“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
Picking up where we left off yesterday, Eve suffered the consequences of her participation without her sin being named and now that we are the bride of Christ, we will suffer the consequences without our sins being named.
It is not what we have done in the arena of sin that the world hates us, they actually applaud sin. They hate us because we are with Christ. It is guilt by association. They condemned Him without cause and they are condemning us without cause.
Jesus warned us of this. What is that going to look like?
Does it matter?
We have a promise we cling to with undying faith. In the end we will be with Him in eternity.
And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
This life is not a weather forecast and lets face it their forecasts are wrong more often than right.
What are the signs of the times telling us now?
Joel 2:1-3 English Standard Version
The Day of the Lord
1 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
3 Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.
If this is what we are hoping for, then we have a forecast for tomorrow that is no better than the weatherman.
The Spirit does not tell us what to do tomorrow, He tells us what to do today.