In Dire Danger
Scripture
records how God warned His faithful servant Noah to make
provisions prior
to the great flood. (Hebrews 11:7)
Noah, his household,
and pairs of
animals were selected by God to be canopied in the ark. A
great deluge of
water flooded into the earth drowning men, women, children
as well as all
other forms of life because the time had come when God
could no longer
endure the iniquitous manner people lived.
God was so
grieved that He
was pained that He even made man. He
said, ‘every
imagination of
the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually…”
(Genesis 6:5-9).
We now live in a
day similar to Noah’s day. Jesus
foretold that prior to
His second
coming to the earth life would be as it was in the days of
Noah. (Luke 17:26-30) Jesus teaches that mankind
will be both wicked and
living life full
of normalcy--marrying and giving in marriage, eating and
drinking,
building and planting--right up to the day that God’s righteous
judgments
unleash. So, the truth is, you are
either going to be in the
‘ark’ of God’s
protection, or, the flood of God’s destruction will wash
you away into
eternity. Do you hear the voice of God
calling you to His
side? Do you hear Him warning you to prepare? Are you responding to His
voice?
The Spirit of
God is speaking today. The LORD is
standing up to judge.
There will be
multiple cataclysmic judgments coming suddenly and at the
same time. God will judge Kings and Kingdoms. He will expose the wicked
things done in
secret. He will humble the high and
lofty proud looks.
God is
establishing His fear in the earth. Now
is the time to draw near
to the LORD and
hide in His presence. (Isaiah 26:20-21)
Today there is a
predominant religious world that has forsaken God and the
Lord that bought
them. While they name Him in word they
deny Him in their
lifestyle. Jesus wondered if there would be faith in
the earth when He
returned. (Luke 18:8b) He also said that many would depart from the
faith and then
betray other true disciples. (Matthew 24:10)
Jesus
describes a
world full of chaos and destruction prior to His return.
(Matthew 24;
Mark 13; Luke 17; Luke 21) The times of
the end have obvious
signs. (Matthew
16:2-3) But, a religious system that
follows after other
gods and loves
is blinded to the obvious. They draw
near to God with
their lips, and
honor God with their mouths, but their hearts they have
drawn far from
God, and the fear of God is taught by a precept (Isaiah
29:10,11,13). It is a religion of talk.
Today’s
religious world is in for a rude awakening.
Jesus said that many
would be shocked
to find that they are cast out into outer darkness. They
trust in their
religious pious appearance but truly do not love or obey
God. Surprise.
Jesus said there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
This is literal!
God is
indicating at the writing of this message that we are in the throes
of
judgment. It has arrived. His righteous judgments have been hurled
into the earth,
and indeed, they are inbound. A
religious system that has
heard the Word
and did not do the Word is in for a crashing demise. The
storm is
coming. The clouds are dark, looming
and threatening. Can you
see them? Great waves of destruction are about to
smash against the
foundation of
everyone’s lives. The only foundation
that is sure to stand
is that which
rests upon obedient abiding in the LORD.
A people that
thought their
Master had delayed His coming and began to eat and drink
with the
oblivious drunken will be suddenly surprised at the Master’s hand
of
judgment. (Matthew 24:45-51)
“Remember Lot’s
Wife”. These are Jesus’ words (Luke
17:32). The time
will come when
you must flee for your life. Don’t look
back! Run. Study
the scripture to
understand what Jesus is teaching. It
is imperative to
understand
judgment. God is the judge. He will judge. Period. The
Father will
judge the world as well as His own people.
This is what the
scripture
teaches. It is so vital to understand
judgment and not make the
same mistake as
Lot’s wife.
Lot and his family
lived in a wicked community. They had
neighbors and
friends. The children played with each other in the
streets. They had
business
ventures. But, Lot was grieved over the
trends of society. When
the time came
that God was going to rain coals of fire upon the land, He
sent angels to
escort Lot and his family out of harms way.
God instructed
them they were
not to look back as God’s fury was unleashed.
Lot’s
wife…she
couldn’t handle it. She looked back as
her impassioned temporal
world was pummeled
by fierce fiery stones of judgment. She
became a
pillar of
salt. A perpetual reminder to all that
follow ignorant
evaluation of
God’s justice. Learn from this.
Remember that
scripture teaches that this world and the things of the
world will pass
away. Only the Word of God will
remain. Believers are to
look for a new
world and a new heaven where righteousness dwells. This
world and its
fashion will be burned with fire and great heat.
“But the day of
the LORD will come as a thief in the night, in the which
the heavens
shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with
fervent heat,
the earth also and the works that are therein
shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things
shall be dissolved, what manner of
persons ought
you
to be in all
holy behavior and godliness.” 2Peter
3:10-11
and,
Whose voice then
shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet
once more I
shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
And this word,
Yet once more,
signifieth the removing of those things that are made, that
those things
which cannot be shaken may remain.
Wherefore we receiving a
kingdom which
cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with
reverence and godly fear: For our God
is a consuming
fire. Hebrews 12:26-29
Live with this
in mind. Walk VERY carefully. Make sure that you aren’t
caught living in
a manner that warrants God’s judgment.
Live before the
LORD in a humble
childlike manner that pleases the LORD.
You will be glad
you did.
Sincerely,
Trevor Davis
www.soundingthealarm.com trevor@soundingthealarm.com