WORDS FROM THE WISE

  President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address lasted for only two minutes and was delivered at a cemetary.
  Patrick Henry's famous Give me liberty, or give me death was a total of seven words.
  President Franklin Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
  King Solomon wrote:  Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:  Fear God, and keep his commandments:  for this is the whole duty of man.  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.  (Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14).
   Jesus of Nazareth said:  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; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:  for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.  (Luke 21: 25-26)
  There are but a few people across the United States that fear God today. 
  Outside of Bible-believing churches and born again Christians, how many people in the United States actually respect God today?
  How many people, even throughout the world, truly believe that God will do what God has said He will do? 
  Christ gave us but a short list of signs to watch, spoken in simple words, in two simple sentences, and simple to understand.  Did Christ mean what He said?  Can Christ do what He said He will do?
   Those signs, spoken just over two thousand years ago, are in front of our eyes at this very moment in time.  Are you looking?  Are you watching?  Are you paying attention?
   If you believe the Lord, you will believe the signs, and you will also believe that the end of human history is nearly at hand.  So then, whom shall you fear? 
   God is preparing to shake the earth.  And the reason God will shake the earth is in order to get the attention of people:  that people will believe that God is God and that God will do exactly as God has said He will do.  And when God shakes the earth, people will fear Him.  They will awaken out of sleep and believe when they see the King of kings coming in the clouds of majestic glory. 
   For today, it will take a shaking of the earth to get people to believe and to fear God. 
  As Christ said in Luke's Gospel, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
   It is said that a dying man's words are words of truth from his heart.  Before Christ died for the sins of the world, He spoke those words from His heart because He loves us and because He wants us to be saved.  And when Christ died on the cross, His heart ruptured.