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Wake UP!!!
Wake UP!!!
August 14, 2021 a 7.2 Earthquake devastated the south part of Haiti
As of August 18th - Over 2,100 people have died
On top of that, Haiti was drenched on Monday by a tropical depression that brought heavy rains and winds.
One of Afghanistan's first female mayors said Sunday that she is waiting for the Taliban to come and kill her as the Islamic militants reached the capital, Kabul.
"I'm sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I'm just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me," Zarifa Ghafari, the mayor of Maidan Shar, told the British newspaper i. "I can't leave my family. And anyway, where would I go?"
The announcement Wednesday by top U.S. health officials that booster shots against Covid-19 will be offered to all Americans beginning next month has spurred renewed criticism about existing vaccine inequities and fears that the world's poorer nations will remain unprepared for new and potentially deadlier variants of the coronavirus.
Hurricane Grace swept onto Mexico’s Gulf coast as a major Category 3 storm and moved inland Saturday, drenching coastal and inland areas in its second landfall in the country in two days. At least eight people died, authorities said.
Hurricane Henri is marching toward the Northeast coast ahead of an anticipated Sunday landfall, threatening to bring damaging winds, dangerous storm surge and flooding to an already saturated area.
More than a dozen large wildfires are burning in California grass, brush and forest that is exceptionally dry from two years of drought likely made worse by climate change.
The fires, mainly in the northern part of the state, have burned nearly 1.5 million acres, or roughly 2,300 square miles (6,000 square kilometers).
We are not even talking about what is happening locally....
Lives are being taken and it has nothing to do with the police!
Thessalonians
Paul's main purpose in writing is to encourage and reassure the Christians there.
Paul urges them to go on working quietly while waiting in hope for the return of Christ.
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.
Paul was dealing with the times and the season - current events that were taking place…
“You have no need to have anything written to you.”
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
The reason that they ad no need to have anything written is because they were fully aware…
“The Day Of The Lord”
William Barclay
In the Old Testament, the idea of the day of the Lord is very common; and all the pictures and apparatus which belong to the day of the Lord have been attached to the second coming.
For the Jews, all time was divided into two ages.
There was this present age, which was wholly and incurably bad.
There was the age to come, which would be the golden age of God.
In between, there was the day of the Lord, which would be a terrible day.
It would be a day in which one world was shattered and another was born.
“The day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.”
Paul said…
People will say.... “There is peace and security.”
Then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape…
They will be unaware....
Caught of guard…
But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
Yes no one knows the day nor the hour
But as a believer we should not be surprised by his return....
When a person tells you they will be there.... It doesn’t matter when....
You are not surprised because they told I’ll be there.....
It’s only a surprise if you’re not expecting them to show up!!!!!
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
We are children of light! - Not children of the light
We are the Light
“Children of the day”
You are people who will participate in the glorious events of that day. T
his day is also associated with light -
We have to carry ourselves as participants!
“We are not of the night or of the darkness”
“So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.”
Let us not sleep -
Let us not be unaware
Sleep in sin
unprepared
morally lax
unconcerned about the coming day!
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
For those who are sleep / unaware are sleep at night
Those who are drunk in their lust are drunk at night --- In Darkness
“But”
“Since we belong to the day.... Let us be sober…
Spiritually aware / Coherent / Alert
We have put on the whole armor of God!
The fiery darts are here to put us to sleep......
For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
3 Reasons Why we need to encourage one another!
God Is Good
Wake Up
I got good news
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.