"In the last days scoffers will come ... "

“Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”

    “They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water. Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood. And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.

   “But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.”

~ 2 Peter 3:3-10 New Living Translation (NLT)

    If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the picture at right says it all... 
    The Bible’s prophecies are being fulfilled one by one, now more so than ever. Scoffers have indeed arisen, and they are saying and doing exactly what the Bible said they would 2000 years ago: They mock Jesus, deny the existence of God, and believe that the Genesis Flood is nothing more than a myth. 
    But this is not the only Biblical prophecy to be fulfilled in recent years. 
    Israel is a nation once more--sometihng Biblical scholars believed to be purely metaphorical eighty years ago--and the Jews are returning home en masse. (Ezekiel 37:21-22)
   Wars and rumors of wars are spreading at an alarming rate. Earthquakes today are more powerful and more frequent than they were thirty years ago. And despite the fact that we now have the ability to feed more people than are currently living on the planet, nearly one third of the world's population is facing starvation in one of the worst famines the world has ever seen. Add to this the advent of pandemic diseases like SARS, Ebola and other "supper bugs", and it soon becomes apparent that all signs point to the eminent return of Christ. (Mark 13, Luke 21:10-11)

    

    True, no one knows the day or the hour; Jesus may return tomorrow, or it may be a thousand years from now. But one thing is certain: his return is closer now than it has ever been, and each second that passes brings it that much closer. 

    Time is running out, not for us who are in Christ, but for those who have not yet heard the truth. God is being patient for their sake, but eventually there will come a day where there is no going back.

  

    Today is the day of salvation. Tomorrow could very well be the Day of the Lord.

   

    So the question is: Where will you be when tomorrow comes?