We hear the sirens! We must wake up and be ready!

When you hear the siren sounding, behind on the road, what do we do? We slow down, pull to the side, quiet the noise to get the full picture…
The alarm is sounding! Can we even hear it today? We CAN know what’s going on! But we have to slow down, and pull to the side and quiet the noise so the questions can be answered! Like a child, be ready to ‘not know everything’ but to listen and to learn and to even be instructed. “Stop-Look-and Listen” are powerful words to safety- otherwise the fire will overcome and  it WILL ‘destruct-us!’
“STOP!” But many, are shouting and fighting and carrying on, like toddlers in a tantrum to get their own way! “Stop! we must, and without delay!” We must quiet ourselves like a child who’s grown! Did we forget what we teach our own children at home? There is an alarm sounding now, but we must be quiet  to hear it. We hear talk of “Peace,Peace, you can go back to sleep!” but fists are being raised and the heat index is rising – the roar is so loud it sounds like oceans crashing!
“Stop!” But even in that there is only anger and death – even to authorities and those that bring us ‘rest’! We must STOP – we must LOOK, and we must be as children needing instruction. The one’s with the ‘loud-speakers’ have got it all wrong! They’ve been deceived and their message is hate and lies! There is no safety, there is no rest, there is no peace,…but God, HE does  – NOT – FRET!
“The Loud voices speak that God is ‘no-where’ and the Word that He breathes is nothing more than fable. It is true that God seems silent that He’s not even aware…But we must Stop – Look, and do even more than that, we must LISTEN because the siren is sounding: “BEWARE!” Because God IS, and God sees, and God knows, and He sits in heaven and laughs (Psalm 2)! GOD – is HERE right now, whether or not one believes in HIM or some  ‘golden calves’!”
“He will bring about events, as He’s done in the past, that will silence the noise and even bring down the sword, and everything He says, DOES come to  PASS- and He has said, ” “THEN they will KNOW that I Am the LORD!” (Ezekiel 36:23). “Then they will know,…” over and over again, the Lord has spoken this Word!”
“The alarm is sounding – don’t you know how late it is? Time is running out! Wake up from your sleep (and your inner fury) – the coming of the Lord is near! Stop and HEAR! The school’s won’t teach this story anymore, but please be assured it’s at the very door.”
Are you wrestling inside, with the noises of intolerance: “You don’t make sense! You frustrate me with your rhetoric! Leave me alone, I don’t have time for this!”
“The alarm is sounding, it’s time to wake up! Stop-Look-and Listen! these are words that save lives: “You don’t have time to NOT give an ear. Let me make myself very clear. There are two roads! There is heaven and hell!  There was a great flood years upon years ago, and just “as the days of Noah WERE, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”(Matthew 24:37).  God is on the throne! And as the nations rise up against Him and against His Anointed, He IS GOD…trust me!  It would be wise to BELIEVE  in faith without ‘seeing’ than to later…SEE with  unimaginable GREAT GRIEVING!”
The siren is sounding, at least believe me in that – so STOP what you are doing and at least take a LOOK. LISTEN to reason…listen I say, God LOVES YOU! You might not believe it, but that doesn’t change what’s TRUE, the fact of the matter is: God has always believed…in you.”
Noah and the ark, (it is a true story), but ‘believe it or not’, Noah took 120 years to complete it! So that many, many could hear of the dangers that were coming and make the right choice to Listen to the Way and Walk in the Truth and Discover Life as they walked through the Door, that they might live…forevermore.
“The night is far gone, the day of His return will soon be here. So quit the evil deeds of darkness and put on the armor of right living, as we who live in the daylight should!…ask the Lord Jesus Christ to help you live as you should, and don’t make plans to enjoy evil…” Romans 13:13,14, Living Bible).
So what is ‘the day of His return?’:(Matthew 24:29-31, Living Bible) “Immediately after the persecution of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give light, and the stars will seem to fall from the heavens, and the powers overshadowing the earth will be convulsed. “and then at last the signal of my coming will appear in the heavens and there will be deep mourning all around the earth. And the nations of the world will see me arrive in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And I shall send forth my angels with the sound of a mighty trumpet blast, and they shall gather my chosen ones from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven…”
“Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words remain forever…” (Matthew 24:35).
“The world will be at ease – banquets and parties and weddings – just as it was in Noah’s time before the sudden coming of the flood; people wouldn’t believe what was going to happen until the flood actually arrived and took them all away. So shall my coming be…” Matthew 24:37-39).
 

Author: Toni Rypkema

I'm a believer in Jesus. Because of this, I am married to a wonderful husband and the mom of a large family. For those who have battled cancer, or any other tragedy or disease, you might understand, I had a choice to get better or bitter. I chose to give thanks to Jesus for my every breath. For that reason alone, wanting to proclaim His goodness, do I write - Toni