Spiritual darkness is filling the world today. It will become darker yet—much darker than it is today. An age of moral horrors is upon us. Both Christ and Antichrist will perfect their images in the personalities of human beings. The wheat and the tares will come to maturity side by side.

At the "midnight hour," the hour of greatest darkness, the cry will be heard: "Go forth to meet the Lord Jesus!" The slain Lamb will appear in the heavens above us. Those who live by eating His flesh and drinking His blood will be drawn upward to Him. Eternal Life will call and the eternal Life in the saints will answer.

Those who are filled with the spirit of the world, Christian or not, will be bound to the earth. They will not be able to leave all and rise to be with Christ. As Lot's wife, they will glance backwards. That one final act of unbelief and disobedience will seal their doom. The eternal doors will close in their face. They will be put into outer darkness. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Those who are teaching the believers that they all will be caught up in their carelessness and lukewarmness to meet the Lord and return with Him to Paradise will be screaming in terror in that Day—and their deceived followers along with them.

The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? (Isaiah 33:14)

"The sinners in Zion"! Not the sinners in the world but in the household of God!

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. (Amos 5:18,19)

We know that if we have been faithful to the Lord we shall be gathered to Him to be with Him forever. We know we shall be reunited with our loved ones who have passed away. We "comfort one another with these words" concerning the coming of Christ.

We have sorrow and pain now because we are not a part of the present world. We are girding ourselves for the final battle that lies ahead. We are not afraid; we stand in the Word of God Almighty.

Many of our fellow believers profess Christ but they are at ease in the world. They claim to be "Jews," to be the Lord's people. But they despise those who are bearing their cross. They cannot understand why we are rejecting the world when they appear to possess both Christ and the world.

One day soon our Lord will appear from Heaven. Those who fear the Lord and trust in Him alone will be filled with glory. They will rise to be forever with the Lord Jesus and with the saints and holy angels.

The multitudes who have attempted to serve both Christ and money will be bowed down with their "treasures." They will not be able to rise to meet the Lord in the air. They have been disobedient to the Gospel and their disobedience has closed the doors of the Kingdom against them.

The Lord Jesus be with all who love Him in sincerity. (from Kingdom Concepts)