The end of this Weekly encouragement! Day, and I’m just now writing this episode. I think it’s been a global avoidance, yet it can’t happen anymore. The avoidance I’m talking about is concerning prophecy and the end times. Thank you for this opportunity to join you for today’s episode of the Weekly encouragement! It’s a pleasure to be with you! The topic of end times prophecy might seem dark but it’s full of light and hope. This is an unusual discussion about the end times pertaining to who the Bible characterizes as the two witnesses. Please know I can’t claim to have a complete understanding of end times prophecy. This is why I’ve avoided the topic. I was, however, drawn to this message, by a lifelong trusted pastor (who I know my father and mother listened to when they were with us), because it highlights how the end times will offer opportunity to be confronted by sin and the road to redemption. We’ve called confrontation over sin ugly. We’ve called it rude, arrogance, mean, even hateful, judgmental. And I can’t believe, sometimes, how we turn the truth around, upside down. If I see you’re about to step off a cliff that your eyes can’t perceive, I would live in utter pain the rest of my life knowing you died because I didn’t warn you. Possibly hold this scenario in your heart as you may feel confronted from time to time. Even if you think I am, or others are, ridiculous in my, our belief. Have you ever been initially irritated if someone knocked you off your track because they saw an oncoming onslaught? Only split seconds later to be overwhelmed with gratitude because you then understood there was a threat that caused someone to yank you out of the onslaught of danger. It’s a real world and there’s a real enemy and I think it’s become more and more evident. So the day may be approaching that we are more bold and straightforward in our conversation about Christ. All around us, we see and we are personally experiencing signs of the end times, and this is hopeful because peace with Christ is possible and near to us. It’s been made clear for centuries. All of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, therefore no one is alone or singled out, we all are there. All of us are invited into relationship with God, our Heavenly Father, because of Jesus Christ who sacrificed Himself to take our place becoming the payment for our sin whereby we had deserved death. We now can live free and forgiven. I don’t want to complicate it. The end times prophecies are more evidence and encouragement to forget ourselves and join Jesus Christ in resurrection. The answer is in always looking up, not at the world around us. Not at one side or another. Please remember I’m praying for you because I love you.