The Great Shaking of 2025

As we have seen already this year, the world is experiencing a great shaking in 2025, which will continue throughout the year. The great shaking is necessary to wake people up to the fact that Jesus Christ is coming soon, and to dislodge sin and idolatry. As the Word of God says:

"At that time his voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, 'Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.' The words 'once more' indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire." (Heb 12:26-29).

Everything that can be shaken will be shaken.

We saw many shakings last year in the months leading up to 2025, such as Hurricane Helene that devastated homes, cars, and lives across multiple US states and cost $225 - 250 billion in damage, as western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee suffered the brunt of the damage, which will take years to recover from. Moreover, the US Geological Service (USGS) has reported an unprecedented spike in volcanic activity across the Pacific rim. We also saw so-called "drone" incursions from UFOs for three months from October through December 2024 across 43 US states, 19 other countries, plus one US district and one commonwealth, as I detailed in my article Worldwide "Drone" Incursions. 

As we entered into the New Year of 2025, the shakings began to come in rapid succession one after another, and they continue until today, but here are some of them:

January 2, 2025 - A Van's RV-10 aircraft crashed into a warehouse in Fullerton, California, 2 dead, 19 injured, 11 requiring hospitalization.

January 7, 2025 –  Multi-day, widespread, devastating wildfires, particularly the Palisades and Eaton fires, ravaged the Los Angeles, California area, destroying thousands of homes and structures, wiping out entire communities, forcing mass evacuations, and resulting in at least 29 deaths, as well as $250 – 275 billion in damage.  

January 10, 2025 - Severe winter storm in the Southeast United States caused $14 – 17 billion in damage.

January 29, 2025 – Wild fires burned across the region of Western North Carolina where they are still recovering from the flooding and destruction from Hurricane Helene in the fall of 2024.

January 30, 2025 – Jet airliner midair collision with Army helicopter over the Potomac River, Washington, DC, 67 dead.

January 31, 2025 – Air ambulance crash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 dead, 19 injured.

February 10, 2025  - Two private jets collided midair at Scottsdale Airport, Arizona; 1 dead, 4 injured.

February 17, 2025 – Delta plane crash lands upside down at Toronto International airport, 18 injured.

February 17, 2025 - "Southern Botswana and eastern South Africa were hit by heavy rainfall, sparking severe flooding across the region. The floods claimed at least 31 lives, including 22 in KwaZulu-Natal, near Durban, and at least nine in Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, amongst them six children." 5,000 people displaced. - World Weather Attributor.

February 19, 2025 - Two small aircraft collided midair near an airport outside of Tucson, Arizona; 2 dead.

March 7, 2025 - Extreme heat followed by flooding events in Argentina, 300 mm of rain in just 8 hours, 16 dead, 1,400 displaced.

March 7, 2025 - Extreme heat affected large region of Eastern Africa from mid-February through March. Extreme daytime temperatures were recorded in South Sudan affecting a large part of the population, dozens of children collapsed with heatstroke, school closures for two weeks nationwide, and deaths were reported. - World Weather Attributor.

March 14, 2025 - 52 tornadoes, wildfires, and dust storms, 37 dead in cross-country US storm system. Over 200,000 are without power across five states. 

March 20, 2025 - Indonesia’s Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano erupted in East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. Ash plume reached 53,000 feet (16.2 km).

March 25, 2025 - Wildfires in southern South Korea kill 18 people.

March 24-26, 2025 – Largest coronal hole seen in the sun in 10 years, over 600,000 miles wide, resulted in high-speed stream of solar wind swirling around earth and a G1-G2 geomagnetic storm. Sun's proton particles are known by scientists to trigger seismic activity, and an increase in seismic activity has been observed since this event.

March 28, 2025 – Massive 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar causing damage, death, and injuries as far away as Thailand. At least 3,354 confirmed dead, 4.850 injured, 220 missing.

March 28, 2025 – Wildfires rage across parts of Western North Carolina again, as well as the seacoast.

March 28, 2025  - South Texas and Mexico flood, half a year’s rain in one week, 4 dead.

April 2, 2025 - "In March 2025, Central Asia experienced an unusually intense heatwave, with temperatures reaching record highs across the region, reaching maxima of 30.8°C Jalalabad in Kyrgyzstan, 29.4°C Namangan, 29.1°C Fergana, in Uzbekistan and minimum temperatures of 18.3°C in Shahdara, making it the hottest March night in Kazakhstan’s history." - World Weather Attributor.

April 4, 2025 - Global seismic burst (i.e., major uptick in seismic activity) since March 21st, triggered a bunch of high magnitude (6.0 and 6.5 or greater) earthquakes worldwide that have been popping off one after another. We are overdue for an 8.0 or higher megaquake.

April 5, 2025 - Over 324 millimetres (12.8 in) of rain fell in 24 hours in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, leading to significant flooding and landslides.

April 6, 2025 – Devastating tornados strike Arkansas, Indiana, Tennessee. Cars and homes destroyed. 40 tornadoes, 1-in-1,000-year mass flooding, 19 dead, causing $80 – 90 billion in damage.

April 6, 2025 – Kanlaon Volcano erupted in the Philippines, ash plume 13,000 feet.

April 8, 2025 - Roof collapses at Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. At least 58 people killed and 160 people injured.

April 8, 2025 - The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii has now erupted 17 times since December, characterized by episodic lava fountaining and toxic gas emissions. 

April 12, 2025 - Magnitude 5.6 earthquake in northern Chile.

April 12, 2025 - Magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Pakistan.

April 13, 2025 - Magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Tajikistan.

April 13, 2025 - Wildfires in Vietnam.

April 14, 2025 - Magnitude 5.2 earthquake in San Diego.

April 15, 2025 - Wildfires in Iowa, USA.

April 24, 2025 - New Jersey Wildfires, more than 15,000 acres are burning.

April 25, 2025 - Magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Ecuador.

May 1, 2025 - Wildfires in Israel, worst in Israel's history, scorched around 20 sq km (7.7 sq miles) of land in the Latrun area, forcing evacuations of towns near Jerusalem.

May 16, 2025 - Tornados struck Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, and Wisconsin, mass devastation, including St. Louis, Missouri and London, Kentucky. 27 dead.

May 17, 2025 - Car bombing outside fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, deemed act of terrorism. 1 dead, 4 injured.

May 17, 2025 - Mexican Navy tall ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, sending people into the water. 2 killed, 19 injured (2 seriously).

May 27, 2025 - Massive chemical plant explosion in Shandong, China. 5 killed, 6 missing.

June 6, 2025 - A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile, causing minor infrastructure damage and power outages.

June 8, 2025 - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Colombia.

June 8, 2025 - Riots and anarchy in Los Angeles, California, National Guard called out.

June 20, 2025 - A powerful earthquake of 5.1 magnitude struck northern Iran's Semnan area near Tehran.

July 4, 2025 - Deadly flooding of the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas. 119 dead, 170 missing.

July 4, 2025 - Madre fire, California's biggest fire of the year, explodes in size to over 70,000 acres.

July 29, 2025 - Multiple mass shootings across the USA today. The Bronx. Midtown Manhattan, and Reno, Nevada. 9 killed.

July 29, 2025 - Magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit off the coast of Russia, tsunami hit Russia, and 5.5 foot tsunami waves even hit Hawaii. Krasheninnikov volcano erupts in Russia following earthquake after nearly 500 years of inactivity.

July 31, 2025 - Flooding in Beijing, China causes massive devastation and kills 38 people.

July 31, 2025 - Massive flooding in San Fernando, Spain.

August 3, 2025 - Intense flooding hits Santa Marta, Colombia from heavy rains, causing mass destruction.

August 3, 2025 - Major flooding from monsoon rains hits 13 districts in Northern and Eastern, India.

August 4, 2025 - Volcanoes in Russia erupting in en masse.

August 4, 2025 - Major landslide in the Himalayan state of Uttarkashi, India, at least 4 dead.

August 7, 2025 - Flash flood hit Ourika, Morocco killing at least 7 people.

August 7, 2025 - Flash flood hit Santa Marta, Colombia. Over 60 districts flooded, with water reaching depths of up to 2 meters. 

August 8, 2025 - Flash flood hit Gansu Province, China. 10 dead, 33 missing.

August 8, 2025 - Wildfires consumed nearly 16,000 acres of land amid a surge of fires across Europe. 1 dead.

August 8, 2025 - Wildfire in Monroe Canyon, Utah reached 70,000 acres nearly a month after it ignited.

August 31, 2025 - Massive earthquakes in Afghanistan. Death toll over 2,200 people.

August 31, 2025 - A landslide wiped out an entire village in Sudan 's western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1000 people in one of the deadliest ever to strike the nation.

There are many more shakings that have happened and are happening that are not recorded here, but there are too many to keep up with. This should be enough of a sampling to help you see that we are no longer in normal times as usual, but are in the period when the world is going through birth pains as the return of Christ draws near.

As Susan Cummings was told by the Lord in a message she received from Him in a dream: "The Great Shaking has only just begun in reality, but I showed you so that you would know My Heart in it. The Shaking is necessary to dislodge all of the deeply entrenched sins and idolatry of the nation. Much is entrenched beneath the land and has been there from the beginning. But, I am visiting the land, and it will be shaken so that it can be freed. The mountains erupted from the great pressures that have been building and from the battle that has been waged over the destiny of your land." -- from Susan Cummings dream called "The Summons"

Moreover, judgments and wrath of God that will take place after Jesus comes to rapture His Bride will make this current period of birth pains seem fairly easy in comparison. The seven-year period after the rapture is the time of punishment that is coming upon the whole earth to test those who live upon the earth. It's also call the Great Tribulation or the time of Jacob's trouble. The prophet Jeremiah wrote:

“This is what the Lord says: ‘Cries of fear are heard– terror, not peace. Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale? How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it." (Jer 30:5-7).

Closing Words

These are signs of the times, people. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. It's time for everyone to wake up, repent, and put your faith in Jesus Christ, who is coming back very, very soon. There's no time left to waste, playing games. Jesus is coming back right away, and you need to get your life right with Jesus right now. Please don't miss the rapture and be left behind in the Great Tribulation, which is set to begin at any moment, which will be hell on earth for seven years and make the Great Shaking of 2025 pale in comparison.

Attribution Notice: Scriptures takes from the Holy Bible NIV, copyright Zondervan, used by permission. Images used according to Fair Use Act for educational and commentary purposes only.

Author's note: Many Revelations Concerning September 2025 Rapture,Did the Pope Open Demonic Portals?, Worldwide "Drone" Incursions, Woman has Vision of New Jerusalem - Jesus Coming Soon!, Noah and Lot Parallels with Rapture, Dreams and Visions: Tsunamis, Asteroids, Nuclear, Earthquakes, Chaos, Are You Rapture Ready?, Rapture Dreams: Jesus is Coming Soon!. You may also visit our Signs of the Times Directory, and access my complete blog directory at Writing for the Master.

Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus.  Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe.

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

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Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.  He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org

Jesus Gives Autistic Boy an Urgent End Time Message

 A woman commented on Youtube saying, "I have an incredible testimony. My son is 15 years old and is nonverbal. He has autism. In the past few years, we have been working on his communication through a spelling board. You will never believe what he spelled to me, he said he saw Jesus in a dream, I asked him, what did Jesus say? He spelled... I AM COMING SOON! If you could know my son, you would know how miraculous it is that he gave me this message.  I am so blown away that Jesus gave my special needs child this message. Hallelujah get ready, our king Jesus is truly coming for us."

Author's note: I also recommend reading The Antichrist, Obama Says, "I'll Be in My House Again Soon.", Pope Frances Supports Homosexuality,  The Mark of the Beast - 666, Dreams and Visions: Tsunamis, Asteroids, Nuclear, Earthquakes, Chaos, Rapture Revelation to Ayodelle Sawyerr, and Rapture Revelation to Angelica Zambrano. You may also visit our Signs of the Times Directory. You may access my complete blog directory at Writing for the Master.

Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus.  Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe.

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

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Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.  He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.

This Crisis Will Pale in Comparison to What's Coming

We are living in unprecedented times, experiencing things that none of us -- not even the elderly -- have seen in our lifetimes. There is the coronavirus pandemic with it's sickness, death, food and supply shortages, and draconian measures being taken by the government to contain it. There are also other end time plagues that have been happening around the world, as well as the worldwide economic turmoil.

Life as we once knew it has been transformed into what many are now calling the "new normal". The world as you knew it is over. TruNews reported that "National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Tony Fauci has warned that the world may never 'get back to normal' after the coronavirus pandemic."

Just when you felt like you've had enough of this chaos, and you thought it couldn't get any worse, all of this will pale in comparison to what is yet to come upon the earth. Let me show you what the Scriptures say. For example, the prophet Amos said:

"Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him. Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light— pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?" (Amo 5:18-20).

That's what I mean when I say it is going to get worse. It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him. Amos went on to say:

"I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said: 'Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword. Not one will get away, none will escape. Though they dig down to the depths below, from there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to the heavens above, from there I will bring them down. Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them. Though they are driven into exile by their enemies, there I will command the sword to slay them. 'I will keep my eye on them for harm and not for good.'" (Amo 9:1-4)

Now is the time to seek the Lord and give Him glory, as the prophet Jeremiah said:

Give glory to the Lord your God
    before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble
    on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
    but he will turn it to utter darkness
    and change it to deep gloom.  (Jer 13:16)

Closing Words
There is no escape from the judgment of God that is coming. Some of the things you can expect to see next are a military invasion of America, as well as World War III. There will also be more cataclysms as the Scriptures clearly said must happen (Mt 24:7; Lk 21:9-11), such as famines, asteroids, tsunamis, a shifting of the earth's magnetic poles, power outages, and more. We are now entering the time of great shaking, when God is shaking everything that can be shaken. These are all signs of the times. Jesus Christ is coming back very, very soon.

The only answer is to turn back to God in repentance, stop doing the things of the world, pray and ask God to forgive you, putting your faith in Jesus to save you. Whether you already know the Lord or not, this is what you should do. Those of us who know Him should repent daily and ask Him to purify our hearts, removing everything from us that is displeasing to Him, and make us ready for the rapture. Only the blood of Jesus can protect us from the wrath of God and save us.

Soon we will see Him coming in the clouds and only the holy will be caught up to meet Him there. He is coming for a Bride that has made herself ready, who is without spot or wrinkle. Pray the Holy Spirit would fill your extra flask with oil, as the five wise virgins did (Matt 25:4). Always be on the watch. Pray that you will be able to stand before the Son of Man when He comes and escape all these things that are coming to pass (Lk 21:36). May we all be counted worthy when He comes. Those who miss it will be left behind to go through the Great Tribulation, which will be like hell on earth. That's why I am writing to you this message to help you get ready before it's too late.

Attribution notice: Scripture quotation taken from the the Holy Bible NIV, copyright Zondervan, user by permission. Image courtesy Pixabay.

Author's note: You must take responsibility for your own actions. Nobody knows the day or the hour, and in no way am I date setting. This is only to provide you with information, so that you can make your own decisions, for which you will be accountable to God.  You may also want to read my other related posts:

Dreams and Visions: Tsunamis, Asteroids, Nuclear, Earthquakes, Chaos	Russian Attack on Ukraine Begins WWIII	Are You Rapture Ready?
Darkened Skies in the Last Days	The End Tim Plagues	The Seven Seals Being Opened in Real Time
The Land Mourns in the Last Days	Rapture Dreams: Jesus is Coming Soon!	Mark of the Beast (666)
The 311 Moment	Sequence of Signs Preceding the Coming of Christ	Synching Up the Seven Seals with the Gospels

You may also visit our Signs of the Times Directory, and access my complete blog directory at Writing for the Master.

Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus.  Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe.

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

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Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.  He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org

America's Doom Punctuated by a Boom!

We have been reading through the book of Revelation as a family, and last night something amazing happened as we were doing so during our family devotions. We were reading the entire chapter of Revelation 18 about the fall of Babylon and had just finished reading the following verses:

“When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry: ‘Woe! Woe to you, great city, you mighty city of Babylon! In one hour your doom has come!’" (Rev 18:9-10, NIV).

Immediately after we read the words "In one hour your doom has come!" there was a huge explosion near our home that made a great big "BOOM!" sound and shook the house. We marveled at how the boom had so emphatically punctuated the verse we had just read. It was unlike anything I have ever heard in the civilian world in my whole life. Although in the Army infantry during the late 1980's, I heard plenty of explosions from military ordinance that would be comparable to that.

That happened at 10:45 PM EDT on October 7, 2017 about 300 miles inland from the east coast of the United States. We did not see any flash, fireball or flames, but we were inside our home with the blinds closed, so that doesn't mean that none of these things accompanied the sound of the explosion. When I spoke to the 911 emergency dispatcher at 11:00 PM EDT, she said they had received multiple calls about it, but she could not tell me what it was*. We never heard any sirens from emergency vehicles or police arrive in response to it, nor did we see any flashing police lights, but she did say an officer was coming to the area to investigate it. That was all.

So we speculated among ourselves as to what it could have been. Some wondered if it was a bomb. I checked the weather to see if it could be a lightning strike, but there was no storm activity in our area on the weather website's radar, and we couldn't see any outside our window. Besides, it didn't sound like thunder anyway. One of my children thought it was a meteor that hit the earth. When I heard that suggestion, I thought it was quite possibly a meteor breaking the sound barrier as it flew very closely past our home. Later on, my youngest one said he thought it might have been the voice of God speaking; as the Scripture says, the Father spoke to Jesus audibly from heaven. "The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him." (Joh 12:29, NIV). That instance had occurred in response to Jesus praying, "Father, glorify Your name," as you may recall. "Then a voice came from heaven, 'I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.'” (Joh 12:28b, NIV). Therefore, when God speaks, others may hear it and it may sound like thunder or a great booming sound.

In my opinion, we may find out one day what the explosion was, and there may be a natural explanation like a meteor. Or we may never find out, because there may be no physical evidence for police to determine the cause of it. But regardless of what caused it, I think it was certainly more than a coincidence that it occurred right after we had just read the prophetic words of God, "In one hour your doom has come!"

Just prior to reading this chapter, we had just watched a video on Youtube by a sister in Christ who said the Lord spoke to her and told her that He is going to bring judgments upon America, such as the coast lands of California, Florida, and New York. She described America as the great Babylon we read about in Revelation 18. And we had not planned to watch that video either, in order to make it coincide with the chapter we were going to read during devotions. The video was suggested to us in the side bar while we were watching something else, and the title of it did not indicate that she would be speaking about Revelation 18.

Katy Perry stands singing atop giant beast

The other coincidence is that on the previous night, right before we read Revelation 17, I had just read a couple of articles about President Trump by Nathan Leal on Watchman's Cry. The first article made numerous references to America being Mystery Babylon, as described in Revelation 17. In fact, it showed a photo from Superbowl 49 in 2012 of Katy Perry dressed (in my opinion) like a prostitute, entering on a giant beast with red eyes. That was the first article I had read before our family devotions.

The second article I had just read about President Trump made reference to Revelation 17:1-2 with regard to the sexual decadence of America as Mystery Babylon spoken of in that chapter.

It just so happened that after that, we prayed and opened our Bibles to the next chapter of Revelation that we were due to read, and we noted that it was Revelation 17, just as I had just been reading about before devotions.

I believe these things were more than coincidence. If you still have difficulty accepting this, then I suggest you read some of my other articles that help to prove America is Mystery Babylon and judgment is coming upon this nation. I recommend reading Prophetic End Time Warnings from Little Children, The Contractions Are Coming Closer Together, The Vegas Massacre Marks a New Chapter, Wars and Rumors of Wars, Urgent End Time Warning from the Lord, and The Coming Wrath of God. I also recommend my daughter's poems Judgment of Babylon and America, Turn Back to God.

These are the last days, my friends, and it is high time for holiness and consecration to God. It's time for all of us to repent with all our hearts and seek the face of God. Jesus Christ is coming soon. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near.

Afterword
Two days after this event occurred, the local news reported the story on Monday, October 9, 2017. It stated in part, "At about 10:45 pm Saturday, police received calls from residents reporting what sounded like a loud explosion that left the windows of their homes shaking. The reports came from residents who live in a radius several miles wide..." It went on to say, "Officers checked the area and have not yet discovered an explanation for the event. No homes in the area appeared to be damaged and no injuries were reported."

Another news station interviewed residents who heard it. Some of the residents said things like, “It sounded like a legit concussion. It sounded like a bomb.” And “That doesn’t normally happen. It wasn’t thunder.” A local geologist told the news station that there is no data to confirm seismic activity caused the boom. Police also checked the local landfill and confirmed there had been no evidence of methane issues or any other explosions. It remains a mystery to local residents and police.

In November 2017, after this article was posted, mysterious booms like this were reported being heard around the world in places like Connecticut, New Jersey, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, California, Idaho, Washington, Australia, Russia, and the United Kingdom. They have also been reported earlier in 2017 and even in 2016. The Lord is warning us that He is coming soon.

Author's note: You must take responsibility for your own actions. Nobody knows the day or the hour, and in no way am I date setting. This is only to provide you with information, so that you can make your own decisions, for which you will be accountable to God.

I also encourage you to read Prophetic End Time Warnings from Little Children, Urgent End Time Warning from the Lord, The Coming Wrath of God, America’s Destruction is at Hand, Word of Warning for America, Urgent Revelations of Christ's Imminent Return, Repent and Flee the Coming Wrath, Grieve and Lament for the Church, Repentance That Leads to Life, Rapture Revelation Given to Sister Claire Andoun, Rapture Revelation to Angelica Zambrano, Rapture Revelation to James Agboola, Rapture Revelation to Angelica Zambrano, Sequence of Signs Preceding the Coming of Christ, Peace, Safety, and the Thief in the Night, and The Timing of the Rapture, as well as The Messiah Is Coming.  You may also visit our Signs of the Times Directory, and access my complete blog directory at Writing for the Master.

Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus.  Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe.

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

_________________________________________________

Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.  He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.

Prophetic End Time Warnings from Little Children

Lately there have been a number of young children getting visions and prophesying about the end times and the return of Christ. It is a fulfillment of the words of the prophet Joel, who said, "And it shall be in the last days,' God says, 'that I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.'" (Act 2:17; cf. Joel 2:28). I previously wrote about such a case in my article, God Gives Little Girl Revelation of Christ's Return. Now let me share some more of these amazing messages with you, which I believe will truly astound you.

Jesus is Coming Soon!
In this first example posted in April 2017, a little baby that is only nineteen months old is prophesying that Jesus is coming soon!

On one occasion, the baby was on a Whats App call with her grandmother, and kept hanging up on her. Then she inadvertently made it over to a Rapture Watcher's page that showed an image of an angel blowing a trumpet, and she began saying, "Jesus coming soon! Jesus soon! Coming soon!" Although there would be no way for this baby to know that this image signified the last trumpet about to be sounded for the return of Christ, her grandmother told her mother to pray for confirmation. So she prayed for confirmations and began to receive them from the Lord, which she describes in detail.

One of the confirmations she got was that she showed her daughter the following image to the bottom left and asked the baby what she thought about it. The mother had put a title on it that read: "Are you rapture ready?" She also added a quote beneath the photo from 1 Cor 15 about the rapture. The baby had never seen it before, but she began to say, "Jesus." This is amazing, since the image contains no image of Jesus, nor does it have His name on it. It simply shows a man sitting on a bench, looking for the person who was sitting beside him a moment ago, who has just disappeared in the rapture. About fifteen minutes later the mother showed her the picture again, and the baby smiled and said, "Coming soon." Again, since the baby cannot read the words, "I come quickly," she had no way to know that this was about Jesus coming soon, unless it was revealed to her by the Holy Spirit. It certainly appears as if the Lord Himself spoke through her prophetically.

That same night, as the family sat at the table about to eat dinner, the mother prayed, "And Lord, thank you for Acts 2:17 and thank you for the confirmation. In Jesus' name, Amen." So the baby said, "Amen," and so did her older sister. Then her sister asked, "What does confirmation mean?" So the mother simply turned to the baby and said, "What do we need confirmation for?" And the baby immediately replied, "Coming soon! Coming soon!" Then the mother decided to reword it, "Can you confirm something for me?" and the baby replied, "Coming soon! Coming soon!" There is no way a baby knows what the words "confirmation" or "confirmed" mean. This baby's words were recorded on voice clips that are included in the video at this link.

Nukes, Asteroids, Earthquakes, Massive Fissures, Lava, and Evil Giants Coming

Map (click to enlarge)

The next example is this one, in which a woman shares about a vision of the Tribulation the Lord gave to her nine-year old grandson in February 2017. When she discovered a map that her grandson had drawn on a white, dry-erase board (pictured left), she was shocked at what she saw, so she interviewed him on video, asking him to explain the map.

He said that in the vision while he was awake with his eyes closed, he was standing in space above the earth. From up in space he could see the earth below and it's curvature across the top. He drew the United States of America, South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe and Africa. He made a legend that shows the plus symbol (+) marks those places where nuclear ("nuke") bombs will be dropped, the multiplication symbol (x) stands for locations where asteroid strikes will occur, and the division symbol shows locations where it will be hell on earth. He also showed in the legend a jagged line which is seen on the map indicating locations where great cracks or fissures will open up on the earth.

In the vision he saw a flaming, red-hot asteroid coming towards earth, which is pictured on the white board above the top of the map coming down over the Atlantic Ocean. He knew it was going to break somewhere over the Atlantic just after it passed below the horizon curvature at the top. He did not see it explode, but he was shown the locations where the pieces of the exploded asteroid hit. They included locations all along the east coast of the USA, as well as in the Atlantic off the east coast of the USA and in the Caribbean. There was one in the area south of Greenland, northeast of New England. There was another one south of that located due east of the mid-Atlantic states of America. There was another one east of the southern mid-Atlantic states like South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. There was another one in the water apparently northeast of Cuba and Espanol, as well as one southeast of Espanol. There were more strike locations in South America and Africa, too.

He saw war with transcontinental ballistic nuclear missiles coming from both directions toward the USA, including some coming across the Atlantic from the direction of the east that were hitting all over the place and exploding. The locations he marked where the nukes exploded included states like California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, as well as the Midwest states from Michigan down to Alabama and across to Oklahoma. Based on his map, it appears there were a lesser number of nukes also striking northern Scandinavia and Russia, as well as one in the middle of Canada.

He also saw giant people with dark skin and goat's horns walking all over the place in certain areas that he marked with the division symbol. In those same areas, there was also lava flowing all over the place. These giants looked like regular humans, except they were much darker and stronger. They were fierce and scary.

He also saw huge cracks where the surface of the earth was separating in certain parts of the countries. He indicated this on his map in what appears to be part of Europe, as well as diagonally across the USA from the Pacific Northwest states all the way down to Florida. He said the earth was shaking as it was "coming apart," "breaking apart," and "pulling apart." People were falling into the cracks. Interestingly the crack that divided America followed a parallel path to the path of the total solar eclipse that occurred in August 2017. There were also fissures across the ocean floor in the Pacific off the west coast of the US, and in the Atlantic Ocean east of South America and west of Africa.

All of this was happening at the same time that he saw all of the other events happening across the earth. So the nuclear explosions, the asteroid strikes, the walking giants and flowing lava, as well as the giant fissures across the surface of the earth and ocean floor, were all happening simultaneously. The boy was not even going to tell his grandmother about it, but she discovered it and asked him about it. You can watch the video at this link.

My Return is Very Soon
This next one is a video posted by Genevieve Brazel with the testimony of her nine-year old daughter named Savannah, who received a vision in June 2016. The girl said, "I went to my room and I was praying and the Lord gave me a vision. In my vision I saw Jesus. He was wearing all white and a red and blue sash, and He said to me, 'My daughter, I want you to tell everybody that My return is very soon. And I want all of them to ask Me into their hearts and believe in Me.'" She continued, "A couple days ago, the Lord gave me a message that there's going to be a huge earthquake before the rapture will happen, and millions will be killed...after the earthquake happens, the rapture will happen, and all the people that believed in Jesus will be taken in the rapture." However, she was not sure how long after the earthquake the rapture would happen. You may watch the video at this link.

He's Coming! He's Coming! On the Way!
The final one I would like to share is a baby named Lily who in February 2015 was saying that Jesus is coming. She had just turned two years old and was just starting to come up with diverse words and sentences clearly. As she knelt on the bed, she looked up and said, "He's coming, he's coming. He's coming on the way. Say, 'Abba up. Push you up.' The King." Then she pointed up and said, "On the air. King's coming. Abba up! Join Abba up. The King's Abba up. The King's showing Abba up." She kept looking up saying, "Abba up." Then she bowed her head down three times with her face down on the bed in reverence. All of this is on video.

Hours before this video was recorded, her mother explained that baby Lily had woken them up, knocking and talking at her bedroom door. She was saying with urgency, "Something's coming! Something's coming!" She elaborated on her night vision later in the day. That's when her mother captured it on video without the baby knowing.

The next day she brought up the topic again while her mother was cooking breakfast. She said, "Mommy, open up, because God is coming." She then proceeded to knock on the wall three times.

Her mother explained that prior to this experience, the baby's best understanding of God was nighttime prayers. And the parents had not discussed the rapture or end times with her yet, since she was so young. So she came up with all of this independently of her parents, and thus it seems she is receiving it directly from the Lord Himself.

Her mother asked her the question, "If there was one thing you could tell the world, what would you tell them?" The baby took her mothers hands and put them together with the palms up, and then her own hands inside her mothers with her own palms up. After a while, she whispered, "Amen, God. Say Amen?" Then she put her head down over her hands on the end of the bed to signify praying. She ends with "Amen!" as she lifts her head.  She then asked her mother, "Say Amen?" Then she once again put her head down as if praying.

Then the girl waved and smiled at someone invisible behind her mother, even though the two of them were alone in the bedroom. Then the girl knocked several times on the bed's wooden foot board. As she is knocking, she says, "Up, open the door." She also said, "I see the door." You can watch the video at this link.

Putting it All Together
As you can see we have quite a message from the Lord through these children. There is a baby less than two years old saying that Jesus is coming soon. There's another baby, who just turned two, saying that the King is coming on the air, He's on the way. That baby is saying "Abba up, push you up," and other things like that. That baby is signalling everyone to be praying. Then we have a nine year old girl saying the Lord told her that His return is very soon, and that He wants all people to ask Him into their hearts and believe in Him. There is also the nine year old boy, who saw a vision of calamities coming upon the earth, including nuclear missiles, asteroids, people falling into massive fissures, lava coming up out of the earth, and evil giants with goat horns walking around creating hell on earth for everyone. As you can imagine, if asteroids strike the ocean off the coast, it's going to create a tsunami that will impact all the states along the eastern seaboard, as well as the Caribbean islands. This is going to be a time of distress greater than anything the world has ever experienced, which will never be equaled again.

Amazingly these are the same things that a prophet named Lynn Veasley was saying in 2016, which I have written about in my article, Urgent End Time Warning from the Lord. I strongly urge you to read it.

I hope these testimonies have helped to give you a wake up call, if you needed it, or a boost of encouragement, if you have already been watching and waiting for the Lord's return.  The Lord is coming soon! Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near. Ask Jesus into your heart and believe in Him. And if you are already living your life completely for Him, then rescue souls.

Attribution notice: Most Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. Other Scriptures from NIV where noted. Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Author's note: You must take responsibility for your own actions. Nobody knows the day or the hour, and in no way am I date setting. This is only to provide you with information, so that you can make your own decisions, for which you will be accountable to God.

I also encourage you to read The Vegas Massacre Marks a New Chapter for America, God Gives Little Girl Revelation of Christ's Return, The Contractions are Coming Closer Together, Urgent End Time Warning from the Lord, The Coming Wrath of God, Rapture Revelation Given to Sister Claire Andoun, Rapture Revelation to Angelica Zambrano, Rapture Revelation to James Agboola, Rapture Revelation to Angelica Zambrano, Grieve and Lament for the Church, Sequence of Signs Preceding the Coming of Christ, The Rise of Antichrists, Peace, Safety, and the Thief in the Night, and The Timing of the Rapture, as well as The Messiah Is Coming. I also recommend my daughter's music video called The Coming. You may also visit our Signs of the Times Directory, and access my complete blog directory at Writing for the Master.

Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus.  Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe.

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

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Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.  He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.

Urgent End Time Warning from the Lord

I recently wrote about Lynn Veasley's Revelation of Hell, and now I would like to share with you his urgent, end time warning to anyone who will listen.

In this urgent warning, posted on June 7, 2016, he spoke prophetically about the things he heard from the Heavenly Father. The Father told him to share with everyone what's to come. He said:

"He's given us the opportunity of a lifetime to be able to make preparations. His wrath is coming. He told me to go and tell everyone that will listen that time is winding up. He told me over fifteen years ago of the disease and destruction that is coming to the United States and all around the world -- the nuclear bomb, the disease, the tidal wave, which is tsunamis, the earthquakes, and all these other things that are coming, the viruses. As there are so many, you can't just name them all."

"His wrath is coming. He told me to go and tell everyone that will listen that time is winding up. He told me...of the disease and destruction that is coming to the United States and all around the world -- the nuclear bomb, the disease, the tidal wave, which is tsunamis, the earthquakes, and all these other things that are coming, the viruses." 

"God is wonderful. He has so many disciples that He wakes just like me. And it was so refreshing to know that I was not the only one around that was saying the same one thing, and that was 'Repent, because His wrath is here.' Now Father is fixing to lift His hands off the nation, because of the blasphemy. They blasphemed against the Holy Spirit, and that's one thing He's not gonna tolerate. Father said, 'I will stand up and show them who is God.'"

"I know that we think and we believe that as long as we believe in God, we're good to go. But that's not the case. You must know God. God said, 'I will raise up a nation. I will raise up a people that will obey. They will be My people and I will be their God, meaning that we will have a relationship with God -- not seeking fame and fortune, not seeking the riches of this world, but seeking His face."

"Now we are either going to serve God or we're going to serve ourselves - man. We know that all these things we're seeing on television are not good, they're not right, because they've turned their back on God."

"I wanted to tell you in as humble and simple a way (as possible), where it won't be offensive, and where it won't run you off. In a way that will just be simple and easy, and there's just no way to do that. Repent! I had to [do so], everyone has to. You must repent. The way you're living is not going to be enough. If you have sin in your life, it's not going to be enough. If you think that you can just sit here and survive the things that are coming and wait it all out, that's not going to be enough. You can't do it."

"The funny thing I found out and I asked God...how come we don't see the big time preachers preaching about repentance and about what's coming. He said that's because they have their own agenda. Father said, 'I will keep it simple, so I can reach the simple. The ones that have pride, I will not tell them, because they don't seek My face. They don't seek to know Me.'"

"So I asked Father, 'How can I do this? What can I say that will reach them.' He said 'Tell them they only have months. Tell them to get prepared. Tell them that they need to get out of the country.' He said, 'Get out of the way of destruction.'"

"He said, 'Tell them they only have months. Tell them to get prepared. Tell them that they need to get out of the country.' He said, 'Get out of the way of destruction.'"

"I'm like, 'Well, Father, that's a lot to put on someone in a few minutes.' Father said, 'Tell them.' When I go in the front and I talk to my Father, and the Spirit comes on me, He comes on me strongly. He takes over my tongue, my mind, my eyes, my ears. I hear, I see in the Spirit. I speak only the language of the Spirit. And by the time it's over with, I'm worn out. I'm torn down. But I must be obedient to what Father said. Father said, "Repent. Turn." Man is trying their best to act as though no matter what kind of sin it is, it's ok. They have cast the laws of God and thrown them in the trash and made their own law, which is sin. Father said, 'I can forgive all those sins, but this one I will not forgive...'"

"Father will forgive all things, except one thing, and that is blaspheming against the Holy Ghost. And this country and the world has done this. Because I thought it was for sin, so I said, 'Father, so can't you forgive them for their sins?' He said, 'Yes, I forgive all sins.' He said, 'That's not the reason the wrath is coming. That's not the reason why I'm pulling My hands off of the nation and let the earth receive what it's going to receive.' He said, 'Because they've blasphemed against My Spirit.'"

"See, you can't blaspheme if you never had or you've never known anything about it. But once you get the goodness of God and know the sweetness of His Spirit, and then turn and say there is nothing to it, you have blasphemed against God. And God said, 'I will not allow that! I will show My face. I will show man who I am, as I have done with Pharaoh. The world will know that I AM.' I dropped my head and I said, 'Father forgive me for questioning anything.' Father said, 'Receive My words from My prophets on this earth. For this is the time that will change forever. The earth will forever be different. It will forever be changed.' He said, 'Before it is over, over three billion people will die.'

Note: Lynn corrected this in another video and said that one third of the world population will die, and since there are about six billion people in the world, that means two billion people will die.

"Father said, 'Receive My words from My prophets on this earth. For this is the time that will change forever. The earth will forever be different. It will forever be changed.'" 

Lynn says, "I'm like, 'Father, why so many people? why so many people? Even a lot of Christians!' He said, 'The Church has turned its back on Me. The Church is not even standing up for Me.' I said, 'Father, are you angry?' He said, 'When you blaspheme against My Spirit, which I have blessed this nation greatly and made it the number one nation in this world, I will destroy it and make it the least. He said, 'They will suffer greatly. You say that you need not God? You say that you are God? You make your own law -- your law against Him? He said you will suffer greatly. No matter how this earth stands in sin, God has always blessed the righteous and the unrighteous. But Father said He will not tolerate this any more. He said, 'I lift My hands up.' And He said, 'The horsemen come.' And He said, 'The angel comes, and he will sound his trumpet. It is done.' He said, 'I have called many to preach the same thing that I have told you to tell and warn those (that are in their family, friends, everyone that you see) warn them of what's to come.' That's what Father said.

"And I've been warning people. And it hurts your heart to hear someone say, 'You think the government is going to allow this to happen? You think they're going to allow diseases? You think they're going to allow a bomb to happen in this country? You think the government is going to allow all these things?' Lord have mercy! Men think that man is God. God said, 'I will tear it all down -- government and all will fall.' Remember what I said: There's nothing that He ever told me that did not come to pass."

"God wants you to be saved. Listen to me! Repent. If you want to know anything, seek it out. Seek the answers. Look on Youtube. Look up a man named Benjamin Baruch. He has a relationship like I have with Father. And there's many others besides him that are saying the same thing: 'Leave the country.' So many have taken their family and left the country, getting out of the way, because He's going to destroy this country. It will never be the same! Never! And the world is going to rejoice, because great will it fall. Great is the fall of it! Get your passport. Make preparation to leave this country. Don't take the chance of saying, 'Oh, you're just being a radical,' and just blow it off. Don't do that. Why would I tell anyone to leave the country? Why would all of us tell anyone to leave the country unless God said so. We love this country, but we love God more. When God said, 'Move,' move."

"He called it an exodus. You will see it. There are many, many of God's people leaving this country. Some going north. Some going south. But they are getting out of this country. When this country falls, the graves won't be able to hold -- the massive graves -- they will pile up the bodies and they will be burning them. There's not enough."

"Listen, Father has a place for all those that He has told where to go to leave. And their family and their friends are going with them. They've already left, many have. But some are still saying the same thing I'm saying, crying out to their family, pleading and begging their family, so they won't be left behind. Why would God do that, when He's capable of keeping us in the country? Because He said, 'I would rather you be out of the way in a peaceful place, in a better place, than to be around the destruction itself.' He said, 'Those that believe will be safe, if they act on it. Those that do not believe will suffer.'"

"He said, 'I would rather you be out of the way in a peaceful place, in a better place, than to be around the destruction itself.' He said, 'Those that believe will be safe, if they act on it. Those that do not believe will suffer.'"

"This is the time -- today is the time that you believe or don't believe. This is the time that you be for real with God or be fake! There's no more playing church! There's no more, 'Ahh, I'm a believer of God,' and then you go on with your life about your business and don't even known nothing about it. Either you are going to have a relationship with God or you are not. This is the time...This is the end time. This is the time the prophets were talking about that in the latter times many shall depart from the faith, taking heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. What you see on television -- nothing but doctrines of devils, seducing spirits."

Near the end of the video Lynn says that we need to trust God and not man. We need to look around and see the fulfillment of the book of Revelation, the Bible, the prophecies are being fulfilled, and we need to see it with our own two eyes.

He said, "Stand for Jesus. I know this is a lot to say, 'Hey, tribulations are coming! The wrath of God is coming! Pick up and leave!' I know that sounds like a lot. But no more playing church! Either you're going to trust God for real or you're going to trust man."

He said we can make many excuses not to take heed to his warning. People may say, "I can't leave what I have. I've got a house." Lynn responds, "Sell it!" Or others may say, "I can't leave what I have. I've got a great job." Lynn replies, "God gave it to you. He'll bless you with another one." He urges, "We can find many, many reasons why not to believe. But I'm telling you, find the reason to believe. Look! Open your eyes! Look around! See what's going on around you! Know that the heart of many has waxed cold. Know that they have no love for you."

"What do you think is going to happen when hell breaks loose? What do you think's going to happen when God has lifted His hand and all hell is breaking loose -- when you've got the race riots, when you have the diseases, when you have a bomb go off in the country, radiation flying everywhere, when you have earthquakes, tidal waves (tsunamis)? What do you think -- that the government is going to come to your rescue? You can forget that one. I think you found out in New Orleans what happened on that one, and that was one city. We're talking about a nation that's going to drop -- a nation that's going to fall. You get it? Repent!"

"What do you think is going to happen when hell breaks loose? What do you think's going to happen when God has lifted His hand and all hell is breaking loose -- when you've got the race riots, when you have the diseases, when you have a bomb go off in the country, radiation flying everywhere, when you have earthquakes, tidal waves (tsunamis)? What do you think -- that the government is going to come to your rescue?"

He ends by saying, "May God bless you. May God keep you. Don't just take my word for it. Search it out. Look for it. Look for others saying the same thing. Don't count me out as being crazy. Don't count me out for being a radical. Don't count it out. I've never been wrong. That's the sad part, if you count me out. When it comes to Father, I've never been wrong. Get your passport. Whether you have your passport, I'll tell you another word: Repent! Repent. May God bless you. May He give you dreams and visions which He has already done with some of you. If you feel in your heart that something is wrong, it's because God was tugging at your heart and you know this is not going to stand anymore -- this beautiful place, this beautiful place called United States. It will never be the same. The earth will never be the same."
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END OF MESSAGE FROM LYNN VEASLEY

Amazingly this message that brother Lynn posted on Youtube in 2016 is the same as what the Lord has been speaking through little children recently as well, which I have written about in my article, Prophetic End Time Warnings from Little Children. I recommend checking it out.

Author's note: You must take responsibility for your own actions. Nobody knows the day or the hour, and in no way am I date setting. This is only to provide you with information, so that you can make your own decisions, for which you will be accountable to God.

I also encourage you to read Prophetic End Time Warnings from Little Children, God Gives Little Girl Revelation of Christ's Return, The Coming Wrath of God, America’s Destruction is at Hand, Word of Warning for America, Repent and Flee the Coming Wrath, Grieve and Lament for the Church, Repentance That Leads to Life, Rapture Revelation Given to Sister Claire Andoun, Rapture Revelation to Angelica Zambrano, Rapture Revelation to James Agboola, Rapture Revelation to Angelica Zambrano, Sequence of Signs Preceding the Coming of Christ, Peace, Safety, and the Thief in the Night, and The Timing of the Rapture, as well as The Messiah Is Coming.  You may also visit our Signs of the Times Directory, and access my complete blog directory at Writing for the Master.

Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus.  Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe.

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

_________________________________________________

Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.  He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.

Waiting for the Lord's Return

In His Word, God encourages us with the promise of Christ's soon return, and He instructs of our responsibilities until He comes. 

We Wait for Jesus to Come from Heaven
First of all, we must wait for Jesus to come from heaven.

The apostle Paul wrote, “and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.” (1Th 1:10). We know that God's wrath is coming upon this world, and we wait for Jesus Christ His Son to come from heaven and rescue us from His wrath by taking us up in the rapture.

This waiting is something we do eagerly with full expectation. “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;” (Php 3:20). The expression "eagerly wait" comes from one Greek word, "apekdechomai" meaning "to expect fully: - look (wait) for." We know with certainty that He is coming from heaven only for those who fully expect Him to do so.

The Scripture promises that Jesus will appear a second time for salvation. “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await (apekdechomai) Him.” (Heb 9:27-28). This reaffirms once again that the Lord is coming for those who wait for Him to do so with full expectation.

He Will Come from Heaven
In the passages I have just cited, it clearly stated that He is coming from heaven. The following verses also tell us so:

When the Lord ascended into heaven before His disciples, two angels appeared in white and told them that He would return in the same way he went into heaven. They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven."  (Act 1:11)

The Lord also said that He would come on the clouds of the sky. "And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory.  (Mat 24:30).

He Will Descend from Heaven with a Shout
Paul taught that Jesus will descend from heaven with a shout, followed by the resurrection of the dead in Christ and then the catching up of the living saints in Christ into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord." (1Th 4:16-17)

He Will Come with His Mighty Angels in Blazing Fire
Paul said the Lord would come from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire: "For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus." (2Th 1:6-8).

We Must Stay on the Alert
It's essential that we always remain on alert for His return and be ready for it, since it could happen at any time and we don't know when.

"But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come. It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert. (Mar 13:32-34)

"Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will. (Mat 24:42-44). He said that you must be ready, so this is a requirement.

He also warned us to stay awake and stay dressed spiritually, if we do not want to be ashamed at His appearing, since He will come like a theif. ("Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.")  (Rev 16:15).

We Must Abide in Him
The apostle John also warned us to abide in Christ, so that we would not be ashamed at His appearing. "Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming." (1 Joh 2:28)

We Must Love His Appearing
Paul clearly taught that we must fight the good fight and keep the faith if we want to be ready for the Lord's return, since he is only coming for those who love His appearing. He said, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing." (2Ti 4:7-8)

We Will Be Changed in a Moment When He Comes
Paul said we would be changed suddenly in a moment when Jesus comes, just as quickly as the twinkling of an eye. "Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed." (1Co 15:51-52)

We Proclaim His Death Until He Comes
As we wait for His appearing, we must proclaim His death until He comes, and one way we do so is by eating the Lord's Supper. "For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes." (1Co 11:26)

We Must Endure to the End
The Lord taught that only those who endure to the end will be saved: "You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.” (Mat 10:22)

The apostle taught that we must have endurance to do the will of God, so that we may receive our promised eternal life. “For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay. But my righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.” (Heb 10:36-39)

Endurance is required on the part of the saints in order to be saved, since we must continue to obey God's commandments and keep our faith in Christ. “This requires the steadfast endurance of the saints—those who obey God’s commandments and hold to their faith in Jesus.” (Rev 14:12, NET). 

Those Who Endure Must Depart from Sin
Scripture says that in order to run with endurance we must depart from sin: "Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us..." (Heb 12:1)

The Greek word for endurance in this verse means “cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy: - enduring, patience, patient continuance (waiting).” Thayer’s says, “in the NT [endurance is] the characteristic of a man who is not swerved from his deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings.”

The grace of God has appeared not only so that we could be saved and forgiven, but so that we could deny ungodliness and worldly desires and live sensibly, righteously and godly right now, and look for the glory of Christ's appearing. "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus..." (Tit 2:11-13). The Greek word for "looking for" is "prosdechomai" meaning "to await (with confidence or patience): look for, wait for."

Holy and Godly Living Required as We Wait
Scripture exhorts us to conduct our lives in holiness and godliness as we wait for the coming of the day of God. The apostle Peter wrote:

"Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness, while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God? Because of this day, the heavens will be burned up and dissolve, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze! But, according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness truly resides. Therefore, dear friends, since you are waiting for these things, strive to be found at peace, without spot or blemish, when you come into his presence." (2 Pe 3:11-13, NET).

Putting it All Together
God's Word teaches us that we must wait for Jesus to come from heaven. He will surely come for us from heaven, descending from heaven with a shout, as He comes with His mighty angels in blazing fire. At that moment, the dead in Christ will first be resurrected, then those who are still alive in Christ will suddenly be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and caught up to meet the Lord in the air. Therefore, we must stay on the alert, abide in Him, love His appearing, fight the good fight, keep the faith, and proclaim His death until He comes. We must depart from all sin, conduct our lives in holiness and godliness, and endure to the end. We must strive to be found at peace, without spot or blemish, when we enter His presence. May He find us all doing so when He comes.

Attribution notice: Most Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. Other quotations from The NET Bible where noted.
 
Author's note: If you enjoyed this post, you may also like The 311 Moment, The Timing of the Rapture, The Error of Rapture Date Setting, Wars and Rumors of Wars, The End Time Plagues, The Land Mourns in the Last Days, Sequence of Signs Preceding the Coming of Christ, Synching Up the Seven Seals with the Gospels, Michael Shigaba's End Time Message for Mankind, News Headlines Reflect the End Times, my daughter's poem, The Midnight Hour, as well as her music video The Coming, and the other posts in this blog available through the Signs of the Times Directory. You may also access my complete blog directory at Writing for the Master.

Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus.  Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe.

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"

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Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.  He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.