24/02/2022
UKRAINE AT WAR!
So the long awaited war has been initiated by Putin at last. Obviously the very least that can be said of him is that he is governed by an antichrist spirit. Some commentators are trying to figure out who the final Antichrist is. Well there is nothing wrong with that, except that only true spiritual discernment will recognise him at this stage. But we must not overlook these words of John: 1 John 2:18 - “children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.”
Was John mistaken when he said “this is the last hour”? I think not – for the New Testament writers, the last hour started when Jesus commissioned them to take the gospel to every people in the world. They had no idea that the task was so big. Two thousand years later, out of the world’s population of about 7 billion, some 2.3 billion profess to follow Jesus. Only God knows how many of those are truly His – but two things are clear. First, the number of Christians in the world is larger than it ever has been. Secondly, there is still plenty of work to do.
Is today one of the last of the last days? I don’t profess to know, but a number of prophesied events and situations make me take idea seriously. For example, let’s read Daniel –
Dan 12:-2 And there shall be a time of trouble,
Such as never was since there was a nation,
Even to that time.
And at that time your people shall be delivered,
Every one who is found written in the book.
2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
Some to everlasting life,
Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
There are many things to note about this passage. First, when we look at the sheer killing power of modern weapons systems, it is easy to believe a “time of trouble” like never before is not far away. Nuclear, chemical, biological, and cyber weapons, added to the “ordinary’ bullets, shells and bombs, which are many times as powerful as those of 77 years ago mean an antichrist like Putin has many times the destructive capability than his counterparts in WWII.