God declares the end from the beginning. The Bible as God’s book of love and personal instruction is sent to us and for us. It gives us the most important and captivating history lessons and spiritual lessons to learn from. It starts with the beginning of time and creation in Genesis, and goes onto what will be happening in the end times. Isaiah 46:9-10 says, ‘Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.’ God gives everyone his Word, the Bible, so we can be prepared ahead of time for what is coming and understand why his own inspired, inerrant words were written to and for us. Readying our heart, mind, and spirit to get to know him personally and hopefully that you might receive him. Jesus Christ urges us to be ready by reading and hearing his word. Understanding that he knows everything about us already since he’s made us. Knowing what he wants us to learn from it and that it is for our own best and that of our family’s. He wants us to be ready with our lamps burning and plenty of oil in waiting for his return. This is so exciting! Revelation 22:20 states, ‘He which testifieth these things saith,’ “Surely I come quickly.” ‘Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.’ Prophecy is proof that the bible is from a truly loving and holy God. Prophecy comes from the prophets in the old testament and there is some in the new testament. Jesus loves us and wants us to read and take his Word, the Bible, very seriously. In fact there is no more important thing we can do for ourselves in heaven or on earth than to prepare ourselves to know Jesus Christ and read his words. Come just as you are to him and read. The new testament book of John is a wonderful place to start with inside the Bible because it gives us a lot of Jesus’s own words and explains to us who Jesus Christ really is, and about believing in him. There are some spectacular miracles written about here, and about his life. I love that it’s full of truth and light and love.

A good majority of God’s word is prophecy. By one account over 25% of both old and new testament scripture is prophecy. So prophecy is most important in the bible! 2 Peter 1:20-21 states, ‘Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.’ God’s message is clear; he exists and is in control of history! This is truly comforting. There are over 300 prophecies that Jesus Christ has fulfilled on the topic of his life, death, and resurrection.

Jesus also tells everyone in Luke 21 about remaining watchful for his return. We are living in the last days everyone! Hebrews 1:1-2 states, ‘God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.’ His words say in Hebrew 2:1-4, ‘Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?’ Christ wants us spiritually fit and ready because he is coming back. Don’t be lazy or careless about life – seek God – who he is, why he came, what he did, and what he will be doing. You don’t know what you don’t know. Ask God for his help in this. Ask him for what you need whether it’s knowledge, wisdom, or/and understanding and he will give it to you. Knock at his door! Read his Word. In Matthew 7:7,8 Jesus states, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” Get a good bible, I recommend the authorized KJV with the words of Jesus in red letters and the chapters indexed. Do not give up, stick with it, and see what happens! How is a person to know the signs of the times we are coming upon unless you start getting acquainted with what Jesus says in his word so you can understand and be ready?

If you knew something in the future was coming wouldn’t you act to prepare? No one likes to be left behind or left out of anything important, and in this case it is the most important thing of all. If we know our car needs fixing we don’t wait until it almost falls apart to get it looked at. Or if one of our children needs to go to the doctor suddenly, we just wouldn’t ignore them would we? That is what Jesus is trying to tell us, be ready! In Luke 12:40 Jesus states, “Be therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.” A lot of prophecies left to be fulfilled have to do with him coming again one day. And he wants you prepared not only for yourself but for your family and friends as well.

In Revelation 22:7 Jesus tells us, “Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” In Revelation 22:13 Jesus says, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” John 1:1-5 says, ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.’ The Word is consistent, unchanging, and always points to Jesus Christ. Much prophecy was fulfilled in his first coming. And with Jesus’s second coming, he is coming to rule over all nations and this time as the one and only king of all. Revelation 19:15-16 states, ‘And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.’ Let us make time to prepare our hearts, our minds, and our souls for him!

2 Peter 1:19 states, ‘We also have a more sure word of the prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.’ The morning star is our Messiah.

Scripture/the Word/Jesus Christ is the only light for our feet. In John 14:6 it says, ‘Jesus saith unto him,’ “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” In the bible we meet Jesus Christ who died for us and is our answer for everything in all of life and for eternity. Light shines to help us and guide us. Follow the light of the world who is Jesus Christ and you will never regret it, and your life will become more and more like his. Light draws us, warms us, staves off darkness, makes things visible, and sustains all life. As plants do not grow without enough light, the Lord is truly our light to help us see and learn that we wither without his light and grace to sustain us and keep us strong. In John 8:12 it says, ‘Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying,’ “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” This is a promise from Jesus Christ to you!

Whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, Jesus is coming back one day!