There is the big Earthquake coming (Revelation 6:12–17). It is bigger than you can imagine. It is so vastly bigger than your imaginations can conceive. For the stars will be falling, the skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and the earth will come out of its foundations and collapses, and all the islands and the mountains vanish, and there is only God with whom all will face. None are secure and safe outside of Christ you should tremble at the thought, because you will face God someday with nothing to stand on but what was is your heart!
Open your eyes to read the signs of the times so that you will not be taken off-guard when the calamity comes. It is coming, and the Lord has warned you that it is coming. Before this end comes, God has appointed that this great final shaking be preceded by smaller earthquakes and other calamities to give notice of something awesome, the way contractions and labor pains precede the birth of a child and tell you that it's coming. That’s the meaning—they are warnings. And there will be an increasing number of calamities, so that there is growing a sense of unsettledness in the world. But people still hang onto money and some cling to power and some go after sex and most have had their love grow cold because of the lawlessness that has multiplied. Each will hear the voice of the Lord in the shaking of the world in those last days. Open your eyes to read the signs of the times so that you will not be taken off-guard when the calamity comes. It is coming, and the Lord is warning you that it is coming. Again and again and again he is shaking people to the reality of the instability of this world and to desire the unshakable kingdom that he offers.
Worship the unshakable God, don’t worship shakable possessions. Fix your heart on God. For God is your treasure. God is your security, not your retirement plan. Stand with reverence and awe before the power and holiness of God.
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