The youth of 2010

If the youth of 1976 look at the calibre of young people today, would they be proud? Would they say we have lived up to their legacy. They fought for the freedom we have today, are we using it the right way?

How have we used the freedom they made possible with their bravery? To party and become stinking rich through ill gotten tenders? If Tsietsi Mashinini and Onkgopotse Tiro would look at today’s youth would they be proud of us?

This is the time to seize the opportunities and make the youth of ’76 proud by giving to this generation our time and skills to make South Africa and Africa a better world. When the youth of 2020 look back over the years, they should say the youth of 2010 have given us compassion, service and dedication.

The end of the world is nigh

"Blessed [is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time [is] at hand." Revelation 1:3 (KJV)

The earthquake in Haiti should not surprise us. We should look to such catastrophic events as pointing to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; for he said that when you see these things know that the end of the world is near.

In Matthew 24:6 Jesus Christ, sitting on the Mount of Olives with his disciples said: 'And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.'

We hear of rumours of a possible war between Israel and Iran. There are claims that the Islamic republic is developing nuclear weapons; and it has in the past on criticized the existence of the Zionist state of Israel.

According to a news report Israel will be distributing gas masks in anticipation of conflict in future. With Iran or Hezbolla perhaps.

Our Master, Jesus Christ of Nazareth went on to say that 'for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places'. (Matthew 24:7) (KJV)

Surely the Haiti earthquake, Asian Tsunami, Rwandan and Darfur genocides, various other wars, human suffering, the growing coldness of the human race and lack of ubuntu (humanity to others) point to an impending catastrophe.

According to Jesus Christ 'the love of many shall wax cold'. (Matt. 24:12) The world is not the same anymore, and the signs are there for everyone to see.

'Signs which could not be mistaken pointed to the coming of Christ as near', writes Ellen G White in the Great Controversy (p.391).