09/03/2026
ENCOURAGING THOUGHTS – PASTOR Bill Ivy - THURSDAY – SEPTEMBER 3, 2026
I have happily served the LORD Jesus most of my life and I am so grateful for the heavenly call to do so. There is no better way. However, this world I live in today is so different from the one I grew up in, from 1950 until now. I could list so many reasons this is true. The world is falling apart; it has become so evil that a prophet to the final age (Brother William Branham) said over 60 years ago “it has become Satan’s Eden.” We live in a time when evil has become good and good has become evil. And it seems to be that way even among the many religious folks.
Sin has become acceptable and things that previously were forbidden are now popular. I see the headlines, the trouble in the nations, the weather patterns and destructions, earthquakes in many places, with wars and rumors of them. I see this in the earth that was once a beautiful Garden of Eden before sin entered it?
The judgment of this old world is sure; God keeps His Word. I am not rejoicing in the coming judgement to this earth and those that live for this present world. However, the scriptures will not fail.
Rev 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal… 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
How is that an encouraging thought? For those that can except it, according to a promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13).
“This world is not my home, I’m just a passing through, My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue; The angels beckon me from heaven’s open door, And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.”
Pastor Bill Ivy – Living Word Tabernacle – Campbell Missouri USA – church website - www.livingwordtabernacle.com
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