TO FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, AND EVEN MY ENEMIES!

My wife and I have ten Great-Grandchildren, ten Grandchildren, three Children, and a bunch of "in-laws!"  Needless to say, Christmas is not only chaotic, it is down right expensive!  Praise the Lord we are able to get something for each even though we are both living on Social Security and my Navy Enlisted-man's pension.  The thing that blesses us is to see the hope and expectancy the kids have for "Santa's visit."  At our age, we don't have many more of these "ordeals" to enjoy.

Sadly, with the condition of this sin-sick world being as bad as in the days of Noah and Lot (Luke 17:26-29), this may be our last Christmas, for Jesus has promised to remove born again believers  before the wrath of God is poured out on those who have failed to acknowledge Jesus as their Lord and Savior.  The Bible says:

John 14:1-3, 6 - "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father's house are many mansions:  if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I AM, there ye may be also....Jesus said...I AM The Way, The Truth, and The Life:  no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me."
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 - "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved...For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures."
1 Corinthians 15:51-53 - "Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:  for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."
1 Thessalonians 1:10 - We "...wait for His Son from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, (Who has) delivered us from the wrath to come."
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.  For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not (precede those who have already died).  For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:  and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:  and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 - "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,  Who died for us, that, whether we (are alive, or we have already died), we should live together with Him."
Revelation 3:10 - "Because thou hast kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."

SO, TO FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, AND EVEN MY ENEMIES,

I PLEAD WITH YOU TO BE READY FOR CHRIST'S RETURN FOR BELIEVERS,

BY BELIEVING THE GOSPEL AND ALLOWING HIM BE YOUR SAVIOR,

AND LORD (THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY IN YOUR LIFE)!