THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS.
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes) (Several part series)
Years ago in early ministry, I did a series on the second coming of our Lord. Two ladies came to me and ask me to quit teaching this as it was scaring people. In my ignorance I quit the series. I will go to my grave regretting that.
If I were overseas in the army and I wrote my wife and said: I will be home in a month. She writes back: NO! That would signal me one of two things. #1 she didn’t love me in the first place or she had been unfaithful to me while she was gone.
Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Revelation 22:20 (MSG) He who testifies to all these things says it again: "I'm on my way! I'll be there soon!" Yes! Come, Master Jesus! 21 The grace of the Master Jesus be with all of you. Oh, Yes!
WISH WE WERE ALL READY? THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS OR BIRTH PAINS.THERE COMES A COLLAPSE AND CRISIS IN BOTH THE NATURAL, SPIRITUAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. The second coming of Jesus should excite us.
Heart disease is the #1 cause of death. 695,547 deaths a year are attributed to leading cause of death. Seems there is a link to heart disease to obese, overweight people.
Matthew 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
ONE OF THE MAIN ISSUES WITHIN THE CHURCH WILL BE A SPIRIT OF BEING OFFENDED. (NOT THE WORLD, THE CHURCH)
**Offended: CAUSE TO FEEL UPSET, ANNOYED OR RESENTFUL, DISPLEASING. How many discuss hurt from within?
Matthew 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
FEAR AND WORRY WILL DOMINANT TO THE POINT THAT HEART FAILURE DOMINATES.
Luke 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Heart disease is the #1 cause of death. 695,547 deaths a year are attributed to leading cause of death. Seems there is a link to heart disease to obese, overweight people and worry?
SCOFFER, DISBELIEF, SCORNFUL, MOCK, RIDICULE, TO DISMISS.
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
DIFFICULT TIMES ARE AHEAD. HARD, PERILOUS, FULL OF DANGER OR RISK. HARD TIMES ARE COMMON. WE MUST DEVELOP COPING SKILLS.
2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 Timothy 3:1 (NLT2) You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. Emotional, mental and spiritual problems. Financial setbacks, health issues, employment, relationships, lack of controlling situations, anger, family stress.
AN INCREASE IN FALSE TEACHING THAT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH BIBLICAL STANDARDS.
Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
FALSE TEACHING, FALSE DOCTRINE THAT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH GOD’S WORDS.
Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
HAVE YOU HEARD: WARS , STRIFE AND VIOLENCE FILL OUR LAND.
Matthew 24: 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
THE WORLD IS AT WAR. RIGHT NOW THERE ARE 56 ACTIVE WARS. 183 REGIONAL CONFLICTS. 235,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A WAR IN 2024. TERRITORIAL DISPUTES, POLITICS, FUNDING.
IF THERE WAS BLACK OR CHINESE PREJUDICE THERE WOULD BE AN OUTCRY. BUT ANTISEMITISM HOSTILITY OR PREJUDICE AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE IS ACCEPTABLE.
MAY 14, 1948 ISRAEL DECLARED INDEPENDENCE. THERE IS AN ANTISEMITISM SPIRIT OF PURE HATRED AND LATER PERSECUTION DESIRING TO KILL ALL JEWS AND ISRAEL. 2,500 years ago Ezekiel saw nations gathering against Israel.
Ezekiel 38 predicts 1948. God foretold in the later days there will be a major attack against Israel.
Ezekiel 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
Gog and (Caspian and Black Sea) Magog (Russia, Soviet Union.) Mashech (Turkey), Persia (Iran) Ethiopia (Egypt) Gomer ( parts of Turkey, Lybia, Sudan
1917 THE BALFOUR DECLARATION ENGLAND SUPPORTED THE RIGHT OF ISRAEL TO EXIST. ZIONISM GREW. THE TIDE OF WORLD WIDE OPINION TURNED ENGLAND TO BACK AWAY . ENGLAND WENT INTO DECLINE. IN MAY OF 1939 THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT CHANGED ITS STAND TO A LIMITED RIGHT FOR ISRAEL. BRITIAN FOUND THE CRY TO SUPPORT ARABS GREATER THAN ISRAEL.
IN 2024 THE UNITED NATIONS RECOGNIZES ISRAEL AS A SOVEREIGN NATION. 164 NATIONS AGREE. BUT THERE WERE 192 NATIONS. 28 NATIONS REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO EXIST. 28 NATIONS WILL NEVER RECOGNIZE ISRAEL AND CHALLENGE HER RIGHT TO EXIST.
THE USA HAS BEEN A STRONG SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL AND AN ALLY IN ECONOMIC AND SUPPORT. THE USA HAS PROVIDED STRONG SUPPORT. THE MOSLEM AND ARAB STATES HAVE INFILTRATED COLLEGE CAMPUS AND THE TIDE IS TURNING ANTISEMITIC.
Muslim forces overthrew the Shah of Iran and the radical forces now have the goal to annihilate Israel. Sudan has gone radical muslem today they hate Israel and plan on pushing Israel into the sea. Libya (north Africa is radical Muslim they hate the USA, Israel and are anti- west.
Gomer is now central Turkey. Togarmah to north is control by radical Moslem leaders.
Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
INCREASE OF FAMINES: WITH THE SHORTAGES OF FOOD, MEDICINE, ETC --- IMMUNE SYSTEMS WILL FAIL AND DISEASE WILL GROW RAMPANT.
FAMINES extreme scarcity of things, spiritual, people refuse to listen.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
DISEASE WILL BE RAMPANT. PLAGUES, contagious disease, fever, continual trouble, DEADLY DISASTERS, Pestilences fatal epidemic, hard to cure or stop. (AIDS, COVID, BUBONIC PLAGUE.
REPORTED AND UNREPORTED FAMILY VIOLENCE HAVE INCREASED. MURDER WITHIN FAMILIES HAVE INCREASED.
2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Matthew 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Luke 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
2.1 million Incidents of family violence over a period of time. 33% of violent crimes deal with family issues. 50% of the offenders in state prisoners for family violence committed murder. 9% of family murders were the spouse. 6% of murders were parents killing sons/daughters. 7% were committed by other family members. 58% of murders within families were female. Children under 13 were 23%. The average age of family murders were children under 7.
PERSECUTION AND MARTYRDOM OF BELIEVERS. THE DIVINE PLAN OPENS INTO WHAT THE PROPHETS PREDICTED.
If you went to trial would there be enough evidence to convict you?
Luke 21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
Matthew 24: 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
DO NOT RUN TO PLACES SEEK CHRIST’S PRESENCE AND FOLLOWING SIGNS.
Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Luke 17:23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
A.I., ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE ANTI-CHRIST AND BEAST WILL USE A.I.
Self-driving cars. Massive artificial intelligence. Many thing at happening behind the scene.
CRYPTOCURRENCY, BITCOIN, ETHERCUM, DOGECOIN, SOLANA REPLACING THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM WE KNOW. CRPTO MEANS TO HIDDEN/SECRET.
WORRY AND ANXIETY INCREASES.
Luke 21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
THERE WILL GROW AN INCREASE IN NATURAL DISASTERS. 2025 THE USA HAS EXPERIENCE A RECORD BREAKING FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS WITH OVER 3,040 FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS. There is a lesson in rising global temperatures. Tornadoes, hail, wind, thunderstorms and flash flooding. Some have called them 100 year storms, a few have been called 1,000 storm.
EARTHQUAKES, TSUNAMI… JESUS WARNS THAT EARTHQUAKES WOULD INCREASE BOTH IN FREQUENCY AND INTENSITY AS WE HEAD TOWARD THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST.
Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
EARTHQUAKES OVER 6 ON THE RECTOR SCALE ARE CONSIDERED MAJOR. MYANMAR (7.7) HAD OVER 5,881 FATALITIES. EARTHQUAKES SEEM TERRITORIAL. Alaska has the most, California, Oklahoma. Earthquakes cause tsunami and aftershocks. 7.3 rector scale in Alaska. This year 126 killed Tibet. Over 1,000 died this year in earthquake largest in 100 years. This year: Myanmar, Alaska, Guatemala, Indonesia, New Zealand, Redding, California; Peru, Colombia, Chile, Turkey, Greece, new Guinea, China, Greenback, Tennessee, Virgin Island, , New Mexico, Argentina, Utah, Ecuador, Texas, Maine, Virginia, just to name a few in 2925. On the average worldwide of magnitude of 7.0 is about 15. It is estimated that are 500,000 earthquakes a year, with 100 doing damage.
STORMS RAGING HIGH.
Tornadoes more often in the USA. Europe records about 300 a year. The USA averages over 1,500. Michigan record more this year than 2024.
A SPIRITUAL FALLING AWAY, QUITTERS.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
A MAJOR FACTOR FACING THE WORLD IS ABORTION. 63% SUPPORT ABORTION. 36% ARE AGAINST. LATE TERM ABORTION HAS GROWN MORE ACCEPTABLE.
62% OF American support ABORTIONS in some form. 36% say abortions should have limits. There are almost 2,000 abortion centers in the USA. Abortions are provided in hospitals, doctor’s offices, clinics and abortion clinics. Now there are abortion pills the allow abortion in homes. Florida has the most abortions, New York City is #2, Washington DC (3rd), Illinois is rated high in abortions. Missouri has the lowest abortion rate. 13,384 DIE A YEARS FROM DRUNK DRIVERS.
There are more than 2,000 suicides committed a day.
There is around 720,000 suicides a year.
70% OF DRUG OVERDOSE FENTANYL 73,000 A YEAR.
There are 22,830 murders/homicides a year. Washington, DC has the highest murder rate per capata. Louisiana and Mississippi are 2 and 3.
There are 463,634 victims of sexual assault, average 1,000 a day.(Every 73 seconds) , average 1,000 a day.(Every 73 seconds) 1 in 5 women will experience some sexual attempt in their life tie.
OVERDOSES OF DRUG OVERDOSE NEAR 200,000. OPIOIDS FACTOR IN 7 OT OF 10 DEATHS FROM DRUGS.
Drug treatment for substance abuse is more than 820 billion a year.
Tobacco kills more than AIDS, ALCOHOL, CAR ACCIDENTS ILLEGAL DRUGS, MURDERS, SUICIDES COMBINED. Smoking is the #1 preventable cause of death in the USA. 1,300 people die a day from tobacco usage. That is 8, 000,000,000 a year. The rate of abortions will affect the tax base and social security support.
THERE IS AN UNDERMINING OF AUTHORITY IN THE HOME AND THE SOCIETY.
Felonious attacks on law enforcement. Officers are vulnerable to life threatening attacks. Law enforcement officers must be vigilant. Latest information of 2023 records 308 shooting incidents, 378 officers shot, 332 survived, 46 killed. 15 ambush style attacks. There is a call to DEFUNDED POLICE FORCES AND TRANSFER THE MONEY TO THE COMMUNITY. More than 20 major cities have reduced the police budgets. The demand of jobs not jails, care not cops, books not bars. Low morale 521 cities have disbanded police force
GIVEN IN MARRIAGE?
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Divorce people are not second rate people but let’s be honest, divorce is usually a dating problem.
672,502 divorces a year. Today in our society 40% to 50% marriages end in divorce. 80% of 2nd 3 r marriage. Single parent homes: 40% of children live in a divorced home. Kids from divorced parents on the average exhibit more behavior and emotional crimes. They tend to be in criminal and drug abuse. Many children live in two homes with step-parents.
More than $12 billion dollars are spent on mind altering drugs.
MARIJUANA has many side effects short term and long term. It is becoming legal in main states.
The effects range from dizziness altered senses, impaired memory, anxiety.
IN GENERAL: DEATH BECOMES A PROBLEM. BE HONEST 13,384 DIE A YEARS FROM DRUNK DRIVERS.
There are more than 2,000 suicides committed a day.
There is around 720,000 suicides a year.
70% OF DRUG OVERDOSE IS FENTANYL, 73,000 DEATHS A YEAR.
There are 22,830 murders/homicides a year. Washington, DC has the highest murder rate per capata. Louisiana and Mississippi are 2 and 3.
There are 463,634 victims of sexual assault, average 1,000 a day.(Every 73 seconds) , average 1,000 a day.(Every 73 seconds) 1 in 5 women will experience some sexual attempt in their life tie.
OVERDOSES OF DRUG OVERDOSE NEAR 200,000. OPIOIDS FACTOR IN 7 OT OF 10 DEATHS FROM DRUGS.
Drug treatment for substance abuse is more than 820 billion a year.
Tobacco kills more than AIDS, ALCOHOL, CAR ACCIDENTS ILLEGAL DRUGS, MURDERS, SUICIDES COMBINED. Smoking is the #1 preventable cause of death in the USA. 1,300 people die a day from tobacco usage. That is 8, 000,000,000 a year.
CONCLUSION: ARE WE READY? DO WE HAVE OIL IN OUR LAMPS?
2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
(Several part series)
