Tribulation Age Precursors: Have You Noticed?? (Poem)

Across the world…

Have you noticed… lawlessness is abounding,

By folk both in and out of power?

Jesus said with such our world would be filling,

When ‘righteous salt’ loses its savor.

Have you noticed… t’ward judgments
the world is careening?

Earth’s heating up, some ‘Christians’ are cooling down?

Among Christ-believers, false prophets are deceiving.

Love is waxing cold, as lawlessness abounds.

Have you noticed… strong-man governments are increasing?

Voters growing more comfortable with such regimes,

Hastening days when nations, by intrigue, will be ceding,

Their powers to one man who will drive satanic themes. ¹

Have you noticed… the arms race is speeding-up?

One day, our reliance on nuclear weapons will be wrecked.

Nukes can’t fight God when His tribulation ramps-up,

And from His nuclear-type event,

our weapons won’t protect. ²

Have you noticed… toward God folk are increasingly cold?

Yet most folk are now hot to the climate alarm.

As Earth heats up, here’s something more pivotal to behold:

God’s more concerned with heat loss that’s...

Christians-lukewarm. ³

Have you noticed… Jesus says believe

what we cannot see. ⁴

So many folk say, ‘ I can’t believe what I’m seeing!’

From believing anything, devils seek to set us free.

They’ve won cause now …seeing is no longer believing!

Across our land…

Have you noticed… to the massive homeless perplexity?

We seem to respond somewhat sluggishly.

Yet to those we jail, we’re quick to give, with longevity,

Room, board, clothes and health care, generously! ⁵

Have you noticed… it’s ‘the other folk’ we blame,

When by hellish darts our lives and nation are ablaze?

How blissfully convenient others we frame,

When our sins at home and abroad we ignore …or praise.

Have you noticed… in churches across our land,

The programs, not prayer, are accentuated?

But praying in The Spirit is often banned, ⁶

And the ‘social gospel’ is articulated.

Have you noticed… the ole fashioned
‘sweet hour of prayer’,

Is relegated to a hymn, un-sung,

Rather than a personal practice that we nurture?

Thus, Heaven’s ‘HELP!!!’ bell is now hardly rung.

Have you noticed… frivolity has trumped fervency,

In the things to which we diligently apply faith,

Things to help us live our lives much more comfortably,

While across our land, virtues diminish and decay?

Have you noticed… our run-away craze
for gadgets and perks,

For the latest gizmos, phones, tablets and hotspots,

For connectivity to communication networks,

Yet declining desires to be …‘Heaven’s hotspots’? ⁷

Have you noticed… we all seem to like,

A decisive president?

Beware fruits from decisions seed-like:

A divisive precedence.

What we all refuse to confess and own,

Friends, frenemies and our enemies alike have noticed.

Our hypocrisy, to them God has shown.

So…

When will we start noticing what God in us has witnessed??

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¹ See: Revelation 13

² See: Zechariah 14:12-13

³ These things says [Jesus] The Amen, The Faithful and True Witness, The Beginning of the creation of God: ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.’ See: Revelation 3:14-23

⁴ See: Habakkuk 4:2, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews 10:38

⁵ What must this signal to those who are homeless??

⁶  ‘But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirt…’ (Jude 20) After the Covid pandemic, many churches across the world have reportedly closed - yet another phase of the deepening apostasy Apostle Paul twice predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2, and 1 Timothy 1. 

⁷ See: Luke 18:1 and 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. See also: Two Prayer Challenges (Poem)