The souls under the altar find rest.2 The prayers of all the saints are answered.3 God’s judgments come to completion. Earth is being cleansed of all unrighteousness and made ready for the Kingdom. God’s judgments are righteous. Why does this last generation have to undergo all this in this way? Why will they undergo this in this way, like no other generation? Because, like no other generation before them, they know so much about God and His grace, about the Bible as God’s Word, about Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God, about the workings of the Holy Spirit—but they still said ‘no’ to them from the depths of their heart. Why is there a ‘great tribulation’ at the end of the end times? Because, worldwide, mankind chooses for itself and against God, against Christ, and against God’s Commandments. They choose to be for the ‘beasts’ and the ‘whore’. They have robbed the Lord of His honour as Creator. It was was stolen from Him by evolutionary thinking.
Notions such as sin, forgiveness and personal responsibility were waved aside by the science of psychology. ‘Peace for the soul’ was offered through psychological techniques. Natural man is trying to achieve his state of salvation on earth through his own efforts, in all areas of life. From economics to medical science, from sociology, biology and political sciences, from cosmogony to archaeology and geology: all universities worldwide are standing on the shoulders of the ‘giants’ of the 19th and 20th century: Darwin, Marx, Freud, Yung and Adler and there followers. Already for a long time, God’s Commandments have no longer been the norm for sexuality, the family, faithfulness in marriage or other moral issues: no more Christian ethics. Man honours ‘Creation’ as ‘god’, instead of the Creator.
And in the end, everybody will turn against the small nation of Israel and the Jewish people and against Christians who try to be faithful to the Bible, who try to raise their voices in protest. To the ‘ungodly’ ‘dwellers of the earth’, these are ‘obstructive troublemakers’, people that should disappear, for they are standing in the way of the ‘kingdom of man’s perfect happiness. Just as this last, this ‘final’ generation, seen from God’s perspective, has sunk so deep, so His judgments will come about as never before.
How do you react to the fact that God’s judgments will really come about? How do you look at the people around you, who want nothing to do with God or the Bible? Do we build high walls around us? Do we withdraw behind the ‘secure’ walls of our church buildings, where we endorse timeless, general Christian truths rather than battle the declining morals in the public square, or defend Israel and the Jewish people? Are we ‘Christians on Sunday’ but unrecognisable as Christians during the weekdays, being wholly absorbed in our secular businesses and practising the ways of the world? Or does our heart bleed for the people around us? Is there an increasingly heartfelt prayer for the lost souls in our heart and in church prayer-meetings?
Do we know what ‘witnessing’ is? Is there a stream of works of charity, of Christian love going out to the ‘unconverted’, the ‘unsaved’ and thus to the people under judgment, in the hope that God’s Spirit will draw them and they will be able to be saved by faith in Jesus? The judgments are coming, and they are real and true—not on the basis of ‘false witnesses’ or ‘vague prejudices’, but undeniably real and righteous. The altar with the prayers and the cries and the ‘shed blood of the innocents’ speaks about it. No one knows when it will happen however.4 That is why the Lord Jesus says: “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is Coming. But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is Coming at an hour when you do not think He will.”5 Because you do not know when, be prepared and ready. And serve the Lord as long there is light of day. Jesus says in John 9:4 “We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.” “For the fields are ripe for harvest, and there are too few labourers.”6 Do we say ‘Yes’ to Him?
• Does it apply to the Christian, Western world what the Lord says in His Word, that “it is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the Heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the Word of God and the powers of the ‘coming age’ and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace”?7
• If so, there would be no more hope for our Western society, embedded in Christianity. God only knows. Maybe He is leaving some ‘pockets of light’ here and there.
• So let’s do what our Lord tells us in John 9:4 “We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.”
• Let us therefore double our prayer efforts, and go forth courageously!
Bible References:
1.NIV 2.Revelation 6:10–11 3.Revelation 8:3–5 4.Matthew 24:36 5.Matthew 24:43–51 6.John 4:31–38; Luke 10:2; Matthew 9:36–38 7.Hebrews 6:4–6
