Post by morningstar on Jun 11, 2020 4:48:47 GMT
Death Is in the Valley, but We Aren’t Staying in the Valley :: By Alice Childs
Doesn’t it seem as if we’re living right in the middle of the “valley of the shadow of death”? If it feels that way to you, it’s because, in a very real sense, we are. I dare say that none of us ever thought we would be living through the death throes of the once-great-soon-to-be-late United States, watching in horror and sorrow as our once beloved nation lies mortally wounded, gasping her agonal breaths.
We are living in unprecedented times. We are living through the death of a nation as well as the end of a dispensation. We are living at the very end of the Dispensation of Grace – the Church Age, that began at Pentecost 2,000 years ago. Just as the early Church was birthed in persecution (see Acts), so too will the last days Church exit this world through waves of rising persecution. The closer we draw to the time of the rapture, the more dangerous and precarious our tenuous sojourn through the dying world system will become.
Jesus Himself likened the coming Tribulation to be like birth pains. As every woman who has ever given birth knows, once real labor begins, there’s no going back; a delivery must happen. Every contraction gets stronger and closer together to the point that the contractions are almost one on top of the other. That’s when we know the birth is imminent.
The time we are living in is a paradox. On one hand, we are living through the death agonies of this fallen world system ruled by the usurper Satan — the six-thousand-year degradation and systematic destruction of God’s perfect order by Satan’s successful ruination of Paradise and fall of mankind.
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Doesn’t it seem as if we’re living right in the middle of the “valley of the shadow of death”? If it feels that way to you, it’s because, in a very real sense, we are. I dare say that none of us ever thought we would be living through the death throes of the once-great-soon-to-be-late United States, watching in horror and sorrow as our once beloved nation lies mortally wounded, gasping her agonal breaths.
We are living in unprecedented times. We are living through the death of a nation as well as the end of a dispensation. We are living at the very end of the Dispensation of Grace – the Church Age, that began at Pentecost 2,000 years ago. Just as the early Church was birthed in persecution (see Acts), so too will the last days Church exit this world through waves of rising persecution. The closer we draw to the time of the rapture, the more dangerous and precarious our tenuous sojourn through the dying world system will become.
Jesus Himself likened the coming Tribulation to be like birth pains. As every woman who has ever given birth knows, once real labor begins, there’s no going back; a delivery must happen. Every contraction gets stronger and closer together to the point that the contractions are almost one on top of the other. That’s when we know the birth is imminent.
The time we are living in is a paradox. On one hand, we are living through the death agonies of this fallen world system ruled by the usurper Satan — the six-thousand-year degradation and systematic destruction of God’s perfect order by Satan’s successful ruination of Paradise and fall of mankind.
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