What Is Going On In The Church? The Second Coming Of Jesus!

WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE CHURCH? LAST DAYS!

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (This is a several part lesson. Use wisdom)

LAST DAYS, THAT DAY, THE DAY OF OUR LORD, CLOSING OF TIME… IF I GO, I WILL COME AGAIN…

JESUS PROMISED THE CHURCH AS HE WAS PREPARING TO LEAVE: I WILL COME AGAIN..

John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

DOES THE CHURCH REALLY RECOGNIZE THE OCCURRENCES AND EVENTS OF THE SIGNS OF THE TIME? ETERNITY?

REDEMPTION DRAWS NIGH. (Gordon Jenson, 1970)

Years of time have come and gone since I first heard it told. How Jesus would come again.

If it back then it seems so real, then I just can’t help but feel. How much closer his coming is today.

Signs of the times are everywhere. There’s a brand new feeling in the air.

Keep your eyes upon the eastern sky, Lift up your heads, redemption draws nigh.

Wars and strife on every hand and violence fills our land, still some people doubt he’ll come again.

But the word of God is true, He’ll redeem his chosen few.

DON’T LOSE HOPE, SOON CHRIST JESUS WILL DESCEND

REDEMPTION DRAWS NIGH… SIGNS OF THE TIME ARE EVERY WHERE, THERE’S A BRAND NEW FEELING IN THE AIR…

IN THE CHURCH: THERE IS A DANGER IN WAITING AND WATCHING FOR THE LORD TO COME… WILL WE WATCH AS PASSIVE SPECTATORS… ARM CHAIR QUARTERBACKS? OR WILL WE BE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING AND PREPARING?

Acts 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Why stand here gazing? There is a work to do… pray for laborers in the harvest.

WE NEED TO SPUR ONE ANOTHER TO FAITHFULNESS. BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST… THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR: THERE WILL BE A GREAT FALLING AWAY…

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 Thessalonians 2:3 (MSG) Don't fall for any line like that. Before that day comes, a couple of things have to happen. First, the Apostasy. Second, the debut of the Anarchist, a real dog of Satan.

THERE IS A BIG DAY COMING… WILL OUR FAITH DEMAND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION?

Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

SEEMS IN OUR MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL ATTITUDES WE CAN SEE TRIVIAL PURSUIT, TEMPORAL IN NATURE AND REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ETERNAL MATTERS.

Matthew 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

FEW PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL TO GOD’S HOLY PLAN. FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS ISRAEL WAS SCATTERED AND DISPERSED AMONG THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD… TO THIS DAY THERE ARE MORE JEWS IN NEW YORK THAN ISRAEL… WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NATION OF ISRAEL? THE NATION HAS BEEN DESTROYED…

THERE ARE SOME SPIRITUAL SIGNS OF THE CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE EAST… THE BIBLE TEACHES THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST WILL CENTER AROUND THE SMALL NATION OF ISRAEL…

Jeremiah 16:15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

CHURCH BE READY. WHAT SEEMED WORTHLESS AND DESERTED… TODAY ISRAEL HAS SOME OF THE BEST AGRICULTURAL LAND AND TECHNOLOGY HAS BROUGHT FORTH BEAUTIFUL PLANTS, TREES AND CROPS…

Isaiah 27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.