The Daily Word of Righteousness

The Time Is At Hand, #4

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn. (Matthew 13:30—NIV)

If you will remember, the wheat and the tares are to come to maturity side by side. This means righteousness will greatly increase and wickedness will greatly increase.

The righteous will receive much more of Christ. The wicked will receive much more of Satan. In the days ahead God and Satan will be facing each other in the ultimate confrontation.

Because of the enormity of this confrontation our babylonish religious systems will avail nothing. In fact, they will hinder us.

In the days ahead, in God's time, the Spirit and the Bride will come out of the religious systems. The godly remnant, along with the elect Jews, will be forced into the wilderness areas of the earth.

The Christian churches will continue with their traditional activities, hymns, programs, and so forth, not realizing the Spirit has left. Antichrist will subsidize the churches until they think they are rich and have need of nothing.

Many churches are in deception today, or void of the Spirit. Yet they go on with their programs. So it will be in the days of Antichrist.

Finally Antichrist will invade the land of Israel and establish himself between the wings of the cherubim in a restored temple. This action will cause the great tribulation to commence. Then the elect Jews are to flee to the wilderness where they will be protected by the Lord Jesus Christ in His remnant of saints, thus fulfilling the type of Joseph and his family during the famine.

Then the secular nations will burn the religious systems with fire. Babylon will be destroyed.

Because of the ability of Antichrist to penetrate the spiritual heavens it no longer will be possible for the babylonian Christians, so to speak, to pray. It no longer will be possible to receive Christ and the Holy Spirit in the major cities of the earth. Antichrist will have control over the spirit realm.

Only in the wilderness, in the remnant, will there be salvation.

And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls. (Joel 2:32—NIV)

These horrors lie just ahead of us. They will come into being immediately following the worldwide harvest revival that is beginning now.

Meanwhile, you and I are to open our heart to the Lord Jesus so He may enter us and make us new moral creations that reveal the fruit of the Spirit.

To continue in the business as usual church routines without making a desperate attempt to press into Christ is to prepare an exceedingly grim future for ourselves.

The Lord Jesus Christ is ready right now to go all the way with you. Are you willing to go all the way with Him?

To be continued.