The world matches the Word.  Loving this life and hoping that everything will remain copacetic is a dynamic for conflict with the Kingdom.  For things are not remaining constant, ceteris paribus is not the motto of our current era.  Russia for the first time is teaming up with the likes of Iran in pursuit of pacification and domination of the Middle East.  A scenario architecturally detailed in Ezekiel 38 and 39.  Turkey seeks return to the empirical stature of Ottoman history.  North Africa is wrought with Muslim passion for conquest, while Syria struggles to pacify the forces of tyrannical resistance.  Increasingly powerful storms strike weekly, earthquakes increase exponentially and local wars rage. The global economy is in disarray, carbon emissions are poisoning the oceans and the sky while violent pursuits and bloody octagon battles have become our children’s entertainment, passion and pursuit.  What about any of this belies an underlying current of prevailing peace?

People have decided that collective “spirituality” is the route to world salvation and that somehow unproven evolution will take us to the desired golden age of prosperity hitherto unavailable.  Our leaders are disingenuous talkers, our children are angry, disenfranchised and manic, our finances are uncertain, population levels threaten the sustainability of available resources and uncontrollable diseases continue to change the face of third world nations.

Who in their right mind would seek to maintain this current scenario?  What judge would come to this type of conclusion based upon the litany of current, global evidence toward the contrary?  This world is winding down, as the Bible foretold and yet even Christians fail to heed the consistent warnings of repentance, preparation, witness and right-living.  The Bible is the truth.  The lie and delusion is that somehow the sinking ship called “humanity” will suddenly right itself.  That somehow, men who have lied, stolen, raped, killed and dominated the weak throughout history will suddenly see their own wickedness and turn from their perilous path.  This vessel is going down, the rats have left and all that remains are godless victims left with a hope that they do not comprehend, ill equipped, ill advised and infected with the sin which punctured the ship at the outset of our dilemma.  When rapture occurs there will be no church-voice remaining calling the world to rationality.  The world will crave its true master and will be ripe for the entrance of the son of perdition, echoing their mantra of false peace, false hope, false love and dishonest salvation.  But that’s okay, he must first come before Christ may return to set the world straight.

The world’s coming hope is Christ the King.  He will give a new ship named appropriately, Righteousness.  Give a new relationship driven by Love, care and kindness and honesty.  And then in the end when all illness had been eradicated He will give a new home called New Jerusalem where we will reside with Him in peace throughout eternity.  Ah, the thoughts of breathing air without sin, pollution and worry.  Put your faith in Jesus, the only Salvation, the only Hope, the Rock of Ages.  The Messiah, the ruler of all God’s creation, the Light, the Truth, the Lion and the Lamb.  Thank you King Jesus.