From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"

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Sent: Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 5:04 AM

Subject: 10-19-21 THOUGHTS

10-19-21 THOUGHTS

The Lord has not left us without information concerning end times.  We have sufficient words that we can wait expectantly for a victory that is already in process, indeed, already won!  The promises are sure!  God Himself will determine the right time.  Most will be surprised.  
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2Pet 3:3-18     Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,  4  and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." 5  For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6  through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 7  But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. 8  But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9  The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 10  But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. 11  Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12  looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!  13  But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. 14  Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15  and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16  as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17  You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, 18  but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

After so many of these posts, I have abandoned my worry that I might duplicate a scripture area.  Repetition and memory are tools from God!

My Prayer:
O Lord we long to be with you eternally.  Thank you and praise for making that promise to us.
We pray for clean hearts to be guided by your word and your Spirit as we wait for the coming of your son.  Help us encourage each other in love and good works as we see the day approaching.  Excite the eyes of our hearts that we might see.  You only are God to be praised.
In the name of our Savior who has gained the victory,   Amen