THREE OF THE REASONS WHY I BELIEVE JESUS IS SOON COMING:

1: APOSTASY:
2: DISINTEGRATION OF CHRISTIAN LOVE:
3:ACCEPTING THAT WHICH IS FALSE:

ACTS 1:10-11
AND WHILE THEY LOOKED STEADFASTLY TOWARDS HEAVEN AS HE WENT 
UP, BEHOLD,
TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN WHITE APPAREL. WHICH ALSO SAID: YE 
MEN OF
GALILEE, WHY STAND YE GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN? THIS SAME JESUS, 
WHICH IS
TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS 
YE HAVE
SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN.

IT IS A FACT: JESUS IS COMING BACK FOR HIS CHURCH:
THE BIBLE GIVES AMPLE PROOF, THAT HE WILL COME AGAIN:
THE BIBLE ALSO GIVES US SIGNS OF HIS COMING.
IT DOES NOT TELL US WHEN HE WILL COME.
BUT IT TELLS US WHAT THINGS TO LOOK FOR TO KNOW THAT HIS COMING 
IS NEAR:

1: APOSTASY:
   1 TIMOTHY 4:1
   NOW THE SPIRIT SPEAKETH EXPRESSLY, THAT IS THE LATTER
   TIMES SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH, GIVING HEED TO
   SEDUCING SPIRITS, AND DOCTRINES OF DEVILS.

  APOSTASY IS A RENEGADE-IT IS A RENUNCIATION OF ONE’S RELIGIOUS
  PRINCIPLES:

  IT IS A DESERTION OF MORALS-A FALLING AWAY FROM THE TRUTH:
  IT IS GOING BACK FROM WHAT ONE ONCED BELIEVED:

  JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 24:42-44
  WATCH THEREFORE, FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH
   COME. BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD
   KNOWN IN WHAT WATCH THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE
   WATCHED, AND WOULD NOT HAVE SUFFERED HIS HOUSE TO BE BROKEN
   UP. THEREFORE BE YE ALSO READY, FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YOU
   THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH.




  VERSE 48-51

  BUT AND IF THAT EVIL SERVANT SHALL SAY IN HIS HEART, MY LORD
  DELAYETH HIS COMING. AND BEGIN TO SMITE HIS FELLOWSERVANTS,
  AND TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE DRUNKEN; THE LORD OF THAT
  SERVANT SHALL COME IN A DAY WHEN HE LOOKETH NOT FOR HIM, AND
  IN AN HOUR THAT HE IS NOT AWARE OF. AND SHALL CUT HIM ASUNDER
 AND APPOINT HIM HIS PORTION WITH  HYPOCRITES: THERE SHALL BE
 WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.

HERE ARE WARNINGS OF:
NOT LOOKING FOR JESUS TO COME:
LETTING DOWN ON HOLY LIVING:

A: THERE WILL BE NO GENERAL NOTIFICATION OF HIS COMING:
1: SO THE WORD FOR US IS: WATCH:
2: WATCHING AND EXPECTING WILL KEEP THE CHRISTIAN FROM
    BEING OVERTAKEN BY TEMPTATION:

B: THE WARNING IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO LET
     DOWN AND LIVE A LOOSE LIFE:

PAUL WARNS IN 11 THESS.2:3
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS: FOR THAT DAY WILL NOT 
COME EXCEPT
THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST:

IN TIMOTHY HE WARNS:
IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES WILL COME:
1: MEN WILL BE LOVERS OF THEIR OWN SELVES:
2: THEY WILL BE UNTHANKFUL:
3: THEY WILL BE UNHOLY:
4: LOVERS OF PLEASURE MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD:
5: THEY WILL HAVE A FORM OF GODLINESS:

WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME OF REBELLION.
PEOPLE ARE AGAINST THE LAW:
THEY ARE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT:
THEY ARE AGAINST GOD’S WORD:

AMOS 8:11-12
BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD GOD, THAT I WILL SEND A 
FAMINE IN
THE LAND, NOT A FAMINE OF BREAD, NOR A THIRST FOR WATER, BUT OF 
HEARING
THE WORDS OF THE LORD:


AND THEY SHALL WANDER FROM SEA TO SEA, AND FROM THE NORTH 
EVEN TO THE
EAST, THEY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO TO SEEK THE WORD OF THE LORD, 
AND SHALL
NOT FIND IT.

1: THE SHORTAGE IS NOT GOD’S WORD GOING FORTH.
    BUT THE HEARING OF THE WORD OF GOD:
2: WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME OF DO AS YOU PLEASE. IF IT FEELS
    GOOD; DO IT,ATITUDE.

PAUL SAID: THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THEY WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND 
DOCTRINE:

IN THE LAST DAYS SCOFFERS WILL COME, WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN 
LUST.

B: THE SECOND SIGN IS THE DISINTEGRATION OF CHRISTIAN
     LOVE:

THIS COMES BECAUSE OF APOSTASY:
AND BECAUSE INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND, THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL 
WAX COLD:
MATTHEW 24:12

1 JOHN 4:20
IF A MAN SAY, I LOVE GOD, AND HATETH HIS BROTHER, HE IS A LIAR, FOR 
HE
THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER WHOM HE HATH SEEN, HOW CAN HE 
LOVE GOD WHOM
HE HATH NOT SEEN?

A: THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD IS SELFISHNESS:
B: THE FRUIT OF SELFISHNESS IS HATRED, AND JEALOUSIES.
C: THE FRUIT OF GENUINE CHRISTIAN LOVE IS:
     COMPASSION; CONCERN,AND SHARING.

JAMES SAYS: BELIEF IS NOT ENOUGH:
FAITH THAT SAVES REACHES OUT TO HELP AND TO BE KIND:

SAVING FAITH PRODUCES LOVE:

PAUL SAID:
THOUGH I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN AND OF ANGELS, AND 
HAVE NOT
CHARITY,(LOVE) I AM BECOME AS SOUNDING BRASS, OR A TINKLING 
CYMBAL.

1: IT IS NOT THOSE WHO PROFESS TO HAVE IT:
2: BUT THOSE WHO PRODUCE AND HAVE IT.

IN ROMANS 12 PAUL SAYS:
LET LOVE BE WITHOUT DISSIMULATION: (WITHOUT PRETENSE)
(NOT HID)

C: THE THIRD SIGN OF CHRIST’S COMING IS:
     ACCEPTING THAT WHICH IS FALSE:

CHRIST WARNS THAT FALSE PROPHETS WILL COME:
FALSE CHRIST’S WILL COME:
FALSE DOCTRINES WILL COME:

PAUL SAID TO THE GALATIANS:
O FOOLISH GALATIANS, WHO HATH BEWITCHED YOU, THAT YE SHOULD 
NOT OBEY THE
TRUTH?

PAUL WARNS IN ACTS 20-
I KNOW THIS:
AFTER I LEAVE GRIEVOUS WOLVES WILL COME INTO THE FLOCK:
AND MEN FROM WITHIN THE CHURCH WILL ARISE; SPEAKING PERVERSE 
THINGS, TO
DRAW AWAY DISCIPLES AFTER THEM.

A: THE WARNING IS:
     BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
B: WE ARE TO TRY THE SPIRITS, WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD,
     BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE
     WORLD:

WE NEED TO KNOW THE WORD OF GOD:
WE NEED TO KNOW THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES:
WE NEED TO KNOW THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THE SPIRIT OF THE DEVIL. 
WHICH IS
THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST:

I’M ANCHORED IN JESUS, I FEAR NO STORM OR WIND,
I’M ANCHORED IN THE ROCK OF AGES.

Curtis Cook-retired
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