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The End Of Days
By Maurice Goulet
It continues to amaze me every day when I see educated
men and women pay close attention to the Weather
Channel or CNN and the Local News yet still refuse to
believe what has been written in the Bible.
As we witness the horrible devastation caused by
hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and attacks by terrorists,
many are asking the same question. Are these the signs of
the times prophesied in the Bible that indicate we are living
in the last days? Many in the world are beginning to fear
that perhaps soon it may indeed end. What will happen
when it does?
The time is coming and is just ahead when mercy will no
longer plead for earth's guilty inhabitants. Every case will
have been decided, either for life or for death. Some will
be ready, others will not; but for all, probation will have
closed. But now, on the edge of it, we are again living in
the Biblical Days of Noah and of Sodom. Crime and
lawlessness are filling the earth. Soon, very soon,
probation is to close.
That day is soon to be upon us, when the events described
in the Bible by the Prophets of old will begin to take place.
In that day, Jesus Christ will leave the sanctuary at the right
hand of the Father and will gather His Church from the
earth. It is at this time when the spirit, which has restrained
the mystery of iniquity, will depart from this earth and the
time of the end recorded in the Bible will begin.
When He leaves the sanctuary, darkness will cover the
inhabitants of the earth. In that fearful time Israel must live
in the sight of a Holy God without an intercessor. The
restraint that has been upon the wicked is removed, and
Satan has unhindered control of the entire earth. God's
long-suffering has ended. The world has rejected His
mercy, despised His love, and trampled upon His Word.
The wicked have passed the boundary of their probation;
the spirit of God, persistently resisted, has been at last
withdrawn.
Unsheltered by divine grace, they have no protection from
the wicked one. Satan will then plunge the inhabitants of
the earth into one great, final trouble. As the angels of God
cease to hold in check the fierce winds of human passion,
all the elements of strife will be let loose. The whole world
will be involved in ruin more terrible than that, which came
upon Jerusalem of old.
Israel and the rest of the world will then be plunged into
those scenes of affliction and distress described in the
Bible by the prophet as the time of Jacob's trouble. "Thus
saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear,
and not of peace. All faces are turned into paleness. Alas!
For that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the
time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it."
Jeremiah 30: 5-7.
"At that time shall Michael stand up, the great Prince which
standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a
time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation
even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be
delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the
book." Daniel 12:1.
When God's presence was finally withdrawn from the inner
sanctuary of the temple in Israel, and replaced by the gift
of holy spirit on the day of Pentecost, the priests and
people knew it not.
Though under the control of Satan, and swayed by the
most horrible and malignant passions, they still regarded
themselves as the chosen of God. The ministration in the
temple continued; sacrifices were offered upon its polluted
altars, and daily the divine blessing was invoked upon a
people guilty of the blood of God's dear Son and seeking
to slay His ministers and apostles.
So when the irrevocable decision of the sanctuary has been
pronounced and the destiny of the world has been forever
fixed, the inhabitants of the earth will know it not. The
forms of religion will be continued by a people from whom
the spirit of God has been finally withdrawn; and the
satanic zeal with which the prince of evil will inspire them
for the accomplishment of his malignant designs, will bear
the semblance of a zeal for God.
The Bible tells us that just before the end of days, there will
be a chosen few who stand firmly upon the Rock of Truth
in preparation for the crisis that will over-take the earth.
God has given us a clear blueprint in the Bible of those
things, which are about to come to pass. Just suppose for
one minute that the Bible is at least as accurate as the
Weather channel. The time is near and closer than we
think.
About the Author
Maurice Goulet is an ordained minister and the founder of
The Chosen Path and BibleWays Ministries. He holds a
Doctorate of Divinities Degree and is the author of the
best seller: Lord Of Darkness ~ Lord Of Light. Bible Ways
provides a guiding light for men and women who desire to
navigate through the fog of religious tradition.
Join Dr. Goulet at http://www.bibleways.com as he shares
what the Bible says about the Coming World Crisis, the End
Of This Age and the Coming New World.
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