March 6th, 2010WHATEVER IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD TODAY?
A MESSAGE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION FROM GWEN SHAW, President and Founder of END TIME HANDMAIDENS AND SERVANTS MINISTRY INT.
See that ye refuse not HIM that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from HIM that speaketh from heaven: WHOSE voice then shook the earth: but now HE hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:”
(Hebrews 12:25-28).
GOVERNMENTS SHAKEN: This past week the world has been experiencing shakings of all kinds: Shakings in the governments of the world-Greece, Iraq, USA, Iran, and Czech Republic.
THE SEAS HAVE BEEN SHAKEN: Besides Tidal Waves and Tsunamis, there have been shakings of the Seas with unexplainable “Rogue Waves” as high as thirty feet, (three in a row) washing over a five-star cruise ship off the shore of Barcelona in the Mediterranean, killing two people, and wounding others. Scientists have no explanation.
WORLD-WIDE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS: The economies of nations all over the world have been shaken, bringing great consternation, fear, and great hardships to millions.
GREAT MINISTRIES HAVE BEEN SHAKEN: In these last two years, we have all been deeply grieved about the shakings in the lives and ministries of servants of God who have been mightily used of God and held in high esteem.
FAMOUS AND HIGHLY HONOURED SPORTS AND GIFTED “STARS”: They have shaken the world by suddenly falling from their pedestals we built for them.
THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM HAS BEEN SHAKEN: The shaking of our educational system. I heard a school teacher on the radio say that our educational system maintains that it is not necessary to teach History any longer. (I suppose that if you are an ape, you have no history of importance).
MORAL STANDARDS AND FAMILY VALUES HAVE BEEN SHAKEN: Our moral standards and family value is in fragments in many homes, (especially when mummy and daddy are the same sex). This week Washington, D.C. passed the law allowing same-sex marriage for the District of Columbia. What has happened to our beautiful “City on a Hill?”
THE WORLD ITSELF IS SHAKING: And now the whole earth is reeling, like a drunken man. This beautiful world God created cannot bear the burden of our sins. Earthquakes in Haiti, Tibet, Chile, Argentina, and Taiwan – all within the space of a few weeks. All of them are 6.5 or higher, Chile’s earthquake was 8.8 (fifth largest in recorded history). There have been over 1,000 quake swarms at Yellowstone since the beginning of the year. The world is like a woman in the last stages of childbirth, with the pangs of pain coming increasingly closer together, and with greater severity. The seismologists are warning us this week that Southern California’s San Andreas fault is over due, and is active with numerous small shocks all of a sudden (within the past month) which could easily be foreshocks. There have been many 3.0 and 4.5 quakes within a100 mile radius of San Diego just recently. Romans 8:22 talks of these days, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”
Why is all this happening? Two reasons:
1. Our cup of iniquity is filled to the brim. The world cannot bear the burden of shame and sin. We are living like they did in the days of Noah, before the flood, and the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah, before they were buried in fire and brimstone -as Jesus prophesied it would be in the end time.
2. Romans 8:19-22 tells us, “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope: Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
Remember what Jesus said in Luke 21:28, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
These terrible birth pangs that are bringing the wrath, God’s wrath and judgment on the world are a sign to us that we are about to receive back everything we lost through the Fall. God is dividing The Children of God from those who are His enemies, like He did in Egypt long ago, in the land of Goshen, when the plagues fell on the Egyptians, while His people were saved from all of them.
But Jesus warned us: We cannot live like The “Egyptians” who served false gods and lived sinful lives, and were cruel to the people of God. He said, “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man!” (Luke 21:36).
Children of God: live holy lives, like the faithful, dedicated saints of old. Read your Bible, Pray without ceasing, and love your neighbour!
Sister Gwen Shaw
End Time Handmaidens and Servants Ministry
5th March, 2010
