Questions  If you have been studying the teachings on this web site* in chronological order as recommended, you could not have failed to appreciate that an increasing number of questions have been thrown at you. What might not have been so obvious is that they have been thrown at this writer as well.  Questions that need answering from our hearts.  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.  (Romans 6:16-18)   Are we prepared to act on the answers?   Surely, if Father God, by His Holy Spirit, is real to me by His constant love, compassion and providence which is evident, then I must take note of what He says in the Handbook, and for the sake of my soul (that's me), do what He says.    Not so?!   Yes.   From personal experience I know that one does not like to read bad news; rather shun it and do something pleasant. Well yes, but that's our sin nature taking over. We have to learn to overcome our sin nature and do what our Creator says.    Do you trust Him? Do you love and trust Him enough to believe that He does what He promises and does it for our best interests?    The last teaching that our Great Teacher Jesus gave us before His crucifixion, as described in the gospel of Matthew and taking up two chapters, was as the result of questions asked by His disciples.  This should raise plenty of questions in our hearts because it deals with the end-times which seem close upon us. We see through a glass darkly.  And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.  (Matthew 24:1-4) Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.  (Matthew 24:9) For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.  (Matthew 24:21) Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.  (Matthew 24:29-31) According to this there doesn't seem to be a pre-trib rapture?   Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.  (Matthew 24:42) Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  (Matthew 24:44-51)   Here's the passage that caused this article to be written.  Hopefully it causes cold shivers in your soul as well.  When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.  (Matthew 25:31-46)   What more can be said?   Except ask The Question; Where do you hope to be on that day?    *www.hosanna.org.za