Now, at the very last, and for a fleeting moment, we see the world’s stage populated with examples of every kind of sempiternal being God has ever created. Only the unsaved dead are absent. We see the redeemed in Christ in their beautiful resurrection bodies. We see a combination of saved and unsaved natural human beings living out their lives in mortal bodies amidst God’s newly refashioned Edenic Earth. We see God’s Holy Angels serving our Lord on the earth as well as in Heaven.

Additionally, I think we’ll see the innumerable multitude of human babies who were aborted before birth throughout the ages. I believe in God’s infinite love for these incarnated souls, and it will be tasked to the redeemed to nurture, instruct, and love them in the Millennium.

And finally, we see Satan with his rebellious fallen brothers and all their demonic creations, along with the spirits of the Nephilim, unbound from the pit they had occupied for a thousand years. For a brief flicker of time, God has repopulated the earth with every kind of sentient soul-bearing being he has ever created – from Adam & Eve to the last soul saved by grace before the end of this last dispensation.

The human family thrives upon the earth. Unafflicted by Satan’s influences and ruled by our Lord Jesus Christ and redeemed saints, natural humanity has no excuses to appeal for the final revelation of their wicked hearts. And the earth, too, is in its last iteration, having gone through a created perfect Eden, the Fall into sin and corruption, the catastrophic Flood of Noah, and now the aging post-flood world in which we find ourselves.

Beyond this, our planet will have experienced the upheavals of the Great Tribulation, almost unthinkable in its scope and measure of divine devastation. Without God’s last gracious intervening to remake the world suitable for his Millennium Kingdom and the purposes it must serve, the last act in God’s original creation could not be played out. Because the armies of Satan are to be defeated by the breath of his spoken word over the climactic battlefield surrounding Jerusalem.

God breathed life into Adam at the beginning of Genesis, and he became a living soul, the father of all mankind. So too now will God’s breath become the instrument of death in this final book for mankind.

Second Thessalonians 8 says, “The lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth.”

And Revelation 20:9 tells us of the rebellious army’s fate; “and fire came down from Heaven and consumed them.” God’s last spoken word to unsaved humanity on Earth.

Following all this will commence the judgment of the unsaved. Immediately after that, there will be made a new Heaven and a new Earth for the Eternal State of the human family and God’s Holy Angels to enjoy the presence of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ forever.

Praise God! We will be living witnesses to all these events!

Are you a Ditch-digger, a Wall-builder, or a Bridge Constructor?

“See. I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the heart of the children to their fathers: or else I will come and strike the land with a curse” (Malachi 4:5).

The ministry of reconciliation.

“Therefore if anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. As ambassadors committed with the ministry of reconciliation, as though God were making an appeal through us, we implore you on Christ‘s behalf:
Be reconciled to God“ (2 Corinthians 5:17-20).

Distance and Separation

Definition of “Far away” in the Fuegian language of Tierra del Fuego. A seven-syllable word which means:

“They stare at each other, each waiting for the other to do what each wants but is not able to.”

One can appreciate the rich and insightful imagery of primitive language, but the question remains: Is it a matter of inability or unwillingness?

When the Lord Jesus was approaching the hour of His death, He himself prayed, giving us a model prayer: “Father, not my will, but yours be done.”

What keeps us separated? Basically, it is our pride and unwillingness to humble ourselves. We prefer to remain in a prison of our own making, when the key has been given to us that could release us from being captive to our own will and stubbornness.

Every argument won in a verbal conflict at the detriment of forgiveness and reconciliation ends up being one more brick we use in building a wall of separation, protecting us from the very ones that Christ has sent our way to help them in their struggle to find forgiveness and freedom from spiritual captivity.

Every argument won ends up being one more shovel full in digging deeper the ditch of distance between persons whose ministry is to be a bridge builder, not a wall builder or a ditch digger.

The Remedy

Do we have the key? Only God can give us the key to freedom.

Isaiah declares, “He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; The fear of the Lord is the KEY to this treasure” (Isaiah 33:6).

“The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous” (Psalm 19:9).

Do we need a sure foundation in our present time of confusion, perplexity, at a time when man is contemplating his navel and worshiping the earth to find the solutions with the greatest brains as guides in our cultures of death?

The Lord Jesus to John the apostle in Revelation chapter 3:7: “These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.”

There is a time and a season for everything under the sun, but Jesus is sending his servants to proclaim that NOW is the day of salvation and that there is no other name under heaven but the name of Jesus by which man can be saved.

The only way men can experience real peace and reconciliation with others is to first be reconciled with God.

Oh, that we would heed the command of our Lord Jesus to build bridges and tear down brick by brick the strongholds in our hearts that we have erected patiently day after day, month after month, until it becomes the very fabric that makes up the callous covering of protection keeping other people from being welcome in our hearts.

This is my hope and wish for the readers of this blog:

Be reconciled first with God through recognizing and accepting the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus for you. He brought peace to us who were enemies of God; receive the pardon and salvation that are already paid for by His blood shed for you on the cross and the free gift of eternal life available to all who humbly turn to His light and life from their slavery to sin.

If you already know the Lord Jesus, His peace to you, and may His grace and love abide and rule in your heart as you seek to do His will, to be fruitful and keep looking for His soon return.

Heavenly Father, by your grace and the power of your love through your Holy Spirit, free the prisoners in our families, our churches. You alone can penetrate through and behind those brick walls and fill those ditches of separation. You alone can heal bitter, broken hearts and restore us to our call to love you and serve you as we obey your command to love each other sincerely from the heart and serve our brothers in humility and submission to your will and purpose in our lives.

His Name is a strong tower, and we are victorious by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony that Jesus alone is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and worthy of our praise. Blessed be His holy Name. Amen!

The Promise 

For us today, God´s promise still stands
He will act in power through our hands
Come rain, come snow or even hail
The gates of hell will not prevail
He said it to Abraham and to his church again

The call today is still the same
To go and catch fish in his name
Do not worry if you have the skill
The Master himself will teach you
Be obedient, faithful, and trust him
Your net with a good catch he will fill

Raise up today the standard of love
Rest in Jesus’ finished work
Walk circumspect, watch and pray
Now is the time to stand up and fight
In the awesome power of his might

Hear today, Oh Christian under his blood
You will not perish in the flood
Our goal is close, I hear his voice
Calling his own: “My bride, ‘tis time
Come up hither, my kingdom enter
Receive the fruit of your labor.”