Beginning of Sorrows

I don't know where this will go, or if I will expand on it or not but I felt a need to write it down, short though it may be.

Matthew 24:8

The world stands at the threshold leading to “the beginning of sorrows” and flirts with crossing over.  Wickedness will ignite the sorrows, but it is the elect that will influence their duration and impact on humanity.

Matthew 24:22

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Matthew 24 Reflections

The world stands at the threshold leading to “the beginning of sorrows” and flirts with crossing over.  Wickedness will ignite the sorrows, but it is the elect that will influence their duration and impact on humanity.  What can we do?  We can take head, we can endure, we can stand in holy places, and we can preach the gospel.  As a matter of fact the best thing we can do to ensure that these sorrows and tribulations do not destroy us is to remove the barriers that block the spreading forth of the gospel and to everything we can to share it to all the world.   These sorrows cannot end until the word of God has been reached the whole world.  

The time is coming when we will see many of the words written in Matthew chapter 24 as memories rather than prophesies of what is yet to come.

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Matthew 24 Reflections

The world stands at the threshold leading to “the beginning of sorrows” and flirts with crossing over.  Wickedness will ignite the sorrows, but it is the elect that will influence their duration and impact on humanity.  

There is no historic reference for how great and terrible these sorrows will be.  No civil war, no war between nations, and not even the two World Wars can stand in comparison to the war that is only beginning to be poured out on the earth at this time.  It will impact every nation and every person on both a macro and a micro level.  We have seen natural disasters, famines, and pestilences that have totally ravaged cities, states, and even entire regions of the world, yet what is to come will lay waste to the whole earth.  No plague or disease yet seen on earth has been as wide spread or lethal as the sicknesses that are to come in these last days.  Every tribulation that we survive will reveal another one ready to destroy us, and yet it is the unprecedented individual wickedness that will truly be the greatest devastation on this earth.

What can we do?  We can take heed, we can accept that these things must happen, we can prepare, we can pray, we can endure, we can stand in holy places, and we can preach the gospel.  As a matter of fact the best thing we can do to ensure that these sorrows and tribulations do not destroy us is to remove the barriers that block the spreading forth of the gospel and do everything we can to share it to all the world.   These sorrows cannot end until the word of God has been reached the whole world.  Make sure, that at the very least, they reach your own heart.

The time is soon coming when we will read what written in Matthew chapter 24 as memories rather than prophesies of what is yet to come.  The world has flirted with the last days for several years but I fear the flirting has gone too far this time.  The sorrows have begun, and whether they last months or years I don’t know.  I only know that I must be ready because when they are finally at an end my Savior will be here again.