Dear friends:

The below are 12 reasons why we can look for the soon return of the Lord,
as written by Rev. Bob Martin, PrayerNet Ministries Advisor, and forwarded
to me by Jim and Shirley Mae Fry.
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1. The tremendous rise of false teachers and false "cults" or "religions."
There never has been such a proliferation of kinds of wrong religions, as
well as an astronomically rapid increase in the millions of people who
blindly follow false teaching! I don't even have to name them. You know
them by name! Matthew 24: 4-5 mentions this.

2. The rise of worldwide warfare on a scale we have not seen for some time.
Since the war against terrorism started, other "hot spots" are beginning to
heat up again, worldwide. (Matthew 24:6-7)

3. A great increase in "natural calamities." Matthew 24:7 speaks of
famines, pestilences and earthquakes. Famine is worsening in many areas.
Biological warfare accentuates disease, so called "pestilence." Scientists
declare earthquakes continually increase.

4. Worldwide persecution of believers. (Matthew 24:9-10) Religious and
civil freedom is a "joke" in many countries. Persecution and martyrdom of
Christians remains largely undocumented by the secular media today!

5. The rise of evil. (Matthew 24:12)

6. The "cooling off" of believers who were once on fire! (Matthew 24:12)

7. The worldwide preaching of the gospel as never before. (Matthew 24:14)

8. A great danger of the annihilation of the entire human race, unless God
intervenes! (Matthew 24:22)

9. God is pouring out His Spirit on all flesh! Especially since 1995, there
has been a powerful worldwide move of the Spirit, to prepare and mature
believers.

10. God said, "Your sons and daughters shall prophesy." (Joel 2) there is a
powerful new move among the youth in America to find a new cause to give
their lives to. They are becoming radically reckless and militant for Jesus
Christ!!! Never in my lifetime have I seen such zeal to serve Christ among
the youth.

11. Revelation knowledge is flooding the earth as the Bible predicted! I
have never seen such an outpouring of divine knowledge and wisdom and
revelation as is happening right now. Truly God wants us to grow up unto
the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ!

12. God is whispering softly ­ in the depths of my spirit, (and millions of
others also) that Jesus is coming soon!!! We are not of the night, but of
the "DAY," Thessalonians declares. Let us occupy, be busy, and let our
light shine. Give out the Word, lift Jesus higher. The trumpet will sound
soon; The Church will leave and go home to Jesus (John 14:1-4). Let's get
ready!!! Amen