'What The Future Holds' (April 13, 2012)

By Allan Thomasson

'Noone knows what the future holds.'

I hear that, now and then.
But let me tell you what I know,
And where we might have been:

If we had gone our sinful ways,

And Christ came not from His throne:
This is the truth, and we shall know,
When the universe is gone.                     Revelation 20:11

God sent the pair, both Eve and Adam

Out of that paradise                                                Genesis 3:23
Because of sin that they had done,               Genesis 2;16-17, 3:6
They took the wrong advice.                      Genesis 3:1-5

The curse was placed on their son, Cain,

Rejected by all men.
He killed his brother Abel and                       Genesis 4:3-8
Was punished for his sin.

God sent a flood upon the earth,

And took them all away,
Who once had known, that God was God,
And they all died that day.                          Genesis 6:17

When Jesus came to Israel,

Him, they did not receive.
Their house was then left desolate,             Matthew 23:37-38
For they did not believe.

The world will end. The universe,

Also, will be no more,                                                      II Peter 3:10-14
When God shall sit on the great white throne,
Judge the wicked by the score.                              Revelation 20:10-15

They will be cast into the lake

Of fire, for evermore,
Then God, new earth and heav'n will make.          Revelation 21:1-7
He's spoken it before.

So do we now know, in a sense,

What soon the future holds?
Believe in Jesus Christ, God's Son,
And He will save your souls.                           Acts 10:43-48

We cannot wait: don't be too late,

Choose now,your destiny.
That 'fate' awaits, I tell you straight,
In that eternity

For every one, who rejects God's Son;

But heaven greets the saved.
And you must make your decision now,
Ere you lie in your own grave.

Daniel 12:2: Here is a brief look at the resurrection of the dead, the saved, and the unsaved:
2)“And many of them (all) that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to (eternal) shame and everlasting contempt.”

John 3:16-18: This is God's promise, and His move, toward sinners' salvation:

16) “For God so loved (each and every person, equally, who are in) the world, that He gave His only begotten Son (Jesus Christ, to be the only acceptable Sacrifice that would take away our past sins), that whosoever beleiveth in Him should not perish (as the wicked), but have everlasting life.
17) “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn (any person in) the world, but that they (every one in the world) might be saved (by believing in Jesus).
18) “He that believeth on Him is not condemned (any longer by their past sins which they have committed, and which are now taken away by believing in Jesus, the only Savior of lost souls of men): but he that believeth not (on Him) is (still) condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son (the man, Christ Jesus, in Whom was God the Word) of (the only true and living) God (the Father, Jehovah).”

God loves you: love Him back!

Romans 5:8: Here is how God has shown us how loves the sinner, wants us to be in His family:

 8) "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."