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  • a Year of Disaster & Death for the earth

    a Year of Disaster & Death for the earth

    January 6, in the year of our Lord, 2022: Remembering a Year of Disaster

    Note: Realizing that this 'quick take' includes several statistics, a quick scan of these will get you to the point of these few Scriptures and their implication for our future at the mercy of our Lord. 

(I also project some political opinion which may offend both sides of these issues in the U.S. & the world. 
Glad to hear your opinion IF it connects to Scripture. RH)
    debate stage Trump - Biden

    “They have lied about the LORD
    and said, ‘He won’t bother us!
    No disasters will come upon us.
    There will be no war or famine.

    The Prophet Jeremiah 5:12 NLT

    WORLD POPULATION = 7 [BILLION], 918 [MILLION},291,561 *Current – Source: worldometers.info

    Considering the Disaster of A.D. 2021

    These are the 10 deadliest natural disasters of 2021:

    1. August 2021: Earthquake Kills 2,248 in Haiti
    2. December 2021: Super Typhoon Rai Kills 375 in the Philippines
    3. July 2021: Floods, Landslides in China Kill at Least 302
    4. July 2021: Floods Kill More than 200 in Germany, Belgium
    5. April 2021: Cyclone Seroja Kills at Least 222 Indonesia, East Timor, Australia
    6. October 2021: Flash Floods, Landslides Kill 201 in India, Nepal
    7. May 2021: Cyclone Tauktae Kills at Least 200 in India
    8. August 2021: Hurricane Ida Kills 91 Across 9 U.S. States
    9. December 2021: Tornado Kills 90 Across 5 U.S. States
    10. December 2021: Volcano Eruption Kills 45 in Indonesia

    Source: U.S. News & World Report

    source:
    • SARS‑CoV‑2 − (COVID-19)
      • 5.4–21.4 million total deaths (in ALL years) (as of December 2021)
    • Deaths by #choice of unborn babies worldwide according to World ‘Health’ Organization:
      • 40-50 million abortions average per year
      • Approximately 125,000 abortion deaths of babies per day

    More A.D. 2021 Disaster

    FOOD

    • 857,534,461 Undernourished people in the world

    Refugees (migrants, illegal aliens, immigrants – Men, Women & Children without homes or a place to go)

    • 281 million: The estimated number of international migrants in the world2
    • 50.4 million: The number of internally displaced persons
    • 26 million: Estimated number of refugees in the world
    Trump State of the union address with Speaker Pelosi tearing up the President's speech text

    Don’t let liars prosper here in our land.
    Cause great disasters to fall on the violent.

    Psalm 140:11 NLT

    “So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will never be found again.

    The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John 18:21b

    “Now behold, I Myself am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.

    Genesis 6:17 – The word of the LORD to Noah.

    Disaster and Death: Judgment of Sin and Wickedness!

    Genesis 7

    • 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
    • 20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
    • 21 So all creatures that moved on the earth perished:
      • birds, livestock, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth,
      • and all mankind;
    • 22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

    So He wiped out [all existence] every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.

    Genesis 7:23 NASB20

    The water prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

    וַיִּגְבְּרוּ הַמַּיִם עַל־הָאָרֶץ חֲמִשִּׁים וּמְאַת יֹום׃

    Surely righteous people are praising your name;
    the godly will live in your presence.

    Psalm 140: 13
    What is your short take on this look at violence from Genesis, Jeremiah, Psalm 140 & Revelation?
Which disaster from A.D. 2021 impacted you most. And what do you think God will do about it SOON?


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  • Times of Difficulty – 3

    Times of Difficulty – 3

    Watch Yourselves

    Luke 21:

    34 “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

    Watch yourselves! A warning of apocalypse.

    “Be on guard,” states the King James, with the same Greek word where Jesus warns to ‘beware of false prophets.’ And in case you missed it, Jesus reiterates the warning. “Stay awake;” “keep on alert,” the King James Version warns. Matthew records Jesus using these warnings together as one.

    [ctt title=”‘Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.’ – Mark 13:33″ tweet=”Do the cares of this life obscure the Light of eternal life? Watch yourselves!” coverup=”Kj6Z5″]

    Who does Jesus warn?

    21st century readers could easily dismiss this. Jesus is just preaching to the people of His day. The Temple will be destroyed and Israel will be destroyed. And that’s the end of it.

    Not quite. Although these events of which Jesus warned did take place, as is so often the case, prophecy also applies to other times. Just because you and I live in a different place and a later time does not exclude us from the truth.

    Jesus warns of impending disaster: ” and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.” How often over time does this apply to so many.

    [ctt title=”For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.- Luke 21:35″ tweet=”Disaster prophesied by Jesus: not just for a forgotten time centuries past.” coverup=”1nRD9″]

    Not just Jerusalem. A disaster of the scope of Sodom and Gomorrah comes more to mind. (Lot was on watch. Only Lot sought to obey the Lord by fleeing sin.)

    Jesus does not speak of only ancient Judea, Samaria and Galilee which Rome would destroy later. The Lord warns, “all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.”

    Do those who ignored the warnings of Noah also come to your mind?

    Judgment!

    We don’t like it, the thought of being judged by another. Yet a sovereign God surely rules in righteousness and will judge the living and the dead! We prefer to see Jesus as our humble example of living to love God. Jesus invites us to think of God as Father. Jesus challenges us to love others.

    Yet He often warned of a judgment to come, a judgment with eternal consequence. Here is just one more example of the Almighty authority of Christ Jesus (which could be easily dismissed).

    The Son of Man

    Allow me to isolate what Jesus warns.

    “… But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength… to stand before the Son of Man.”

    Judgment! Jesus clearly warns the He will be our judge. And you will not stand in your own strength, but in His.

    Jesus IS the Son of Man! Jesus also clearly states for all with ears to hear:

    “I and the Father are one.” –John 10:30

    Revelation 14:14-16

    Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.

    And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud,

    “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”

    So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.

    To be continued…