The wicked that remain throughout the earth will turn white with fear when they hear the sound of the rushing of the chariots and see the army of the Lord leaping over walls and looking in at the windows. The meek will be saved in that day but woe to the hypocrites, especially the hypocrites in the churches. The destroyers of the earth will themselves be destroyed.

The army of the Lord will march until the earth has been purified. Then will nature rejoice. Then will the world be safe for little children.

For one thousand years the Lord and His firstfruits will teach righteousness to the saved nations of the earth, reconciling them to God, and also work with the weaker members of the Church who still need to be reconciled to God in their personalities.

At the end of the thousand-year Kingdom Age the nations will rebel against Christ, against the firstfruits (the camp of the saints) and against the nation of Israel that has been governing the earth in fulfillment of the promise of God. Fire will come down from God in Heaven and destroy those rebels.

Then the great white throne will appear. The earth and sky to which we are accustomed will be removed. On the throne will be seated Christ and His saints, for the Word of God assigns the judgment of men and angels to them.

The dead will be drawn from many places and raised to stand before God. The wicked will be cast into the Lake of Fire. The wicked are defined by Revelation 21:8. The righteous will enter eternal life. The righteous are described in Matthew 25, beginning with verse thirty-one.

Down from God in Heaven will come the purified, glorified Church. The Throne of God and Christ is in it. There is no sin to be found anywhere in the new Jerusalem, the holy city. It is holy in actuality, not by imputation.

The holiness is protected by a great wall. That wall is being formed today in the victorious saints as they resist sin.

Sin will be kept out of the new earth by the rule of the saints. It is a new world of righteousness. Sin has come to an end.

So we see there is a Divine program for the removal of sin from the creation. The Day of Atonement, the removal of sin, has begun in our day and will continue throughout the thousand-year Kingdom Age.

Be assured that God is aware of every sin that takes place in His creation. He has given His Son as a sacrifice for sin, and that sacrifice is adequate to meet the needs of whoever will receive the atonement, the reconciliation.

Now here we are. We are forgiven. We love God. But in many instances we are bound with the love of the world, the love of money, the lusts of the flesh, and our own self-will, stubbornness, and disobedience to God.

On top of all this we have been told it is impossible to obey God in the present world and must wait until we die or the Lord comes.

Is it any wonder the churches are in their current mess? In fact, many men of the churches who ought to be leaders and ministers are spending their time at night indulging their sexual fantasies on the Internet. There is not enough iron in today's preaching to deliver the saints from the moral filth on the Internet.

Now God is graciously sending trouble upon us. He is putting us in the pot and turning up the heat. The scum is rising to the top. Is that happening to you?

Probably so.

To be continued.