Are we prepared for the end of days?

"The end of days are coming. When? Only God knows the exact time. However, many of the clues in the Old and New Testament are revealing themselves. Time to get on the right side of history. Time to get on the right side of eternity."

Eschatology. The Biblical study of the end times. The final days. The end of the age. When the world prepares itself for the return of Jesus Christ. Sound far fetched? Too much of "out there"? Look around. Look at our world right now. Look at our country, the once great and powerful United States. We look nothing like we did 50 years ago. Nothing like we did 75 years ago. We have become a cesspool of filth. Of debauchery. The warning signs were up all around us, and we carelessly just drove right over them. Why? We went from lovers of God, to lovers of self. Lovers of sin.

Every time we think we might have sunk to a new low in this country, we have the total evil and filth which was signed into law during Minnesota's last legislative session. Or, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence which have decided to use the Dodger organization to further sully the Catholic faith. Or the lionization of doctors, turned butchers, who take the lives of millions of the unborn. In other words, our society right now, has a lifestyle which only 50 years ago, would have been considered fiction, of the most twisted kind. 

Where is the church in the middle of all this? Don't look now, but many of today's once most powerful denomination are shrinking. In Europe, many churches have shrunk so much, they have all but disappeared. And God? Many secularists believe that "God is dead". We don't need him anymore. We are doing just fine, being with ourselves. Our new trinity is "me, myself and I".

There is one giant problem here. God is still on His throne. Always has been, always will be. He may have created our bodies to only be temporary, but our souls are eternal. To temp God, to disrespect God, is a fool's errand. As much as God loves us, He hates sin. It has tainted His creation. Things must soon be made right. When that happens, lovers of self will not do well. Lovers of God on the other hand, will. 

By the way - there is no third choice here. Matthew 7: 13-14 discusses the "Wide gate and the narrow gate". If you have not read this passage, I encourage you to do so. There is no mention about a "medium gate". The choice is only one of the two gates. In other words, the choice is simply this - lovers of self will go through the wide gate to destruction, and the lovers of God will go through the narrow gate to life.   

The end of days are coming. When? Only God knows the exact time. However, many of the clues in the Old and New Testament, are revealing themselves. Time to get on the right side of history. Time to get on the right side of eternity. God's gift from 2,000 years ago, is still there for those who want to accept it. Jesus Christ will open the door to God's unending love. Or, to refuse that wonderful gift, exposes those who refuse to God's terrible wrath.