♥ The End Will Come Like A Thief! Be Ready!

You yourselves know perfectly that the day of The LORD so comes as a thief in the night. For when t say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes upon them. 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 3.

17 year old Fred Kamaka had just reached his school in Hawaii on an early December morning in 1941. It was just after half past seven and "a wonderful, quiet morning; the sky was like velvet and the air full of the fragrance of blossoms", as he remembered it. There were only a few white cotton-wool clouds hovering over the mountains. The view went down to Pearl Harbor, where eight big battleships were moored for all to see. In addition there were eight cruisers, 29 destroyers and submarines, mine-layers and supply vessels of the American Pacific fleet.

"When I saw the first planes coming over the mountains, I thought nothing of it", our eye-witness reported. "But more and more came. They tipped their wings and started dive-bombing. I saw balls of fire and clouds of smoke before I heard the detonations." No one was prepared for the Japanese attack. But suddenly it was clear that war had broken out for the U.S.A. and the entire Pacific. It had terrible consequences, e.g. the later atomic bomb attacks on Japan.

The judgement day of The LORD will be even worse. Both the prophets of the Old Testament and JESUS CHRIST and HIS apostles speak of it. That day, too, will come unexpectedly, but not without a timely warning. GOD's wish is not that people should be lost, but that all should be saved. That is why believing Christians give the warning on HIS behalf: "Be reconciled to GOD before it's too late", (2 Corinthians 5:11, 20).