Ignoring Warnings

"The British are coming! The British are coming!" We are all familiar with the famous shout attributed to Paul Revere. There have been many warning cries throughout our history that people purposely ignored and the results were catastrophic. Noah warned of a flood coming but no one listened. There were signs indicating a stock market crash in 1929 but no one listened. People were warned of the inadequate design and construction of the levees in New Orleans years before the destruction left behind by Hurricane Katrina. Did you know there were over 50 failures of the levees and floodwalls that were supposed to protect New Orleans? No one listened. And then the 2011 tsunami that disabled the power plant causing a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. Today, nine years later, radioactive water is continuing to flow into the Pacific Ocean at a rate of around 2 billion becquerels a day! *** One becquerel is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. WARNINGS WARNINGS EVERYWHERE, why do we sometimes ignore looming disasters? It seems only after a disaster we want to know what happened? Did anyone see this coming? Could anything have been done to avoid it? Well today with the same passion as Paul Revere, I am shouting, "Jesus is coming. Jesus is coming!!" Christians around the world are sounding the alarm ... Jesus IS coming. So why aren't our cries of warning leading to action? I think we can look to the story of Noah for the answer.

We know from scripture that it took around 100 years for Noah to build the massive ark as God had instructed him. Seeing Noah was a righteous man and blameless according to the biblical record, Noah lived a godly lifestyle before others of his day. Also, 2 Peter 2 tells us he was a preacher of righteousness but everyone else is described as a "world of the ungodly." Knowing Noah was a preacher, we can make a reasonable assumption he preached not only proclaiming God's truths, but preached about the approaching flood evident by his building a massive boat, and preached the need to repent. This would be in line with God's will since God typically gives the opportunity for people to repent prior to His judgments. If Noah was building the ark for 100 years, it is not hard to assume he was warning people through that same span of time. If Noah did warn the world, the world obviously chose to ignore his warnings, because the Bible teaches that the world was taken by surprise when the flood came. The fact that the world was caught off guard by the flood does not prove that Noah never preached concerning the coming judgment. It only tells us that the world paid no attention to the warnings. Men have heard warnings from many prophets over the ages, yet they usually ignore the warnings and are caught off guard by the judgment that follows. The entire history of the nation of Israel testifies to this truth.

Matthew 24 records Jesus Himself warning our world of another coming judgment, His Second Coming. Nevertheless, Jesus says the world will be caught off guard when He returns because it will be just like the days of old. 

Matt. 24:37 “For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.

Matt. 24:38 “For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking,  marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

Matt. 24:39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Notice verse 39 says, "they did not understand until the flood came"?? They didn't understand because they ignored Noah's warning. They thought Noah was an idiot and his message even more so. Had they given any credence to Noah's warning, they would not have perished. Jesus WARNED that before His coming this time people it will be exactly as they were in the day of Noah. How so? Carrying on with their lives as if no danger of judgment existed! AND THEY ARE! "For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark" (Matthew 24:38). The world will be surprised by the Second Coming despite the Bible's many warnings often repeated by preachers throughout the centuries as well as everyday believers that are now receiving dreams and visions. Visit YOUTUBE sometime and put in the search line, 'videos of Endtime dreams.' The unbelieving will scoff at people who share end-time dreams or speak prophecies of soon-coming judgment, and worse, will ignore God's very words recorded in Acts 2:17, "And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams." NOTICE GOD SPECIFIED "IN THE LAST DAYS?" Yet people will laugh and say it is not the last days. They will continue to go on about their business, living their lives, men marrying and women given in marriage just as Noah witnessed. Dreams and prophecies are not the only signs Jesus is about to return. Figure in those things Jesus told His disciples would take place: false Christs arrive, wars and rumors of wars, kingdom will be divided against kingdom, mother's against daughters, dad's against sons, famines, earthquakes, arrest, and persecutions of Christians, hatred of Christians and their message, rampant sin, and lawlessness, so on and so forth. Scoffers along with unbelievers, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and doubters will attempt to present their argument that famine has always been, wars have been plenty, earthquakes exist, so therefore if Jesus was really coming He would have done so long before now. Yes, the world has had turmoils and natural disasters spread out throughout the existence of man. However, Jesus said, "Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door." The key is when you see ALL THESE THINGS! Never in history have ALL THESE THINGS taken place at the same time! All these things are happening now in 2020.

Consider this warning ..."That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last day's scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 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. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). JESUS IS AT THE DOOR! My cry is my warning ... open your eyes! A flood of judgment is about to fall upon the world. Dreams, warnings, and prophecies are going out from not only people but children as young as four who are sharing vivid end-time dreams with their parents. I'm no Paul Revere but I know when to shout a warning, and I'm shouting! Don't ignore the signs all around you. Come to Jesus today before He returns by saying in your heart, 'I am sorry for all my sins, and I repent of them all. I give you my life today, and I confess my faith in your Son Jesus Christ that he is Lord. I believe that Jesus died and resurrected to give me eternal life; I confess my faith in Him, and I accept Him as my personal Lord and Savior. Guide me to know your truth and fill me with your Holy Spirit.' Amen.

Until He comes,

-Pat-