250 posts down...how many left to go?

I noticed this week I happened to have hit the 250 mark on Wednesday with my extension piece on the Reverend Hagee, and while there's not a lot to get melancholy about in reference to this blog (except perhaps the early death of the woman whose influence brought it about in the first place), it did start me thinking about a passage from the book of James.

James, the half-brother of Jesus, came to believe in the deity of the Man he grew up with upon His death and resurrection, as we were meant to. Christ said, on many occasions, that the proof of His deity would come when on the third day the Lord would indeed rise from the grave and be seen by many (as of course He was). It was at that point when James not only became a Believer but also its chief disciple within the city of Jerusalem as the twelve chosen apostles traveled near and far to spread the Word throughout the Jewish and, eventually, Gentile lands.

In this epistle, speaking to his spread-out followers in and about Jerusalem, James warns the people about their long-term plans. Do not demand that your plans come true, he told them; God might have something else in mind for you (reference Isaiah and Jeremiah for more on this):

Boasting About Tomorrow

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Would I like to write another 250 posts for you? Of course! AND YET....

Would I rather that the Lord return and bring us home before that happens? OH, PLEASE, LORD, YES!!! 

The truth of the matter is that we are definitely in the Last Days of the Church on earth. The Bible spells out in meticulous detail what conditions will exist at the moment that the Rapture happens, and those conditions exist right now. I am literally at a loss to name a single thing that still needs to be prepared before that happens. (In a post in the very near future - "IF the Lord wills!" - I will spell out the few things that may or may not be an issue.) The only reason that God would delay at this point is because being a merciful God, He is going to give everyone every chance He CAN to find salvation before He comes back and shuts down the avenue of escape before the Great Tribulation. 

The truth of the matter is that if I'm to write another 250 posts, then I'd better plan to write fast. 

This version of the Act II Ministries blog started on October first, eight and one half months ago. Another 8 1/2 months puts us at the end of February 2018. I give that a 70-30 shot of happening. It's the following 8 1/2 months that I believe are the most likely to be the beginning of the End, for reasons long ago touched upon and soon to be related again. 

Until then I love you all, with an agape love that I wish was identical to Christ's.   But I'm doing my best, with the Spirit's help.