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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,
and thy house (family).  Acts 16:31

I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20


MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST is COMING!

Heavenly Father we ask your blessings on this Bible study, 
lead and guide each one here.  amen

Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him; 
and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him.
So shall it be! Amen. - Revelation 1:7

Both the old and the new testaments are filled with promises of 
His second coming - Christ is coming
There are 1,845 references to it in the old testament, and 
318 references in the new testament.





Some of you may have heard about mount Saint Helens volcano.
Experts knew well in advance that the mountain was going to blow.
Many people were evacuated and some left on their own accord,
but some stubbornly or in disbelief remained behind. these people
simplly did not take the mountain seriously. many lost their 
lives when it blew. for some it was too late.

In the scripures there is record of peoople who again and again
refused to heed God's warnings concerning coming judgment.
Lot's wife was one of them. Lots wife left with him but under
pressure, yearning for the city she had just left.  She looked
behind her and was instanly turned to a pillar of salt. 
Lot's wife did not take the Word of God seriously and it cost her
her life.  There are many people today who refuse to take God and
His Truth seriously. the warning has gone out with business as 
usual. 

Today the sign are more apparent then they have ever been.
Many believe in God but the just do not take him seriously.

As in the days of Noah ... they didn't LISTEN
UNTIL the FLOOD CAME ....
AND SWEPT THEM ALL AWAY

Peter warns us to beware, be alert, wake up, 
live right and BE PREPARED!


DON'T be LEFT BEHIND!



Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written
both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.
I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy
prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through 
your apostles. - 2 Peter 3:1-2

If a person is to know and understand the return of the Lord, 
his mind has to be aroused. our min cannot be lazy or wandering
about.  It has to be watchful, alert, focused, concentrated,
and actively engaged in two things:

 1.  The mind must remember the words spoken by the prophets.
They had much to say about the return of Chrsit to earth.
 2.  the mind must remember the commandmdents of the Lord that
have been preached and taught by the apostles.

Jesus Christ taught much about His return, and the apostles in
shared his teachings with their people. When Peter speaks of
pure minds here, he means out minds are to be clear, pure,
uncontaminated, focused and concentrated. There is always so
much false teaching about the end time that the mind must be
pure in order to sift the true teaching form the false.
Peter admonishes the believers to be on guard against spiritual
indifference and neglect. they had become spiritually dull.
The skeptics and scoffers had begun to get the best of the
belivers by dulling their senses. they and become careless in
spiritual matters and this effects their alertness. Satan will
make sure that there are always false doctrines and
distractions to dull the spiritual sense of the believer.
Nothing would please him more than to lull the believer to
sleep or cause them to hate each other

2 Peter 3:4 
They will say, Where is this coming he promised?  Ever since
our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the
beginning of creation.

He says scoffers (Mockers) will come in the last days
foolishly ridicule the thought of Christ's return.
Peter points out that things will continue as usual.
People would live as if there was no impending danger.
It is easy for the believer today to fall into this trap of
indifference. one of the greatest enemies of the church today
is business. Distractions tend to dull the senses and open
the dooor for error and make an inroad into the church.
 
1 Timothy 4:1 
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon
the faith and follow deceiving spirits taught by demons.
These pleasant, good sounding doctrines originate in hell.

1 Peter 5:8 
Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around
like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
The devil is devouring many in the church who have unwittingly
become prey to false teachings. It is not just the preachers
responsiblity to be a student of the Word. In the last days
people will scoff at the idea of Christ returning to earth,
Scoffers walk after their own lusts. They live like they want
do their own  thing. They want possessions and pleasures of this
world. They are unwilling to change their lives, so they reject
Jesus Christ and His return to earth in judgment.

In Noah and Peter's day the scoffed and continue to do so today.
There are those who call evil good and good evil.
Sounds like news the past 8 years
That is an accurate accurate description of our society today.
sad but true
Man has become perverted in his sense of values and morals.

Christians are under pressure like never before to hold the
standards of God high against a godless and secular society.
Any kind of moral stand seems to be outdated, not fashionable,
but narrow minded. There is no regard for God nor his Word.

 * *  LISTEN!  *  *

As in the days of Noah ... they didn't LISTEN
UNTIL the FLOOD CAME ....
AND SWEPT THEM ALL AWAY


GOD's NEWS



THIS IS THE JUDGMENT
that the Light has come into the world, 
and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, 
for their deeds were evil.  

GOD so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
Eternal LIFE. For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

He who believes in Him is not judged;
he who does not believe has been judged already, 
because he has not believed in the name of the only 
begotten Son of God.  John 3:16-19


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