The attitude of many is that this world will just keep going on as it has since the beginning of time. As stated in 2 Peter 3:3, “knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.” (ESV – all emphasis is mine)

What is difficult for many to understand is that our Heavenly Father is not bound by time as we are, as He created time for us. Genesis 1:16-18; “And God made the two great lights – the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night – and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that this was good.”

Follow this with 2 Peter 3:8-9; “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any perish, but all should reach repentance.”

If we were to take a serious look at what Jesus, Paul, John, Peter, and others said about this earth near the end of this era, we would see that the time is here right now. Jesus said in Luke 21:28, “Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

All the issues taken separately have been here off and on throughout the ages. However, in the last decade or so, they have come together worldwide. During that time, anything to do with Jesus and Christianity has been subject to rejection, ridicule, and persecution. In some places on this planet, just to be a follower of Jesus can lead to martyrdom.

Paul gave a fairly thorough list in 2 Timothy 3: 1-5; “But understand this that in the last days, there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.”

On May 14, 1948, Israel once again became a sovereign nation after almost 2,000 years. The United States was first to recognize Israel as a true independent nation. From day one, they were attacked from just about every side by surrounding nations. The fact that it is still a nation and has survived all attacks is a testimony of our Father’s promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3; “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you, I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Our Father did not let Israel become a nation once again just to let it be destroyed. Jeremiah 29: 11-14; “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call on Me, and come and pray to Me and I will hear you. You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with your whole heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.”

Before returning to their land, Israel was barren and hardly fit for anyone to live there. Even Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) commented after visiting there that it was almost uninhabitable. However, since 1948, Israel has become a very wealthy nation. They have found oil and natural gas deposits, and the people have turned the worthless soil into fertile ground for growing numerous crops. The main issue today is that the majority of the Jewish people do not recognize Jesus as their Messiah.

Worldwide, Messianic Jews, those who believe Jesus is their Messiah, make up about 3% of their total population. Paul talks about a “partial hardening of the Jews until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in” (Romans 11:25). Once the Rapture takes place, and the antichrist comes forward to rule the earth, God will turn His full attention again on Israel. Romans 11:26 states, “And in this way, all Israel will be saved.”

We’re told by Paul in 2 Timothy 4:2-4, “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke and exhort with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”

This passage tells us where we are today. This means this era is getting oh so short, and we are nearer than ever to being with the Lord. In 1841, Sarah Bethany Adams (1805-1848) wrote a most wonderful hymn titled “Nearer My God To Thee.”

1.) Nearer My God to Thee; nearer to Thee. Even though it be a cross that raiseth me, still all my song shall be, nearer My God to Thee; nearer My God to Thee; nearer to Thee.

2.) Though like a wanderer, the sun gone down. Darkness be over me, my rest a stone. Yet in my dreams I’d be, nearer My God to Thee; nearer My God to Thee; nearer to Thee.

3.) There let the way appear, steps into Heaven; all that thou sendeth me, in mercy given. Angels to beckon me, nearer My God to thee; nearer My God to Thee; nearer to Thee.

4.) Then with my waking thoughts, bright with Thy praise, out of my stony griefs, Bethel I’ll raise. So by my woes to be, nearer My God to Thee; nearer My God to Thee; nearer to Thee.

5.) Or, if on joyful wing, cleaving the sky, sun, moon and stars forgot, upward I’ll fly. Still all my song will be; Nearer My God To Thee; Nearer My God To Thee; Nearer To Thee.

While there are issues for all true believers to be uncomfortable with, we should be rejoicing that God’s word is absolute truth and the next major event on earth’s timeline to take place is the Rapture of all our Savior’s precious flock.

The details are found in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 and 1 Corinthians 15:51-53. To be included requires three things from us, which are found in Romans 10:9-13. We are to admit we are sinners and cannot save ourselves. This applies to every human on earth according to Romans 3:10 and Romans 3:23. All of us are deserving of eternal death without the grace and mercy of the Father because of His Son’s sacrifice for us (Romans 6:23).

Second, we are to believe that Jesus came to earth as a human to provide the perfect, sinless blood sacrifice for all who would receive and accept Him. He was crucified, died, and was raised by the Heavenly Father on the third day.

Finally, all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved. This does not mean we will live a perfect, sinless life from that point on, but when we do sin and ask the Father for forgiveness, He will do so, as given in 1 John 1:8-10.

These are the three steps: Admit (confess), Believe, and Call on Jesus to be our Savior forever. There are no human works to be done, and no amount of money or other valuables could purchase even one second in Heaven.

With each passing moment, we are rapidly approaching the end of this era. The following 7-years will be worse than anything this earth has gone through yet. Today would not be too early to get your reservation for eternal life with our Savior. We are not guaranteed another day here.

Jesus is waiting for any and all who wish to be saved through Him to call out to Him. Once the call has been made, the Holy Spirit will be inside you. When the Holy Spirit is removed to make way for the ultimate antichrist to appear (2 Thessalonians 2:7), all whom He has indwelt will be removed from this earth and will rise up to meet our Jesus in the air. This will be God’s promise to keep us from the coming wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10, and Revelation 3:10)

No one has sinned so greatly that the Blood of our Savior cannot cover. The unforgivable sin is to not have received and accepted Jesus before taking your last breath here. You will be forever thankful if you have Jesus in your heart right now.

Shalom! (Peace) Maranatha! (Come, Lord Jesus.)

huebshman46@gmail.com

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE

In the past few months, there has been some turmoil for me. I had a time of ministry in a church 1200 km away, but the enormous problems with my ISP and mail are still ongoing. I won’t bore you with the details except to say the TPG Company ISP that took over the good one I belonged to is the pits; the worst ever. They have disconnected all the email servers we used for 20 years. That left me stranded with no mail in or out.

Sometimes I get mail from RaptureReady viewers, but if you have written to me and got no reply, then I have not been able to get your mail. I was not being rude to you by not replying.

My new email address from here on is this one – MycenaPink@gmail.com

Absolutely disregard the old one.

SINKING SANDS

Many have been following the tragedy that recently happened in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee with Helene. There was so much loss, but you should be aware of it in your own media, so I won’t detail those facts. I do have a personal interest in all this – cyclones, hurricanes.

I live 16 degrees south of the Equator (Tampa is 27 degrees north). I am located in the wet tropics on the Coral Sea adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef and have been through the eye of 3 cyclones. I know what they are like. One smaller cyclone last December gave us 55 inches of rain in just 5 days.

In a number of associations I am with or contribute to, I find that sometimes I am dismissed when it comes to opinions and values because I am not American but Australian. Some look down on us, and that is a pride the USA needs to deal with. It puts people in the world off, and people consider Americans as arrogant because of it. That parochial attitude is not acceptable, especially not from Christians. I won’t elaborate further.

The way hurricanes are handled by American authorities has been quite deplorable in many regards (so far, but I think it will change) with a lot of ignorance and strange activity. Again, I will not delve into that, but the American authorities could do well to learn from others in regard to hurricane education, procedure, management and resources. AND ESPECIALLY BUILDING CODES.

What astounded me the most about the huge number of videos I have watched about the aftermath of Helene is the way so many people build on sand, such as on some of the flat islands and spits right at sea level. What the storm surge did was immense, with hills of sand now being scrapped up.

The other factor that is neglected in hurricane-prone areas is what we call here “cyclone rating” in the building codes. For example, in my home, Y12 and Y14 steel bars connect the roof to the foundation building slab every couple of feet, anchoring the roofs down (roof trusses), so all is locked together, and every second corrugation in the roofing iron is screwed in firmly. Some wall cores are poured concrete. Glass is of a thicker dimension.

It was distressing to see in videos roofs just peeling off rather flimsy building frames. However, it is not that matter I want to talk about but rather the building location. I was amazed to see so many homes built on these flat sandy areas right next to the sea. Some were nearly stripped. It is just sad to see people’s memories destroyed and livelihoods affected, especially when the current President and Vice-president are incapable of knowing what decency in action means. Cackling hyenas, murderers of the unborn, have no right to office.

Of course, we cannot neglect these verses from the Lord. Matthew 7:26-27 “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act upon them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and burst against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

I sometimes ask, “Which was the better house, the one on the sand or the one on the rock?” My answer is that usually it is the one built on the sand, for it is easy to build there on flat land with ease so the extra money can be diverted into a better home. However, in the Lord’s comments, it is not the quality of the house that is being considered but the test of the foundation. The fool builds on the sand, on the sandy foundation, but the wise man builds on what is everlasting and substantial, pictured by the rock.

Matthew 7:24-25 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them may be compared with a wise man who built his house upon the rock. The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and burst against that house, and yet it did not fall for it had been founded upon the rock.”

I want to leave this consideration of the poor victims of Helene and move to a deeper issue. That is the current state of the world.

A common saying is this, “The chickens have come home to roost.” Recent floods in China have shown walls of high buildings just stripping away, constructions collapsing, and little or no mortar holding the bricks/blocks together. It was very substandard workmanship (we say “bodgie” or “shoddy” here). Another saying is that you get what you pay for. Consider it this way, “All actions will have consequences.”

This world is built of the very worst sand. Nations have departed dramatically from God in the past 20 years, more than at any other time in Western history. Governments have adopted so many anti-God, anti-Christian positions. Humanism and socialism hold sway today.

Currently in Australia, the Marxist Governments we have (Look out USA if Harris/Walz gain office!) are forcing onto the Australian public what is called “Welcome to Country.” It is a statement that is on all Government literature, on television, heard at sporting matches at the start of broadcasts, heard before your plane departs and arrives, written in every Government department and on most documents, even in businesses. We are being saturated with it.

The “Welcome to Country” in my State (and the whole of Australia) is a WOKE promotion of Aboriginal spiritist/demonic culture. Some Pastors are being arrested because they refuse to read this statement in their churches. The statement is one of spiritism and Satan worship, for that is what the Aborigines practiced, and this statement is all about Aborigines. Here is one part of the statement. The wording may differ, but this is a shortened version. Welcome to Country, says,

“We respect and honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past, present and future. We acknowledge the stories, traditions and living cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on this land and commit to building a brighter future together.”

Again – “I acknowledge the (* people as) Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the land from which I join you today. I acknowledge, too, the Traditional Owners of the lands from which you are joining into this ***. On behalf of (**organisation) I pay our respects to their Ancestors and their descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country. We recognise their valuable contributions to Australian and global society.”

The Aborigines made no contributions. All this is such a distortion. Aboriginal culture was/is founded on the worship of satanic spirits, and the elders upheld this. They worshipped the Rainbow Serpent. Their culture saw infanticide, the elderly put out to die, cannibalism, and extreme fear of the witch doctor, the Medicine man. It is total paganism/spirit worship in all of their culture, including didgeridoos and corroborees. We, as the public, are being forced by our Governments to acknowledge and accept all this. Satan is behind it all.

How can Christians accept this? We, the sincere ones, don’t, and some have been taken by police for questioning. NO, we are not in the Tribulation in the days of 666, but we can see it now in the making. The world prepares itself for judgment it does not know is coming, but Christians prepare themselves for the Rapture.

The Australian Federal Government is working on a Disinformation Bill that, if passed, will not allow me to speak out on abortion, homosexuality, gender mutilation, and all the rest. Any subject or opinion not in line with the Government’s policy will be deemed as misinformation, and it contains strong penalties.

Speaking of the last days of the Church age, Paul wrote – 2Timothy 3:1-5 “Realise this, that in the last days difficult times will come, for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, (and) holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power. Avoid such men as these.”

The very fabric of Christian ethics in society has been eroded to such an extent that the world largely now lives under the rule of paganism and socialism, all part of humanism. This is very much so in the Western world, but there are pockets of sincere belief in some parts of American society. Leaven has done its insidious work, especially during the 12 years of the Obama influence/control of America. The grievous aspect is the current anti-Semitism that is widespread in the world. Just look at the UN and the wicked position of Harris.

The foundations around us are coming apart, for they are built on sand. The cyclonic winds of wickedness are roaring, and there is seemingly nothing of substance to oppose them. What is maybe even sadder is that those who profess to be Christians do not know what the foundations really are. There is only one foundation. 1 Corinthians 3:11: “For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” That is the one built on the Rock. All man’s foundations are of Satan.

In today’s society, it is very easy to find fault, sit back and highlight these faults, and become negative. Regarding the signs relating to the Second Coming, Jesus said this, which applies to the Jewish Tribulation saints – Luke 21:28: “When these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads because your redemption is drawing near.” In a lesser way, we can also make application to the signs of the time for our day.

ON A PERSONAL OBSERVATION:-

When Christian practice is replaced by its opposite philosophy, then everything gets thrown off balance. In my society, women have overtaken the men in position and leadership. They run Government Departments and hold all manner of high offices in leadership in business, in government, and in the media. I am not being sexist, but God (I BELIEVE) has given leadership as a federal matter. Adam was the federal head of creation. Now it is Eve the world has promoted and downgraded Adam.

In the Presidential debates in the United States, in the three debates, there were 6 moderators, or whatever you want to call them, all awful people, and 5 of those were nasty women. The single man (David Muir) was probably the nastiest of all.

I will be criticized, I suppose, for saying this, but in church leadership, the women are taking over, and it is arrogant. This is so noticeable in the Church of England (Britain) in the Methodists and Pentecostal/Charismatic circles. Everything is out of kilter. It will not improve but will continue to worsen. The Holy Spirit said in the last times difficult times will come (2 Timothy 3:1) – the word “perilous” is not the best translation. The word means “of great hardship”). If you think this does not apply to us now, look at the satanic ravages of God’s people in Islamic nations. It is one great slaughter these days.

Australia is heading that way. One Labor Minister – Penny Wong – has been flooding Australia with Palestinians, and they are taking over the streets with hatred for Jews and our society. It is horrible. No nation takes in Palestinians except Australia, and it will rupture the nation.

The world’s foundation is of no substance. God’s foundation is correct – Luke 6:48 “He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation upon the rock; and when a flood rose, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.”

I don’t think I will prolong this article anymore. These are some thoughts I am sharing. Things are seriously in decline. Those of the opposite side – e.g., Harris, Pelosi, Clinton, Leticia James, Wong of Australia – they are the tip of the iceberg. They sit on top of the foundational structure being pulled down, smashed by the hurricane of advancing wickedness.

Lately, I have been battling a couple of health issues and have been away helping at a remote Baptist Church in the arid inland of Australia. I am wanting to get back to my writing. The Lord bless you all.

Ron Ferguson – MycenaPink@gmail.com