There are vacant thrones, there are positions in the Lord's army, there are places by the side of Christ—all waiting to be filled by those who care enough to stir themselves.

There is a place for you if this is what you desire above all else in life.

But if you wish to continue in the delusion that you are standing in grace and it doesn't really matter how intensely you seek Jesus Christ, then slumber on. You will be awakened by a trumpet blast that calls you from the dead. There you will be required to explain to God why you refused to respond diligently to His Son.

The kings from the East will come soon enough and Antichrist will be destroyed from the earth. But for the present we must seek the gifts and ministries of the Spirit so we can build up our brothers and sisters into the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. The believers must be prepared in the present hour for their witness to every nation and for their participation in the cavalry charge of Armageddon.

Are you doing all you can to bring your brothers and sisters in the Lord to the place where they are able to serve God in His Kingdom?

Let the children and young people arise, for the anointing is on them. Let those of us who are older, parents and other leaders, prepare the younger people as well as we possibly can. The children and youth are facing, as we have mentioned previously, a terrible, wonderful future. Terrible for the hypocrites in the churches. Wonderful for those who will give their lives to the Lord Jesus.

If you won't stir yourself for your own sake, caring more about your retirement plan than you do for the Kingdom of God, then press into God for the sake of your children. Give them the best preparation you can. They are watching you. Are they seeing integrity and faithfulness or the foolish, sloppy, fleshly games being played in the churches?

The saints from every period of history are observing us from their resting places in the spirit realm. They know we are approaching the climax of history, the time when the Kingdom of God will dispossess the rulership of the kingdoms of the world and those nations will be given to the only rightful King, the Lord Jesus Christ. We have been built up on their walk with God. Now they are being built up on our walk with God.

Many of our evangelical traditions are unscriptural and destructive of our growth in Christ, as we have pointed out. We are hoping to escape to the spirit Paradise by grace. God desires that we prepare ourselves to live and govern the nations, to work alongside Jesus Christ, being able to perform the numerous tasks required for the installation of the Kingdom of God on the earth.

Are you preparing yourself for a retreat from wickedness or for a war against wickedness that will bring justice to the peoples of the earth?

Friend, do you care enough to look into the matter? (from But What If We— Don't?)