The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Luke 21:25-28, “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

27 “And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

28 “But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Yesterday, Sunday, the 26th of August 2018, 38,000 people raced out of War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas in a state of panic! As of this writing, authorities still have no idea what spooked the crowd. Someone may have thought they heard a gunshot. Whatever the cause, people rushed to leave. The highschool football game didn’t matter. Their safety of their lives were what mattered.

The tentions in our world today are at a breaking point. So many wild and evil people are loose with intent to kill anyone and everyone –as many as they can, wherever they are. It is as if the whole world had gone mad!

In our passage above, Luke, the physician, is describing the Coming of the LORD. It, too, will bring about panic –worldwide panic! Things in the heavens will be in disarray, as will things on the Earth. The nations’ peoples will be in worldwide panic! The streets will overflow with frightened people! No one will understand what is taking place or how to stop it. Emergency officials will be as frightened as those they seek to help. What’s going on? And what are we to do?

First, we are not to panic like the rest of the world. We’re to “straighten up and lift up (our) heads.” The LORD has promised He would return for His people; and we are His people – the ones who have repented of our sin and believed upon Him for our salvation. These frightening occurences are but the precursor of that time which is to come; namely, the Coming of the LORD for His people. Second, we are to warn others of that Day in which Christ will come, by sharing His Gospel with them, so that they might be saved and ready for His Coming.

I truly believe that we are living in the last days. Some are saying that we are living in “the last days of the last days.” Jesus said that no one knows the exact time of His Coming. Yet, with unmistakable truth, “I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (Jn. 14:3). Just faithfully keep watch, and don’t panic. It’s all in His plan, and we who are His are included in that plan.

We faithfully pray for you every day,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”