Volume 1, Issue 45
17 Jun 2016
 With the whole end time world playing god, as well as being led to do so by the end time world power and ruler, the whole planet will begin unraveling in disorder and depravity. This will result in the biblically predicted “falling away” and “great tribulation” of the last days (2 Thessalonians 2:3; Revelation 7:14). Although there has been no shortage of apostasy and tribulation throughout history, it will all pale in comparison to the apostasy and tribulation of the last days!
Listen to these haunting words of the Lord Jesus in John 9:4, “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day, the night cometh, when no man can work.” Is it not the reprobate condition of the end time world that Jesus referred to as the coming night when no man can work? What work can be done in a world that has crossed God’s deadline, been divinely abandoned to depravity, and has no future prospects apart from divine retribution? In such a world, the church will be left without influence, being incapable of piercing the calloused hearts of this planet’s reprobate population with the sharp two-edged Sword of the Spirit.
Revelation 11:7 is referring to this planet’s coming night, which was predicted by our Lord Himself. It speaks of a time when the “testimony” of the church—the two witnesses—will be “finished” and when the world, which has long been at “war” with the church—the two witnesses—will at long last appear to have “overcome” the church. Yet, just as the world once thought that Christ had been forever overcome, only to discover that He had risen from the dead and ascended into Heaven, so also will the perceived “overcome” church of Christ be seen by the world rising from the dead and ascending into Heaven (Revelation 11:7-12).
In our next edition of Piecing Together Bible Prophecy, we will explore this teaching further by looking at a not so secret rapture. Stay tuned. We close today, however, with some soul searching questions from our study of the Bible’s most enlightening beast theme.
❶ Are you living by God’s Word or your wits?
❷ Do you do what Scripture teaches or what you think?
❸ Are you living according to God’s will or your will?
❹ Are you self-serving or serving Christ?
❺ Are you trying to make a name for yourself or trying to magnify the name of Jesus?
❻ Do you give kudos to yourself or thanks to God?
❼ Do you try to take all of the credit or do you try to give God all of the glory?
❽ Are you beastly or a believer?
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Don Walton
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