Today the signs of the times declare that we are standing on the threshold of great and solemn events. Everything is in agitation….
The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, thinking men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the events taking place about us. They are watching the relations that exist among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession of every earthly element, and they recognize that something great and decisive is about to take place–that the world is on the verge of a stupendous crisis.
The Bible, and the Bible only, gives a correct view of these things. Here are revealed the great final scenes in the history of our world, events that already are casting their shadows before, the sound of their approach causing the earth to tremble and men’s hearts to fail them for fear.
Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, distorts its surface and scatters abroad its inhabitants…because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwelling in it are desolate. 1
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as destruction from the Almighty…. The seed shrivels under the clods, storehouses are in shambles; barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are restless, because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment. 2
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree has withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree–all the trees of the field are withered; surely joy has withered away from the sons of man. 3
I am pained in my very heart!… I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is plundered. 4
Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. 5
Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling. 6
O daughter of Zion,… the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. Now also many nations have gathered against you, who say ‘let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.’ But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel. 7
1) Isaiah 24:1-6, 2) Joel 1:15-18, 3) Joel 1:12 4) Jeremiah 4:19, 20 5) Jeremiah 30:7 6) Psalm 91:9, 10 7) Micah 4:10-12
God will not fail His church in the hour of her greatest peril. He has promised deliverance. “I will bring back the captivity of Jacob’s tents,” He has declared, “and have mercy on his dwelling places.” Jeremiah 30:18
Like I said, not my words. None of them. These words are from a woman in the 1800s in a book called Prophets and Kings, redone in “The Conflict Beautiful” PK, chapter “The Unseen Watcher.” The applicability to today of something written over 150 years ago is stunning; more amazing is the Biblical references from thousands of years ago, seemingly taken out of context written by 5 different individuals and centuries apart, however that perfectly describe what we’re seeing today in Twenty-Twenty-Two. What I’m saying is….if you’re feeling any part of this, get into the Bible; feel free to use books like Prophets and Kings to supplement your studies. There is a Users Manual to this “stupendous crisis” but it’s only useful to those who actually USE IT.
