Thin Ice or Solid Ground?

The words ‘thin ice’ are frightening to those familiar with frozen lakes and rivers.

“You’re walking on thin ice!” we warn, if someone lacks awareness and is skirting close to danger!

We sometimes treat last days scripture rather like ‘thin ice’, as if it is dangerous to study these prophetic passages. Instead of venturing onto passages of prophetic scripture ourselves, we tend to depend on what other people say. A broad brush of different opinions reported to us while we stand safely on the shore seems the safest option. After all, wouldn’t we be foolish to step out on the thin ice of Bible prophecy ourselves?

How different this is to what the word of God says. Jesus said that His words about the last days are the firmest ground imaginable.

Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my words shall never pass away. Matthew 24:35

Peter the Apostle agrees by describing the prophetic word as ‘completely reliable.’

We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it 2 Peter 1:19

Our best preparation for times of crisis is to know the scripture that God has provided. If our lives are built on the rock of His word, we will be best equipped to stand through the storms and crises of the last days.

Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock Matthew 7:24,25