Occasionally I will pick something apart. LB does it too. We’re funny like that, but at least we can relate to one another. That said…
There was recently a Facebook post circulating and it begins with
“The end is near. So why am I smiling?”
You’ve probably seen it.
The writer introduces herself as a “3rd generation pastor’s kid” and goes on to give a brief synopsis of her early experience in an end-times-obsessed religious environment. Her overwhelming fear that she would miss the Rapture of the Church was debilitating and followed her into adulthood. However, thanks to ‘awesome mentors and logic’, the fruitless narrative [that she could be left behind] finally began to crumble.
I cannot deny that she does have a gift for exhortation.
Then she changes lanes and reminds the reader “you shall know it by its fruit” and goes on to address those who are not speaking words that are beneficial to anyone but…
‘darkness’.
Reading this makes me go
Conviction?
Maybe.
I’ve come across the post 25 times at least, so I decided to give it some thought.
I can identify with the writer because I too [at an early age] was exposed to end-time prophecy: the rapture, the tribulation, mark of the beast and many horrifying events that you can read about in THE BIBLE.
In 1972, a movie dramatizing some of those events was released. I saw it in the auditorium/sanctuary of the church where I grew up.
The name of the movie was…
A Thief in the Night.
Along with the movie came the song “I Wish We’d All Been Ready“. The lyrics reiterated the message in the movie.
Other movies followed: A Distant Thunder, Image of the Beast...
does anyone else remember these?
(side note: all are available to watch on IMDb TV)
Back to my story: At the time, I was only 6 years old, but it was probably a couple of years later that I was able to view the first of this series. No doubt, the message of that movie would leave a child with a sense of dread and if you believe the Bible to be truth, it was a wake up call. Nobody wanted to miss the rapture and find themselves facing the tribulation, along with the government police who would arrest and imprison those who rejected the narrative. I was truly concerned about missing the rapture when I was a little girl, but now I understand that it isn’t me that should be concerned (John 10:24-30).
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As the writer of the considerably shared post tells us, “those of us who are alive” have the privilege of seeing what ‘prophets dreamed’. To me, that would be…
the beginning of the end.
For example: The Biden regime is currently experimenting with control, and is testing the people to see if all that they propose will be accepted. The complicit CDC is now setting up internment camps for you and me.
At some point a leader will mandate a mark in the right hand or forehead (Revelation 13:15-18). Those who accept this mark will be damned (Revelation 20:4).
This may be information that is considered beneficial only to ‘darkness’, by someone’s standards, but I think it should be known.
Just as info, I am not a conspiracy theorist, obsessed with, immersed in, or focused on the evil that I have been awakened to, but I am concerned.
However, I know the end of the story…
God wins.
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Thank you for taking time out of your day to stop by my blog.
Thank you Kim. I enjoyed reading your words.
I think most of us at one time or another
had the fear of being left behind. I remember those movies well.