The World Has Gone Mad Over the Slaying of Cecil the Lion

https://www.thetrumpet.com/article/12967.2.0.0/world/the-world-has-gone-mad-over-the-slaying-of-cecil-the-lion

Without an understanding of Bible prophecy, it would be easy to get frustrated by the slumbering spirit that has drugged America and Britain.

Look at how oblivious our people are to the terrifying dangers just ahead of us. Here we are at a time when Bible prophecies are being fulfilled almost by the week, and our peoples are soundly asleep!

We’ve been trumpeting these prophecies for over two decades, following in the footsteps of Herbert W. Armstrong who prophesied before us for more than 50 years. And now that many of these very prophecies are being fulfilled, one would think our mail bins would be buried under piles of requests; that our phone lines would light up like Las Vegas; that our Web traffic would crash the servers.

Instead, it’s more like a steady trickle of interest—one from a city, two from a family, as the Prophet Jeremiah said. God’s work is still getting done. His warning message of love is still going out to this world.

2 Timothy 3:1-4 say: “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.”

As the Apostle Paul said, in these “last days,” men would love themselves andpleasure-seeking more than God. This doesn’t apply to every single individual, of course, but it certainly describes our society in general.

Amid all the Bible prophecies being fulfilled before our eyes, the fact that most people have blindfolded themselves to what is really happening in this world is, in itself, a prophetic sign that we are nearing the return of Jesus Christ!

Notice what Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5:2: “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”

This means that Jesus Christ will intervene in the affairs of men at a time when most people least expect it!

Phillips translates part of verse 3 as saying, “Catastrophe will sweep down upon them as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman.” All this happens when most people are lulled to sleep by illusions of peace and security.

Verse 7 says, “For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.”

But to the rare individual who sees the great evil of this sin-drenched world—drunk on the pagan customs and perverse traditions of men—and who is willing to forsake the ways of man and to turn to God in repentance, faith and obedience to His laws, summarized by the Ten Commandments, God offers a superabundant supply of love and mercy, life-changing revelation and truth, and the only sure hope there is! That is true for any individual—as well as for this dying world!

Knowing the times we are living in, as Paul beseeched the brethren in Rome, “now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed” (Romans 13:11).

Now is the time to pour our hearts and energies into the study of God’s Word, to fervently seek God and His direction in our daily prayers, and to faithfully abide by His commandments in our day-to-day living.

Look at this world! Look at the obsessive interest and boundless energy it has in pursuing the ways of sin.

Can’t we put some time-consuming, energetic devotion into our love and service to God and His great work?