END OF WORLD CELEBRATIONS? LEAP FOR JOY or weeping and gnashing of teeth?
Every
year that passes by on this earth, there are celebrations around the world.
These celebrations come with spectacular fireworks over major cities that are
intended to awe struck the viewers. There is a sense of elation and joy
when the count down clock starts towards midnight, and the fireworks begin, and
just when one believes it is over, there is a thunderous chain of fireworks to
bring the celebrations to a resounding end with shouts of joy and clapping by
the viewers.
Surely,
there is nothing wrong in celebrating the passing of the old year and welcoming
the new year.
However,
the year is coming, and it is soon coming when it will be the last new years
celebrations, and we must all ask ourselves whether we are prepared for the End
of Time celebrations at the End of the world?
This
question may be puzzling or even perplexing to many people but, to us believers
and followers of Jesus Christ it is not a question that we take lightly because
our Lord, Savior and King Jesus foretold saying: “Verily I say unto you, There
be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of
man coming in his kingdom” (Matthew 16:28).
“The
Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all
should [COME TO REPENTANCE]” (2 Peter 3:9).
As believers
and followers of Jesus Christ we pray and live in hope and faith for our redemption
is coming on that day because Jesus says: “[REJOICE YE IN THAT DAY, AND LEAP
FOR JOY]: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner
did their fathers unto the prophets” (Luke 6:23).
On
the other hand, on that day, Jesus expressed of those who reject him saying: “There
shall be [WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH], when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac,
and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and you yourselves
thrust out” (Luke 13:28). “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer
darkness: there shall be [WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH]” (Matthew 25:30).
For
those among us who are not prepared for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ at
end of the world on the Last Day, be wise and come to knowledge of the truth
because the ONLY fireworks on that day will be fire and brimstone coming down
from heaven that will bring the habitation of life on this earth to an END
(Revelation 20:13-15)!
“Alas
for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the
Almighty shall it come” (Joel 1:15).
“Nevertheless
we, according to [HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH], wherein
dwelleth righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13).
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