1 Corinthians 9:24-25 “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”

It has been said, ‘none of us will get out of this life alive,’ and barring the rapture, this is certainly true! For ever since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, and contrary to what that satanic serpent told Eve, all who have ever lived from Adam on down the timeline have died! Everything we see, think, hear, speak, or do in this life is only temporary! All that we have owned or will ever own, no matter how many years it has been on this earth, is really just a short span of time in the grand scheme of things. Our lives here are basically just a ‘blip on the radar screen’ in proportion to eternity! Interestingly enough, during our brief tenure while here on this earth, we are given the supreme yet arduous task and opportunity to carve out what our eternity (whether in Heaven or Hell) will ultimately be like!

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Where do you go when you die? | GotQuestions.org

In this rat race called life, everyone is running to and fro, here and there, literally everywhere, striving to make a name for themselves and/or to ‘live their best lives now,’ so to speak. Even if one is successful and has obtained houses, cars, health, wealth, notoriety, and is living their best life now, what is that in comparison to your soul and where you will spend all of eternity?

After all, this body that we are in is just a shell, a tent, a type of interim or makeshift, if you will, which only currently houses our true self, which is our soul that has not yet been clothed with our glorious and eternal body! Our inner spiritual man and self are far more important than our outer shell and physical self in the here and now. This is all relationally speaking to what should be of the utmost importance, to what truly matters, and to where our focus in this life ought to be!

1 Corinthians 15:50-58 “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

“So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

What is a spiritual body? | GotQuestions.org

Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

Unfortunately, some do not want to focus on what truly matters, spiritually speaking. Their flesh is way more appealing to them at this point and time. They don’t want to be on the difficult and narrow path; they don’t want to run the race that we are in.

Sadly, the unsaved who are in their fleshly state cannot comprehend the spiritual things of God. Therefore, they will not be able to hear, see, or understand what God’s Word has to say to them without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. They will tend to do what they want to do (which is the satanic doctrine of ‘do as thou wilt’) and incline to the things of that type of mindset. Whatever feels good to them, they will do; whatever seems right to them, they will perform; whatever they can see right in front of them in this fleshly realm will be only what they can perceive. Those who are lost woefully lack wisdom, discernment, and the faith to believe. (For the fear (reverence) of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.)

Revelation 22:10-12 “And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”

When Jesus returns, the unrighteous will continue being such, and the righteous will carry on their same way. The fate of both sides will then be set, and Jesus will reward them and us all accordingly! Oh, may we be of the ones who are on the righteous side when He returns! May we be found running our race, striving in our lane that has been set out before us, and continue onward because we know it will all not be in vain! May we be accounted worthy to escape all these things (the time of the Great Tribulation) that are to come!

How can I be saved? | GotQuestions.org

For those who are on the other end of the spectrum, today would be a good day to turn things around for yourself! Now is the perfect time for redemption, for today is the day of salvation; tomorrow is not promised to any of us! Today, harden not your hearts so you can hear God’s message because the age of grace (Church Age) is clearly, undeniably, and quickly coming to a close! No matter what, our time is always running out on this earth!

Hebrews 12:1-2 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Oftentimes, adversity in one’s life will either spur one closer to God or cause one to turn away from Him. For the true believer, experiencing such tragedy can be a ‘grand opening’ into diving further into the things of God and deciding to start truly living for Him in ways that we never really had before. In a roundabout way, to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, we will realize that what God had allowed to happen to us in our lives was ultimately a ‘blessing in disguise’! For we know that He works all things together for the good of those who love Him!

Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

Therefore, out of all of the things we tend to pursue and look to in this life (careers, fame, fortune, things, houses, relationships, and the list can go on indefinitely), what is the very best thing after the fullness of time that we could have strived after? The one thing that doesn’t fade away, that moth nor rust can erode, that isn’t temporal, that isn’t of a corruptible crown, and that will not eventually burn up in the end. What is the one thing that will reap incalculable rewards beyond all that we can ask, see, hear, or think?

1 Corinthians 2:9 “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, Neither have entered into the heart of man, The things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”

That thing is something that pertains to God, which is in the saving of our souls! Once we are His, we have the privilege to participate in the service of the Lord to further His Kingdom, which is in the winning of more souls to join our real family in Heaven! An unspeakable joy of the Lord and of His glory that will compass us about which no man can take away! For like the Apostle Paul said, we should run our race in such a way as to obtain the prize of an ‘incorruptible crown’ for our Lord and for His Kingdom!

What could be more important in this delicate, fragile, fleeting, and temporal life than that…. I say, absolutely nothing! After all, running our race for the Lord is the only race that truly matters, and that’s a fact no matter which end of the spectrum one may be on!

Philippians 3:13-14 “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

Until next time… Maranatha!

Sincerely & In Christ,

Candy Austin

(I have no Accolades….
I am just a Nobody,
Trying to tell Everybody,
All about Somebody,
Who can save Anybody!)

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My Mission is to be ‘Salt and Light’ to a Lost and Dying world.
To be an Ambassador for Jesus Christ.
All for Him and His Glory!

(There is a special message at the end of this article for those who might happen to read this and do not have Jesus in their life and are looking for peace and a way to better understand the present-day insanity and confusion.)

There is a type of chart that is used to illustrate the relationship between time and events.

Called an Exponential Curve, it illustrates this relationship both graphically and numerically and is presented in chart form for easy comparison.

As events progress, they also increase in frequency as they approach the end of the timeline illustrated on the chart.

A quick search on the web will give numerous examples of how this looks, and you will notice that the rate of acceleration rapidly increases to near vertical as the end of the timeline approaches.

Using this example, I believe that the acceleration of current events and the increasing visibility of the conditions that will exist at the time of the final fulfillment of Bible prophecy are at the point where they match the location on the chart where the curve goes nearly vertical.

For the sake of this discussion, we will view the event line as two different but related lines (or topics), instead of one, that are merging as the timeline advances.

The convergence of these two different conditions is also accelerating in their merging together, as well as accelerating in their relationship to the timeline.

Picture in your mind’s eye a set of railroad tracks that convey the illusion that they are converging in the distance, as they appear to be when you are observing them when standing in the center. Hopefully, this will present a picture of the point I am trying to make.

In this case, the convergence of the two different conditions is not an illusion. Unlike the railroad tracks, these end-time events will converge and, I believe, are doing so at an undeniably accelerated pace.

I believe the merging of these events would be more accurately described as a collision.

The two converging conditions I am referring to are:

• The current state of the unbelieving, God-rejecting world and the consequences it will bring about.
• Bible prophecy, particularly, but certainly not limited to the events described in the Book of Revelation beginning in Chapter 4:1 and beyond.

The current state of the God-rejecting world:

The current state of the world bears a remarkable resemblance to the book of Daniel, one of the most prophetic books of the Old Testament. Most significant is the world conditions that must exist for the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks of Years to be completed (Daniel 9:24-27).

This prophecy describes the division of 70 weeks into three sections (7 weeks of years, 62 weeks of years, and one final week of 7 years). The first two divisions constitute a total of 69 weeks and have already been fulfilled. The final week of 7 years is the time of the Tribulation (or the Time of Jacob’s Trouble), described in the Book of Revelation beginning with chapter 4, verse 1.

The time between the 69th week and the commencement of the final week is not specified, but it can be understood as a period of time from the crucifixion of Jesus and the birth of His Church (50 days later) until the rising of the “ruler who will come.” This is the Church Age, or the Age of Grace, in which we currently reside. It has gone on for approximately 2,000 years. This brings us to the New Testament prophecies to complete the understanding of the accelerating rate of prophetic fulfillment.

The much-read and discussed prophecies of Matthew 24:1-25 (Mark 13:1-23 and Luke 21:7-24) describe the things that “must” take place before the end of the age arrives and address more widespread worldly conditions. These things are occurring daily and are constantly in the news in both secular (occasionally/reluctantly) and alternative (frequently and in detail) media venues.

One of the most significant prophecies is the degradation of humans on a personal level, and can be found in Paul’s warnings in (2 Timothy 3:1-7). The velocity of this downward spiral cannot be ignored and has steadily increased since the 1960s.

The result has been a marked rise in rebellious and perverted behavior.

I grew up in the 60s, and I can tell you, with no need for exaggeration, the difference between then and now is staggering. If the schools of today would only have to deal with gum chewing and talking in class, it would be cause for celebration.

There are, despite aches, pains, and physical degradation, some advantages in advanced years.

Perhaps the most valuable is hindsight.

The difference in culture, thought, understanding, and activities referred to as “entertainment” today that I can see over the last 60 or so years of my life (I am 71) make it clear that the deteriorating rate of society and culture is very real.

There are some that will say, “I’ve been hearing this for years, but everything continues on as it always has.”

That is, in fact, a fulfillment of a prophecy made by the Apostle Peter approximately 1,956 years ago:

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts” (2 Peter 3:3).

I can safely say things are most definitely NOT continuing along as they always have.

Not at all.

Technology and its exploitation for evil purposes, even over just the last couple of years alone, has made it possible for humans to deceive, control, and subjugate other human beings on a massive scale.

That brings the current conditions in line with what is revealed in the Book of Revelation.

“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:17).

Whatever final form that this total control of humanity takes, it will quite literally occur, exactly as described, after the Lord has removed the True Church from this earth in the Pre-Tribulation Rapture.

The demise of the current cash-based system and the advent of some form of digital currency that is frantically being pushed toward implementation will be the likely mechanism used to acquire near-total control of individuals and countries.

Now to the crux of this article.

I believe the momentum of the planned takeover was lost in 2016 when the American election did not go according to plan.

I believe in those four years, God sounded a final warning to America to repent, but it went unheeded. In fairness to Donald Trump, he did try to turn things around in secular terms, but evil was much too firmly entrenched, and there is now no remedy.

That four-year interruption delayed the program of world control, and clearly, purveyors of globalism are extremely distressed by it.

Now we find ourselves in 2023, and the globalist, one-world government cabal recently announced an “emergency” meeting to accelerate its 2030 agenda:

https://fism.tv/wef-members-summoned-to-accelerate-and-advance-the-great-reset/

Why would this need to happen? Why the sudden need to accelerate it?

I believe that pushback against this evil by both individuals and the leaders of a few countries across the globe is very severe, and the one-world globalists are losing the control they thought they had firmly in hand.

Truth, reality, and facts are impossible to suppress.

As people perceive they are losing their freedoms, that the food shortages are planned, and even the ability to heat their homes is being restricted, pushback is taking on a measure of desperation.

The “sea and the waves” (people and nations) spoken of by the Lord Jesus in (Luke Chapter 21:25) are frenetic, determined, and widespread, and they are roaring in defiance.

I believe drastic measures will be undertaken to quell and/or try to control this rebellion.

I also believe that this current activity, and the attempt to accelerate it, is the most substantial indication that the Pre-Tib Rapture of the Church must be very near.

By bringing about the Rapture, God would remove the last bit of control over the advance of evil: the Holy Spirit and the indwelt, Christ-worshipping and believing Church.

“For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way” (2 Thessalonians 2:7).

Take heart, my sisters and brothers, and pray without ceasing so we can be a part of the fulfillment of this promise by our One and only God.

“Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me. I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish” (Isaiah 46:9-10).

The special message I promised you:

For anyone who may read this article and has not trusted in Jesus Christ and therefore has no hope or peace in your life.

You can have hope. You can have the peace that Jesus has promised to all who have made Him their Lord and Savior. The peace that passes understanding.

It requires that you come before God on His terms.

And, what are His terms according to His Word?

• Genuine repentance (turning to God instead of continuing to reject or ignore Him).
• Confession of sins (that you are a sinner and acknowledge that to God).
• That you understand that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
• To acknowledge to God that you are unable to pay that debt.
• Belief that Jesus Christ paid your death sentence for you on the cross.
• To believe that Jesus is the Way, the only Way, that God has established by which humans may be saved from the consequences of their sin and rebellion.

God has made it absolutely clear that there is no one who comes before Him, under His terms, that will be refused.

• No one: no race, no color, no country of origin, regardless of any previous belief system: no one.
• No matter what your past sins have been, God can and WILL forgive you because He says He will.
• Salvation is available to everyone without any exceptions.

If you put all your trust for salvation in Jesus, and Him only, you can follow that prayer up by simply saying, “Thank you, Father God, for hearing my prayer and saving me,” because we can trust Him to keep His Word. He always has. He always will.

“Truly, Truly, I say to you that he who hears My words and believes the One who sent Me has eternal life and will not be condemned. He has crossed from death to life” (John 5:24).

There are no answers and there is no hope in the world by governments, organizations, politics or politicians. There are only lies and deception. But you can have the Truth and the peace you seek.

The answers are in the Word of God—The Bible. If you ask God, with all your heart, He will hear you.

“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).

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