The Lord Jesus is nearer to us, it seems, than ever before. That is the sense I am getting. He is ready to meet every believer who will take the time and trouble to turn away for a moment from the mad technological rush that is America and find out what his Creator wants of Him.

God is warning us to prepare for the judgment that is to fall on our country. It seems probable that some of the smaller nations who despise the United States will abandon the systems of conventional warfare and rely on acts of sabotage and terrorism, such as poisoning our major water supplies, smuggling in powerful bombs and blowing up our atomic installations, or assassinating our leaders on a large scale.

They cannot match us plane for plane, bomb for bomb. They would be stupid to attempt to do so. Rather they will invent new ways of penetrating our society and working their acts of destruction. We may not be able to respond because we may not know who or what country is responsible. Meanwhile large segments of our population will have been eliminated.

On top of this will be the natural catastrophes, earthquakes, hurricanes and floods.

God is not pleased with some of our practices, such as late-term abortions and lustful perversions. He will act in His time.

God does not want any believer to be caught unprepared. The present hour is a window of opportunity during which we can prepare ourselves and our loved ones for every eventuality. We are foolish children indeed if we do not respond to the Lord's warnings.

Numerous Christians in America are not in touch with Jesus. They are believing what their pastors and evangelists are teaching them, without looking to Jesus for themselves. Because of this they have accepted uncritically the idea that God's grace is a substitute for righteous behavior; that all believers will be carried to Heaven in a pre-tribulation "rapture"; that if we will use our soulish faith we can be rich and healthy and get whatever we want; that we now are in the Year of Jubilee and do not have to pay our bills; that it is God's will for us to neigh like horses and lay on the floor during the service pretending we are delivering a baby. What unscriptural wildness is next?

We are extremely busy, we American Christians. We are not taking the time to hear from Jesus each day. We rush to work, and then to home to watch the television. We do not know what God's will is for us or our family. We go to church hoping to have our needs met, not understanding that every member of the Body of Christ is to be prayed up and bring a blessing of some kind to the gathering. No member of the Body is to appear before the Lord empty-handed!

It is time now for God to begin to make an end of sin in His creation, beginning with His Church. But if we are not coming before the Lord each day in order to determine His will for us as individuals, the move of God will pass us by and we will be caught unprepared for the calamitous days ahead of us in America.

God is ready to make an end of sin and to bring in everlasting righteousness. We may have believed that God is not able to deliver us from sin to this extent. He said He will, and we know He has the wisdom and power to fulfill His Word.

It remains only for you and me to respond in faith. (from The Eternal Removal of Sin)