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"What I fail to realise is this: I am in absolute no position to determine my future. If I had, I would be living in my own dream world. It always seems as if a better future is ahead after all the present hardships and we work towards that future. The sad fact is: there is no better future in this world. No matter how hard we seek this better future on this earth, we will fail.
Looking at the situation around the world today; the milk sandal, the economic crisis, all the riots, bombings and natural disasters, one would be blind not to see that this world is a hopeless, fallen world and that we are hopeless, fallen men living in it.
We fallable humans have tried to savage situations, to maintain unity and to create a better tomorrow in this world. But how many times do we see the deja vu of past mistakes? This corrupted world from the history we learnt has never been truly peaceful for once. Instead, we learn of countless horrors from World War Two, natural disasters that take lives, nation going against nation, people against people. These are not just things that happen in movies. They are absolute real. In no way is history useful unless we see the sad reality that this world is corrupted."
I don't know why I typed it, but I simply told him that that's because the Lord is coming back very soon. There are many signs that are indicating this, like the Pope's death, countless deaths caused by natural forces or by us wicked humans. (Not exactly the way I told him though.) He told me jokingly that I was very religious and that great minds think alike.Puzzled, I asked him where he'd got that short passage from. He gave me this link, notibutchrist.wordpress.com/, stating also that he found it out of boredom. This guy is a christian, quite a sincere one, with every article talking about his walk with Christ, testimony and sorts. He is a very good writer too - great command of the English language. No signs of being a Charismatic one yet though, just hope that he's attending a good church. A bit of advertisement here, but seriously, it's worth the effort of the finger muscles clicking on the link.
Whether people believe the real cause behind all these, it's not really our problem, so long as we sincerely tell others the truth. Yea and Amen, for more and more of what Jesus had predicted cometh, tide after tide.
There's simply too much to share, but i'd would just like to state a few:
2 Timothy 3:1-5,7 "But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god; holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
Surely this are the verses that explains what's written in the copied and paste section! Man are just fighting man, just like what Rev Quek preached on Sunday, for promotions, bonuses, money, fame, pride, and many other things their wicked hearts know. When their colleagues fail to get extra bonus or promotion, they smile, but when they recieve it, their faces are as long as cucumbers.
Over the last century, the most massive wars have taken place, like WW1 & WW2, the Cold War, Gulf War. Israel itself has already suffered more than enough bloodshed. This period of time has been the most cruelsome for the history of mankind - man vs. man, killing each other with knives, guns, explosives, bombs and other deadly. This verse - Matthew 24:7 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquake."- describes the situation perfectly. Terrorist attacks - have we not grown tired of these? It's been so common ever since the 911 incident. One point of time I was reading about the Russian school raid. I was quite freaked out, as I thought what if it was happening in SG? "And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end." Matthew 24:6
Tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, extinct volcanoes erupting all of a sudden. All these are happening more and more frequently these days. The 2004 Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, Myanmar Cyclone, the melting icecaps, rising atmospheric temperature, and many others that I'm too ignorant to find out about. Have we had enough? Even the small little red dot is not save! In fact, no one can be! No one can stop natural disasters from happening, unlike man-made ones, except for one. The almighty creator.
As the prophecy foretold by Jesus himself unfolds itself one by one, it's like we just flow with the current and ignore what this horrid society is doing to us. We just want a living, earn big bucks, enjoy live. What they don't realise is how the world is evolving, day by day. One day you may have loads of cash, the next moment you have none. Some people have plunged back into the past and realised this changing world. I'm sure many they'd have realised how much toxic lies within the lies that has been created time after time, so much so that it has become like a deja vu. Hopefully this realisation will help them come to know about Christ.