Jesus is coming soon! It’s getting to where we can almost post columns of news reports alongside the prophecies in Scripture. Whether it’s wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, or earthquakes, something is in the news constantly.

With all the chaos in the world, along with the recent focus on climate changes, it sure seems as if the description given in God’s Word is being played out in front of us. It is true, we now have much greater knowledge of what goes on in the world thanks to the internet.

We can now see events happening across the globe in real time, and though the frequency of disasters seems to have greatly increased because of our knowledge of them; it may be that they have actually increased. Depending on what ‘expert’ you listen to, there does seem to be an appreciable increase in weather events, and in their intensity.

There have always been wars. It seems like somebody is always fighting with somebody. However, we live in an age when warfare no longer threatens just a particular people or nation; because of the threat of nuclear weapons, every skirmish takes on a particularly ominous nature. A cross word given to the wrong leader at the wrong time now has the potential for world annihilation.

I know that we have not been given the exact time of the Lord’s return, but I think we’d be safe in assuming it can’t be much longer. The Lord is returning, of that we can be confident.

How should the knowledge of His return affect us?  If we knew that Jesus was coming back in a week, would there be lost loved ones and friends that we’d make every effort to reach for Christ? Would there be broken relationships that we’d try our best to reconcile? Would there be sin habits that we’d give up?

The opposite is also true. If we think that His return is not imminent, what motivation would we have of doing any of those things? After all, each of them is a denial of the flesh, and quite frankly, very hard to do. We would be much happier and more content if we’d just be left alone, and believe that we have many years before having to consider His return. Which is exactly what the Devil wants us to believe.

Peter addressed this very problem in…

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

He predicted that some would come along denying the soon return of Christ. In so doing, they could rob the church of any zeal to reach the lost.

Let’s be assured that Jesus is coming…and it will very likely be very soon.