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God’s Discipline: The Door to Surviving The End Times


Before us are times that will test our faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ said that when He returns, “will I find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). A foreboding omen of just how trying the times will become. What lies ahead will be a shifting, we shall pass through tribulations that may break us, hence Christ’s encouragement to “endure to the end.” (Mattbew 24:13). 

I know many Christians brothers and sisters who are going through great trials. It is as if truly “The Constrainer” has been removed and tribulation has come to the Church. We must not get mad at God. For Our Lord disciplines us, “ For the LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child,” (Hebrews 12:6), “Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.” (Revelation 3:19), and “ For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?” (1 Peter 4:17). I believe Jesus is disciplining His church prior to His return. He is bringing to a head everything we thought we could delay in reforming or keep buried in the shadows. Our Savior is being kind to address our hypocrisies, hard headiness, and hubris before the more harrowing period of the end of days transpires. Christ is trying to get us fit before the fury of the antichrist. We can try and ignore our Lord’s call to become spiritually clean: “Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is he who stays awake and who keeps his clothes [that is, stays spiritually ready for the Lord’s return], so that he will not be naked—spiritually unprepared—and men will not see his shame,” (Revelation 16:15) but to do so will only make us vulnerable when the real times of trouble come. God is being merciful to discipline us and judge the Church now, so that we can get our house in order to persevere in the Tribulation and be ready to receive our Redeemer, Christ Jesus The Lord! 

Our Lord could leave us in our compromised states and be silent about habits and deeds that open us to wrath from the evil one and his servants. But Christ is kind. He wants to spare us a harder road, and deliver us from a seared conscious. Jesus our Lord wants us to be strong and confident in the times we are about to face. So he disciplines us now to spare us the discipline of the dark ones. Would you rather be reproved by God your friend or the enemy who has no mercy? Would you prefer correction from Christ or the cold crushing of Satan and his antichrist? You decide, because the stage seems to be set and the hourglass is more empty than ever. I say embrace God’s discipline and reproof, so that you may be equipped to endure these end of days. Amen. 

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