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One Final Chance: Emptying Your Hands for the Nations

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I want to close with the most important appeal I can make to you. Everything we have covered in this guide, the danger of a comfortable mindset, the prophecy of Joel, the prophetic timeline, the cosmic signs, the collapse of earthly security, the urgency of fruitfulness, the positioning of the Antichrist: all of it points to a single conclusion. Time is shorter than you can imagine. And one trumpet blast will change the entire world overnight.

When that trumpet sounds, everything changes. The sun will begin to darken. The moon will turn to blood. The cosmic signs that have been promised for millennia will begin to manifest in the physical world. The systems and structures that humanity has built its confidence upon will begin to shake. And in that moment, the window for easy, comfortable, low-cost gospel advancement will close. The opportunity you have right now, to give freely, to go boldly, to send generously, to use technology unhindered, to fund missionaries without restriction: that opportunity will not last forever. In fact, it may not last much longer at all.

So what does obedience look like in this final hour? Let me be specific, because vague calls to 'do more for God' are not helpful. There is a range of obedient responses available to every believer, and each one is valid, each one is needed, and each one produces fruit that will remain.

First, you can go to the nations personally. If God is calling you to leave your comfort zone and physically go to unreached peoples and places, that is the highest form of obedience in this hour. It will cost you everything: your security, your comfort, your plans, your retirement timeline. But it will produce fruit that echoes through eternity.

A five step diagram showing ways to obey: go personally, go via the internet, send others, send the Word through technology, fund evangelists.

Second, you can go via the internet. You do not have to board an airplane to reach the nations. A computer, a camera, and a Spirit-filled message can reach people in nations you will never visit in person. The internet has made every believer a potential missionary to the world. If you have a testimony, if you have the gospel, if you have the Spirit, you have something that the nations need, and you can deliver it through technology right now.

Third, you can send others. If you cannot go yourself, you can fund those who can. The evangelist who needs airfare, the missionary who needs monthly support, the church planter who needs resources to establish a congregation in an unreached region: your giving can send them. Your money becomes their feet, your resources become their voice, and their fruit becomes your fruit in heaven.

Fourth, you can send the Word through technology. Invest in organizations that are translating the Bible into unreached languages, creating gospel content in digital formats, using AI to generate and distribute evangelistic material in languages and cultures that lack indigenous gospel workers. The technology exists. The need is enormous. The investment required is often surprisingly small.

Fifth, you can fund evangelists. There are anointed men and women of God right now who are ready to go, who have the calling, the gifts, and the willingness, but who lack the financial resources to sustain their ministry. Your investment in their work is an investment in the harvest they will bring in.

Now let me speak plainly about what is not acceptable. Holding on to nickels and dimes for yourself while the harvest is ripe and the laborers are waiting for support is not acceptable. Clinging to your retirement fund while souls perish for lack of the gospel is not acceptable. Spending your resources on comfort, entertainment, and self-improvement while the nations wait for the Word is not acceptable. I am not saying give recklessly. I am saying give generously, give strategically, and give with the urgency that the hour demands.

The model for this is the early Church. Acts 4:34-35 records: 'Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.' These were not poor people being asked to give out of their poverty. These were property owners, people of means, who recognized the urgency of the hour and responded with radical generosity. They sold what they had. They established storehouses. They set up systems of provision. They sent out missionaries. And the result was that the gospel spread across the known world in a single generation.

That is the model. That is the call. The early Church turned the world upside down in one generation because they understood the urgency of the hour and responded with everything they had. We are in a similar moment, perhaps an even more urgent one, and the same response is required.

The decision before you is not complicated. It is not a matter of theological debate or doctrinal nuance. It is a matter of simple obedience or simple disobedience to the commandment of Jesus Christ, who said in Matthew 28:19 : 'Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.' Go. Teach. Baptize. That is the command. Everything else is details. And the time to obey that command is not someday. It is now. Today. Before the trumpet sounds and the window closes.

A large quotation of Matthew 28:19 set on its own page.