Suddenly in an Instant

 

As it was in the days of Noah. Likewise, as it was also in the days of Lot. These are Christ’s words in Luke 17:26-30.

The days of Noah saw violence and evil over all the land as we see is increasing today. The days of Lot saw in the land of Sodom and Gomorrah exactly what we are witnessing today.

Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

As we see these signs of the times manifested, I’ve noticed that even people who are not Christians, who are not in the church, are noticing the same thing. Something’s not right. Something’s off. This is different. Some are even prophesying the end times, the apocalypse.

But sadly, many don’t notice anything that unusual. In their minds, this is just the next cycle in the course of human history. We’ve had hard times before. We will get through this too as we always do. All will continue as it always has.

2Pe 1:19 KJV

(19)  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: [the return of Jesus Christ]

It makes me wonder about the end times and how they will play out.

I’m also reminded of a book I read called, One Second After. A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after
effects in the United States of a terrifying terrorist attack using an electromagnetic pulse weapon, an EMP, that takes out the entire electrical grid in one second. In the story, it describes the progressive worsening of the situation and their panic for survival.

As it was in the days of Noah. The Flood – How did they act?

As it was in the days of Lot. Sodom and Gomorrah – How did they act?

You don’t really know how someone will respond to a crisis until they’re in one. They may say they’ll do this or that but you really don’t know until it hits. And neither do they.

At Christ’s arrest – At the moment of crisis, the disciples all forsook him and fled. Though they had pledged their very lives.

"Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!", Peter said. And so said all the disciples. (Mat 26:35)

 

As they led Jesus away, Peter followed at a distance and so did John. John was recognized as one of Christ’s followers but did not deny him. Peter on the other hand…well, we know the story of Peter denying Him 3 times.

Are We Ready?

 

How about us? Are we ready for the moment of crisis?

Are we filled with false bravado like Peter? Or will we humbly accept of our fate like John?

Do we recognize the signs of the times? Or do we deny that it could possibly be upon us? Asleep, as the disciples at Gethsemane, or like the ten virgins?

Are we prepared to face down our Nebuchadnezzar in modern day Babylon? Ready to boldly speak truth to power? Ready to repeat the words the Lord will give us to speak?

Ready spiritually to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony? Or have we become so lukewarm, so rich and increased with goods, that we have made our bellies our god? Comfortable.

Will we stand strong and do exploits, acting valiantly, as it says in Daniel 11:32? Or will we deny the very Savior whose name we claim?

Will we proclaim the message of the gospel of the Kingdom to the very end? Or live by lies, poor, blind, and naked, in our wretchedness?

 

Procrastination

Human nature, for most people is to put things off as long as we can. We still have time, we say.

We look about us and we see prophetic events beginning to take shape. They’re not all in place yet but we are beginning to see the foundations being laid for end time events. After the last few years, we can now begin to see how buying and selling could be under the control of an authoritarian government through a digital currency. We can see how those who don’t comply or even whose thoughts are not harmonious with the powers that be could be cast out of society, cancelled, banished, not allowed to participate in normal life.

But we don’t see the big milestones yet – the abomination of desolation, the two witnesses, the trumpet plagues. So, we may think we have plenty of time yet to get ready, to get prepared for what’s coming.

Even in the days of Noah leading up the to the Flood itself, the people scoffed and ignored his
warnings, right up to the time it started raining, laughing and calling Noah all kinds of names.

Noah was probably called a conspiracy theorist too. Then it started to rain!

At some point, it dawned on them that this is serious. We’re in a crisis here!

You can just imagine the puzzled look on their faces. At some point as the water began to pile up, they started to worry a little. I don’t know how long it took for the water to reach dangerous levels but it only rained for 40 days and nights. At some point the laughing stopped and turned to concern, and then concern turned to panic. And it didn’t take long. It was suddenly in an instant!

Hopefully, by the time we’re through today, I will have revealed enough warnings in the pages of your Bible that we will all be spurred into action to develop a sense of urgency about making our calling and election sure. (2Pet 1:10)

Suddenly in an Instant

 

We might think we still have plenty of time to get prepared. We see a piece of the puzzle falling into place here and one there and think, but there’s still a lot that has to happen. Until you stand back and look at the big picture and how all the pieces fit together, it’s difficult to see how little is left to do.

Ever put a jigsaw puzzle together? It’s slow going at first but as the puzzle pieces fall into place it goes faster and faster. And when you get to the final handful of pieces it takes no time at all. All of a sudden, it’s finished!

Peter warned us, there will be scoffers in the last days –

2Pe 3:3-4 KJV

(3)  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

(4)  And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

 

We know why –

2Pe 3:9 KJV

(9)  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

 

We can’t let the doubts and scoffing of unbelievers to influence our thinking though and cause us to doubt, or get caught up in their unbelief.

 

Act 17:30-31 KJV

(30)  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

(31)  Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

 

When it’s time, it’s time!

Interestingly, Isaiah warned us that some people may not want to hear about it though. Don’t prophesy rightly, speak smooth things. The people who don’t know the truth, who don’t love the truth, don’t want to hear it. It’s negative. It’s scary. They want us to tell them everything will be alright. Don’t be concerned about the things you see and hear in the news. It’s all just politics and posturing. This too shall pass and it will all go back the way it was. It always has, it always will.

 

Isa 30:8-13 KJV

(8)  Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

(9)  That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

(10)  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

(11)  Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

(12)  Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

(13)  Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

 

Isaiah is saying even some of the people of God didn’t want to hear it. He is also telling them, no, it will not go back the way it was. It has reached the breaking point.

At the time of the financial crisis in 2008, when the government stepped in and bailed out companies that were “too big to fail”, the national debt was just $11 trillion dollars, or 79% of GDP, gross domestic product.

We should take notice, our national debt is now $34 trillion dollars! Our Debt to GDP Ratio is 122%. For every one dollar of gross domestic product we generate as a nation, (think income) we spend $1.22.

How long could we manage our household budget if we continually spent 22% more money than we earned?

The wall is swelling! The time of Jacob’s trouble is upon us! (Jer 30:7)

What form the “sudden breaking” will take, we don’t know. It may not be called a bankruptcy but a reset. A great reset where digital currency replaces physical currency and likely not in a one-to-one ratio. We may only get 10 cents for every dollar we have in the bank. Instantly becoming dependent on the government for daily survival.

God will protect and provide for us through all this, so don’t panic. But we need to prepare ourselves mentally, and more importantly spiritually for when this kind of thing does happen. I would encourage all of us to take heed and develop a sense of urgency in our preparation. Gird up the loins of our minds now while we have time. Prepare ourselves mentally to be able to cope with what’s going to be happening all around us, and become more mentally resilient. Maybe even play out various scenarios in our minds and pray about them.

 

The people of the world don’t want us to speak about such things but Ezekiel tells us these things must be spoken. We are not in the dark about such things as are the people of the world. We know what’s coming.

 

Eze 33:1-6 KJV

(1)  Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

(2)  Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:

(3)  If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

(4)  Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

(5)  He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.

(6)  But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

 

Are we not watchmen of sorts, standing in the gap to warn the people of Israel and to preach of the coming Kingdom of God?

Unfortunately, our words may likely fall on deaf ears as did Jeremiah’s before the fall of Judah.

 

Jer 6:13-17 KJV

(13)  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

(14)  They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

(15)  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

(16)  Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

(17)  Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

 

Similarly today, they are not ashamed. They don’t blush. They are proud. Today it’s all about PRIDE! They don’t want to hear about God’s ways. (Isa 55:9)

We have left our righteous God no choice. He cannot continue to allow this moral degradation and licentiousness to go on without retribution.

 

Jer 6:22-26 NKJV

(22)  Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people comes from the north country, And a great nation will be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.

(23)  They will lay hold on bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, As men of war set in array against you, O daughter of Zion."

(24)  We have heard the report of it; Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, Pain as of a woman in labor.

(25)  Do not go out into the field, Nor walk by the way. Because of the sword of the enemy, Fear is on every side.

(26)  O daughter of my people, Dress in sackcloth And roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.

 

We are told in the media that we need not worry about all the illegal immigrants crossing our borders. They are just people seeking asylum from an oppressive government, seeking a better way of life for their families, aren’t they? Never mind that a large percentage are single military aged men from all over the world, not just Latin America, but many from countries that hate us. Currently 10,000-12,000 a day are crossing our southern border illegally!

Isa 5:26 NKJV

(26)  He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, And will whistle to them from the end of the earth; Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly.

 

Isa 5:29-30 NKJV

(29)  Their roaring will be like a lion, They will roar like young lions; Yes, they will roar And lay hold of the prey; They will carry it away safely, And no one will deliver.

(30)  In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold, darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the clouds.

 

Anybody else hear a whistling sound?

 

 

 

 

America is the last bastion of freedom in the world. America is the last stronghold against the Euro-centric one-world government. It MUST fall! And God will allow it.

The powers that be, led by Satan, believe if they can create enough chaos on the scene, then they will be the ones to bring about the solution to bring order again.

“Ordo ab chao” is their motto – Latin for “order from chaos.”

There can be no sovereign nations. There can be no national borders. They must be destroyed in order to “build back better” in the authoritarian model.

 

Deu 28:20 NKJV

(20)  "The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

Deu 28:33 NKJV

(33)  A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.

 

Deu 28:43-44 NIV

(43)  The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

(44)  They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

 

Just as ancient Israel and Judah were warned yet did not repent, history will repeat itself in modern day Israel and Judah.

 

Hos 5:1-7 KJV

(1)  Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

(2)  And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. [those who have revolted against God]

(3)  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

(4)  They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

(5)  And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

(6)  They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

(7)  They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

 

We have interpreted this over the years to mean that the nations of Britain, America, and the nation state of Israel (Judah) will collapse within a month’s time. Which could mean a literal 30 days or a day for a year meaning within a 30-year period.

[How long has it been since our wakeup call on September 11, 2001? Not setting dates, just speculating that the time is near.]

 

The one-world government system will get what’s coming to them. The modern-day Babylonian system will fall quickly as prophesied in these verses –

Isa 47:8-11 KJV

(8)  Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

(9)  But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

(10)  For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

(11)  Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Desolation will suddenly come out of nowhere!

 

Zep 1:14-18 KJV

(14)  The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

(15)  That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

(16)  A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

(17)  And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

(18)  Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

 

We have understood “the Day of the Lord” to be a year-long period of death and destruction which is quite quick but will seem like an eternity during it.

 

Rev 18:5-10 KJV

(5)  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

(6)  Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

(7)  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

 

[Sound familiar, like we just read in Isaiah 47:8]

 

(8)  Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

(9)  And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

(10)  Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

 

God is just and He is right. He will judge unrighteousness. He will punish the wicked. He will bring retribution.

Good News

That is good news for the righteous and the godly – those God has called in our day and age.

 

Psa 96:10-13 NKJV

(10)  Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns; The world also is firmly established, It shall not be moved; He shall judge the peoples righteously."

(11)  Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;

(12)  Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the LORD.

(13)  For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.

 

We know that we don’t know the day or the hour but we can see it’s at the door.

Mar 13:29 KJV

(29)  So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.

 

Mar 13:35-37 KJV

(35)  Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

(36)  Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

(37)  And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

 

And when our Lord returns, it will be sudden –

 

Mal 3:1 KJV

(1)  Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

 

We must be ready NOW!

We’re told in many places to watch. We should watch world events unfold in light of Bible prophecy but most importantly, we’re to watch our spiritual condition. Are we ready?

Like anything we do of value, it takes longer than you think. You’re saving for that house, it takes longer than you think. You’re seeking the right spouse, it takes longer than you think.

I like to say, “It takes longer than it takes.” It seems no matter how long we plan for it to take, it always takes longer.

How long does it take an individual believer to build faith in God and trust Him completely? How long does it take to trust Him more? When Christ returns will He find faith on the earth?

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luk 18:7-8)

 

How many in here still want to increase their faith and to build trust in God and Jesus Christ? I dare say all of us.

Keep in mind, half the virgins were left outside the door knocking.

We must have a sense of urgency. Develop a sense of urgency now or panic later. It’s a choice we each have to make.

Luk 21:34-36 KJV

(34)  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

 

Will you be distracted or detached? Come out from among them, my people, and be ye separate! (2Cor 6:17; Rev 18:4)

 

If you think we’re distracted now, just wait. When it all comes unraveled, when the enemy is at the gates, it will be difficult to concentrate on anything else.

 

If you’re not reading your Bible every day now, why not? What could be more important?

If you’re not praying every day now, why not? What could be more important?

It won’t get easier when it all comes crashing down.

 

(35)  For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

(36)  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

 

We who are God’s people will likely be protected, but just as a rising tide raises all ships, a sinking tide can run them aground.

The world around us will be in a state of chaos. We will have to endure the hardness of the times.

 

2Ti 2:3-4 KJV

(3)  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

(4)  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

 

There is indeed good news for the people of God.

 

1Th 5:1-11 KJV

(1)  But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

(2)  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

(3)  For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

(4)  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

(5)  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

(6)  Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

(7)  For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

(8)  But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. [the whole armor of God]

(9)  For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, [See Psalm 37:34 – we shall see it]

(10)  Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

(11)  Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

 

We may be shaken, but not stirred if we are faithful.

 

Shaken But Not Stirred

 

God will shake the whole earth and the heavens so that those things that cannot be shaken will remain.

Heb 12:22-29 KJV

(22)  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

(23)  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

(24)  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

(25)  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

(26)  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

(27)  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. [the spiritual]

(28)  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

(29)  For our God is a consuming fire.

 

Though we are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. (2Co 4:8-10 NKJV)

Though we be shaken, we shall not be stirred. After having done all we can, stand, stand therefore in the whole armor of God. (Eph 6:13-14)

Heb 3:13-14 KJV

(13)  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

(14)  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

 

Let’s go forth with a sense of urgency as we prepare for what lies ahead knowing there remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God. (Heb 4:9)

May God fortify His people so that we may stand in the moment of crisis.

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