Our Best Clue

March 6

We are warned ahead of time by the Lord that deception will be rampant in the evil days prior to His return. In Matthew 24 and Luke 21:7-36 Jesus gives a lengthy dissertation on the things that must come to pass prior to His return; He warns that there will be widespread deception and that those who believe in Him must be alert and on their guard against it.

There will be many false messiahs who will purport themselves to have answers to mankind’s ever-increasing dilemma—war, rumors of war, false religious teachers, broken families…much of what we see around us today will prevail in the days described here and in our eagerness to believe someone has a solution to it all, we might be ensnared by the demonic lie about which Christ warns.

What then are we to do? He has told us what we should NOT believe; how can we know what we should believe? He has told us in the fore-mentioned scriptures that we must not run after every purported ‘messiah sighting.’ He has said that we should not be deluded by signs and lying wonders that may be performed by the one who sets himself up as god to be worshiped.

A straight-forward verse in Revelation 1:7,8 is the best clue we have. Here the Apostle John tells us from his place of exile on the Isle of Patmos, “Behold, He comes with clouds and every eye shall see Him, including the Jews and every kindred shall wail because of Him! (He shall say,) I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, which was and is and is to come—the Almighty!”