“(When I return), the world will be (as indifferent to the things of God) as the people were in Noah’s day. They ate and drank and married-everything just as usual right up to the day Noah went into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.” Luke 17:26-27 (TLB)
One glorious day, as the archangel Gabriel splits the silence with a blast of his trumpet, the final act of a drama written before God spoke to the darkness and created the light, will take its rightful place on the stage. It will be an act both beautiful and horrible, at the same time. It will be the fulfillment of one of the Father’s promises, and, at the same time, will herald a time of terrible punishment, suffering, and natural disasters for those still on Earth. The Word tells us many will try to kill themselves, but will be unable to. Jesus will arrive for a rescue mission, evacuating the Saints as God’s long suffering patience runs out, and the final acts of rebellion against him, his son, and his laws, receive the long overdue judgment they have earned.
It is not God’s plan that any should have to suffer through these catastrophic events, events so terrible that there has never been anything like it, and there will never be anything like it again. From the time God cleansed away the sin and rot of the World by washing it away, until this day, a loving God has patiently waited, wanting none to perish. He sent down the Law with Moses, he promised a redeemer through the prophets, and finally he sent his very own son to make a way, a path, leading back to Heaven, and all of his Agape’ love. But, on that horrible and beautiful day many will soon learn that the train they needed to catch has left the station, as they stood on the platform and watched it pull away.
Copyright 2007 Timothy E. Davis