Jesus

No one knows exactly when our Lord will return, but He wanted us to be ready. He did give us signs to know when the time was VERY close.
There are two very important prophecies about His coming again, actually one, but it has two parts.

Luke 17:26 - 30
26"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in
marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

28"It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 29But the day Lot left Sodom,
fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

30"It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

There are two (2) conditions here. They are connected. You must have both before the coming of the Lord Jesus. The world must be like the days
of Noah and the days of Lot.

This is significant because the world must match both at the same time. Let us look at the days of Noah.

Genesis 6: 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

The days of Noah were days of great violence. So, one sign was the world is filled with violence. Everyone would admit that the whole world is
filled with violence. It is almost impossible to find a place on this earth where there is no violence. But that is not enough to signal the return of our
Lord Jesus. There is another condition, the days of Lot.

Genesis 19:4-5
4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom-both young and old-surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot,
"Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."

The days of Lot were immoral days. Sodom and Gomorrah were wickedly immoral. Every type of sexual perversion was practiced. So, the second
half of the sign is a time on earth when there is great immorality.

Remember the two must be happening at the same time. There have been times in the past when there has been great violence, though I do not
believe it has been as violent as the world is today.

There have been times when there was great immorality in the world. Again, I do not believe that it has ever been this immoral. Never has an openly
homosexual been named as a priest or bishop in what is called God's church. Never has homosexual marriage been legal. We are living in
probably the worse immorality the world has seen.

Combine the violence with the immorality and the two part sign that Jesus gave us is completed. I can not tell you when the Lord will come. I can
not say that Lord will return next year, but I can say that the next sign is the man of sin; the rise of the anti-Christ.

Once the anti-Christ appears, then we have only 7 years until the Lord returns. Try to remember this, usually the people of God have not realized
ahead of time that a prophecy was about to happen. Normally, they were in the middle of the completion when they realized that God was fulfilling
His prophecy.

Therefore, when you realize who the anti-Christ is, the 7 seven years will already be in progress. It will not be 7 years from when you realize who
the anti-Christ is, it will be 7 years from when he takes control and only God knows when that happens.

Be prepared ! ! ! !

The time is closer than you think ! ! !

Now is the time to repent and OBEY the LORD GOD of ISRAEL, completely ! ! !

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May His peace be upon you. Amen.