Signs of Times (Zviratidzo zvenguva)

Scripture reading: Matthew 24

Watch haizi time but inoratidza time. That’s why uchiona kuti even if watch yako ikafa or kurasa, kunze kunodoka chete. Zuva harirege kudoka nekuti watch yako yafa. So hazvibatsire kuIgnowa watch, nekuti even if you ignore it or kuibvisa battery, It will continue to work. Nyaya iripano haizi yeWatch but its about signs of the times, zviratidzo zvenguva yekudzoka kwaJesu. Zvinhu izvi even if you ignore it, hapana chaunenge wagona nekuti Jesu achangodzoka chete. Just like kudoka kunoita zuva despite the fact yekuti you have ignored your watch. Jesus will return even if we ignore the signs of His coming.

Iri ivhangeri risinganakidze kunzwa iri, but since ririmo muBible hapana zvandingaite but to preach it. ukaona sign yakanzi hump ahead and you ignore it, izvozvo hazviite kuti hump ibve muRoad, kwete the hump will remain in the road and if you don’t reduce your speed chinokuvara imota yako or iwewe ndiwe uchakuvara. Sign iripo pakukubatsira kuti uzive the right action yekutora, so do not ignore it. if you ignore it anokuvara ndiwe, kuIgnowa red robot anoSuffer ndiwe after you are arrested or kuita tsaona. maSigns of the times ekudzoka kwaJesu aripo pakukubatsira kuti uzive the decision to make concerning nyaya yekunamata.  don’t ignore it, zvimwe zvese ungashaye hako interest but kana iri iyi yekuuya kwaJesu you have to know about it nekuti everyone is going to be affected by it, even vakafa chaivo will be affected by Christ’s return.

Mumwe anobva aita mubvunzo kuti nhai kubva mazuva anaPauro paingotaurwa nyaya dzekuti Jesu arikudzoka but up until now Jesu wacho haasagti auya, kubvira kare chaiko zvichinzi Jesu arikudzoka but nanhasi haasati auya, what is happening?

 But rega ndikubatsire ne 2 Peter  3:8 inoti But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Asi musakanganwa chinhu chimwe chete ichi, hama dzangu, kuti: Kuna Ishe zuva rimwe chete rakaita sechiuru chamakore, uye chiuru chamakore chakaita sezuva rimwe chete). Yatinoti 1000 years yedu, kuna Mwari its like 1 day, so iwewe pauri kuti Jesu ane 2000 years asati adzoka kuna Mwari its just 2days. Next verse yobva yaenderera ichiti Ishe haanonoki kuita zvaakavimbisa, sokunonoka kunonzwisiswa navamwe. Ane mwoyo murefu nemi, haadi kuti ani zvake arasike, asi kuti vose vatendeuke.

Iwe urikuona delay but ivo Mwari varikuedza kutopa munhu wese mukana wekuti atendeuke aponeswe.

Matthew chapter 24 inotanga vadzidzi vachiyemura kunaka kweTemberi vachiudza Jesu kuti tarirai muone zvayakaita. Iye Jesu haana kuti yes shuwa yakanaka but akavaudza kuti “Muri kuona zvinhu izvi zvose here? Ndinokuudzai chokwadi kuti hakuna ibwe richasara pano riri pamusoro perimwe; ose achawisirwa pasi.”

Iyo Temberi nekunaka kwayo kwose unonzwa Jesu achiporofita kuti its going to be destroyed and for sure it happened around AD70. Even though yainge yakanaka kwazvo but it was destroyed. Nhasi tingave nemaStructures akanaka kwazvo, but they shall be destroyed with fire mukuguma kwezvese. Just like how GOD destroyed the world in the days of Noah with the flood,it shall be so again when He destroys this world with fire. (2 Peter 3:10)

Jesu anoti zvino ava paMount of Olives, maDiscples vanomubvunza kuti izvi zvekuparadzwa kweTemberi zvichaitika rinhi and what shall be the sign of your coming & the end of the World. Jesu haana kutanga nekutaura maSigns ekuguma kweNyika but anotanga nekuti take heed no man deceives you, “Chenjerai kuti murege kunyengerwa nomunhu. Iye arikubvunzwa nezve maSigns but haatange kutaura maSigns, anotanga nekupa vanhu warning kuti Chenjerai kuti murege kunyengerwa nomunhu, and this warning is also very  relevant kwatiri nhasi….ngatichenjere  tirege kunyengerwa nomunhu. Bible harina kutiudza kuti munhu upi chaiye but rangoti munhu, meaning anyone can fall into this category, saka pakadaro rega kuvimba nemunhu but vimba naMwari. Munhu anogona kukunyengera but not GOD, hapasi pekuvimba naPastor, Bishop, Prophet, Husband, Wife etc or even inini wacho ndirikuparidza usavimbe neni because im also a human, so ndinokwana mucategory ya”no man” yataurwa. As long as I don’t speak zvinoederana nedzidziso yeBible, please stay away from me, as long munhu achipikisa zvinodzidziswa neBible, usaterere, nekuti deception inyaya yekuti munhu anoita kuti chinhu chechokwadi chiite kunge manyepo or manyepo aite kunge echekwadi or both.

Chenjerai murege kunyengerwa nomunhu, that was the warning. And tiripo ipo paNyaya yekudzoka kwaJesu, kune vamwe vakamboda kunyengera vanhu vachitaura a date richadzoka Jesu, if you remember iya yainzi doomsday theory  Harold Camping aiti nyika ichaguma on May 21, 2011 but iro Bible richiti no one knows that day or, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. (Matthew 24:36). Mumwe munhu ndipo paanoda kukudza date rachizvaitika. That’s deception yarehwa naJesu kuti let no man deceive you. Also Ronald Weinland said the same achiti nyika ichaguma on May 27 2012 and many other people vanhu maDates avaka setter.

Jesu obva aenderera mberi achiti For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And icho ichokwadi, we have heard vanhu vanozviti ndivo vana Jesu, not very far but this year muno muZimbabwe in Januray  pane murume akaifmba achizviti ndini Jesu Christu Bulawayo, he made it into the newspapers (check The Chronicle remusi wa 14 January 2014 or read it online http://www.chronicle.co.zw/jesus-flees-angry-mob/ ) and chinorwadza ndechekuti such people vatorine maFollowers atone vanhu vake vanomutenda kuti zvechokwadi uyu ndiye Jesu. And this fulfils shoko iro rati they shall deceive many.  For those who remember pane yainzi ’mudzimu unoyera’ yekuGuruve where there was a girl who claimed to be Jesus. Aya angori mamwe emasigns ekuti zvokwadi, the end is near.

Jesu anochitanga manje kutaura zvimwe zvichaitika paNyika andingati signs in the natural world. Chekutanga hanzi you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. Just imagine ihondo ngani dzirikurwiwa right now, Israel nePalestine varikurwa uko,  Somali Civil War, Islamist insurgency in Nigeria ana Boko Haram, Syrian Civil War, poita Central African Republic conflict, totaura futi South Sudanese Civil War, Pro-Russian kuUkraine. And poitawo mamwe maRumours of wars Uprisings hobho anongoitika, wonzwa kuti kuEgypt vazoita noise, kuLibya, ana DRC vazonetsana neM23, anaMatsanga wonzwa kuti varikuda kutanga futi hondo kuMozambique, wonza Alshabab yazotora vanhu hostage muShop mall in Kenya. And many other things zviri related kuHondo.

Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. Pane kumwe kunetsana kunongoitika so kusina kana pfuti mukati, look at what is happening pakati peUSA ne Russia, USA neNorth Korea, even munhu muAfrica pane kakusawirirana between some nations.

Chimwe chiratidzo chakataurwa naJesu inzara (famines/droughts/hunger). Senge kana iri Africa nyaya iyi tisu tinonyotsoiziva kuti haizi yekutamba nayo according to WFP  (World Food Programme yeUnited Nations) 842 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats  Imo medu muZimbabwe umu, maDroughts mangani atawana especially after 1990, senge kana iri Matabeleland year in year out vanogara vachichema nekuti mvura haisi kunaya  as it used to do.

Earthquakes that’s another sign yakataurwa naJesu kuti kuchava nokudengenyeka kwenyika munzvimbo dzakasiyana-siyana. And if you remember sometime in 2006 or is it 2008 muno muZimbabwe we heard an earth tremor ( a slight earthquake) imo medu munyika and yakasvika kwese kunana Mozambique. Ukaona area inonzi nevacho vakadzidza it’s a stable ground ukaona yavakuShaker then that must mean something. Do you remember the famous Tsunami yekuitika kuIndonesia in 2004, the land below the sea yakaShaker zvekuti mvura yemuSea yaisimuka ichiuya kuDry land and it killed over 230 000 people. Kukura kweEarthquake is measured on a Richter scale inobva pa 1  kusvika ku10. A small earthquake inobva kuna 1 and zvichikwida kusvika kuna 10 which is the strongest earth quake.

Mamwe maEarthquakes akaitika in the past 10 years around the world to mention but only 4 ndeaya.
Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra on 26 Dec 2004 9.1 paRichter scale
Near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan          11 Mar 2011          9.0 paRichter scale
Offshore Maule, Chile 27 Feb 2010                                 8.8 paRichter scale
Northern Sumatra, Indonesia    28 Mar 2005                  8.6 paRichter scale.
Analysis yeRitcher scale yacho ukada kuitarisa you will see kuti aya haazi maEarthquakes ekutamba nawo, nekuti  6 kusvika pa 6.9 inenge ichinzi strong, 7- 7.9 major and 8-8.9 great

Another sign yakataurwa naJesu is pestilences (zvirwere). Just think about maEpidemics atakamboona, kana tiri isu Zimbabwe we can talk of Cholera pakafa  vanhu vazhinji. Iye zvino tinonzwa kuti kuGuinea and beyond the nation's borders in West Africa kune Ebola virus and At least 1048 infections and 632 deaths have been reported. Totarisawo zvimwe zvirwere zvazara mazuva ano, whether its cancer, HIV/AIDS, hyper tension, diabetes, etc, zvakawanda zvirwere zvacho.

These are just signs. Jesu anobva ati those are the beginning of sorrows. Word rekuti sorrows rakashandiswa was translated from the greek word odin zvichingoreva birth pains. So Jesu arikufananidza zviratidzo zvese izvi nemavambo okurwadziwa kwokubereka. And if you look at that comparison yemaBirth pains, kana zvatotanga pane mukadzi akazvitakura the only solution ndeye kutoenda naye kuchipatara or kuna  nyamukata so that she gives birth. Hapana zvekuPostponer kuti tinozoenda mangwana, even zvikatanga mid night munotomhanya mhanya kutsvaga mota so that muende kuClinic. Likewise maEvents aya ese we can not postpone kudzoka kwaJesu, izvi hatizvikwanise but what we can only do is to be prepared for his 2^nd coming.

Let me jump to verse 29 of that same chapter yaMatthew 24, pane zvinhu zviri crucial zvandinoda kubuditsa as I conclude, nyora pasi maDates aya uzoita research yako uzvionere wega. May 19 1780. November 13, 1833.
Jesu akaporofita akati the sun shall be darkened, (zuva richasviba), chakanakira history ndechekuti they record zvinhu pazvinoitika and if you research kana kuGoogler uchaona kuti this happened on 19 May 1780, haizi solar eclipse iyi but it was the actual darkening of the sun which happened in England. another thing pamaSame verse hanzi the moon shall not give its light and stars shall fall from heaven iyi yemaStars on 13 November 1833

When you are driving a car ukaona sign yakanzi hump ahead you reduce your speed, you take the appropriate action, likewise lets us take appropriate action nekuti maSigns tirikumaona anonogodzera kudzoka kwaMessiah, ngatitendeukei tibve muzvivi, believe in Jesus and get baptised by the Holy Ghost and Fire.