Prov. 19-21; Rom. 13

11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. Romans 13:11-14

We are expected to know the time and you know it is not the designation on the face of your watch but the season of the culture, our life and spiritual climate. Jesus said watch and pray for you don’t know the time that the master is coming. What we do know is that we are closer to the coming of the Lord than when we first started the trek of faith. I was at the hospital bedside of a dear saint of God this week. She was going into surgery but not given to much chance of making it through. She said to me well pastor I guess it doesn’t matter if it’s post-trib or pre-trib. She was expecting that she wouldn’t make it to the coming of the Lord. Thankfully she made it through the surgery but her statement has been true for 2000 years. No one has had to deal with whether it is pre or post tribulation and yet it has always been true “the day is at hand”. Paul is saying don’t live freshly because you are closer to meeting God face to face than ever before. But I think for us as we look at world events and spiritual climate we are a generation that might be able to say that some of us will still be alive at the coming of the Lord. Time might be short for all of us simply because time is running out. I know this might sound like alarmist talk, that is not my intention, I only want to be a realist. I want to know the time and so I keep my eyes open to the prophetic landscape of scripture and my newspaper and it seems these days they are saying a lot of the same things.

Here, there or in the air,

Pastor Rick