Bible Questions Answered:
“...our world seemingly is becoming
more evil everyday...”
Gail/ Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
World Events Demonstrate The
Nearness Of Our Lord's Coming:
II Thessalonians 2:1-17 NLT
1 Now, dear brothers and sisters,
let us clarify some things about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
and how we will be gathered to meet Him.
2 Don’t be so easily shaken or
alarmed by those who say that the day of The Lord has already begun.
Don’t believe them, even if they claim to have had a spiritual
vision, a revelation, or a letter supposedly from us.
3 Don’t be fooled by what they
say. For that day will not come until there is a great rebellion
against God and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the one who
brings destruction.
4 He will exalt himself and defy
everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will
even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.
5 Don’t you remember that I told
you about all this when I was with you?
6 And you know what (who) is holding
him back, for he can be revealed only when his time comes.
7 For this lawlessness is already at
work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding
it back steps out of the way.
8 Then the man of lawlessness will
be revealed, but The Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of His
mouth and destroy him by the splendor of His coming.
9 This man will come to do the work
of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles.
10 He will use every kind of evil
deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they
refuse to love and accept The Truth that would save them.
11 So God will cause them to be
greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies.
12 Then they will be condemned for
enjoying evil rather than believing The Truth.
Christian People, Must Stand
Strong In The Lord:
13 As for us, we can’t help but
thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters loved by The Lord. We
are always thankful that God chose you to be among the first to
experience salvation—a salvation that came through The Spirit who
makes you holy and through your belief in The Truth.
14 He called you to salvation when
we told you The Good News; now you can share in the glory of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
15 With all these things in mind,
dear brothers and sisters, stand firm and keep a strong grip
on the teaching we passed on to you both in person and by letter.
16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ
Himself and God our Father, who loved us and by His grace gave us
eternal comfort and a wonderful hope,
17 comfort you and strengthen you in
every good thing you do and say.
It's called Moral
Decay. If in years past, people could have seen then, the
unrestrained moral laxity of our day, they would have been in shock.
And yet the evil
one has piped lifeless souls into a state of immoral euphoria.
Jeremiah 5:1-4
KJV (Israel)
1 Run ye to and fro through the
streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad
places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth
judgment, that seeketh The Truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The Lord
liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3 O Lord, are not thine eyes upon
The Truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou
hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they
have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to
return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these are
poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of The Lord, nor
the judgment of their God.
Ephesians 2:12
KJV (Gentiles)
That at that time ye were without
Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers
from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the
world:
End Time Church:
Revelation
3:14,17 KJV
14 And unto the angel of the church
of the Laodiceans write; These things saith The Amen, The Faithful
And True Witness, The Beginning Of The Creation Of God;
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich,
and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not
that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and
naked:
Proverbs 12:15
KJV
The way of a fool is right in his
own eyes..."
Proverbs 14:12
KJV
There is a way which seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 15:9
KJV
The way of the wicked is an
abomination unto The Lord..."
Isaiah 59:8 KJV
The way of peace they know not; and
there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked
paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Matthew 7:9.13
KJV
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat:
II Timothy
3:1-13 KJV
1 This know also, that in the last
days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their
own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, truce
breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those
that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, high minded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which
creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led
away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to
come to the knowledge of The Truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres
withstood Moses, so do these also resist The Truth: men of corrupt
minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further:
for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
13 But evil men and seducers shall
wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
II Peter 2:17-19
NLT
17 These people are as useless as
dried-up springs or as mist blown away by the wind. They are doomed
to blackest darkness. 18 They brag about themselves with empty,
foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires, they lure
back into sin those who have barely escaped from a lifestyle of
deception. 19 They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of
sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.
Brothers and
sisters in The Lord:
Matthew 5:16 KJV
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is
in heaven.
Philippians 2:15
KJV
That ye may be blameless and
harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked
and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Hebrews 3:13-15
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;
15 While it is said, To day if ye
will hear His voice, harden not your hearts..."
