"YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL!"

Matthew 10:17-23                   (ESV)
"17 Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues,
18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
19 When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.
20 For it is not you who speak, but the SPIRIT of your FATHER speaking through you.
21 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
22 and "YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL" for MY name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the SON of MAN comes."



The "end times" are certainly upon us.  Predicting exactly when the return of JESUS will be is not something I am qualified to do, for JESUS HIMSELF said in Matthew 24:36 ""But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the SON, but the FATHER only".  But JESUS told us what to look for in Matthew 10, and yesterday alone my day was FILLED with "this world" showing intolerance for "those of the faith" of JESUS CHRIST!

A United States Senator could not get one other Senator to stand with him to defund an organization that murders unborn babies in the womb.  When I saw this I immediately thought of "YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL"!  No one else would fight for the least of humans.  When Judgement Day comes I would not relish being in the shoes of those silent Senators!  Ecclesiastes 12:14 says "For GOD will bring EVERY DEED into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil".  

Later on in the day, a friend of mine from my youth and a fellow business owner, had a client take their business elsewhere over the stance he has taken.  He is rather vocal about his biblical beliefs and this client had been a faithful client for a number of years.  The thing that "stings" is this client was a Church!  Had this friend refused to serve an ungodly lifestyle in his business, there would have no doubt been an outcry from some claiming intolerance!  Now a Church is moving their business because of his stance!

We should not be shocked, nor surprised by these actions as JESUS alerted us to this nearly 2,000 years ago.  The HOLY BIBLE is not just a book filled with "fables" and "riddles" to try and figure out on afternoons when we don't have anything better to do!  There is a reason it is called "GOD'S WORD" and has withstood mankind trying to eliminate it for thousands of years!  GOD, THE CREATOR OF ALL, wrote down HIS Plan for everyone to read.  When HIS SON said "YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL", HE wasn't trying to scare anyone, for in JESUS there is no fear (1 John 4:18)!  Since the Spirit of JESUS lives in us (John 17; 1 John 4:13), and "this world" desired to crucify JESUS, the "natural" response would be for "this world" to HATE anything relating to JESUS!  When this viewpoint is considered, it is with honor that I wear the badge "YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL"!!!