Luke 21:36 “Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man”.
DAILY READING – DAILY READING; Mark 14:1-31; 1 Kings 8; Hosea 9:17-10:15.
New Zealand is a country renowned for its natural beauty – it’s a place with soaring, snow-covered mountains, bubbling thermal pools, and vast, clear lakes.
But it’s also a country that straddles two tectonic plates and is on what’s known as the “Ring of Fire” – a trail of volcanoes and earthquake-prone areas around the Pacific Ocean.
For those living in New Zealand, volcanic activity and earthquakes are often a part of life. New Zealand’s most active volcano is in a place called White Island. For many years scientists believed it was a disaster waiting to happen, but after about a hundred years of no eruption, tourism to White Island increased steadily.
However, from 2011 the volcano on the island began showing increased activity, which caused scientists to begin giving out serious warnings.
Yet despite these warnings, tourists continued to arrive daily in boatloads to visit the island. In the weeks leading up to December 2019, New Zealand volcano monitoring service GeoNet raised the alert level on White Island to level 2, which meant that there was low level volcanic activity taking place on the island.
On Monday, December 9, 2019 there was nothing that signaled there was going to be a volcanic eruption. And so a tourist company named White Island Tours, took tourists from countries around the world to the island for a visit. But on that very day, in the afternoon, tragedy struck. About 47 tourists had been climbing deep inside the crater of the volcano when suddenly the White Island volcano erupted, blasting huge plumes of smoke and debris 12,000 kilometres into the sky. It killed at least six people and left over 20 fighting for their lives with severe burns.
After the tragedy, many people questioned why tourists would still be visiting the island after the several warnings from scientists.
Though scientists had been warning about the volcano for years, tourists never really believed it could actually happen one day, but it did.
For many years now there has been Biblical prophesies and warnings about the end of the world, but people keep ignoring these warnings, thinking it cannot really happen.
As believers in these last days, while we pursue God’s purpose and destiny for us on earth, we should also remain keenly aware that the Lord can come at any time. While we make our plans, we also stay alert to Biblical warnings.
We are at a time when majority of end-time signs have been fulfilled. Because no man knows the day or the hour we should live our lives as though the Lord could come at any moment.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 says ‘For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.’
The Bible has given us several warnings and instructions on how to overcome in these last days. The first instruction is for all believers to “watch.”
In Mathew 24:42, Jesus said “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come”
The idea of setting a specific watch was understood in Christ’s time. The Romans divided the evening and night
into a series of four periods called “watches,” marked as the first, second, third, and fourth watch.
In Luke 21:36 Jesus said “Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man”.
In addition to watching we are also to pray . Prayer sharpens our spiritual sensitivity and keeps us vigilant and watchful.
It is the enemy’s ploy to keep men’s minds sedated through preoccupation with worldly affairs. But rather than be conformed to the world let us continually stay spiritually alert through the renewal of our minds with God’s Word. As we seek God daily, He will enable us to be spiritually awake, so that we are not caught unawares by the events of these last days.
PRAYER: Father please enable me to heed Biblical warnings of these end-times through becoming spiritually alert. Please grant me the grace to constantly watch and pray so as to be sensitive to the leadings of Your Spirit in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
The battle you are faced with today is a good warfare because God has already foreordained victorious end for you – WORDBITE 222..
Shalom!
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