Nation Will Rise Against Nation

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place; Matthew 24:7

There has always been wars and until Jesus comes back, there always will be. There has always been famines, and once again until Jesus returns there always will be those as well. We all pray so hard that these things will end, but Jesus plainly tells us that they will not end until He returns. Look at how Jesus taught us to pray: He never said that we should pray that wars, famines, earthquakes, and false prophets should end, Matthew 6:10-13. You ever wonder why He didn’t? 

Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5

Our Father allows these hardships of the flesh to occur, so that He can cause us to place our faith and confidence in Him. Hardships allow our Father to become great within us and that brings us true peace, peace that passes all understanding, peace even during tribulation. Hardships bring us the understanding that this life in the flesh is only but a brief moment in all of ours eternity. The hardships of the flesh now are in no way to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed in all of us, Romans 8:18. 

We like to judge things by the events of our flesh, but our Father deals with our spirits, John 4:24. Our spirits are eternal, they are the parts of us that bring true life and fruit, Luke 12:23. The flesh is temporal, our flesh only last but a brief time, 2 Corinthians 4:18. Too many believe that if things are good for our flesh, then we are living right, but if they are bad, then we must be living wrong. But that is not the case. Our flesh has to be buffeted so that our spirits can become glorious, 2 Corinthians 12:7. We see this Truth all throughout the Bible. Jesus was perfect, yet His life was filled with people trying to kill Him. Paul, Peter, John, David, Ezekiel, Elisha, Stephen, Daniel, and all the prophets had extreme hardships, yet they gloried in the power of our Father through them. These men were inspired by our Father and living powerfully faithful lives, yet hardships abounded for them. 

The Truth is that nation will always rise against nation until Jesus returns. Religion will rise against religion and families will be killing each other right up until the time that Jesus returns. But these things are not the signs of the end times, they are only a foreshadowing of them. Jesus is returning for a glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, Ephesians 5:27. The end time church will be one who is fully empowered to love their oppressors even during the worst of times. We will have no ability to trust in ourselves or the world and the Holy Spirit will cause us to be glorious during those times, Matthew 24:8