Darkness covers the earth; people walk in confusion, as zombies, they know not what to do; they tremble before the news; worries, fear and anxiety take hold of their hearts with lies blinding their eyes to believe the truth. A storm of great proportion is coming to earth, as our God cleans and purifies the earth with fire of judgement. For its people have forsaken the Creator and there is no respect for Him. Hopelessness, yes, hopelessness is the cloud covering the earth with needle injecting it with poison. People surrendering to the lies and in fear give themselves to their care, while God’s people cry to Him, as they battle the evil in this earth. The spirit of heaviness arises highly and widely in pursuit to overtake them. Weary and almost fainting, we God’s people keep the faith and hope in the promises of a beautiful future. Faith and hope are the sparkplugs of our souls. His voice we hear, “Fear not, for I am with you.” As Peter did, when he took his eyes from the Lord to focus on the storm, we too fear the storm; the beam of the light of faith grows dim and the strength of hope faints. We cry, Maranatha, come Lord YAHSHUA! As were in the days of Noah and Lot, so are our days. Violence, sexual perversion, greed and much more are eating the people as cancer does, silently taking their breath away. The cries of the innocent we hear daily without being able to help them physically. Justice, justice nowhere to be found in the courts of law- high and low. Peter describes Lot’s distress in those days saying, … “And God condemned to ruin and extinction the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes, set them forth as an example to those who would be ungodly; and He rescued righteous Lot, greatly worn out and distressed by the wanton ways of the ungodly and lawless, for that just man, living among them tortured his righteous soul every day with what he saw and heard of [their] unlawful and wicked deeds” (II Peter 2:6-8). That’s the world we live in. We cry as David; “I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest; yes, I would wander far away, I would lodge in the wilderness; I would hasten to escape and to find a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest” (Ps. 55:6-8). The reality of David’s desire is reflected in our desire to be taken away from this wicked world by means of the rapture.
Light from the Word 