Spiritual earthquakes in recent times
GamingOur temporary mission on Planet Earth, if we choose to accept it, will be to unravel the mysteries of God and be in harmony with Him and what He is doing in the world today. The events related to the End Times do not revolve around us and our will, but around God and his will. God has already told us everything we need to know, if only we have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Like any good detective determined to solve a mystery, we must examine and correctly interpret the clues. Perhaps we can get a clue from another case, providing a thread that will unravel these End Times mysteries.
The Pharisees were the religious rulers. They were looking for another physical, mundane realm. When they demanded to know when the Kingdom would come, Jesus told them that the Kingdom of God could not be seen with human eyes. It is something that resides within a person; therefore, we should not go looking for it elsewhere. (Luke 17:20-23)
In the Book of John, Chapter 3, we are told that Nicodemus was a Pharisee, but had been given the rare ability to recognize that Jesus was a teacher sent from God. This insightful comment by Nicodemus gives Jesus an opportunity to respond and offer help.
He tells Nicodemus that the Kingdom of God is an “invisible” Kingdom. To see the Kingdom of God, a person must be born again. Nicodemus wonders what Jesus means by “born again.” He is thinking like a Pharisee in physical terms and the impossibility of returning to the womb.
Jesus corrects Nicodemus’ concept and encourages him to approach this invisible reality from a spiritual perspective.
He tells Nicodemus that being born again is the result of the Spirit of God moving in a person’s life, just as the wind moves across the earth. We cannot, with our earthly eyes, see the Spirit of God moving. But we can see evidence that the Spirit is moving.
As a leading religious authority, Nicodemus should not have ignored this important concept regarding our relationship with God. Jesus warns Nicodemus that if he doesn’t understand this illustration of the wind moving in the earthly realm, how will he understand how the Spirit of God moves in the spiritual realm? For what happens in the physical dimension is actually an illustration of what is happening in the spiritual dimension. (John 3:1-12)
Ah, here is the thread we are looking for. The physical dimension will reveal what is happening in the spiritual dimension and vice versa.
There are things that are made with human hands, things that we can see. These are the things that will happen. There are also things that are established by God that cannot be seen, invisible things. These are the things that will last forever. (Hebrews 12:27-29)
If we want to discover what is really going on in the physical world, then we need to view events from a spiritual perspective. If we have been given the ability to stop focusing on ourselves and have eyes to see and ears to hear, the Bible will give us the spiritual perspective we need to solve these mysteries.
Jesus gave us several clues that help identify the time just before his return. He said there will be wars and rumors of wars. As the countdown begins, nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. Other clues involve earthquakes in many places, famines, and trouble of all kinds. And this is just the beginning. (Mark 13:7-8)
Earthquakes are fractures in the Earth’s crust, or lithosphere, where faulting has occurred over long periods of time. Faults are caused by sections of rock that have slipped past each other causing huge cracks to run through the Earth’s surface. When earthquakes occur, an enormous amount of energy is released; this can cause an immense amount of damage.
In the spiritual realm, spiritual earthquakes create fractures in the fabric of humanity where fault lines and fault lines of other kinds have occurred over long periods of time. Jesus warned us not to build our lives on quicksand, but on the foundation of the solid Rock, Jesus Christ Himself.
In the physical realm, earthquakes are difficult to predict. They often occur with very little warning and have the power to destroy everything in their geographic radius. There is really no way to effectively prepare for them. The loss of life can be great and the lives of those who survive are forever altered.
In the spiritual dimension, spiritual earthquakes also have the power, through upheaval and chaos, to bring down all man-made spiritual structures. They are able to shake all the spiritual dirt and bring it to the surface, while swallowing any plan that is contrary to the Word and the will of God. Furthermore, spiritual earthquakes have the terrible potential to spiritually destroy all eternal human life.
History has left a record of empires and civilizations that have fallen from within when their spiritual foundations have been corrupted, releasing a tremendous amount of destructive energy and also causing an immense amount of damage.
Fortunately, there is a significant difference between physical damage and spiritual damage. Some people, by the grace of God, have been given the ability to see and hear. They will be the few who will walk in harmony with God and will be able to accurately identify the warnings and effectively prepare for what is to come.
God never leaves His people stumbling in the dark.
When the empires of the physical world fall, those who have been born into the spiritual realm of the Kingdom of God will be eternally safe and secure in His hands until the dust settles and “the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord.” “. , and of the Christ of him; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” (Revelation 11:15)
Our mission, if we choose to accept it, is to uncover these end-time mysteries and determine if we are truly God’s sheep and belong to him.
To prepare for what is coming, we must turn away from going our own way, feeding on God’s Word, so that we can hear His voice and follow Him to the place of safety He has prepared for us.