In case you’ve never heard or paid close attention to John Lennon’s hit song, “Imagine”, here is a portion of the lyrics:

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

 

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you

 

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one…

Talk about wishful thinking! This reminds me of the purposes and plans of the builders of the tower of Babel.

We live in a fallen world full of fallen people. Such pipe-dreams never pan out. Just as Scripture predicted, the days continue to get worse. In passages like Ephesians 2:12, the apostle Paul reminded us that before a person is saved, he or she is “without hope” because they are “without God in the world”. Viral songs and efforts by celebrities such as this only serve to further solidify the already rock-solid veracity and prophetic nature of the Bible.

And speaking of prophecy, no matter what your understanding (or lack of understanding) of end-times prophecy might be, one thing that everyone who takes an honest look at the Bible can agree on is that, if the Bible is true (and of course it is), then we are clearly in what it calls the last days.

The Bible uses at least three terms to refer to them: “The time of the end” (Daniel 8:17); “the last time” (1 John 2:18), and of course “the last days” (2 Timothy 3:1). Take a look at the contexts of these passages and others that correspond to them, and you will see that the last days essentially began when Jesus came and died for sin, and was raised again.

And while we as believers must, with God, let a day be as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day (2 Peter 3:8), we must also realize and remember the transience of our mortal nature, the brevity of our days, and the utter meaningless of every single second we spend in this life without a true relationship with our Creator.

Listen to David’s words in Psalm 39:4-8…

4 “LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered—how fleeting my life is. 5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.” 6 We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it. 7 And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you. 8 Rescue me from my rebellion. Do not let fools mock me.”

Many like Gal Gadot and other celebs may mock and ridicule Christians today. But I’ll always take the lyrics of the songwriter, King David, over anything a godless writer like John Lennon has to say. You can waste your time trying to imagine away the obvious. And if you can find contentment in believing that the beautifully complex, wonderfully structured human body and mind is not the product of an intelligent designer, then be my guest.

However such an attitude is not new. The apostle Paul was moved by the Holy Spirit to address it in Romans 1:18-23 where he wrote…

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

They became futile in their speculations (meaning vain in their IMAGINATIONS)… That says it all!

It is the very same apostle (Paul) who warned in 2 Timothy 3 that in the last days, hard times will come when people everywhere will love themselves and their pleasures and be haters of God.

Take a look around. It is the last days. The righteousness of God is revealed perfectly in Jesus Christ (Rom. 1:16-17), but the wrath of God is also clearly revealed in humanity and in the world (Rom. 1:18). God is already judging America.

The reason there are deadly pandemics; the reason regimes recklessly produce and release deadly viruses; the reason politicians politicize such evil to gain or regain power; the reason economies are unintentionally or intentionally crashed; the reason people hoard essential items (and even toilet paper) without regard for the needs of others; all of this is because we are in the last days.

But never mind how long the world might have; HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE? Your only hope is to trust in the Creator and Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. Or, you can remain as one of the many on what Jesus called the broad road that leads to destruction. Notice how Romans chapter 1 continues and ends (vv. 25-32)…

24 Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error. … 29 They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. 32 Although they know God’s just sentence — that those who practice such things deserve to die — they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

Revelation 22, the last chapter of the Bible, contains Christ’s final warning. He says He will come so quickly that no one will have time to repent. The best way to be ready for His coming is to get ready by true faith in Him, and prove you are ready by continual obedience of His word.

Jesus says that His reward is with Him. And that reward is twofold. It is eternally good for the righteous, but eternally bad for the unrighteous. Paul even addresses this fact in Romans 2:5-11. Thus, Revelation 22:10-12 is a condemnation and a call. Read it carefully, and respond wisely… Repent and believe in Jesus:

10 And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. 11 “Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself [or herself] holy.” 12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward [is] with Me, to render to every [person] according to what he [or she] has done.”

Ironically, a group called “American Authors” has written a hit song that continues to be played everywhere even 7 years after its release in 2013. It is called “Best Day of My Life”. It is just one more in a limitless catalog of songs designed to get people, as Jesus once said about Satan, to “savor the things of man, rather than the things of God”.

Today could be the best day of your life to this point, and can be filled with the promise that the best is also yet to eternally come. Will you heed the Spirit and the Bride of Revelation 22:17 by repenting of your sins and coming to Jesus in faith? The Bible declares and proves that we are in the last days. Your unwillingness to believe it doesn’t change the fact that it’s true.

Take a look at what a deadly virus is doing all around us. It is another warning from God to repent. Instead of letting vain IMAGINATIONS get the best of you, REALIZE that, rather than being the worst day (or possibly even the best day), this could actually be THE LAST DAY… of your life.

In case you’ve never heard or paid close attention to John Lennon’s hit song, “Imagine”, here is a portion of the lyrics:

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

 

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you

 

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one…

Talk about wishful thinking! This reminds me of the purposes and plans of the builders of the tower of Babel.

We live in a fallen world full of fallen people. Such pipe-dreams never pan out. Just as Scripture predicted, the days continue to get worse. In passages like Ephesians 2:12, the apostle Paul reminded us that before a person is saved, he or she is “without hope” because they are “without God in the world”. Viral songs and efforts by celebrities such as this only serve to further solidify the already rock-solid veracity and prophetic nature of the Bible.

And speaking of prophecy, no matter what your understanding (or lack of understanding) of end-times prophecy might be, one thing that everyone who takes an honest look at the Bible can agree on is that, if the Bible is true (and of course it is), then we are clearly in what it calls the last days.

The Bible uses at least three terms to refer to them: “The time of the end” (Daniel 8:17); “the last time” (1 John 2:18), and of course “the last days” (2 Timothy 3:1). Take a look at the contexts of these passages and others that correspond to them, and you will see that the last days essentially began when Jesus came and died for sin, and was raised again.

And while we as believers must, with God, let a day be as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day (2 Peter 3:8), we must also realize and remember the transience of our mortal nature, the brevity of our days, and the utter meaningless of every single second we spend in this life without a true relationship with our Creator.

Listen to David’s words in Psalm 39:4-8…

4 “LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered—how fleeting my life is. 5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.” 6 We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it. 7 And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you. 8 Rescue me from my rebellion. Do not let fools mock me.”

Many like Gal Gadot and other celebs may mock and ridicule Christians today. But I’ll always take the lyrics of the songwriter, King David, over anything a godless writer like John Lennon has to say. You can waste your time trying to imagine away the obvious. And if you can find contentment in believing that the beautifully complex, wonderfully structured human body and mind is not the product of an intelligent designer, then be my guest.

However such an attitude is not new. The apostle Paul was moved by the Holy Spirit to address it in Romans 1:18-23 where he wrote…

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

They became futile in their speculations (meaning vain in their IMAGINATIONS)… That says it all!

It is the very same apostle (Paul) who warned in 2 Timothy 3 that in the last days, hard times will come when people everywhere will love themselves and their pleasures and be haters of God.

Take a look around. It is the last days. The righteousness of God is revealed perfectly in Jesus Christ (Rom. 1:16-17), but the wrath of God is also clearly revealed in humanity and in the world (Rom. 1:18). God is already judging America.

The reason there are deadly pandemics; the reason regimes recklessly produce and release deadly viruses; the reason politicians politicize such evil to gain or regain power; the reason economies are unintentionally or intentionally crashed; the reason people hoard essential items (and even toilet paper) without regard for the needs of others; all of this is because we are in the last days.

But never mind how long the world might have; HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE? Your only hope is to trust in the Creator and Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. Or, you can remain as one of the many on what Jesus called the broad road that leads to destruction. Notice how Romans chapter 1 continues and ends (vv. 25-32)…

24 Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error. … 29 They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. 32 Although they know God’s just sentence — that those who practice such things deserve to die — they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

Revelation 22, the last chapter of the Bible, contains Christ’s final warning. He says He will come so quickly that no one will have time to repent. The best way to be ready for His coming is to get ready by true faith in Him, and prove you are ready by continual obedience of His word.

Jesus says that His reward is with Him. And that reward is twofold. It is eternally good for the righteous, but eternally bad for the unrighteous. Paul even addresses this fact in Romans 2:5-11. Thus, Revelation 22:10-12 is a condemnation and a call. Read it carefully, and respond wisely… Repent and believe in Jesus:

10 And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. 11 “Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself [or herself] holy.” 12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward [is] with Me, to render to every [person] according to what he [or she] has done.”

Ironically, a group called “American Authors” has written a hit song that continues to be played everywhere even 7 years after its release in 2013. It is called “Best Day of My Life”. It is just one more in a limitless catalog of songs designed to get people, as Jesus once said about Satan, to “savor the things of man, rather than the things of God”.

Today could be the best day of your life to this point, and can be filled with the promise that the best is also yet to eternally come. Will you heed the Spirit and the Bride of Revelation 22:17 by repenting of your sins and coming to Jesus in faith? The Bible declares and proves that we are in the last days. Your unwillingness to believe it doesn’t change the fact that it’s true.

Take a look at what a deadly virus is doing all around us. It is another warning from God to repent. Instead of letting vain IMAGINATIONS get the best of you, REALIZE that, rather than being the worst day (or possibly even the best day), this could actually be THE LAST DAY… of your life.

In case you’ve never heard or paid close attention to John Lennon’s hit song, “Imagine”, here is a portion of the lyrics:

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

 

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you

 

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one…

Talk about wishful thinking! This reminds me of the purposes and plans of the builders of the tower of Babel.

We live in a fallen world full of fallen people. Such pipe-dreams never pan out. Just as Scripture predicted, the days continue to get worse. In passages like Ephesians 2:12, the apostle Paul reminded us that before a person is saved, he or she is “without hope” because they are “without God in the world”. Viral songs and efforts by celebrities such as this only serve to further solidify the already rock-solid veracity and prophetic nature of the Bible.

And speaking of prophecy, no matter what your understanding (or lack of understanding) of end-times prophecy might be, one thing that everyone who takes an honest look at the Bible can agree on is that, if the Bible is true (and of course it is), then we are clearly in what it calls the last days.

The Bible uses at least three terms to refer to them: “The time of the end” (Daniel 8:17); “the last time” (1 John 2:18), and of course “the last days” (2 Timothy 3:1). Take a look at the contexts of these passages and others that correspond to them, and you will see that the last days essentially began when Jesus came and died for sin, and was raised again.

And while we as believers must, with God, let a day be as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day (2 Peter 3:8), we must also realize and remember the transience of our mortal nature, the brevity of our days, and the utter meaningless of every single second we spend in this life without a true relationship with our Creator.

Listen to David’s words in Psalm 39:4-8…

4 “LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered—how fleeting my life is. 5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.” 6 We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it. 7 And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you. 8 Rescue me from my rebellion. Do not let fools mock me.”

Many like Gal Gadot and other celebs may mock and ridicule Christians today. But I’ll always take the lyrics of the songwriter, King David, over anything a godless writer like John Lennon has to say. You can waste your time trying to imagine away the obvious. And if you can find contentment in believing that the beautifully complex, wonderfully structured human body and mind is not the product of an intelligent designer, then be my guest.

However such an attitude is not new. The apostle Paul was moved by the Holy Spirit to address it in Romans 1:18-23 where he wrote…

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

They became futile in their speculations (meaning vain in their IMAGINATIONS)… That says it all!

It is the very same apostle (Paul) who warned in 2 Timothy 3 that in the last days, hard times will come when people everywhere will love themselves and their pleasures and be haters of God.

Take a look around. It is the last days. The righteousness of God is revealed perfectly in Jesus Christ (Rom. 1:16-17), but the wrath of God is also clearly revealed in humanity and in the world (Rom. 1:18). God is already judging America.

The reason there are deadly pandemics; the reason regimes recklessly produce and release deadly viruses; the reason politicians politicize such evil to gain or regain power; the reason economies are unintentionally or intentionally crashed; the reason people hoard essential items (and even toilet paper) without regard for the needs of others; all of this is because we are in the last days.

But never mind how long the world might have; HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE? Your only hope is to trust in the Creator and Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. Or, you can remain as one of the many on what Jesus called the broad road that leads to destruction. Notice how Romans chapter 1 continues and ends (vv. 25-32)…

24 Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error. … 29 They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. 32 Although they know God’s just sentence — that those who practice such things deserve to die — they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

Revelation 22, the last chapter of the Bible, contains Christ’s final warning. He says He will come so quickly that no one will have time to repent. The best way to be ready for His coming is to get ready by true faith in Him, and prove you are ready by continual obedience of His word.

Jesus says that His reward is with Him. And that reward is twofold. It is eternally good for the righteous, but eternally bad for the unrighteous. Paul even addresses this fact in Romans 2:5-11. Thus, Revelation 22:10-12 is a condemnation and a call. Read it carefully, and respond wisely… Repent and believe in Jesus:

10 And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. 11 “Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself [or herself] holy.” 12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward [is] with Me, to render to every [person] according to what he [or she] has done.”

Ironically, a group called “American Authors” has written a hit song that continues to be played everywhere even 7 years after its release in 2013. It is called “Best Day of My Life”. It is just one more in a limitless catalog of songs designed to get people, as Jesus once said about Satan, to “savor the things of man, rather than the things of God”.

Today could be the best day of your life to this point, and can be filled with the promise that the best is also yet to eternally come. Will you heed the Spirit and the Bride of Revelation 22:17 by repenting of your sins and coming to Jesus in faith? The Bible declares and proves that we are in the last days. Your unwillingness to believe it doesn’t change the fact that it’s true.

Take a look at what a deadly virus is doing all around us. It is another warning from God to repent. Instead of letting vain IMAGINATIONS get the best of you, REALIZE that, rather than being the worst day (or possibly even the best day), this could actually be THE LAST DAY… of your life.