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Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. In a world full of uncertainty, this verse from Romans stands like a lighthouse in the storm: “The God of hope…” Not just the God who gives hope, but the very source of it. When everything around us seems shaken — economies falter, nations rage, relationships strain — it is the God of hope who remains unshaken and unchanging. The apostle Paul is writing this as both a blessing and a prayer. His desire is that believers wouldn’t just scrape by emotionally, but be filled — overflowing with joy and peace. But there’s a condition: “in believing.” Joy and peace are not produced by circumstances going right, but by faith — by believing that God is good, God is near, and God is working all things together for good. And here’s the beautiful secret: it’s not up to us to manufacture this hope. Paul says it is “by the power of the Holy Spirit” that we abound in hope. That means when you feel empty, weak, or discouraged, you can cry out to the Spirit of God, and He will fill you. This is not wishful thinking; this is supernatural empowerment. But it doesn’t end with you. The hope God gives is not meant to be bottled up. If you’re not centered in His hope, you’ll have nothing of substance to give to a hopeless world. But when you are filled — when your life is anchored in His peace and joy through faith — you become a vessel that overflows. You begin to spread abounding hope to those around you: in your family, in your workplace, in your community, and even across nations. Hope becomes contagious. And in these last days, a hope-filled believer becomes a blazing signpost pointing to a living Savior. So rise up, child of God. The world is drowning in fear, division, and despair—but you carry the answer. Let the God of hope fill you so completely that hopelessness has no room to linger. Let joy silence anxiety. Let peace disarm chaos. And let the blazing hope of the Holy Spirit within you pierce the darkness like a sword of light. This is your calling — not just to survive in these days, but to abound. To be a walking embassy of heaven’s hope. To lift the weary. To speak life into the broken. To shine with a supernatural confidence that the world cannot explain — because your hope isn’t rooted in headlines, but in the unshakable promises of God. You were not meant to carry a dim candle. You were meant to burn bright with holy fire. So stay centered in His hope—and then go and spread it with boldness, until the whole world knows: there is a God of hope, and His name is Yeshua (Jesus). View the full article

The Lord tells everyone (Mark 13:37), and especially those of us who supposedly believe in the Word, to watch for the signs in the Olivet discourse (Luke 21, Mark 13, and Matthew 24), which include droughts, and famines. While droughts and famines have been with us since time began; levels of droughts and famines today are reaching unprecedented levels according to the Guardian article site below. These new milestone levels of droughts and famines are projected to worsen, due to man made global warming, caused by fossil fuel burning industries. Can you recognize the signs, or are you willfully blind to the signs, as they who are destroying the earth, because of their love for the things their hands make through fossil fuel burning industries? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/02/droughts-worldwide-pushing-tens-millions-starvation-report?utm_term=686603c59485de85604634b8b687ec27&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email Mark 13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

Those are who are destroying the earth and disregard all of the Lords angels soundings/warnings in Revelation 8 & 9, are they whom upon the Lords return, He will destroy (Revelation 11:18). Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Yeshua says that in hell the fire is never quenched. (Mark 9:43).  How is a fire quenched, except it be doused or its energy source exhausted. Yeshua said hell's fire is never quenched, which can only mean that the fire's energy source, i.e., the resurrected dead of Revelation 20:5, give hell's fire eternal energy. Therefore, their punishment is eternal. 

I too see the wilderness as part of a pattern/theme in scripture, something that lies between two sons (from one view) but it is also relative (first and foremost) to what's between our ears …