Crazy For The End - 3

For Christians, the lust for End Times is a lust sponsored by an anti-Christ, for sure.  Jesus taught  firmly against this lust.  Matthew 24 records his teaching and he began by saying (NIV translation) ‘Watch out that no one deceives you.  

And later in his discourse had talks about hearing “Look, here is the Christ!’ and instructs “do not believe it!”  

He gives a list of signs, all of which have happened over and over and over again throughout history:

• Nation will rise against nation
• Kingdom agains kingdom
• Famines
• earthquakes
• Persecution and death of his followers
• many will turn away from the faith
• many will betray and hate each other
• many false prophets will appear
• the love of most will grow cold.

If you don’t know your history, you can be seduced by this list.  If you do know history, you will know that this has happened in every century from the time these words were recorded until 2011.  These things are still happening.  And among the people most fascinated by end times love grows cold.  

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