All of the world NEEDS TO KNOW: WHO Jesus is, WHAT He has done for them and WHAT they must do in response, WHERE Jesus is right now, WHEN He is coming back for everyone who is ready, WHY He came the first time and WHY He is coming back again, and HOW much He loves them and desires their eternal salvation! The only Question that remains IS: "What will YOU and I do with this Message? "'Time is Running Out!'" I chose to respond to it affirmatively. I choose to get ready, myself, AND to share it with as many people as possible, so that they too can choose, while we have the precious little time left. I pray that you will do the same. Amen!
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“Time is Running Out.”
That phrase intruded into my thoughts yesterday as I lay awake early in the morning. I was thinking about the things to include in finishing the email I sent out yesterday. "Time is running out" the Lord told me. Time is running mout for me to write, for me to choose to obey, for me to witness freely.
"Hurry up," it seemed to say to me, hurry up and do everything you can
through My Spirit to wake people up!"
Then this early morning I was in a dream, going from place to place with my Bible, urging people to realize the Loud Cry was beginning. It was a very moving experience and I wept with joy in my dream as I realized the time was HERE. I'm not claiming a prophetic experience, I'm saying look at the signs, look at the news (briefly!), then keep your eyes on Jesus, because it is the ONLY way we will be ready in time!
Time; that blessing and curse. We still have TIME. Time to choose to obey, time to choose to forgive, time to love, time to give our testimony, time to accept the blood of the Lamb to cover us, time to choose to follow the commandments of God instead of the traditions of the world. Time. But time is running out.
What will happen when the time is finally gone? What will happen when we resist the calling of the Holy Spirit for the LAST time? When we refuse to obey for the LAST time? When we put our desires ahead of clear counsel for the LAST time? Then we will discover the curse of time! We will discover the feelings of hate, anger, envy, and every other evil emotion possible belong, not to the headlines, but to US. And there will be no more time to change.
We will discover that over TIME we were developing just exactly the character we have always wanted to have. The change that will seem overnight to those looking on, we will know that we have been choosing over a lifetime.
Loren and I have often discussed how the final events can possibly play out in a very short period of time. He asserts that people will need TIME to change from freedom loving, peaceful, rational humans into those willing to kill God's people. It is my assertion that this very process I've described, when culminating with the final refusal of the Holy Spirit, will leave people suddenly entirely in Satan's control and all decency will go out the window overnight.
TIME - TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Please do not linger any longer. You KNOW
what is right. You have the Bible and the writings of Ellen White. There is no excuse. No procrastination, no one's fanciful dreams, no false prophet in the desert, no alternative interpretation or belief will save us in the end.
There will be NO EXCUSE for rejecting the plain and clear truth from the Word of God and we will know it. But there will not be TIME to choose truth once the door is closed. As in Noah's day, the door will close and TIME will be no longer.
It is nearly time for our work to close. God will have a people that choose to let Christ live His victorious life in them. God will have a people willing to die rather than disobey Him. God will have a people that love Him enough to keep HIS commandments without excuse. All of them; even the fourth one, to keep the seventh day Sabbath holy.
If it were TIME for the Loud Cry to begin today, would you be ready? Do you
know the Three Angel's Messages? Go to Revelation 14. Pray for understanding
of them in your own life.
14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour
of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and
the sea, and the fountains of waters.
14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen,
that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath
of her fornication.
14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man
worship the beast and his image, and receive [his] mark in his forehead, or
in his hand,
14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured
out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be
tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in
the presence of the Lamb:.
14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and
they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and
whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Go to the White Estate at
http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm$vid=default and find what the Lord said through this prophet - read ALL of her books, plus the King James Version Bible is there - all for free. There will be no excuse to say "I didn't know." We can all know. If you are reading this on a computer, YOU CAN KNOW.
How far are we from the TIME when it will be more difficult than we can imagine to share our faith? We read in today's headlines that "Strict safeguards will ensure that the world's biggest biometric database will not abuse liberties, a senior US security official has said." This article about the
FBI's plan says that we can have iris scans and face photos taken from a distance and never know that we have been "targeted." There is only safety in the shelter of God; are you there?
HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE LEFT? It is not for us to know the time of our
Savior's return, but we CAN look for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES Jesus gave us in
Matthew 24 and take heed. We CAN know that "coming events cast their
shadows" and realize that TIME is running out.
What is worth the loss of eternal life? Is it money? Work? Children? Spouses?
(Ask Adam about that one.) Alcohol? Tobacco? Drugs? Food? Entertainment? Houses? Lands? Pride? Will we discover in TIME that these things of the world are cheap imitations of the fabulous eternal life GOD has prepared for us? I pray so!
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The time of trouble that is coming is not for spiritual wimps. Jeremiah 12:5 says it this way: "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?"
This
Christmas day the Pope is calling for peace. What does the Bible say about that? "For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace." (Jeremiah 8:11)
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace,
but a sword. (Matthew 10: 34) Allow the Sword of the Spirit to cut out the
sin in your life while there is still TIME. Love your families unconditionally while there is still TIME. Pray for the Lord to do "whatever it takes" while there is still TIME. Time is running out.
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I'm reading Jeremiah for my morning devotionals. Time was running out for
God's people in Judah and
Israel in Jeremiah's day. Jeremiah didn't speak
peace; neither can I. I'm going to leave you with the entire chapter of
1 Thessalonians 5; it speaks to the issue! "Of the times and the seasons,
brethren" you should have no need that I write to you; you KNOW THE TIME IS NEAR!
1. Thessalonians Chapter 5.
"But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
"But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as
a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
"Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.
For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
"Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. [And] be at peace among yourselves.
"Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the
feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all [men].
"See that none render evil for evil unto any [man]; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all [men].
"Rejoice evermore. "Pray without ceasing. "In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. "Quench not the Spirit. "Despise not prophesyings. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. "Abstain from all appearance of evil. "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. "Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it]. "Brethren, pray for us. "Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
"I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy
brethren. "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen."
I couldn't have said it better myself!
Love in Christ, Ethel.
