5, 4, 3, 2…

Isn’t that what it feels like right now? That we’re in the last stages of a countdown some where between 2 and 1… zero is right around the corner, and the bottom is about to fall out. I hear stories of brokers collapsing in fear at the end of the day in the NYSE when the bell rings. People all across the world have watched family fortunes that have been around for centuries simply evaporate overnight. Some say we have seen this before, but I beg to differ. Never before have we seen such global fear and trepidation as banks all across the world teeter on the edge and then collapse like dominos. We are feverously trying to pull money out of one pocket and stuff it in another before the next domino falls… hoping and praying that there will be another dollar to pull out… that the well doesn’t run dry before we can fool the masses into believing everything will be alright, if we would all just wantonly spend again. That we should all just keep robbing from our children so we can keep the facade alive one more year… One more month… One more day!

Long ago we took rationalism and reason out to the wood shed and executed them… The party must go on! Lets all party like its 1999! Lascivious greed and a hunger for more and more power has consumed our world leaders… and we the sheep turn a blind eye because they promise to give us a slice of what they take!

Years ago I was running a Lexus dealership and the owner hired a man who was a known thief to run the Toyota store next to mine. I tried to warn him, tried to make him aware of the peril he was in… but he pushed me off. He looked me in the eye and told me; “He may be a thief, but I have made more money with him than I have ever made before… so he can keep what he is stealing.” Many months later he made him a partner in another franchise and gave him even freer reign. Years later, when the bubble finally burst the owner lost the franchise he had partnered in with this person and the cost to clean up the mess was in the millions…

I see it happening again! But this time it is on a far larger scale and the stakes are much higher. We face losing all that we have… all that we are… all that there is. The train that we are riding is teetering on the edge of derailment and the momentum it carries has made it unstoppable…

And still, we keep the party going…

There is no one who will be spared the pain from the impending crash we face. Hope will be lost and none will escape! But there will be a lull in the storm, the eye of the hurricane will briefly pass over us. As it is predicted; “A savior for the world will rise up!” The world will blindly follow where he leads because we think he has the answers we seek.

The party will begin again…

But this party will be the final hurrah! The last ball will drop from Times Square for the party to end all parties… will you be there?

Where will God find you when He calls the marker on this world?

… Who will you be following?

Matthew 24:37-39 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

The train tracks are shaking can you here Him roll… the whistles blowing, its time to pay the toll! Jesus is coming with ten thousands on high… the time has come for our resurrection ride!

Do you have your ticket in hand?