After you die… hope no longer exists for you!

As I sit here and write this article, I am reeling from a few things. My wife and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary on August 16. That my friends, is being married to my wife for 40 years! Now I know there are many others that have gone a lot further in years than we have, yet for me, your humble writer of articles, I am amazed we have gone so far!

Trust me when I say, it was Jesus Christ, the Lord God Almighty, that has made this a distinction for us. We were just there… Just sort of wandering about, listless and unaware…and then POW!

So, now…we are going to examine why this is something special. Well, at least for us and others like us. I am a man and Monika, my wife, is a woman and we entered into marriage as it was always meant to be; one woman and one man. The Lord God’s blessings from the very beginning, because we did things as we knew the Lord wanted us to.

Let me stress, we were not in a relationship with our Lord and Savior at that time. BUT…the Lord knew we would be soon enough… That my friends is enough…especially for the Lord, as far as I know. I say that, because HE has blessed us continually. When we needed a swift swat in the pants, HE provided that for us as well and I can assure you, that it really hurt. The Lord God loves us, that much!

As you may know, my wife and I were educated and making a lot of money, had many, many THINGS. And the Lord set us straight, concerning THINGS…they did NOT matter one bit, if we didn’t have HIM! HE had blessed us; there was little that we didn’t have or at least had access to at any time.

The problem was this: HE wanted to be first in our lives and we had not made that so. Therefore, HE took all of that away from us and when I say all of it, I truly mean every last penny. So there we were trying to figure out how this came to be. When we figured it out, we almost jumped out of our skin. We hit our knees instantly and begged the Lord God to forgive us. NOT because we wanted all that back or to continue as we had, but to ask forgiveness for our lost direction, our neglect of HIM.

Oddly enough, we are better off now than we ever were before. We do not have to worry with a mortgage or those fancy new cars, with all the buttons and whistles. We found more importance in each other, sitting together and enjoying being together, watching our children and grandchildren.

There are many things in this world, that are worthy… happiness and safety, contentment and harmony in life are the greatest. You can’t buy these things. There is no sale taking place for these and if there was a price tag on each, YOU would never be able to afford any of it.

For a moment, please do me a favor. Look around, look at all the celebrities and the like and ask yourself, how much harmony and love do you see there? God Almighty created all of them in HIS image and what are they doing? They are spending untold amounts of money on plastic surgery, face-lifts and the like, even so-called gender changes. Yet there is little to no happiness in their little lives and they have only themselves to blame for this.

One day real soon, gravity will affect their bodies, age will change their faces, an endless parade of stupor and lawlessness will be etched in their lives. The thing is…they chose this for themselves. Do you really think the Lord God Almighty will allow them to be this way without any consequence? If you think that way, there is Scripture written just for you and a very special ending as well.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.”

I am perplexed and in great wonder, how anyone can live this life and never wonder what life would be like…if there was no hope? What a thing to ponder on, much less have to live that way. To stop and look at someone who has more money than sense and then to KNOW…they have no HOPE? Wow…what a concept to behold!

So now the question is this: How does someone live this life and NOT have any HOPE? We still have many, many, educated idiots running about. In other words, what would life be like for someone to not have any hope of anything worthwhile? What would life be like for someone with NO HOPE?

No hope…of ever having any real happiness or of love. To think that they work their butts off…for NO real reason, or lasting effect? That everything they are involved with has NO MERIT. There is nothing of any worth, only an end with greater sadness and then an eternity  that only proves to be worse than anyone would be able to imagine. How is this possible? Relationships that do not matter!

Everything is great and wonderful when they are young, never once thinking, time stands still for no man or woman. How long will the fame last? When will the money run out? When will age rob them of everything they believe is so important? The houses and the cars and the clothing will all fall apart, will need to be replaced with new and that sort of line is never ending.

Yet there is only so much one is able to do to keep aging at bay and one day will come, when they will appear in public and shock everyone. The…what? It’s all gone. And they will have nothing and no one that will care for them. For the rest of their days, they will only live in their memories… there is NO FUTURE left for them.

In all of that time, you saw an elderly woman that looked favorably, fresh and resilient? I remember my grandmothers and they were still beautiful and graceful. But I know they loved the Lord God with all their hearts. I know that because of HIM, these women flourished and were blessed continually.

My beautiful wife is one week from retiring. She is still gorgeous as she was the day, that I married her. Time has given her beauty and people simply flock to her, like a magnet. I know           of only one reason for this…Jesus Christ lives within her! HIS grace shines through her. I am blessed of men… to be a part of her life after all these years. My heart SINGS…because of Jesus Christ!

A question of the like above, just pops in my head. Living a life here on earth, where there is NO hope. Little to no happiness, worthless relationships, disposable marriages, everything breaks and falls apart. Now the question is, without Jesus Christ in their lives, what will their life be like here on earth? Will there be any fulfillment in their lives, will the medals, the statues, all the accolades be enough…when everything is later lost?

And then to note, when they die here on earth, what is awaiting them in Eternity? Life and living on this planet was already tough enough and so much of all the good stuff was lost… in the end. Only to know they will live eternity all alone and lost, persecuted and destroyed, over and over again… without end. And to think, this is what they chose for themselves!

One would think, that if one loves their comforts, being pampered and all, they would think about their future. You would think, they would be concerned about where they will spend eternity. They would want to go to heaven. Has anyone thought to tell them…no Jesus Christ…no heaven? They still have a chance until the day they die… after that… well, they get exactly what they have always wanted and asked for.

Joshua 24:15 “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

I would rather be blessed of the Lord… than to have everything in this world and to spend eternity in the lake of fire! If YOU feel the same way, you need to stand up and be counted…to tell the world, screaming HIS praise from the rooftops.

I wonder how many people are able to see the writing on the wall today? Oh, you can sit there and say that you don’t see anything different going on, but is that the truth? The question is this:

“Are we or are we not in the last days?”

Here is some Scripture to get those mental cogs moving and for some, those cogs are a little rusty from sitting idle:

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come” (2 Timothy 3:1).

“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

My friends, let’s not delude ourselves here. Here is the plain truth: Weare…indeed…in the last days. All of us around the world have seen the tsunamis, the huge hurricanes, the tornado swarms, the ground opening up in huge holes, so on and so forth. Nations are against nations and kingdoms are against kingdoms…we are in the last days. Let’s stop fooling ourselves and call it what we all know it is.

Time and again we have seen big televangelists take the big fall from grace, we see the people turning from their churches, for varying reasons, whether true or not. So the question is, what do you call this? A falling away, the Apostasy of the church. Is this not written in the Word of God?

“That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:2-4).

“That the day of Christ is at hand” means we are in the last days. And then we read about the falling away, this is the Apostasy of the church of Jesus Christ. It is where the people that once hungered for the Word of God have turned their ears and minds from the Word of Truth, because their ears “itch” to hear things that fulfill them in this day and time. We call this the “prosperity” and the “feel-good” gospel.

The problem is this: If you chase after those types of teachings you are busy hoarding stuff for yourself, stuff that is physical—NOT spiritual. You are tired of hearing about SIN and the resulting destruction of it, so you hunger to hear how wonderful you are; how God is going to bless you with more money and how happy you will then be. That is a lie.

If that is what you want to hear, then know, that it is the gospel according to Satan and his ilk. Know that you are being deceived…you are not inclined to the absolute truth. The physical stays right here on earth…but you will not stay here on earth. If you do not go in the Rapture, you will stay right here on earth until you die. Once you join everyone else in the spiritual realm, you will be judged by Jesus Christ.

You will go either to the Great White Throne of Jesus Christ or you will go to the Bema Seat of Jesus Christ.

The Great White Throne of Jesus Christ is where they will look to see if your name is written in the Lambs Book of Life. If it is not written there, guess where you will go? The lake of fire!

If you go before the Bema Seat of Jesus Christ, you will be rewarded for your work for Jesus Christ while alive here on earth. You will be in heaven for eternity.

I am not saying this to you, the Word of God is saying it. I am simply relaying to you that YOU have a choice to make. To be able to make that choice you need this information. You are not able to get to heaven by any other way than through Jesus Christ and that means with His blood covering your sins. You have heard that God is no respecter of persons. Do you know what that means?

HE doesn’t care how wonderful you think you are, HE doesn’t care how powerful you think you are. It does not matter how high your position is, if you are NOT covered by the blood of Jesus Christ—you will NOT see heaven. You must come to Jesus Christ, humbling yourself before Him and ask Him to forgive you of your sins.

You must accept His gift of grace to you in all humility. You must bathe in his blood from the Cross at Calvary and give up your life to Him. You must hang your “old self” there on His Cross and become a “new creature.” It is so simple, it hurts. There is NO other way!

Priests are humans just like you and me and there is NO intercession to heaven through them. They must accept the same as you and me, and that is through Jesus Christ alone. No one is able to pray you into heaven, Mary is not the queen of heaven. Jesus Christ is God and HE is the only way to heaven.

If anyone tells you any differently…they are lying to you. Read the Word of God…your Bible…and believe what is there. It is the absolute truth, from God’s lips to your ears and mine.

The Apostasy is here and now, the persecution of Christians is here and now, the world is evil beyond compare, just as it was before the Flood of Noah. Just as it was before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Rapture of the church of Jesus Christ is so close, that it hurts. And to be very honest with you, the lack of this knowledge by the vast majority of people pains my heart. I can’t even begin to tell you how it must pain the heart of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

If you walk into a church and you feel like you are in the presence of the Lord, if you feel humbled…do you listen to your feelings? Do you ever wonder if God is trying to tell you something? Do you ever go to a funeral or a wake and sense some sort of fear? Do you think the Lord is trying to tell you something? Have you ever wondered if you are being called to, that God may be trying to get your attention? Then wake-up and answer Him.

As you go about your day, as you hear the news of all the death and destruction and you’re still alive and doing fairly well, do you get the sense that something BIG is about to happen? You see everyone across the planet is screaming for peace and yet the wars escalate. Do you think to yourself, something is very, very, wrong?

People on this planet will never be able to bring about any peace. That is because everyone is as fallen as you are, we are of the exact same species as everyone else and we humans are fallen from grace since Adam and Eve. It’s called SIN!

It is because of our SIN that this world is so corrupt, so fallen, so lacking peace and harmony. And if peace and harmony are what you seek, then Jesus Christ is the only One that has it and You must go to Him. Hatred, anger, selfishness, death and perversion are here because of people listening to Satan and his ilk. Why do you think the Word of God says this?: “You must take up your Cross, deny yourself and follow me [Jesus].”

There just ain’t NO other way! It’s that simple.

I am going to say it again and I will keep saying it: There is no Allah, there is NO other God, there is no one that can get you into heaven, pray you into heaven; there is NO queen of heaven. There IS ONLY Jesus Christ.

“For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2).

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).

I do NOT see any other name in Scripture…than Jesus Christ!

Jesus Christ IS God!

“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city” (Revelation 22:12-14).