ARTICLE: The Luther Family and the Reformation of Marriage

I love learning about church history. And today being the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 thesis to the door of the church, and the fact that my ministry emphasis is marriage, coming across this article had me excited!

Please take time to read this. Marriage's under attack is not a new thing, in fact, it has been happening since the very first marriage: Adam & Eve.

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/book-review-katharina-and-martin-luther-radical-marriage

These three highlights are outstanding:

1. Marriage done God’s way is a pathway to abundant joy.

2. The home is a little church, and parenting is a holy vocation.

3. A faithful Proverbs 31 woman is not a passive, demurring wife.

Just those three statements alone, show you how wonderful marriage can be and should be. God's word is not dormant, it is alive, and His plan for us is joyous!

The Star of Bethlehem Documentary 2007

Friends, I recommend that everyone watch this documentary. It is outstanding, and eye opening. I have watched this with family, my Sunday School Group, and by myself numerous times.

Two Separate Events: The Rapture & The Second Coming

I came across this today in some reading, and I thought I would share.

http://www.unsealed.org/2017/10/messiahs-lament.html

The Book of Joel

What do you know of the Book of Joel? Do you know anything about the man himself? Do you know how many chapters there are in the Book of Joel?

To be honest, most people avoid, some intentionally, some without realizing, this tiny book. Why? It is about biblical prophesy. And that right there "biblical prophesy" makes people turn away from it because they think a person needs a PHD in Theology or Seminary to understand it.

I have become very familiar that last few months on the Book of Joel through a series of videos done by Anne Graham Lotz and Joel C Rosenburg on the subjects of harbingers. The series is from 2015, but the fact remains, the series fits even more so today with its message. I am going to share links to the video sessions below, but before you do, let's read the book of Joel.

Joel 1- English Standard Version (ESV)

1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

An Invasion of Locusts

² Hear this, you elders;
    give ear, all inhabitants of the land!
Has such a thing happened in your days,
    or in the days of your fathers?
³ Tell your children of it,
    and let your children tell their children,
    and their children to another generation.

⁴ What the cutting locust left,
    the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
    the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
    the destroying locust has eaten.

⁵ Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
    and wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of the sweet wine,
    for it is cut off from your mouth.
⁶ For a nation has come up against my land,
    powerful and beyond number;
its teeth are lions' teeth,
    and it has the fangs of a lioness.
⁷ It has laid waste my vine
    and splintered my fig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
    their branches are made white.

⁸ Lament like a virgin^[a] wearing sackcloth
    for the bridegroom of her youth.
⁹ The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
    from the house of the Lord.
The priests mourn,
    the ministers of the Lord.
¹⁰ The fields are destroyed,
    the ground mourns,
because the grain is destroyed,
    the wine dries up,
    the oil languishes.

¹¹ Be ashamed,^[b] O tillers of the soil;
    wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
    because the harvest of the field has perished.
¹² The vine dries up;
    the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

A Call to Repentance

¹³ Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;
    wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, pass the night in sackcloth,
    O ministers of my God!
Because grain offering and drink offering
    are withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁴ Consecrate a fast;
    call a solemn assembly.
Gather the elders
    and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.

¹⁵ Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty^[c] it comes.
¹⁶ Is not the food cut off
    before our eyes,
joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?

¹⁷ The seed shrivels under the clods;^[d]
    the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
    because the grain has dried up.
¹⁸ How the beasts groan!
    The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
    even the flocks of sheep suffer.^[e]

¹⁹ To you, O Lord, I call.
For fire has devoured
    the pastures of the wilderness,
and flame has burned
    all the trees of the field.
²⁰ Even the beasts of the field pant for you
    because the water brooks are dried up,
and fire has devoured
    the pastures of the wilderness.

Footnotes:

1. Joel 1:8 Or young woman
2. Joel 1:11 The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike
3. Joel 1:15 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for Almighty
4. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
5. Joel 1:18 Or are made desolate

Joel 2 - English Standard Version (ESV)

The Day of the Lord

2 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.

⁴ Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,
    and like war horses they run.
⁵ As with the rumbling of chariots,
    they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of a flame of fire
    devouring the stubble,
like a powerful army
    drawn up for battle.

⁶ Before them peoples are in anguish;
    all faces grow pale.
⁷ Like warriors they charge;
    like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
    they do not swerve from their paths.
⁸ They do not jostle one another;
    each marches in his path;
they burst through the weapons
    and are not halted.
⁹ They leap upon the city,
    they run upon the walls,
they climb up into the houses,
    they enter through the windows like a thief.

¹⁰ The earth quakes before them;
    the heavens tremble.
The sun and the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.
¹¹ The Lord utters his voice
    before his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
    he who executes his word is powerful.
For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome;
    who can endure it?

Return to the Lord

¹² “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
    “return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
¹³     and rend your hearts and not your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
    for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
    and he relents over disaster.
¹⁴ Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
    and leave a blessing behind him,
a grain offering and a drink offering
    for the Lord your God?

¹⁵ Blow the trumpet in Zion;
    consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
¹⁶     gather the people.
Consecrate the congregation;
    assemble the elders;
gather the children,
    even nursing infants.
Let the bridegroom leave his room,
    and the bride her chamber.

¹⁷ Between the vestibule and the altar
    let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
    and make not your heritage a reproach,
    a byword among the nations.^[a]
Why should they say among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?’”

The Lord Had Pity

¹⁸ Then the Lord became jealous for his land
    and had pity on his people.
¹⁹ The Lord answered and said to his people,
“Behold, I am sending to you
    grain, wine, and oil,
    and you will be satisfied;
and I will no more make you
    a reproach among the nations.

²⁰ “I will remove the northerner far from you,
    and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard^[b] into the eastern sea,
    and his rear guard^[c] into the western sea;
the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
    for he has done great things.

²¹ “Fear not, O land;
    be glad and rejoice,
    for the Lord has done great things!
²² Fear not, you beasts of the field,
    for the pastures of the wilderness are green;
the tree bears its fruit;
    the fig tree and vine give their full yield.

²³ “Be glad, O children of Zion,
    and rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given the early rain for your vindication;
    he has poured down for you abundant rain,
    the early and the latter rain, as before.

²⁴ “The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
    the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
²⁵ I will restore^[d] to you the years
    that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
    my great army, which I sent among you.

²⁶ “You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
    and praise the name of the Lord your God,
    who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people shall never again be put to shame.
²⁷ You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
    and that I am the Lord your God and there is none else.
And my people shall never again be put to shame.

The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit

^28 [e] “And it shall come to pass afterward,
    that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
    your old men shall dream dreams,
    and your young men shall see visions.
²⁹ Even on the male and female servants
    in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

³⁰ “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. ³¹ The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. ³² And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

Footnotes:

1. Joel 2:17 Or reproach, that the nations should rule over them
2. Joel 2:20 Hebrew face
3. Joel 2:20 Hebrew his end
4. Joel 2:25 Or pay back
5. Joel 2:28 Ch 3:1 in Hebrew

 

Joel 3- English Standard Version (ESV)

The Lord Judges the Nations

3 ^[a] “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, ² I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, ³ and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

⁴ “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. ⁵ For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.^{[b] 6} You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. ⁷ Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head. ⁸ I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”

⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
Consecrate for war;^[c]
    stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
    let them come up.
¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and your pruning hooks into spears;
    let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

¹¹ Hasten and come,
    all you surrounding nations,
    and gather yourselves there.
Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
¹² Let the nations stir themselves up
    and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
for there I will sit to judge
    all the surrounding nations.

¹³ Put in the sickle,
    for the harvest is ripe.
Go in, tread,
    for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
    for their evil is great.

¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes,
    in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near
    in the valley of decision.
¹⁵ The sun and the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.

¹⁶ The Lord roars from Zion,
    and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
    and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is a refuge to his people,
    a stronghold to the people of Israel.

The Glorious Future of Judah

¹⁷ “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
    who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
    and strangers shall never again pass through it.

¹⁸ “And in that day
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the streambeds of Judah
    shall flow with water;
and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
    and water the Valley of Shittim.

¹⁹ “Egypt shall become a desolation
    and Edom a desolate wilderness,
for the violence done to the people of Judah,
    because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
²⁰ But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
    and Jerusalem to all generations.
²¹ I will avenge their blood,
    blood I have not avenged,^[d]
    for the Lord dwells in Zion.”

Footnotes:

1. Joel 3:1 Ch 4:1 in Hebrew
2. Joel 3:5 Or palaces
3. Joel 3:9 Or Consecrate a war
4. Joel 3:21 Or I will acquit their bloodguilt that I have not acquitted

Here are the links to the videos:

Session One (36:58 in length)
Session Two (52:24 in length)
Session Three (54:40 in length)
Session Four (1:12:58 in length)
Session Five (1:08:15 in length)
Session Six (57:58  in length)
Session Seven (1:07:44 in length)

It will take some time, but I recommend sitting down in front of your computer, with your Bible, a notepad, pen, and a highlighter. You will not stay in the Book of Joel, you will do cross references, but you will see God's warnings clearly, and your life will be better for getting to know this wonderful Book of the Bible.

PRAYER: California

At this point, there is so much devastation in America, in the world, where does one begin. Puerto Rico is still devastated, Florida is working to recover from Hurricane Irma, parts of Houston have yet to recover from Hurricane Harvey - and there is no guarantee things will go back to what they once where.

Those are all the water disasters that have effected life lately. But fires have burned out of control in California - and they continue to burn. We need to pray for California.

Napa Valley Fire Photos

I had heard, back during Harvey/Irma, that there were fires in California, Montana and such. But I hadn't seen images. But now I have. So many are displaced, have lost everything.

Please take time to pray for all those effected by the fires.

REVELATION: He is Coming; the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ; The Millennial Kingdom & Beyond

Friends, the day is coming. Jesus will call the church home, and shortly after, the Tribulation will begin. 

• The 7th Bowl (Revelation 16:17-21) finishes the Wrath of God.
• And with that, Babylon (the world system and city) will be "remembered" by God (Revelation 18) - destroyed.
• Revelation 19 - there is rejoicing in Heaven (over the fall of Babylon), Jesus returns, judges the nations, and sets up His millennial kingdom.

What follows is the who and what in order starting with the return of Jesus:

• Jesus
• Descends from Heaven and returns to the earth for the 2nd time
• Matt. 24: 29, 30; 25: 31; Rev. 19: 11-13
• The armies in Heaven (The raptured Church…His bride)
• Follow Jesus on white horses as he descends to earth
• Rev. 19: 14 
• SOULS of all BELIEVERS who died before Christ was crucified
• Descend to earth with Jesus. 
• 1. Jesus resurrects their bodies from their graves, 
• 2. Jesus gives them glorified bodies, 
• 3. Jesus joins their souls with their glorified bodies, and 
• 4. They all remain on earth with Him. 
• 1 Cor. 15: 22-24; Dan. 12: 2a, 13; Rev. 20: 5b-6
• SOULS of all BELIEVERS who died during the 7 year period
• Descend to earth with Jesus. 
• 1. Jesus resurrects their bodies from their graves, 
• 2. Jesus gives them glorified bodies, 
• 3. Jesus joins their souls with their glorified bodies, and 
• 4. They all remain on earth with Him. 
• 1 Cor. 15: 22-24; Rev. 6: 9-11; 20: 4-6
• SATAN
• Cast into the Abyss for 1000 years
• Rev. 20: 1-3
• THE ANTI-CHRIST
• Cast into The Lake Of Fire (Hell)
• Dan. 7: 11, 26; Rev. 19: 20
• THE FALSE PROPHET
• Cast into The Lake Of Fire (Hell)
• Rev. 19: 20
• All LIVING JEWISH UNBELIEVERS
• 1. Gathered & Slaughtered by Jesus, 
• 2. Their BODIES are buried on earth, ashes or in the sea, 
• 3. Their SOULS descend into The Well of Departed Souls (Hades) 
• Dan. 12: 1, 7, 11-12; Matt. 24: 15-22; Zech. 13: 8; Amos 9: 8-10; Isaiah 10: 20-23; Num. 16: 30, 33;Luke 16: 22-28
• THE NATIONS (Living Gentile Unbelievers who gather for war with Satan against Jesus) 
• 1. Jesus wages war against them by TREADING THE WINE PRESS from Bosrah, through the Kidron Valley, to The Jezreel Valley (Har Magedon-Armageddon), 
• 2. Their BODIES are buried on earth, ashes or in the sea, 
• 3. Their SOULS descend into The Well of Departed Souls (Hades) 
• Isaiah 34: 1-8; 63: 1-6; Joel 3: 12-14; Rev. 16: 12-16; 14: 20; Rev. 19: 15-16; Rev. 20: 5a-6
• JESUS
• Establishes His throne in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount
• Dan. 7: 13-14; Matt. 25: 31
• JESUS
• JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS
• Dan. 7: 9-12; Matt. 25: 32
• All LIVING GENTILE BELIEVERS
• Jesus queue's them in a line and declares them to be SHEEP
• Matt. 25: 32-40 (Sheep)
• All LIVING GENTILE UNBELIEVERS
• Jesus queue's them in a line and declares them to be GOATS
• Matt. 25: 32-33, 41-45 (Goats)
• All LIVING GENTILE UNBELIEVERS (GOATS)
• Cast ALIVE into The Lake Of Fire (Hell)
• Matt. 25: 46
• ALL LIVING JEWISH & GENTILE BELIEVERS
• Only these are left to populate the earth. 
• They NEVER die, continue to have children, and live eternally with Him 
• Matt. 25: 32-40, 46 (Gentiles) Matt.24: 31; Isaiah 11: 11-12; Zech. 13: 8-9; 8: 1-23 (Jewish)

Jesus is going to reign on earth 1,000 years! He will rightfully be King of Kings!

Millenial Kingdom: 1,000 years

• JEWISH PEOPLE
• No more Jewish unbelievers EVER AGAIN on earth.
• Dan. 9: 24;   Zeph. 3: 12-13; Zech. 14: 9-11, 20-21; Isaiah 59: 20-1; Isaiah 60: 1-22; Jer. 31: 33-34
• SOULS of GENTILE UNBELIEVERS who died during the 1000 year reign
• Descended to The Well Of Departed Souls (Hades)
• Num. 16: 30, 33: Luke 16: 22-28
• BODIES of GENTILE UNBELIEVERS who died during the 1000 year reign
• On earth in the ground, in ashes or in the sea
• Rev. 20: 5a-6
• ALL LIVING BELIEVERS during the 1000 year reign
• ETERNAL LIFE WITH JESUS ON EARTH
• Dan. 7: 27; Rev. 20: 4-6

And at the end of the 1,000 years Satan will be released to deceive the nations once again, there will be a battle, and we already know the end: JESUS WINS! HE IS VICTORIOUS!

At the end of the Millenial Reign of Christ

• SATAN
• Released from prison in the Abyss
• Rev. 20: 7
• SATAN
• Comes out to deceive the Nations (Gentile Unbelievers)
• Rev. 20: 8
• SATAN
• Gathers the Nations (Gentile Unbelievers) for war against Jesus
• Rev. 20: 8
• SATAN
• Amasses his army and surrounds Jerusalem
• Rev. 20: 9
• SATAN
• Fire comes down from Heaven and devours his army
• Rev. 20: 9
• SATAN
• Cast into the Lake of Fire (Hell)
• Rev. 20: 10
• JESUS
• Sits on His GREAT WHITE THRONE.
• No more Heaven and Earth as we know it
• Rev. 20: 11
• All DEAD UNBELIEVERS: JEWISH AND GENTILE
• (Except for the "Goats", who's sentence has already been carried out during the Judgment of the Nations)
• The Well of Departed Souls is emptied out and their souls are united with their dead bodies from in the ground, in ashes or in the sea
• Dan. 12: 2b;  Rev. 20: 5-6; 12-15
• All DEAD UNBELIEVERS: JEWISH AND GENTILE
• (Except for the "Goats", who's sentence has already been carried out during the Judgment of the Nations)
• They ALL stand before the GREAT WHITE THRONE
• Rev. 20: 12-15
• ALL LIVING/SPIRITUALLY DEAD GENTILE UNBELIEVERS
• who were born during the 1000 year reign and still living at the time of The Great White Throne Judgment
• They ALL stand before the GREAT WHITE THRONE
• Rev. 20: 12-15
• ALL OF THE ABOVE LIVING AND DEAD UNBELIEVERS
• Cast into the Lake of Fire (Hell)
• Rev. 20: 15
• BELIEVERS
• Those in glorified bodies as well as those living in their bodies eternally reside with Jesus in the NEW HEAVEN, NEW EARTH & NEW JERUSALEM
• Rev. 21: 1-3, 7, 23-27; 22: 1-4

I will confess, there is a part of me that longs for the Rapture, the 1,000 years, and the New: Heaven, Earth, & Jerusalem. But there is the bigger part that knows that so many are not ready, spiritually. Once the church is gone from earth...there will be terrible times and happenings on earth. Friend, I do not want you to go through the Tribulation. I do not want you to live during the time of the Man of Lawlessness, the Anti-Christ. I want you to among those who are called to heaven by Jesus, who are spared the Wrath of God.

Please message me. Reach out to me. Let us talk. 

God has laid out in His word. We know what is going to happen. And I hope you make the right choice before the time is too late.

As in the days of Noah...

After Hurricane Harvey, I wrote about some thoughts I had on Noah. Thoughts on Noah

It was nothing revolutionary, but I am back to thinking of Noah. Last night the worst massacre in US history happened. Las Vegas Shooting

While I wish this was a break from my Revelation series, this actually fits right in it. In Matthew 24:37 Jesus clearly said to His disciples:
“ As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."

So let us look at what the Bible says about the days of Noah.

Genesis 6: 1-5, 11-13 (ESV) Increasing Corruption on Earth

6 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. 5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Matthew 24: 36-44 No One Knows That Day and Hour

36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. 42 Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Genesis 6:1-4: Sexual relations that God did not intend. God's word is clear on what is sexual sin and what is right sexually. Our world today no longer follows those guidelines. I cannot even keep up with the "new" genders or lack thereof. I know this, "Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created." - Genesis 5:2. And men are to be with women, and women with women, within the confines of marriage. And today we have sex outside of marriage, men with men, women with men, and too many variants thereafter, none of which is pleasing to God.

Along with this, lets tie this in a bow shall we. After the flood, God put a rainbow in the sky.

Genesis 9:8-17
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Satan always corrupts what God creates. God created the rainbow to be a reminder that He would never flood the earth in such a devastating way. The LGBT movement that has stolen the rainbow for their own use.  The Apostle Paul uses homosexuality as an example of why God's wrath is coming:

Romans 1:18-32 (ESV)

God's Wrath on Unrighteousness
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Genesis 6:5, 11-12: Corruption and violence.

• Numerous armed conflicts (50+ and counting around the globe)
• Abortion - Nearly 1.5 billion abortions have happened since 1973. More babies have been murdered around the world through abortion and now every year nearly as many are killed from abortion as died in all of World War Two. Abortion Clock
• Global Terrorism
• North Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran
• Mass Shootings in America - schools, public spaces, night clubs, etc.

 Romans 1:28-32 really explains what the heart of man will be like at the end, before the return of Jesus:

• unrighteousness
• evil
• covetousness
• malice
• envy
• murder
• strife
• deceit
• maliciousness
• gossips
• slanderers
• haters of God
• insolent
• haughty
• boastful
• inventors of evil
• disobedient to parents
• foolish
• faithless
• heartless
• ruthless

I read God's word, and I see this generation. We have disregarded God, and He will not tolerate it much longer. I wish I could read the list above and say.."Oh! But we aren't x..y...or z." No I read the list and see America, I see the world. 

I know not the day, I know not the hour. But I see the signs. Jesus is coming friends. He will come for His bride, will you be ready? 

Matthew 25 (NIV) The Parable of the Ten Virgins

25 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

9 “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’

12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.