FALLING ASLEEP

We have been fed the idea that affiliating ourselves with Jesus will result in a cushy life full of happy, smiling, benevolent, brothers and sisters in Christ. Especially around this time of year, we don't want to be reminded of anything unpleasant. What will happen to those who have nestled down deep in this comfortable ideology and fallen asleep, when affiliating ourselves with Jesus is no longer comfortable or pleasant? The Scripture says that there will be a great falling away. Rev 3:16-18, " So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 BECAUSE THOU SAYEST, I AM RICH, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold TRIED IN THE FIRE, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 AS MANY AS I LOVE, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN: be zealous therefore, and repent. "Hebrews 12:1-17, " Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; WHO FOR THE JOY that was set before him ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 YE HAVE NOT YET RESISTED UNTO BLOOD, STRIVING AGAINST SIN. 5 AND YE HAVE FORGOTTEN the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 for WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASTENETH, and scourgeth EVERY son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit,THAT WE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF HIS HOLINESS. 11 Now NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13 and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; 16 lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears."

WAR

There's been lots of chatter on the web today regarding WWIII. Tensions are ratcheting up within Nations and between Nations. There's also, the usual resistance. No one wants to acknowledge that something of this magnitude could happen, but it seems to me that a proverbial 'perfect storm' is brewing. I've posted several articles to this effect elsewhere...http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/569300/20141013/nuclear-war-russia-over-ukraine-vladimir-putin.htm#.VIxUhdFOePJ.google_plusone_share and http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/risks-of-nuclear-war-is-rising-because-of-global-tensions-and-insecure-stockpiles-warn-experts-9909379.html
there are more. Plus, re the perfect storm...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmcBu1E5vuM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKkNzRCwTWs and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvfzrFGCXos 
The first three seals in Revelation 6 speak about the power to conquer, peace being taken from the earth/people killing one another, and what looks like an economic collapse...how close are we? Revelation 6, "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and HE WENT FORTH conquering, and TO CONQUER. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to TAKE PEACE FROM THE EARTH, and THAT THEY SHOULD KILL ONE ANOTHER: and there was given unto him a great sword.

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine." I wondered about the last verses, as 'a penny' seems awfully cheap to me, which should be good, right? But, turns out, when the prices drop the commodities purchased with credit, result in a great loss for the producers...hence, a collapse as they lose their investment. Multiply this event across the 89 (ish) small oil producers in our country and it wipes them out creating a global cascade effect, as the oil cartels (OPEC) apparently no longer have the ability to shore up prices as they've always done.