Lockdown Has Been Lifted, But Watch Out For These Mysterious Things As You Leave Your Home

President Muhammadu Buhari has lifted the lockdown measures aimed at curbing the effect of Coronavirus, but it is important you watch out for these mysterious things while you step out from Monday, May 4th 2020.

According to worldometres.info, a total of 3,310,039 Coronavirus cases have been recorded worldwide, 234,143 have died and 1,043,245 have recovered.

So far in Nigeria, there are 1,932  cases of Coronavirus, 58 have died and 319 have recovered.

There is no cause for alarm. If you are a true Christian and conversant with your Bible, this whole Coronavirus episode should not surprise you.

Why?

Because it has been prophesied already as one of the signs of the End Time that would usher us into the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 24).

End Time…

While the world approaches this subject with fear and speculation, Christians have a different perspective because we are looking forward to it with great joy and earnest expectation.

But before He comes,  what will happen?

With Biblical authority, I can boldly say that “Things will get worse before they get better”.

The disciples asked him about the exact time of His Coming, He told them that no one knows the day or the hour of His return, not even the angels in heaven, only the Father knows.

However he told them some signs to look out for, saying that “When you see these signs, know that the time of the End of the Age is near”.

A. Political Realm – Wars and rumors of wars.

According the United Nations official website, the number of wars being waged around the world is growing.

“United Nations peacekeeping is facing an extraordinary challenge. The number of operations is reaching a record level, troop deployment is on an upward spiral and the need for more civilian specialists is becoming  United Nations defines “major wars” as military conflicts inflicting 1,000 battlefield deaths per year. In 1965, there were 10 major wars under way. The millennium ended with much of the world consumed in armed conflict or cultivating an uncertain peace. At the end of 2003, there were 15 Major Wars under way, with at least 20 “lesser” conflicts ongoing.

The world is becoming more and more hostile. You will hear noise of wars far away and close by. But we have been asked not to panic because such things must happen. Contrary to all the dreams of the enlightenment and the empty promises of the secular educators, man is not getting better and better. He is merely learning how to become more efficient at killing one another.

Today there are wars and rumors of war. Countries are fighting against each other. The struggle for the seat of power is becoming bloody. But the End has not come yet.

 

B. Natural Realm

Jesus said that in the days before He returned there would be famines, pestilence, plagues and earthquakes in various places.

Most people live in a bubble, unaware of the world around them.

Now Coronavirus has become the order of the day. With positivity, God is showing us Mercy by wiping the pandemic.

In Kenya, torrential rainfall displaced thousands from their homes and destroyed crops and homes. In Djibouti, a cholera outbreak had the World Health Organization concerned.  In Madagascar, cyclones wiped out most of their crops, in Zambia, floods devastated the land; West Africa was beset by a plague of desert locusts; in Kyrgyzstan, landslides took a number of lives and became a major problem; in Tajikistan, earthquakes destroyed homes and killed folks, and in Iran, some 43,200 people were killed in an earthquake that measured 6.7 on the Richter scale.

All these are like the first pain of childbirth.

 

C. Moral Realm

He said it would be a day of lawlessness – a day when people rejected any kind of authority.

If there was ever a day of lawlessness it is today. Lawlessness means that man knows what the moral law of God is but not only purposely chooses to disobey it, but chooses to do away with God’s ld’s law altogether, thus it translates lawless, or without God’s law.

Jesus is saying that before he returns people will be given over to sin, as they were in the days of Noah, as they were when they provoked God to destroy the earth with the great flood. They will do what is evil and call it good, they will seek to eradicate all elements of God’s law from their lives (the secularization of society) and they will live according to how they feel, following the desires of their reprobate minds.

This is what it will be like in the days before Jesus comes. But what of the Spiritual realm?

 

D. Spiritual realm

There will be false prophets.

Beloved, a false prophet is one who teaches and preaches that which is contrary to the word of God. You don’t have to look very hard to find them.

Many Christians have itching ears today, no longer wanting to hear the truth of God’s Word to obey it, but instead would rather see and participate in a circus atmosphere and listen to wild unsubstantiated stories.

As strange as it may seem, people are being led into cults and false religions by the millions. Thanks to broadcast technology, today’s false prophets can reach more people than every before.

But not only will there be false prophets, but…

The love of many will have grown cold.

Like the church at Ephesus, many churches and many Christians have lost their first love. They have become so enamored by the world in which they live, they have forgotten that they are to live for the world that is yet to come. They have forgotten that they are merely pilgrims here on earth, this is not their home. Like the vanity Fair, in Pilgrim’s progress, the world has allured many Christians, turning their love for Christ into a selfish love for pleasure. Satan knows he cannot have our souls, but he can distract us, and keep us from being and doing what God wants us to be and do. Filling our hearts, hands and heads with things of this world, he causes us to let our love for Christ grow cold.

If the culture in which we live is evil, if it has become godless and secular, it is no one’s fault but our own. We, as God’s people have been called to be the salt and light, we have been called as God’s ambassadors. If our culture rots it is because we have neglected the battlefield and the weapons of our warfare, having instead opted for the playground of this world. (weeps)

 

E. Missions Realm

The gospel shall be preached in the whole world to all the nations, and then the end shall come.

Never before in the history of the world have we had the capacity to preach the gospel to all nations like we do today. With modern technology, with travel being made easier, with language becoming less and less of a barrier thanks to computers, the gospel can now be preached around the world.

The results from the mission field are astonishing. People are getting saved in places you can hardly believe. Muslims are having dreams about Jesus and are seeking out Christians and coming to Christ, churches in third world countries are sprouting up in record numbers. Great population centers like China and India, the two most populated countries on the earth, are experiencing great movements of God’s Spirit.

Some years ago, the ruling BJP party of India, which was strongly Hindu, was defeated, opening the door for Christians more freely proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. House churches in China continue to explode and it seems like God is opening doors once thought forever closed. Who would have ever thought that the Iron Curtain would come down in our lifetime? And yet it did? God is moving around the world today like never before, and it is happening before our very eyes. Jesus is preparing the world for His return.

 

F. The Social Realm – Life Will Go On As Usual

The emphasis here is not so much on how wicked the folks were in the days of Noah, even though they were wicked enough to incur God’s destructive wrath. The emphasis here is on the fact that the people in Noah’s day, in spite of being warned, carried on with business as usual.

The mundane and ordinary things of life so preoccupied them, that they ignored the preaching of Noah, they ignored the building of the ark. So little attention did they pay to Noah, that when the floods came they were caught totally by surprise.

That’s the emphasis here in verses 40-41. It’s not so much the separation of families or friends, as it is how much of a surprise the second coming of Jesus will be to some people.

The message here is that in spite of these warning signs, in spite of the gospel being preached, in spite of all these things, people will have ignored the obvious, and have opted for the things which fill up everyday life. Thus, they will not understand until after He returns.

How then should we behave?

Remember, Jesus does not merely give us this to inform us about His Return, but rather to transform us, to get us into motion, into activity, so that when He returns He will find us doing what it is He has called us to do.

So as you move out on Monday, be conscious. Be alert.

WHEN YOU SEE THESE THINGS KNOW THAT YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH!

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO WILL BE FOUND WORTHY ?