Signs of the Times  

   (Quotes on our theme this week supporting the afterlife from many great thinkers, theolgians, etc. over the centuries--only recently has modern mankind unwisely determined there is no hell or purgatory--)
 

   "A guilty conscience is a hell on earth, and points to one beyond."
                                                                     Anonymous

   "God has two dwellings; one in heaven and the other in a meek and thankful heart."
                                                               Izaak Walton

    "That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly, they are permitted to see the punishments of the damned in hell."
                                                                         St. Thomas Aquinas


     "If there be a paradise for virtues, there must be a hell for crimes."
                                                             Nicolas Caussin

     "I found the original of my hell in the world which we inhabit."
                                                                Dante Aligheri

     "Heaven for climate.  Hell for society."                         German proverb


      "Hell is truth seen too late--duty neglected in its season."
                                                           Tyron Edwards


     "The Heaven of each is but what each desires."     St. Thomas Moore

    "Men do not go to Heaven laughing."              Dutch proverb


      "The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh."
                                                                          Jonathan Edwards

        "It is Heaven on earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."
                                                                Sir Francis Bacon


     "Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell."
                                                               John Wesley

    "Ignorance is the mark of the heathen, knowledge of the true church, and conceit of the heretics."                                       Clement of Alexandria

         "It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
                                                                            Galileo

         "Heresy is the school of pride."         George Herbert



.........One thing is sure....that people cannot continue to insult and blaspheme God forever. 
Mankind cannot lift evil up as good and flaunt wickedness in the face of the Almighty.  Sodom and Gomorrah, the great flood and numerous acts of God's wrath are standing proof of that.  This temporal world is a powder keg waiting to explode and great trials and tribulations of such great proportions that they cannot be ignored are soon to come.  We have been seeing the warnings for some time now, and people are so filled with lusts and with themselves that they are oblivious to what the Lord is doing.  As the chastisements and purification continues to escalate and mankind remains in a state of denial and refuses to change, the prophecies --new and old --will continue to be enacted.

         The earth continues to shake and rumble just as predicted in Matthew, ch. 24.  There is so much seismic activity going on around the world, it is difficult to keep up with it.  There are also wars and rumors of wars as prophesied in Matthew--the most recent being N. Korea doing its periodic sabre-tooth rattling to induce fear....all of this and more is part of the Warning--we must also remember that the legal definition of insanity is the inability to cope with reality.  The reaity is that we live in a created world, which belongs to Almighty God.  It is a world filled with design, which proves beyond question that there is a designer.  This Creator and Designer also provided a plan of salvation for us, so that when He returns to this wicked world filled with people who insanely refuse to cope with the reality that they are sinners, we who do believe will be saved from the destruction that is imminent.  Reality is the need to repent, and insanity is the denial of that need and the refusal to do it.....

   THE HEAVENLY SCOURGE.....................


    "God will ordain two punishments: one in the form of wars, revolutions and other evils will originate on earth; the other will be sent from heaven.....(to be con't)