Christmas and Family Reunion 2014

Seven Christmases have gone by for Leila, and  four for Matthew, my sweet grandchildren. It's wonderful to be kids because they are still carefree, none cf the adults problems in the aspect of financial, relationship, career, building a family.

Then there is the family reunion/Christmas  party that everybody looks forward too. We are twelve  siblings and everybody  has married except for one. Each sibling has an average of three children. My generation has seen our descendants up to  the third  generation. You can just imagine the food on the table (potluck) complete with lechon (roasted pig) contributed by siblings from abroad and gift giving after dinner and games.

Because of the critical times, the prophesied God's judgment,I suggested to change the format- less games and allow time for praise , worship and supplication to God to spare us of the  coming calamities.

The response  to me was "the is a joyful occasion, let's not dampen the spirit with the end time prophecies. You will only stress.
yourself."  This response is sad. Just like most people I have talked with, they only want to see the brighter side , "only positive" they don't want to listen or read articles about the prophets' warnings. You are an escapist if you are one of them. They are saying that God is merciful and He cannot bring the destruction that is mentioned in the prophecies. Yes, God is merciful that is why it is more than forty years already since He started warning us through  Mama Mary, the mother of God. He also sends prophets,children and old men have dreams of what is coming.

Acts  2:17 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

 Because of God's mercy, it took Noah 100 years to warn the people to repent of their sinful ways. They were  invited to come into the ark to be saved. But they laughed and ridiculed him  as the crazy old man. Then it rained for forty days and the ark constructed on top of the mountain floated.

Same is true with Sodom and Gomorrha, before the destruction, warning after warning was given by Lot. He was not believed . Only Lot and his daughter were saved at Mount Zoar.

Judgment has started. Places which were not  visited before got flooded, structures were toppled down by earthquake, storm surges as high as three-storey building came rushing to in lands, volcanoes erupting in different places.

Why is God planning these calamities, and yet people are warned beforehand. God saw that people, His creations, have turned away from Him and rather go to their path of destruction by way of Satan's promptings: for pleasure, greed, power, fame, achievements recognized by man. 

If the chastisement will not happen, and there's a big one coming, nobody will be saved from the second death which is the death of the soul in eternal damnation.

Isn't His first coming not enough, He suffered a horrible death on the cross to retrieve us from the sin of disobedience implanted by Satan through Adam and Eve. Most people do not appreciate this because they continue sinning thinking "once save is already saved,"NO! Yes, if we abide with His Word, His commandments, doctrines - undiluted and not twisted.The later version of the Bible was Satan's handiwork.

WAKE UP, IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO REPENT. THERE CAN BE NO REPENTANCE AFTER DEATH!
Do not be complacent. As in the days of Noah, people went on with their lives as if nothing was going to happen.
Pray for the Holy Spirit's guide for the truth.  

To summarize the ten commandments of God: 

• Love God above all else.
• Love you neighbor as yourself. 
• Love your enemies, pray for them that despite-fully use you. Pray for their enlightenment.

Praise and worship God at the beginning of the day, then ask for His blessing and protection for you and your family.

GOD BLESS YOU!

Bible Verses on the End of Times

Mark 13:32 - But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

Matthew 24:7 - For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Luke 21:11 - And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Daniel 12:4 - But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

1 Timothy 4:1 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Luke 21:36 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Matthew 24:36 - But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Matthew 24:6 - And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Matthew 24:21-22 - For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   

Revelation 13:16-17 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

2 Peter 3:3-4 - Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

2 Timothy 3:1-17 -1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. 10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Luke 21:25 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

(blood moon, tsunamis)

Matthew 24:14 - And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Matthew 16:2-3 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, [It will be] fair weather: for the sky is red.  3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?  A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. 

Joel 2:28-32 - And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Revelation 7:14 - And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 3:3 - Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

Revelation 1:3 - Blessed [is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time [is] at hand.

1 John 2:18 - Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

Philippians 2:9-11 - Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:   10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,  10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 

Romans 13:11 - And that, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Matthew 24:42-44 - Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.   43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Matthew 24:8 - All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.

Mtthew 24:3 - And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Revelation 1:7 - Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Matthew 24:13 - But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 - Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;  4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Matthew 24:22 - And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Source of  Bible verses:  King James Bible online