HOPE that NEVER fails!

Dear friends and readers,

In a world gone mad, where do we find our hope?

Most of the articles I write are either Biblically prophetic in nature, warnings of some kind about the way the church/world is headed---and once in a while I write something humorous.

But today, I simply want to share my heart and hopefully give some reminder of HOPE!

We live in a modern world that is being ripped apart from everything that we knew just a few decades ago. And yes, there have always been wars and earthquakes and floods, fires and violence. But what we are witnessing today vastly surpasses anything I have seen in my 3/4 of a century of life on this planet. We as Christians "kind of expect" these things by those "OTHER GUYS" in weird foreign countries---you know--somewhere else?  But here in the good ole U.S. of A.? NEVER!  I personally have never witnessed so much bias, ridiculous statements, extremism, obvious lies and malignant hatred that we now have coming to us every single night on the evening news.

Lots of us believe that the things happening today are signs of the very end times. Frankly I do myself. But also frankly there is ample evidence from the first century that the saints of those days fully hoped and expected the Lord to return in their own generation. After all, what could have been more terrifying and dangerous than life as a believer in a thoroughly pagan, violent Roman Empire?

BUT there is a huge difference between then and now and I believe that we do have more---far more evidence pointing to the Lords soon return than any other generation during the past 2000 years.

And in these things we CAN AND SHOULD find our hope!

First on my hit parade is that we are the only generation since the cross that saw (Well, us oldies saw---but history saw for the rest of you young folk) ---ISREAL BECOMING A NATION ONCE AGAIN ON MAY, 14, 1948! Prophesied many times over in the Bible. And it happened exactly as prophesied---to the inth degree!

This is not an article specifically about fulfilled prophecy so I will not list what I have explained before in article after published article. But many prophecies were exactly fulfilled as were literally dozens having to do with the scattered remnants of the Jewish people, now returning to their homeland. Also well over 100 prophecies at the first coming of Christ to this earth (NOTE:--some scholars put those as high as 300). I don't because some of what is claimed to be prophecy for that event, is pretty difficult to plainly see but the fact remains that over 100 were in fact fulfilled).

And we can see clearly, events unfolding that could indicate that world changing events prophesied in the Bible well over 3000 years ago, may well be on the immediate horizon.

All of these things give us hope for our own futures as believers. That, coupled with specific scripture promising the return of the Lord is ALL ABOUT HOPE!

So, as you turn on your T.V. tonight and witness political rage consuming the very air that we breath, remember that this to will pass. What is on the "OTHER SIDE" for us has zero politics involved. Zero terrorism. Zero bad health, Zero sorrow and Zero death.

Can you imagine?

God bless,
Pastor Rance.
Titus 2:13 "LOOKING FOR THE BLESSED HOPE AND GLORIOUS APPEARING OF OUR GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST"!