planet.  What will happen next?  Will the sun refuse to shine?  Will the moon not glow?  Are we coming to the end of times or are these just natural occurances?  Is the thief coming in the night?  Are we prepared to meet him to protect ourselves from destruction?

Each waking day we must put on our armour and be ready to do battle, asking God for the strength and the courage to repel the onslaught of evil that we face.  We must be ready, daily, and pray that we do not see the last day coming.    

Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself.  Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ .   The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.

St. Matthew, Chapter 24, verse: 30e; The Son of Man coming.

 Our paragraph topis is: (The Clouds of Heaven) Part 9. 

When I was growing up I would like to watch the clouds and imagine what they were.  Some would become animals or people, or things that would make me laugh and smile or even fear them if they became real.  Clouds are beautiful because they can become whatever our imaginations want them to be.  They are fun to watch and allow ourselves to relax doing so. 

Growing older though, does not provide time to gaze at the clouds.  There are too many other activities that occupy our time and energy.  We find ourselves busy with the living of life in today's world that requires our time and talent.  Cloud watching is a daytime activity whereas we have become nightime adventurers as we grew older.  We leave behind the things of our youth and take on the norms of our cultural age.  

God and Lord Jesus become more and more a belief of our childhood and less and less a part of who we are in our age of awakening awareness.  We know of presidents and rulers and dictators, and monarchs. and kings, actors. sports greats, entertainers, and all sorts of social figures but nothing concievable as God or Lord of all creation.  Many in ancient times have called themselves gods that we have learned through history.  We even have entertainment with god like figures who have great powers beyond human imagination.  This only helps to feed our egos or understanding of what we can imagine a human godlike person would be.

As we grow older and age gives us knowledge and a little wisdom of the world, it is possible to come to understand the balance in the world.  There is evil beyond measure in it and so there has to be some measure of good.  With that good, there must be some force, some energy that goes with it.  Though we may not always agree or understand its working, there has to be some balance, otherwise evil would consume the entire planet.  

Christ told us:  "The Son of Man will be coming upon the clouds of heaven."  He did not say the clouds of the earth.  Will you see them?

Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself.  Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ .   The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.

St. Matthew, Chapter 24, verse: 30d; The Son of Man coming.

 Our paragraph topic is:  (Darkening of sun and moon) Part 8. 

How small and fragile we are in the cosmos of this universe.  The  powers and Principalities that exist above us that rule the universe, the cosmos, compare us to ants or microbes.  We are nothing in the big scheme of things.  Why do we exist?  Why do we live out our lives in this bubble of a world?  War, and famine, and starvation, and poverty, and death, disease, hunger, rape and pillage, domination for power and glory are all that is sought.  There are those that want to be at the top, the top microbe, the head leader of the year, of the decade.

I read the words of Christ as he tells of the coming of the last days and imagine how it must be that these things takes place.  I try to understand in detail the darkening of the sun and the moon, the panic it must cause, how man copes with these events.  What does he do?  What will be the words spoken to the people to calm fears?  Darkness will prevail and the ordinary, life as we know it, will be no more.

 Christ tells us: "And they will see the Son of Man coming."  For all will know.  And all will see.  And all will have knowledge of what is happening.  The powers of heaven will open and the angels will come forth with horns of triumph and the Son of Man will come forth in all his glory and majesty.  This is the power that is, the power of truth, the power of life that gives life.  This is the reason that we live, the reason we are here, the reason we struggle day to day.  We have life because he has given us life.  Of all the billions of struggles, toils, and terrors, above all, what we have in this bubble of a world,  we have life beyond life.  Life, in Him, and He in the Father.

Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself.  Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ .   The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.