The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel" (Joel 3: 16).
The Kingdom of God must be everything to us so that nothing will be able to move our faith and trust in Jesus Christ! We must have a determined heart and mind to continue on in the faith through much tribulation to the very end. Jesus made it very clear that endurance and patience are essential for the Kingdom of God.
We should prepare our hearts for sorrows. You may rarely hear this preached, but we need to prepare our hearts. Jesus said, "All these are the beginning of sorrows" (Matthew 24: 8). He talked of false christs, wars and rumours of wars, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. To this, He said, take heed, and tells us it is those that endure unto the end that shall be saved.
Prepare for sorrows! Prepare for trials! Prepare for tribulation, "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another" (Matthew 24: 9-10). Many today pass over this very sobering word from The Lord Jesus Christ. They say it either doesn't apply to the church, or make no mention of it at all. I recently heard a prophecy teacher say that the antichrist will persecute the Jews. The truth is, the antichrist will persecute anyone that has the testimony of Jesus Christ, "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ" (Revelation 12: 17). The Book of Revelation tells us, "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints.................." (Revelation 13: 7). People better take heed to what Jesus said. The Word of God tells us that, "all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (II Timothy 2: 12). ...
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