Another Year Gone and Closer

That's another year gone by which means that we are a year closer to Christ's return, not as gentle Jesus meek and mild but as all-conquering Lord and King. Calton does not know the time nor the hour however the signs are all stacking up for it to be years rather than decades or centuries. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse (deception, conflict, food inflation and death) are already stalking the earth in a way not seen before (Revelation 5:1-8). More Christians are being killed for their faith (Rev 5:9-11). It is not hard to imagine hostile armies gathering in Israel in the plain of Megiddo (Rev 16:16). Nor is it hard to imagine a one-world government insisting that, in order to buy and sell, you have to have a mark on your hand or forehead (Rev 13:16-17).

Some Christians believe that they are going to be caught up to heaven before things get rough. This is not a view that Calton subscribes to, nice though it would be (for Christians). Life on earth is going to get worse over the next few years and desperate once the Antichrist reveals himself, probably by setting up a statue of himself as God in the newly rebuilt 3rd temple in Jerusalem (Daniel 9:27). Is it significant that King Charles confirmed a covenant with the many people he rules at his coronation and that a statue of him as saviour of the world is already in existence? Calton leaves that for you to decide but, if it is significant, we have less than three years to go before the Antichrist/One World Ruler is revealed. The good news is that three and a half years after the Antichrist takes over, he will be destroyed by the real Saviour of the World - Jesus Christ. 

However the timing pans out, and whoever the Antichrist turns out to be, there is only one name by which we can be saved - Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12). Those who put their trust in Him will not be disappointed (Psalm 40:4). Now is the day of salvation (1 Corinthians 6:2) - when Armageddon comes it will be too late.