THE DAY DRAWS NEAR

By Rick Mathes

Three score and more than ten is a long time to live and see the future become the past. It was only yesterday we had a 4 inch screen on our first television and only 3 channels to watch whenever they had something to broadcast

Yes gasoline was only 27 cents a gallon an no there weren’t any Indians in my neighborhood. But I did live in the days when a neighbor would give you a spanking if you deserved it and your parents approved!

I can’t help but notice that we are living in a time we have lo st so many of our rights to live a Christian life and believe our Constitution to be on solid ground. All the branches of our government are corrupt to the core and our denominations have left the Gospel according to Jesus for strange fire, another gospel that I conclude was written with the flaming fingers of Lucifer.

Satan offered Jesus bread and Jesus refused to change the stone. The devil gives free entitlements to the poor he has caused to be dependent and he owns them. The devil tempted h to display miracles, Jesus refused and Satan has revivals from hell that dazzle everyone with false miracles and they throw money at him. The monarch of Hell offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world it Jesus would fall down and worship him. Jesus refused of course but it still left all the kingdoms in the hands of the council of Hell.

When I was in high school I wrote an essay that predicted that the author of the Rise and Fall of American was alive and collecting his notes. I think that prophecy is about to come true and for good reason.

We as a country have uprooted our Christian values and trashed the Constitution our godly founders labored so carefully over. They say “what goes around comes around.” Or as a famous preacher once said, “the chickens have come home to roost.”

Our condition is very dismal from a worldly point of view but don’t despair, our Rock of Salvation is on His way to bring prophesies of the Gospel to fruition. His will be done!

Only the Elect have a guarantee to survive the coming holocaust of God’s wrath. I have shouted from the rooftops these almost 40 years, “Repent, the Kingdom is near!” Have you listened? Have you responded? Think: killing God’s only Son with your sins is not a light matter. He is about to unleash the final retribution to those who denied His Son’s sacrifice on that bloody death stake. This is dead serious business for Him.

I can hear the hoof-beats, I can see the dust kicking up from the troops of Gabriel and Michael armed and ready for the final battle with Lucifer and his fallen angels. Unbelievers with receive the severest penalty because they are without excuse. They have heard the Word of God and gave Jesus the finger!