The following is an excerpt from one email that was sent to me by a fellow believer some time ago:
“Now, although I agree with you about the things you write about the corruption of the financial system, and that there will be a collapse, yet I do not agree with you in promoting people to be self-sufficient contrary to the Lord’s teaching. If you truly have God then no provision needs to be made at all for yourself, just trust in God’s providence alone.”
Just consider the implications of what this person was saying. If “no provision needs to be made at all for yourself,” then we should all quit our jobs, empty our bank accounts, quit saving for retirement and cancel our health insurance.
Personally, I want to be radical in trusting God, but trusting God almost always involves doing something.
There are so many passages in the Bible that speak about working hard and preparing for the future. For instance, the following bit of wisdom found in Proverbs 6:6-11 comes from the Modern English Version …
“Go to the ant, you sluggard!
Consider her ways and be wise.
Which, having no guide,
overseer, or ruler,
provides her bread in the summer,
and gathers her food in the harvest.
“How long will you sleep, O sluggard?
When will you arise out of your sleep?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep—
so will your poverty come upon you like a stalker,
and your need as an armed man.”
Approximately one out of every 25 verses in the New Testament is about the last days. God obviously wants us to understand what we are going to be facing, and just like Noah and Joseph, He expects us to take appropriate action.
Unfortunately, most evangelical Christians have been taught that there isn’t any need to get prepared for the future because they are going to be taken off the planet before anything really bad happens. For the first 1800 years of the Christian era, the church did not teach this, but over the past 200 years this new doctrine has become dominant in the western world. It is called “the pre-Tribulation rapture,” and I grew up believing it too.
But you won’t find it anywhere in the Bible. In my new book titled The Rapture Verdict, I spend 37 chapters conclusively proving that Jesus does not come back and gather His bride until the tribulation is over. It is the clearest and most comprehensive work on the subject anywhere out there, and it is turning out to be one of the most controversial Christian books of 2016.
And even if you believe that a pre-tribulation rapture is coming, the truth is that America is going to fall before we even get to the tribulation. This is something that I also cover in my book.
So no matter what your view on Christian eschatology is, we all need to be getting prepared to face the exceedingly difficult times that are immediately ahead of us.
But just like in the days of Noah, most people are going to ignore the warnings, and the mockers are going to continue to mock until judgment begins.
I always expected that unbelievers would mock, but I never expected that so many Christian leaders would gleefully join the mocking.
In the end, they and their followers will pay a very great price for not listening to the warnings and not getting prepared while they still had time.
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