Matthew 24:14: ―’And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

DAILY READING –Luke 15; Genesis 27:1-45; Psalm 20

In Matthew 24, Jesus listed specific number of signs of the nearness of His coming.
The very last sign Jesus said would occur before His return was the preaching of the Gospel all over the world. Jesus clearly said that when the Gospel is preached unto all the nations, “then shall the end come.” Therefore if we want to know how close we are to the end, we must look at how well the Gospel is penetrating and reaching the nations.
In the last few decades, there has been gradual fulfillment of this prophesy of Matthew 24:14, with the technological advances of television and radio and other means of mass communication. Through these mediums, it has been possible to reach hundreds of millions of people with the Gospel message.
However, even with the technological advancement, it has not been possible to reach all countries of the world because many nations have resisted the preaching of the Gospel. For instance, China, with one quarter of the world’s people, still does not allow freedom of the Gospel. Many Islamic nations forbid religious freedom and their citizens risk the death penalty for changing religion.
But now the Internet is changing everything. It is much harder for governments to control it. Today, through the internet the Gospel message is gaining access into places where Christians could never have reached, bringing faster fulfillment of the prophesy of the Gospel being preached all over the world! This then gives us a good idea of how close we are to the return of Jesus:

Truly, we are living in unusual times and there is just a little window of time left. As believers we are to look up and be ready because Jesus is coming soon.
To prepare for the Lord’s coming we need to live always alert, because it can happen at any moment. Though we don’t know when, we ought to live as though it was today!
Each night as we lay our heads on our pillow, we need to sleep with the awareness, that perhaps it will be the night when the Lord returns like a thief in the night to take us home.
When we wake up in the morning, we need to start our day with the awareness that perhaps before the day is over, there will be a sudden interruption and the rapture could occur.
For a Christian to live in these last days, without serious expectancy of the Lord’s coming, calls for self-examination.
In Romans 13 the apostle Paul warned Christians to wake up and stop living in denial about the fact that some of them were actually sleeping spiritually. He wrote, “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” (verse 11 NKJV).
The story of Noah and the ark shows the necessity of being ready ahead of time. In other words, it would be too late to prepare when the flood begins.
Every day, unfolding end-time events are warning us to hear and to heed prophecies and to be ready.
The security of our destiny is to ensure we remain spiritually sensitive, so as not to be caught unawares.
Even while we serve in the Church and get involved in various activities, we must ensure we are diligently investing time daily in our personal spiritual preparation.
Psalm 90:12 says, “So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom”
Truly, these are the days of spiritual soberness.
Jesus said in Luke 21: 36 that we should pray always so as to be accounted worthy to escape the things coming on the earth.
As we remain always spiritually vigilant, surely, we shall be able to escape the perils of these last days, and be accounted among the victorious saints.

PRAYERS. Lord please grant me the grace to begin to live ready while there is still time. Please help me to make the needed spiritual investments in fervent prayers and study of Your Word so that I can live victorious in these end-times in Jesus Name.
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God is preparing you for the season He prepared for your breakthrough WORDBITE 222.