Now For The Good News

Mat 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

These days of war will be stopped by the return of Jesus Christ. He will put an end to the mighty armies that come against Him. Zec 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zec 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Satan will be taken captive and locked away. Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

Christ shall rule: Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Under Christ's rule mankind will experience true peace,(not just the absence of war) prosperity, and health. It will be a joyous time.Jer 31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Jer 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Jer 31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

This is only the beginning.

Coming - The End Of War

Our society exerts many forms of pressure to keep us in line. Peer pressure in one of the strongest. It forces us to conform and chastises us when we don't. Another is economic, it pressures us to live within the confines of the money or credit available to us. I am painfully aware that this economic system of ours is the taskmaster of our enslavement. There is no true freedom in our present world system. It presses down heavily on people crushing them under it's weight. Our chains of bondage are built with links of fear. We don't do because we are afraid to and we do because we are afraid not to. We are puppets with invisible strings which gives us the illusion that we are free. We are aided in this by our education, religion and entertainment systems. We are blinded to any alternative and there is only two ways out. One is death and the other is by an act of our Creator when He calls us to take part in the preparation for the new way of life that is coming. One that is going to replace six thousand years of systems created by man under the influence of Satan, the god of this world who has blinded men's minds. 2Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ

The way of life that man has established is filled with pain and suffering. War and disease kills and maim's us. We must fight for what we want or to keep what we have. Oh, it's not always called war. It is most often call competition. We are forced to compete for almost everything. We compete for the affection of those we are attracted to. We compete for jobs and promotions. We even have to compete to get the education we need to compete. We are told that competition is a trait of a free society. Competition is a form of war. A war to acquire or achieve what we want. In this war we are led around by our lustful and greedy desires like a carrot on a stick drives a donkey forward. Because we lack any alternative we believe that this is good and that it is true freedom. It is not the freedom that Jesus spoke of when he said that "you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free".

Happily the days are coming when a new system will govern this world. Isa 2:4 And he shall judge between the nations, and shall reprove many peoples: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.