Top Ten Ways To Know If You Are Obsessed With Prophecy

1.  You always leave the top down on your convertible in case the rapture happens.
2.  You never buy green bananas.
3.  You talk your church into adapting the '60s pop song "Up, Up, and Away" as a Christian hymn.
4.  Bar code scanners make you nervous.
5.  You refuse a tax refund check because the amount comes to $666.
6.  You can name more signs of the times than you can commandments.
7.  You believe there is an original Gree and Hebrew text with Scofield's notes.
8.  You believe the term "Church fathers" refers to Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye.
9.  You get goose bumps when you hear a trumpet.
10. You use the Left Behind books as devotional reading.

(From the "Lamplighter" September/October 2000).

I'm not obsessed with prophecy...I don't own a convertible...but I certainly am intersted in the end times.  The Bible is a book of prophecy. So much of the Bible is prophecy that I say I love prophecy because I love the Bible.

In Bible Study there's a principle known as the "Law of Proportion."  This law simply states that you can discern the importance of a subject in Scripture by how much attention is devoted to it.  Few people have any idea just how much of the Bible is prophetic in nature.  Consider these statistics:

Number of verses in the Bible...31,124
Number of predictions in the O.T...1,239
Number of O.T. versess that contain predictions...6,641 our of 23,210
Percent of the Old Testament that is Prophecy...28.5%
Number of predictions in the N.T...578
Number of N.T. verses that contain predictions...1,711 out of 7,914
Percent of the N.T. that is Prophecy...21.5%
Percent of the whole Bible that is prophecy...27%

Of the 333 prophecies concerning Christ, 109 were fulfilled by His first coming, leaving 224 yet to be fulfilled in His Second Coming.
Twenty-three of the 27 N.T. books mention the Lord's coming.
People are exhorted to be ready for the return of Jesus Christ over fifty-times.

(These statistics are taken from the book, "The End" by Mark Hitchcock).

Are you ready?

WEEP BETWEEN THE PORCH AND ALTAR

Joel 2:17 (KJV) Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

 

This is a day of weeping.  Yes, I know that God has everything under control.  Yes, I know that we need to keep our eyes on Him and not our circumstances.  Yes I know that Jesus is still King.  At the same time I weep for America.  I weep because I am afraid that America has turned a corner so fast that we will crash and there is no going back.

 

Why do I weep for America?  Because America has invited God's judgment on herself.  America has turned her back on God's Word and don't be deceived, God will not be mocked. Israel wanted a king instead of God to rule over them and they got anarchy because King Saul disobeyed the word of the Lord.  This is what our president and nation is doing. Anarchy allowed the enemies of Israel to win over them.

 

We have states approving sodomite marriages. Our President openly approves this.

We have states legalizing the recreational use of marijuna. 

We have one state (too close to call at this moment) who is consider physician assisted suicides. 

 

I weep for the millions of babies that will be aborted.  Liberal judges will be appointed who are not pro-life.  This will make it impossible to change Roe Vs Wade for many many years, possibly forever. How long will God stand by and watch the shedding of inocent blood? 

 

I weep because the American constitution will become null and void.  Liberal judges will be appointed who have no regard for the constitution.

 

I weep because there is no evidence of another Great Awakening.  I have been praying for another one, but we are falling harder asleep than ever.  We are more liberal and ungodly than I thought. 

 

I have been praying, but now I am weeping.  Doug Small said something to the effect that we have a great prayer movement but we still don't have revival.  The one thing lacking is a deep grieving and humility over our sins.  Maybe we will have this now.  I know my grief is stronger today than yesterday.

 

I love the song, "Days Of Elijah" but I think rather these are the "Days of Noah".

Matthew 24:38 (KJV) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark.

I am going to start using this blog to prepare us to endure hardness as a good soldier, to prepare us for the end times, and to get ready a people prepared to meet the Lord. I welcome you to join me.