Praise the Lord church.  We are going to continue on today, and today’s message is titled Signs of the Times.

We have to take a look and see what‘s going on as it were in the Holy Spirit chronicles, to read the Word of God and how it’s impacting us today. I submit unto you, and I’ll show you in the Word this morning that the Lord has set up signs to indicate what He’s doing in the world, and we need to be able to understand and read those signs to see what God is doing so that we can be in tuned with God, so that we can always know what’s going on. God is not mysterious to his people if we stay in fellowship with Him, amen?

Turn with me to the book of Genesis 1. Say amen when you’re there. Praise the Lord...signs of the times. Now here in Genesis 1, if you’re there say amen? Praise the Lord. The Word of God tells us here in Genesis 1:14 it says, “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.”

So what God said here now... what happened is, He set up the lights in the heavens and the stars and for us locally here, the sun and it be for a sign when there is day; when the sun is down, the moon is up or the moon can be seen, it will be night.  And actually, what we do is we measure our life by that. We tell one day from the next. We use the time for the earth to make a rotation as a 24 hours, we divide our day. People in the old day use a sundial to tell what time it is.

So what happened is God has set a president and He says in his Word here that He’s using part of nature to go ahead and tell us, and use it for signs. He uses for seasons, for days, and for years, amen? What happens is, now since the fall of Adam, all of creation is off balance. See, when God created the earth, He made everything was good. Look further down here in Genesis 1:30 “And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”

So what happens here, God tells us when He created everything, everything was VERY good, okay? And so, there was as it were perfection, praise the Lord. But man through Adam and Eve -- disobedience caused everything to fall off whack, wasn’t functioning as it was designed to function. We weren’t functioning as we were designed to. We were created to have a relationship with God, to love God. We were to be holy and to live without sin, but Adam and Eve made a mistake and it is passed on to all of us, but praise the Lord He has a plan of restoration, amen? But during this process of restoration, we are going through a process where now we have to get back to that and praise God through the shed blood of Jesus, He has made a way for us, but everything is out of whack.

Take a look here in Genesis 3. Now the fall of Adam and Eve He says here in regards to what’s going on, Genesis 3:9 He says, “And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” Here is the first time we see where man was scared to be in the presence of God, he hid himself. God used to walk with Adam in the cool of the day. There was a relationship. There was fellowship. Verse 11, “And He said, who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, what is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle,