If you turn on any number of religious programs, listen to podcasts, or read blogs concerning the state of our world, you will find a concerning thread running through them all. Upon observing events happening across the globe, more and more people have come to the conclusion that we are in the beginning of the “last days” of our planet prophesied in the Bible.

2 Timothy 3 references our times: “But understand this, there will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God – having a form of godliness but denying its power.”

Would you agree that this is what we are experiencing today?

In discussing the truth we learn from the Bible about the end of the world as we know it, I have always maintained that only God knows the day and hour when He will begin the last seven years of earth’s existence. Additionally, I can reference times in Scripture where God has relented calamity due to people’s repentance and return to doing things His way. I just found another example of that truth in Jeremiah when listening to a broadcast program online. A guest pastor taught about God’s promise from Jeremiah 18:1-10. Here’s what I read: “The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ‘Arise, and go down to ^qthe potter’s house, and there I will let you hear¹ my words.’  So I went down to ^rthe potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was ^sspoiled in the potter’s hand, and ^the reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. Then the word of the Lord came to me:  ‘O house of Israel, ^ucan I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. ^vBehold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will ^wpluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, ^xturns from its evil, ^yI will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will ^wbuild and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.'”

This gives me hope as I continue to pray for America to once again seek the Lord, ask for forgiveness for falling away from His teachings, and begin to seek Godly ways to live, lead, and govern. May we turn back before it’s too late, because the events of Revelation will take place. God is in control of the timing.

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Sue – God bless