Are we in the End Times?

I feel inspired of God to study scripture on the end times recently.  I don't know about you but there has been many a time where I have felt God leading me into a specific topic to study for a particular purpose.  In the past it has been over things like cults and then within a couple of weeks I had an encounter with a Mormon missionaries.  So the Lord knows what is coming towards us because He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.  So when you hear God speaking to you about a particular topic that He wants you to focus on then pay attention, you don't know where it may be leading you to.  Now back to the topic at hand.

Are we in the end of days?  This is a question that has plagued mankind from the time of Christ forward, but I truly believe that we are on the verge of seeing the rapture of the Church.  Why?  Because the earth itself is groaning for the return of the sons of God (Romans 8:19).  Who are the sons of God? Anyone who is a follower of Christ is a son and or daughter of God.  The earth is wanting to go back to the Garden of Eden.  That is why it is groaning for our return.  But is will not occur until we who are raptured with Christ come back in the 2nd Coming of Christ ,when Jesus will lead us on a white horse and bring us with Him (Revelation 19). 

The raptured believers will be taken out before the tribulation period and will return at the end of the seven years of judgment with Christ.  What has to take place before the Church is taken out of this world system?  Nothing.  I am one who also believes that the rapture of the Church will occur during the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah.  Why do I believe this?  Because everything that Christ did on the earth in a major way occurred during a Feast of Israel.  An example of this occurred during the resurrection.  This event occurred during the Jewish feast of Passover.  The Bible declares that the "trumpet shall sound and the dead in Christ shall arise and than we who are alive will be caught up." 1 Thess. 4:16, Rev. 4:1.  We are entering into the time of the feast of trumpets this coming week.  Will this be the day He returns?  I don't know for sure but I do believe that if you don't have the assurance in your heart that Christ is your savior that today would be a good day to make one's self sure.  Ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins and to come into your heart.  For if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Christ died for you, you shall be saved ( Romans 10:9).

No man knows the hour of His return but we can see the signs of His return drawing ever near.  Don't wait.  Put Christ first today.  It is a decision you won't regret.