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Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1846^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

02 March 2022

A Sudden Change

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead
in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And
thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. – 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NKJV.

For those of us who were not alive during
Hitler’s blitzkrieg and reign of terror we are now seeing an example of it with
Ukraine. Peaceful people going about their lives without a threat to any other
nation suddenly having their lives upheaved with numbers approaching a million
now fleeing for their lives. Others have taken up arms and are now facing life
and death situations that they never thought they would face. To those of us
looking on from outside it is shocking and horrifying to see that such a thing
is even possible in the time in which we live.

A shocking and sudden change has happened in
Ukraine. In some ways it will be like that for those who are left here on earth
when the rapture occurs. Those who are left behind and who refuse the “mark of the beast (Revelation 13:17)” will at times
find their lives at risk. Those without having the “mark
of the beast” will be unable to buy or sell. In Revelation
13:16-18 we are told, “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their
foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one
who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name.” All
of those refusing the “mark” will be likely hunted
and put to death if they are found.

The truth is that not everyone believes there will be a
“rapture” prior to the seven years of
tribulation. Also, the word “rapture” is not in the Bible. However, for many of us it is
clear that Bible speaks of the “rapture,” which will be a time when Jesus will return as He
promised in John 14:1-3, “Let not your heart be
troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a
place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”

How can we miss that horrific time the Bible calls the “tribulation” in Revelation 7:14? Jesus tells His disciples and us how to miss out on
that horrific “great tribulation” in John 14:5-6 as Jesus responds to the question of Thomas one of the
disciples, “Thomas said
to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?’
Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No
one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

There is only one way to Heaven and that way is through placing our
belief and trust in Jesus Christ. We must believe in Him as we are told in John 3:16. Jesus offers the great invitation in Revelation
3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.”

How do you respond to that invitation? You respond
through prayer which is simply talking to Jesus. You ask Jesus for forgiveness
of your sins, the bad things you have done and ask Him to be your Lord and
Savior. It is not so much the words that you say, but whether you mean it in
your heart.

Seeing all of the death and destruction in Ukraine
along with the pandemic it does make us think that the “rapture” could come at any time. Jesus says in Matthew 24:36, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven,

but My Father only.” One thing I do know is that
I do not want to be here on this earth during the “tribulation” and neither do you.

Copyright © 1998 - 2022. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 24 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 8,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for the
Ukrainians as they bravely face the Russian onslaught.

Please pray that the hearts
of the American leaders will change and do what is necessary to stop Putin. It
can be done without troops on the ground by simply allowing oil and gas
producers to again give us energy independence stopping our need to buy Russian
oil.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Andrew Cohen Winfield; Martha and John W.;
Alan Medders; Norman Cupp; Georgia Bronnert; Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck &
Barbara Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter;
Jennifer Burge; Kinsey W; Addison; JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De
Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.;
Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.;
Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley
E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.; Sarah Anderson; Beverly J; Larayne S. and Shonda
Hutson.

(Please pray for 10-year-old Jo Jo
Stahlman who was saved last Sunday night at our church. Please pray that she
will grow rapidly in the faith and that she will be protected from evil. Please
also pray for Elizabeth Young Anderson a young woman who was saved Sunday
morning in our church.)

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. Having back surgery in a few weeks. 03.18.18
I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Elk City,
Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to [email protected]

There is a complete devotional
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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1846^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

02 March 2022

A Sudden Change

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead
in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And
thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. – 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NKJV.

For those of us who were not alive during
Hitler’s blitzkrieg and reign of terror we are now seeing an example of it with
Ukraine. Peaceful people going about their lives without a threat to any other
nation suddenly having their lives upheaved with numbers approaching a million
now fleeing for their lives. Others have taken up arms and are now facing life
and death situations that they never thought they would face. To those of us
looking on from outside it is shocking and horrifying to see that such a thing
is even possible in the time in which we live.

A shocking and sudden change has happened in
Ukraine. In some ways it will be like that for those who are left here on earth
when the rapture occurs. Those who are left behind and who refuse the “mark of the beast (Revelation 13:17)” will at times
find their lives at risk. Those without having the “mark
of the beast” will be unable to buy or sell. In Revelation
13:16-18 we are told, “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their
foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one
who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name.” All
of those refusing the “mark” will be likely hunted
and put to death if they are found.

The truth is that not everyone believes there will be a
“rapture” prior to the seven years of
tribulation. Also, the word “rapture” is not in the Bible. However, for many of us it is
clear that Bible speaks of the “rapture,” which will be a time when Jesus will return as He
promised in John 14:1-3, “Let not your heart be
troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a
place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”

How can we miss that horrific time the Bible calls the “tribulation” in Revelation 7:14? Jesus tells His disciples and us how to miss out on
that horrific “great tribulation” in John 14:5-6 as Jesus responds to the question of Thomas one of the
disciples, “Thomas said
to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?’
Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No
one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

There is only one way to Heaven and that way is through placing our
belief and trust in Jesus Christ. We must believe in Him as we are told in John 3:16. Jesus offers the great invitation in Revelation
3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.”

How do you respond to that invitation? You respond
through prayer which is simply talking to Jesus. You ask Jesus for forgiveness
of your sins, the bad things you have done and ask Him to be your Lord and
Savior. It is not so much the words that you say, but whether you mean it in
your heart.

Seeing all of the death and destruction in Ukraine
along with the pandemic it does make us think that the “rapture” could come at any time. Jesus says in Matthew 24:36, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven,

but My Father only.” One thing I do know is that
I do not want to be here on this earth during the “tribulation” and neither do you.

Copyright © 1998 - 2022. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 24 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 8,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for the
Ukrainians as they bravely face the Russian onslaught.

Please pray that the hearts
of the American leaders will change and do what is necessary to stop Putin. It
can be done without troops on the ground by simply allowing oil and gas
producers to again give us energy independence stopping our need to buy Russian
oil.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Andrew Cohen Winfield; Martha and John W.;
Alan Medders; Norman Cupp; Georgia Bronnert; Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck &
Barbara Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter;
Jennifer Burge; Kinsey W; Addison; JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De
Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.;
Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.;
Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley
E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.; Sarah Anderson; Beverly J; Larayne S. and Shonda
Hutson.

(Please pray for 10-year-old Jo Jo
Stahlman who was saved last Sunday night at our church. Please pray that she
will grow rapidly in the faith and that she will be protected from evil. Please
also pray for Elizabeth Young Anderson a young woman who was saved Sunday
morning in our church.)

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. Having back surgery in a few weeks. 03.18.18
I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Elk City,
Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to [email protected]

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
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constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
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sending a blank email to [email protected] and then respond
to the confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

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