the Judgment of Fire



"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God...the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.  (2 Peter 3:3-7)  The Bible reveals that, whereas the Old World was destroyed by a global Flood of water; the world that now exists shall be destroyed by fire.  Moreover, the Bible tells us exactly when that is going to occur, namely, upon the arrival of what is called, in Scripture, "the day of the LORD".  Do we know anything about when that awful "day" will come?  YES! we do!  In fact, I wrote a book about it (here).  Believe me, the day of the LORD is now ready to break upon the world with such fury of God's wrath that men will cry out "to the mountains and rocks":

"Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of [Christ]; for the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" (Revelation 6:16-17)

 The people shown in the above image ~ are not what you may suppose:  They do not represent people of the world being burned up in the fire of God's soon-coming Judgment.  Oh, no.  Rather, they represent those ~ glorified saints ~ who very soon will be bringing the Fire of Judgment. The Bible reveals that, when Christ visibly returns to earth with the armies of heaven, all of the armies of the world will suddenly stop fighting against each other and will turn instead to (try) to fight against what they doubtless will then perceive as an alien invasion (see, Revelation 19:11-19).  The devil has for some time now been preparing the world (by means of movies, books, conferences, UFO phenomena, etc.) to expect an alien invasion.  Which is a very remarkable sign in itself, that this is indeed the time.   The Bible provides us with a very clear description of the Judgment that Christ is going to bring against the ungodly inhabitants of this world.  Importantly, God has given to his saints both the high privilege to judge the world (1 Corinthians 6:2) as well also the "honor" to "execute the judgment written" (Psalm 149:9)  That means that the saints are the ones who will DO both the JUDGING as well as the EXECUTION of that judgment. 

Do you want to see how the Bible describes that coming judgment in action?

"Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of coulds and of thick darkness...: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it....  A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them."  (Joel 2:1-3)

 

Though I've written about it before, yet I will here reiterate a most important truth:  God's anger is burning white-hot against this evil generation.  How do I know this?  Consider the case of the Flood.  More than one-hundred years before the Flood was unleashed, God commanded Noah to build the Ark.  Which means that God had already by then determined to destroy the world by water ~ more than a century before the judgment came!  Oh, but wait.  The Bible says God is "slow to anger", and "plenteous in mercy".  Which means that well before He commanded Noah concerning the Ark, God's anger had for a long time been growing hotter and hotter against that generation.  If, as we now firmly believe: the coming of the Lord is truly imminent; and, when Christ comes, he is coming with his saints in the fullness of the wrath of God to judge the world; then, that MUST mean that God's anger has been kindling for a very long time against this present generation.  It is a true fact.

 

So ~ (as I have been urging and warning for now quite some time,) WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO?  I say, it is either Revival . . . or wrath.  Revival is NOT AUTOMATIC!  Revival will NEVER COME, UNLESS, SOME WILL EARNESTLY SEEK GOD FOR IT.

 

There is lately a turning, in my own heart: ~ no, not away from pleading for Revival.   But there is a turning in my soul to seek God for Judgment.  I am more and more desiring Judgment.  The flood of evil in the world must be dealt with; it must be stopped.  But the ONLY way that can be done is through God.  BE WARNED: God is moving in his people....