Troublesome Times Are Here...

TROUBLESOME TIMES ARE HERE… LIVING IN DAYS OF UNCERTAINTY…

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

This is a several part lesson.

LET US STUDY THE IMMINENT RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR IN 8 AREAS OR CATEGORIES.

HOW LOW CAN WE GO… This lesson will look at #1 SIGNS OF DARKNESS/GOD HATERS.

1. SIGNS OF DARKNESS AND GOD HATERS… The Bible is considered HATE SPEECH.

2. SIGNS WITHIN THE CHURCH… 3. SIGNS IN WORLD POLITICS/ECONOMY

4. SIGNS IN SOCIETY 5. SIGNS IN TECHNOLOGY

6. SIGNS IN BIBLICAL PROPHECIES 7. SIGNS IN NATURE

8. SIGNS IN ISRAEL /JERUSALEM

We have been studying ‘HOW LOW WILL HUMANITY STOOP IN THE LAST DAYS. This study briefly addresses common problem areas for us to evaluate where we are in history.

THE WORSE OF THE WORSE… POOR CHOICES… REFUSING TO SEE THE CONSEQUENCES … BASER SORT, LOW, VULGAR… LEWD… LAZY… IDLE… CRUDE… OFFENSIVE…

Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Angry, mean and cruel people will release bad attitudes in the last days. Bully spirited people will round up a bunch of brawlers off the streets and soon will grow into ugly mobs terrorizing people. GANG MEMBERS control whole neighborhoods. Groups become troublemakers disrespecting the law.

HOW LOW CAN THE USA STOOP? THE VERDICT IS PRETTY CLEAR. THE JUDGMENT IS CLEAR… THE WORLD LOVES DARKNESS…

Why do people love darkness rather than light? --- THEIR DEEDS, MOTIVES AND ATTITUDES ARE EVIL. If people would stay in the light they would be convicted and reproved.

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

THERE ARE TWO ARABIC WORDS WE NEED TO CONSIDER:

1. *ZENITH: to go higher, to reach above, the highest point, to reach the top, the head, to crown.

2. *NADIR: (NAY-deer) the point of greatest adversity, low despair, the time of greatest depression, the lowest point, to hit rock bottom, nothing, zero, low ebb, low tide,

TROUBLESOME TIMES… R.E. Winsett (1942)

Troublesome times are here, filling men’s hearts with fear. Freedom we all hold dear, now is at stake.

Humbling your hearts to God safe from the chastening rod. Seek the way pilgrims trod, Christians awake.

Jesus is coming soon, morning or night or noon. Many will meet their doom, trumpets will sound.

All the dead will rise, righteous meet in the skies, Going where no one dies, heavenward bound.

Troubles will soon be o’er, happy forever more. When we meet on that shore, free from all care.

Rising up in the sky, telling this world goodbye. Homeward we then will fly, glory to share….

NADIR: THE BREATH YOU BREATHE IS A GIFT OF GOD… WHAT YOU DO WITH IT CAN BE A GIFT BACK TO GOD…

HOW LOW CAN THE WORLD AND SIN GO?

Seems we live in a day that our spiritual enemy is running wild. Seems people’s imaginations are set against the Bible and God. The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that the greatest minds of the world cannot figure out a cure.

NADIR: SIGNS OF EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL STRESS…

Fatigue. Feeling of hopelessness or helplessness? NO ENERGY? Eating? Sleeping too much or too little? ISOLATION—SEPERATION? Worry and fear?

NADIR: MOOD CHANGING DRUG AND ALCOHOL, PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE. ADDICTION IS NOT A WEAKNESS IT IS A DISEASE… DRUGS CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, YOUR MOODS AND YOUR EMOTIONS.

Drug abuse contributes to offenses and breaking the law and the system overload we face. Drugs have a direct correlation to crime. Bad drug deals.

There is a surge in death rates from drug overdoses and alcoholism…This is called: DEATHS OF DESPAIR. Stimulants, depressants (alcohol), opium painkillers (heroin), hallucinogens (LSD), Inhalants, cannabis --- MARIJUANA (gate way drug), crack, amphetamines, methamphetamines, suboxone,

PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE… Prescription opioid can be very addictive and dangerous.

All these drugs have side effects, headaches, diarrhea, constipation, nausea and I don’t care attitude.

We see with usage… withdrawal, and craving that the experience of pleasure becomes the norm. How can abusers break the cycle?

NADIR: CHILD ABUSE:

There are estimations that 1 in 7 children in the USA has been abused or neglected. Neglect is the most common form. Physical abuse. Mental abuse. Psychological and sexual abuse. Children under one are often the most abused. 76% of abuse is by the parent or the parent’s boyfriend or girlfriend.

ABUSED CHILDREN HAVE A 13% GREATER CHANCE OF DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL AND ENGAGING IN HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR.

NADIR: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: (an attack on educational institution)

18 school shootings with deaths or injuries. 34 people killed or injured… 5 people killed, 4 students, 1 school employee, 29 injured.