Two Questions

                                     Any Day Now

-Any day now we could see the rapture of the church & more last day signs occur

vs29 – 31 — everything goes dark after the 7 year tribulation period ends

-the powers of heaven will be shaking – it’s all dark & Rev 19:11-18 happens

-everything will be shaken – Haggai 2:7

*It is a time of adversity

                       ADVERSITY INTRODUCES YOU TO YOURSELF

***During times of adversity we need to have victory and Holy Spirit power.  We must cry out to the Lord — Acts 4:31

***Look what happens when we pray and cry out to the Lord

1. THEY WERE SHAKEN – this was an earthquake, a shaking and things were falling all around them

2. THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

—James 1:2 – various kinds of trials…It means many colored

—1 Peter 4:10 – there are manifold graces

-It means many colored graces

3. THEY RECEIVED BOLDNESS – confidence

-to stand strong during adversity

vs 32-35 – THE FIG TREE

v32 – learn – means to embrace something thoroughly

         fig tree – is the nation of Israel

-as the fig tree begins to blossom and have leaves, know the return of the Lord is close to occurring

v34 – assuredly – this will happen

-the people who see these signs will see the return of Jesu sand be raptured

v35 – Pass – means to renovate and not to destroy or annihilate

-2 Peter 3:10-14 & Revelation 21:1-5

-the Word of the Lord remains strong and permanent no matter what is going on around us or across our nation and the global community

v36 – no one knows the day or time when Jesus is returning

vs37-39 – our culture and world today will be just like the days of Noah

v38 – this speaks of normal life and the cares of this world

v39 – Noah preached for 120 years

flood – means to wash down —- were washed down and away from heaven

         HERE ARE SOME THINGS WE CAN LEARN FROM THE DAYS OF NOAH & THAT ARE HAPPENING TODAY

1. LIFE WAS MANIFESTED – Genesis 6:5-8

-this is God’s love

-there was a preacher

-there was time

2. SIGNS WERE PRESENT  – Genesis 2:1-2, 5. 11-13

vs11-12 – Corruption

v13 – violence

vs1-2,5 – wickedness or immorality

3. GRACE WAS AVAILABLE – Genesis 6:8-9 & 8:1

-the ark represents  Jesus Christ

-the ark had one window and one door