People are not destroyed for the lack of information, but the destruction comes from the rational laziness to meticulously and judiciously exercise their mental faculties; crosscheck things, compare and contrast, and discovering the truth for themselves. It is good to be armed and filthy with knowledge, to avoid being brainswashed, deluded, manipulated and used for non just cause.
There is this particular teaching that has been circulating on the net concerning how the world will end, according to some mad and ignorant religious blind guides who are devoid of common knowledge, spiritually empty, deceiving and being deceived. Deluding their followers with lies and myths; claiming inspirations which are nothing but fairy tales, and speaking of things which are unfounded & idiotic.
According to their claims; they said, that when the sun will begin to rise from the west and the earth will start to move backward, with other nonsensical, unscientific unbiblica & empty rhetorical religious balderdash and unintelligible trivial garbage, the believers should buckle up and know that the end and destruction of the world has begun. And some uninformed and ignorant fanatics are seriously circulating the message all over the social media, disturbing the peace and tranquillity of some well-meaning individuals, troubling the minds of people, as if the world is coming to an end today or tomorrow, putting people into confusion and mental distress. Spreading what they neither defend nor affirm.
1. Will The Sun Ever Rise From The West?
Let the word of God and science answer for themselves:
It is true that the bible did not specifically mention the direction from which the sun rises and sets, but the biblical description is so simple that even the most unlearned person, does not need to crack his brain to understand God’s word.
From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised. (Psalms 113:3)
So tell me; where does the sun rise and sets, does not the sun rise from the east and sets in the west? You may ask; why didn’t the bible specify it for clarity? The bible does not need to specify it, because it is a visible and an established fact which is manifest to the human senses. For hundreds of years and generations, when men wake up in the morning, every person sees the sun rises from the east and sets in the west. Therefore expecting the bible to tell you an established fact, is like a healthy and full-fledged adult expecting his mother to feed and bath him. Everybody knows that the sun rises from the east and sets in the west; don’t expect the bible to come telling you about it in order to believe, it is there for you to see and believe. It does not take the supernatural to convince a person that these are the way things have been divinely established. It is a common factor which does not need long scientific explanation.
For from the rising of the sun even to the setting of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, says the LORD of hosts. (Malachi 1:11)
God does not need to tell you from where the sun rises and sets, he has physically established and ordained it to be so, generations come and go; those things remain the way God has ordained them to be, and they cannot for once be altered. What God is saying in the above biblical verse is that, anywhere a person goes, those heavenly ordinances do not change their course, they function according to the divine order. Therefore every other proposition is mere speculation & conjecture.
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. (Psalms 50:1)
The heavenly elements and the way by which they have been ordered to function, will neither change nor alter. As God has ordered them, so they will remain.
Having quoted from the bible, we now turn to science for more information
“The Sun appears to move from east to west. That's because the Earth is spinning towards to the east, so we see the Sun first appear there at the start of the day. The Sun 'rises' in the east and 'sets' in the west.” (BBC-Astronomy and space science)
It is simple and scientifically factual, the sun will always rise from the east and sets in the west as God has ordained it. People should arm themselves with pure and accurate information, to avoid being deluded and brainwashed. We are living in a generation where through technology information is at our fingertip, but many are too lazy to exercise their mental faculty, they prefer posting pictures on social media, listening to secular music, watching movies, texting and whiling away their precious time on nothingness.
“The Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the stars all rise in the east and set in the west. And that's because Earth spins -- toward the east. ……… Earth rotates or spins toward the east, and that's why the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars all rise in the east and make their way westward across the sky.” (The StarChild)
True science does not contradict the bible, but affirms it. One does not need to crack his brain and read all the books in the world to know this simple fact. It is good for a soul to acquire knowledge through careful investigation; you should not imbibe everything that your religious instructor tells you as the truth, you must do some systematic research on your own and get the truth first-hand. For example, if your cleric tells you to walk barefoot on hot coals by faith and nothing will happen to you, will you foolishly do that, I believe you will rethink about it? But there are people who would go ahead and do it without questioning, because it is a command from the prophet and therefore ought not to be questioned. Listen to me, you are created with faculty and are expected to make use of it. It is not everything you hear that you just should jump into conclusion and get into the bandwagon without questioning what you heard, the apostle Paul tells us to examine all things.
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21, NASB)
A person without knowledge is no good. A person in a hurry makes mistakes. (Proverbs 19:2)
You should not jump into the bandwagon based on empty rhetorical eloquence and smmoth charisnatic oratory. Scepticism is a great gift from God if correctly and wisely used. To be sceptic is not a sin, it is up to a person to verify what is before him, before making any conclusion. Don’t believe a preacher, lecturer, etc. based on their eloquence & charisma; at times they can err and mislead many into error and destruction through unwholesome & erroneous informations. It is good to question some things if in doubt, and if discovered that those things are illogical, unwholesome and erroneous, should be discarded and ultimately avoided.
2. When will the world end?
This question has been asked over with time. Many mad and mentally deranged psychopaths have appeared on the stage giving dates and announcing the imminent end of the world, many went and sold their properties and gathered round these madmen waiting for the doomsday to arrive, only to discover that they have been duped. Hungry and quack writers have written extensively on this matter, giving dates and times the end would occur, many in frenzy bought their books and became ardent disciples and harbingers of the coming world destruction. Well the truth is that, nothing happened, those authors made millions through their fabricated tales and became extremely rich. After all who doesn’t want money?
"So stay awake, because you don't know the day or the hour. (Matthew 25:13)
Jesus made it clear that nobody knows the hour; therefore making predictions concerning the time is nothing but another form of religious madness. Only God knows when the time will be, all that is needed of us is to be prepared and ready.
Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come. But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into. Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come. (Matthew 24:42-44)
No one knows the time when the end would be, our duty is to keep watch and ready. The only thing made known to us are the symptoms of the time, but that does not mean the end, there are things that must precede the end, but for now, we should go on with our normal daily activities and make meaning out of life instead predicting those things which we don’t know. Yes Jesus will come, God will judge the world for its wickedness, but no man knows the exact time. Hear me out; evil must run its course before the end will come, let this truth sink into your person. It is due to the unbalanced teachings in our local churches nowadays that have confused so many and turned them into apocalyptic fanatics, who will not listen to reason and common sense. As for evil running its course, here is what the bible has to say:
Now in regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to meet Him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly unsettled or alarmed either by a [so-called prophetic revelation of a] spirit or a message or a letter [alleged to be] from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has [already] come. Let no one in any way deceive or entrap you, for that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first [that is, the great rebellion, the abandonment of the faith by professed Christians], and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction [the Antichrist, the one who is destined to be destroyed], who opposes and exalts himself [so proudly and so insolently] above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he [actually enters and] takes his seat in the temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he himself is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I was telling you these things? And you know what restrains him now [from being revealed]; it is so that he will be revealed at his own [appointed] time. For the mystery of lawlessness [rebellion against divine authority and the coming reign of lawlessness] is already at work; [but it is restrained] only until he who now restrains it is taken out of the way. Then the lawless one [the Antichrist] will be revealed and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of His mouth and bring him to an end by the appearance of His coming. The coming of the [Antichrist, the lawless] one is through the activity of Satan, [attended] with great power [all kinds of counterfeit miracles] and [deceptive] signs and false wonders [all of them lies], and by unlimited seduction to evil and with all the deception of wickedness for those who are perishing, because they did not welcome the love of the truth [of the gospel] so as to be saved [they were spiritually blind, and rejected the truth that would have saved them]. Because of this God will send upon them a misleading influence, [an activity of error and deception] so they will believe the lie, in order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe the truth [about their sin, and the need for salvation through Christ], but instead took pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Amplified Bible)
I would have taken my time to comment and elaborate each verse, but the version I used has done the work already, the reader will comprehend the message with all clarity and openness of mind. I want you to make a careful observation on verses 3 & 7; the falling away has begun, and the mystery of iniquity is at work; that is why I said that evil must first run its full course before the end would occur. I will not need to tell you everything, with what is going on today, you need not to be told that the end is near, but please don’t go around speculating about it, we don’t when the time will be, our duty is to warn people and persuade them to be ready, but don’t go around like a lunatic giving dates and times, your primary duty is to warn men and keep alert. Let me tell you this truth; there are three major things that are still at work, and each must be accomplished before the end comes.
a. The Holy Spirit, who is restraining the evil one- 2 Thessalonians 2:7
b. The numbering and gathering in of the elect- Revelation 7:2-3, Ezekiel 9:4
c. The full return of the Jewish people into their own land- Ezekiel 39 & 39
Please I want you take number 3 very serious, before all these will take place, all the Jews will have return to Israel (the land which God promised to their ancestors by oath & covenant), due to severe persecutions and anti-Semitism. The reader should know that all these are part of God’s plan for the grand spiritual restoration of the Jewish people and emergence of the Messianic age. If you look all over the world, except in the land of Israel, the antipathy against the Jews is increasing with high velocity; there is no place that is safe for the Jews any longer (except in the land of Israel). You need not to be flabbergasted about that, it is all part of God’s plan for their restoration and redemption. God has not changed mind nor altered his covenant promises which he made to them through their fathers, Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, which he confirmed with King David by an oath, and all were fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ, whether one believes it or not, the scripture cannot be broken.
Those teaching spiritual Israelism and replacement theology are liars and charlatans. It is not true that the church has replaced Israel and that Christians are now the spiritual Jews. What the bible is saying in essence is that; those who believe in Christ Jesus are beneficiaries of Abraham’s blessings through faith by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and are of the commonwealth of Israel. But to say that the church has replaced Israel and that God has forsaken them (the Jewish people), is a blatant falsehood and should be rejected right away as a fabricated doctrine. A gentile Christian remains a gentile; a Jew remains a Jew-period. Gentile Christians through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus the Messiah are now ingrafted into the commonwealth of Israel, that is to say; all the promises of blessings that God made to Abraham are now available to him, it did not say that he has replaced Israel.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. “He redeemed us so that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. (Galatians 3:13-14)
All the privileges which the Jews enjoyed in the old dispensation, to which the gentiles were excluded, are now available to gentile Christians through faith.
That God has not rejected the Jews is apparent from the scripture:
I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin….. I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins. “Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs. For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. (Romans 11:1, 25-27, Berean Study Bible)
God has not forsaken the Jews as some people may claim; they are the epicentre of God’s prophetic timetable, God has not changed his mind nor altered the contract.
Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea’s roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar; the LORD of hosts is His name: “If this fixed order departs from before Me,” says the LORD, “Then the descendants of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever.” Thus says the LORD, “If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out below, then I will also cast off and abandon all the descendants of Israel for all that they have done,” says the LORD. (Jeremiah 31:35-37)
As far as the sun will give light to the day and the moon to the night, so shall the Jews continue to be a distinct people and nation. Every attempt to assimilate them has proved abortive; every type of forced conversion has been unsuccessful. Therefore as a Christian, you are commanded to respect and pray for them, it is a shame for anyone professing to be a Christian and at the same hate the Jews, such a person is devoid of the knowledge of the true God and has made himself an accursed, for Jesus did not command any of his follower to persecute the Jews or hate them, calling them Jesus killers is a gross miscarriage of justice and fairness.
Now [in Haran] the Lord said to Abram, Go for yourself [for your own advantage] away from your country, from your relatives and your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others]. And I will bless those who bless you [who confer prosperity or happiness upon you] and [a]curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed [and by you they will bless themselves]. (Genesis 12:1-3)
To look with disfavor on the Jews was to invite God’s displeasure; to treat the Jews offensively was to incur His wrath. But to befriend the Jews was to bring down upon one’s head the rewards of a promise that could not be broken. Not on earth which have opened wide her doors to Jewish prople, that did not witness anu nprecedented and historical prosperity, success and security from God himself.
Now, haven known the truth, I believe that next time someone comes to you giving you dates and times concerning the end of the world, you will know what to answer him. Secondly, if one come to you with their anti-Semitic rhetorics, just sideline them with these few words: I am not interested in your madness and falsity.
God bless and shalom.
