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Are You Ready?

BY THE WATCHMAN · PUBLISHED AUG 6, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 8, 2026
THE DOOR IS STILL OPEN. IT WILL NOT BE OPEN FOREVER.

Every headline on our wire says the same thing in a different way: the world is moving fast in the direction this Book said it would. This Book is the Holy Bible. We never set a date, because no man knows the day nor the hour. But Jesus told us to know the season and to be ready, because He comes suddenly, while life still looks normal:

"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."MATTHEW 24:37–39

Noah's ark had one door. His neighbors had years of warning while he built it. Then God Himself shut that door. Jesus told the same story about ten virgins waiting for the bridegroom. Five were ready. Five meant to get ready later.

"And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut."MATTHEW 25:10

That is the urgency behind this site. Not panic. A door. Open now, and not open forever. What comes on this earth after the church is gone is a time Jesus called worse than anything before it or after it (Matthew 24:21). We do not tell you that to frighten you. We tell you because a watchman who sees the sword coming and keeps quiet answers to God for it (Ezekiel 33:6). So hear the trumpet, friend. This page is it.

The honest bad news

Being ready has nothing to do with being religious, being moral, or being better than your neighbor. The Book's verdict falls on every one of us, and it falls on me as surely as on you:

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."ROMANS 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."ROMANS 6:23

Wages are what you earn. A gift is what you receive. Keep that difference in mind, because everything below turns on it.

The spectacular good news

God did not wait for you to clean yourself up. He acted first, at the cost of His own Son:

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."ROMANS 5:8
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."JOHN 3:16

Jesus lived the life you could not live, died the death your sin earned, and rose bodily from the grave. Salvation is not Christ plus your good works. It is not Christ plus church membership. It is Christ, period. Grace means unmerited favor: favor you did not earn and cannot repay.

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast."EPHESIANS 2:8–9
Settle it now

"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation" (2 Corinthians 6:2). Not when you get your life together. Now. Here is what the Book says, in three plain steps:

  1. Admit your condition. You are a sinner, you cannot save yourself, and you are willing to turn from that sin. That turning is repentance (Luke 13:3).
  2. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). Believing is more than agreeing He existed. It is putting your whole weight down on Him, the way you put your weight on a chair.
  3. Call on Him and receive Him. "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13). Whosoever means you.

There is nothing magic in a prayer's words. God reads the heart behind them. But if your heart is ready to settle it, you can tell Him so right now, something like this:

A PRAYER FROM THE HEART "Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I know I cannot save myself. I believe You died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sin, and right now, the best I know how, I trust You alone as my Savior and my Lord. Forgive me, cleanse me, and take charge of my life from this day on. Thank You for saving me. Give me the courage to tell someone. In Your name I pray, Amen."

Now, how do you know it took? Not by your feelings. Some people feel joy like a flood the moment they pray. Some feel nothing at all. Feelings rise and fall; the promise of God stands. You know you are saved because He said so, and He cannot lie:

"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."1 JOHN 5:13

If you prayed that prayer and meant it, the Book says you passed from death to life. Welcome to the family of God. Do four things, starting today: tell somebody, out loud. Get into a church that preaches this Book, the Holy Bible, without apology. Follow the Lord in baptism as your public confession of Him. And open the Book every day, starting with the Gospel of John.

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ALL SCRIPTURE QUOTED FROM THE HOLY BIBLE, KING JAMES VERSION.
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