If everyone could turn to Proverbs 1, I thought that it would be a good idea for us to take a look at what the Bible has to say a little bit about wisdom because wisdom is key, it seems, at this time. It has actually always been essential, but especially in our day. In our day, it is extremely important that we have wisdom. It says in Proverbs 1:1-7:
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
So this is one place where we read about wisdom, and the Proverbs are full of verses like this. Also, if you could turn over to Proverbs 4. Unfortunately, we do not have the time to read how God describes wisdom as a valuable treasure that should be sought for, but it says in Proverbs 4:5-7:
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
We can see again and again in the Proverbs, as well as in many parts of the Bible, how God speaks extremely highly of wisdom and demands that we “get wisdom.” It is “the principal thing.” And what does “principal” mean? It means that it is chief; it is the best; it is the greatest thing.
It is not money, because many people think that money is the principal thing. It is not possessions, getting what you can get out of this world. This is the principal thing with many people. It is not boyfriends or girlfriends and just having a lot of friends in general. This is not the principal thing.
“The principal thing” or the item that should have top priority is wisdom, but not worldly wisdom. There is a wisdom of the world that God has given. It is almost funny. God gave man wisdom; and by the wisdom that God gave man, he tries to prove that there is no God.
I am sure that this was God’s intent to allow this to happen. He has given the world wisdom. He has given some men brilliant minds in order to develop theories like evolution, which kind of goes contrary to the idea of having a brilliant mind because evolution is not a brilliant theory; it is a foolish theory. It is a theory that has no basis in fact or even no basis in science. It cannot be proven in any way; all of the evidence goes contrary to evolution.
But God tells us to “get wisdom.” Just to let us know what this primarily means, it means to get Jesus. It means to get Jesus because Jesus is wisdom. We read in 1 Corinthians 1, He “is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification.” He is wisdom.
This is why in Proverbs 8 we read that wisdom is personified; it takes on a personality. This is because it has in the Lord Jesus. If we were to become saved and Christ would enter into us, we would find wisdom. We would be counted wise in God’s sight.
On the other hand, if we do not possess the Spirit of God in salvation, then the Bible considers us a fool. We might be intelligent. We might be very smart in our schoolwork or in our occupation or profession. We might excel. Amongst our friends, we might be looked upon as being very smart and intelligent. But as far as the Bible and God are concerned, we are a fool. This is how the Lord breaks up the human race. There are the wise and then there are the foolish.
I was wondering why it is that some believe that May 21 st, 2011 will be the day of the rapture. Some believe this. They believe this. God’s people believe this, and yet why do others not believe that May 21st, 2011 will be the rapture?
It is interesting when talking to people—as we share these things about the coming day of the Lord beginning on this date—because, again and again, someone will say, “I will see you on May 22nd, 2011. What are you going to say then? What are you going to do on May 22nd, 2011?”
People like to say this, and this could be people in the church or those outside of the church. Just Google it; just put in “May 21, 2011” and you will see all kinds of discussion in Yahoo and Google groups where this is the topic that, more than likely, a Family Radio listener inserted. You will find that all kinds of people respond to this information. You will find, again and again, people saying, “May 22nd, 2011 is going to come and you are going to look awfully dumb. You are going to look foolish.” Others say, “You are giving Christianity a bad name because May 22nd, 2011 will come and then what? Everybody whom we have told will look upon us like we have egg all over our faces.”
But I really do not think that they are that concerned about Christianity, to tell you the truth. I really do not think that individuals who bring this up and say, “Well, how are you going to look on that day?,” are actually too concerned as to how we are going to look. I do not think so. I think that this is just something that they want to throw out there, off-the-cuff and quickly; it is something that they will just say. But the reality is that people who say this will declare it because they do not trust the Bible.
This is what the whole issue comes down to regarding May 21st in 2011 and the five-month period ending on October 21st in 2011. Do you trust the Bible or not? For people who do not trust the Bible, this is not only unlikely but it is as ridiculous to them as evolution is to the child of God. This is because they do not trust the Bible. They do not think that something written nearly 2,000 years ago could have any kind of prophecy that not only gives us the year but gives us the actual month and day of Christ’s return. They really do not trust the Bible.
Well, one thing that we could say to someone who would make this kind of statement to us like, “What are you going to do come May 22 nd, 2011?,” is to say, “Yes, this is a prophecy and we are telling people what the Bible says. We are declaring what the Word of God says when we say that May 21st, 2011 will be the rapture.” “This,” we could say, “is declaring forth the Word.”
But it is likewise a prophecy to say, “It is not going to happen. I will see you on May 22nd, 2011.” This is also a prophecy. This is as much a prophecy as saying that May 21st, 2011 will be the rapture. This is because they are saying that they know the future, that they know what is going to happen, that they know how things are going to work out and that there is no way that God is going to do this and so it is going to be life as normal. “We will continue on; the world will continue.”
Alright, this is your prophecy. This is your declaration, which is based on what? What is this based on?
In the world, this is just based on the whole idea that the Bible is not how you live your life. You live your life the way that you want to live it and you do the things that you want to do according to what you, yourself, say.
People in the world trust their own minds and their own feelings and their own ideas. So, of course, May 22nd, 2011 is going to come. They just throw this out there because they do not trust the Bible at all.
Yet there are those in the churches and congregations that will, basically, do the same thing, except they will add a Bible verse. They will add a Bible verse like, “No man knows the day or hour.” Then they will make this kind of statement, “No man knows the day or hour. May 21st, 2011 will not happen, so I will see you on May 22nd. I will see you then.”
Well, in the book of Jeremiah, repeatedly, again and again, Jeremiah was given information that God had given to him to share with the people of Judah concerning the fact that the Lord was going to destroy Jerusalem and Judah by the hand of the Babylonians, and they insistently denied this. They repeatedly denied this through their prophets and leaders, “Thou speakest falsely,” it was said to Jeremiah on one occasion. Again and again, they would not listen to what Jeremiah the prophet was saying as God moved him to say it.
We read in Jeremiah 14:13-15:
Then said I, Ah, Lord JEHOVAH! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. Then JEHOVAH said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. Therefore thus saith JEHOVAH concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
This day is going to come. Everybody is in agreement about this: May 21st, 2011 will come. On that day, maybe some of us will not be here because we could die in the space between now and then. But for the world, the world will be here. This day will come and all the individuals who were saying, “Not so, Lord. See you on May 22nd,” will perish in the destruction that they had denied up until this point.
People want to deny this. They just want to write this off and dismiss it. They can ignore it. They can avoid it. They can try to use a Bible verse or two to say that this is not going to happen. They can just not care whatsoever and flippantly make a statement like, “I will see you then.” But no matter how they deny it, this will be proven true because this is coming forth from the Bible. On that day, the world will realize, from May 21 st, 2011 and on, that God’s Word was true, that what He had said was the truth from the Bible.
So this is one thing that we could say to people who try to bring up May 22nd. Really, they are just desperately trying to get us to think about what to do if this does not happen.
We have a good example in the Bible of someone who gave a date to the people of his time, which would be Noah. We know that Noah did this because in 2 Peter 2:5, it says:
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Noah was a “preacher of righteousness,” who is Christ. And from the time that God came to him when he was 480 years old and said, “I am going to destroy the world. I want you to build an ark and you have 120 years to do it,” Noah began to condemn the world of his day through his actions, through believing God and trusting God.
Noah just kept working. From time to time, more than likely, it was not that big of a deal to people at first because the project was just getting underway. They could not really see the actual boat that he was building. When judgment is at a distance, people do not think about it; they relax.
So it started out from 120 years, then it went down to 100 years, then 75 years; time kept elapsing and moving on. But as it got closer and the boat was becoming more and more finished and the ark was being completed, as time was getting shorter and they got to 20 or 15 or 10 years away, I am sure that the people of Noah’s day were beginning to take more notice.
Since Noah was a “preacher of righteousness” and he preached to a world that spoke only one language, everybody could understand him. He preached to a world that was on one continent because the world had not yet been divided as it was in the days of Peleg and man naturally tends to flock together.
So this would have been the situation as he was sharing this information with the people. And while he was hammering away on the ark, maybe little neighbor children came up to him and asked, “Mr. Noah, why are you building this ark?”
He would most likely have responded, “Well, son, the Lord has told me that in the year 4990 B.C., He is going to destroy the world with a flood. Everything with the breath of life will perish.”
Then maybe this little boy goes running back home and says, “Daddy, Mommy, do you know what Mr. Noah told me? He told me that God is going to destroy the world with a flood!”
Daddy and Mommy would have most likely said, “Do not worry about it. He is a crazy old man. He has been up to this for a long time. Do not listen to anything he says, and I do not want you going back over there to play anymore either.” Would this not be the case? “I do not want you over there near that man’s house anymore. You are going to get the wrong kind of mindset. You are going to start thinking about these things.”
Afterwards, maybe, now and then, they went over to Noah and said, “How dare you talk to my children and tell them this nonsense! How dare you!”
Noah would have just sadly shaken his head and continued working. Time would have kept going by: five years, three years, two years, the last year, up until the point where God came to him and got more specific, “Yet seven days.”
So Noah knew the year, the month, and the day. (What a coincidence! So do we: 2011, the fifth month, the twenty-first day.) Noah knew precisely when it would be and there would have been some seemingly well-meaning people who liked Noah, because he was probably a good guy, who would have gone up to Noah and said, “Noah, you have been a good neighbor, except for this crazy business with the ark. You are a nice man and we respect you, to some degree. Now, Noah, when this does not happen and we get to the eighteenth day of the second month, Noah, you know what? Do you realize how foolish you are going to look? Do you realize how stupid you are going to look? Noah, do not do this to yourself!”
So what was Noah going to do? Was Noah going to stop and think, “Yes, if we get to the eighteenth day, I am going to look really foolish”? Do you think that Noah had any thoughts like this at all?
Well, being a person, maybe thoughts like this might have begun to come to him. But what would Noah say to himself and say to those people?
He would most likely say, “I know how this sounds. Believe me; I would not have come up with this myself, but God came to me. I heard directly from God and He said, ‘In the second month, the seventeenth day of the month’ that He was going to make this happen, and I believe God. I trust God, so I cannot say anything else.”
And they would say, “Well, Noah, how about when this does not happen, you sign over this ark to me? And while you are at it, give me the house. Since you think that this is going to happen, what do you need these things for? Sign them over to me.”
Would Noah waste a precious minute trying to answer someone about the eighteenth day of the second month? Would he? Absolutely not! He would not do this because he knew this for certain. He knew this for certain because he had heard this from God and he trusted God and he believed God.
So people recognize that God came to Noah and warned Noah, but their response to us is, “You people today who believe that May 21 st, 2011 is the rapture, are you hearing this from God? Has God come to you in a dream? Has God spoken to you like He spoke to Noah?”
We have to admit, “No; it is not exactly the same.” This is because God has given us His Word, the Bible, and we are not to add or subtract from it, so God will not tell us anything by divine revelation in the way that He spoke to prophets of old. He will not give us a dream or a tongue or a vision or anything like this.
But is not the Bible the Word of God? Is not the Scripture the Word of God? When we read in the Bible information, is that not coming from God’s mouth, just as surely as when Noah heard from the mouth of God?
Well, the Bible tells us that this is the same. Let us go to Psalm 19:7, where it says:
The law of JEHOVAH is perfect, converting the soul…
All of these references to “the law” and “the testimony,” and so forth, are synonyms for the Word of God, the Bible, just like Psalm 119. Psalm 19:7-11:
The law of JEHOVAH is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of JEHOVAH is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of JEHOVAH are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of JEHOVAH is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of JEHOVAH is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of JEHOVAH are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold…
Just like wisdom.
…yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them…
That is, the Bible.
…is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
God warns through the Bible. He warned Noah in Hebrews 11:7:
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world…
God gave Noah information. He spoke to him and Noah acted upon it and “moved with fear.”
God is giving us information today from the same source. It is coming from the exact same source, from His Word. You are being warned and so am I. Before we get to the end, every person in the world today will be warned of what is to come.
It is not seen as yet. We cannot see it and people take advantage of this to present their declarations and their prophesying that this is not going to happen, “This is not here so why do you worry?”
This is the nature of man. He does not concern himself with things that he cannot see. But God is telling us in the Bible that this is going to happen.
Some people are going to understand and they are going to respond like the Ninevites. This message will have an impact upon their lives. They will be moved like Noah to cry out to God and to turn from the sins that they can turn from, in order to hope that God might have mercy on them and save them.
I went to the verses in Proverbs about wisdom, because this is what it boils down to. And in Ecclesiastes 8:1, it says:
Who is as the wise man?…
Or “Who is like the wise man?”:
…and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?…
This is the Hebrew word dabar, which is translated as “word,” “thing,” or “matter.”
…who knoweth the interpretation of a [word]?
Which means that this is dealing with the Scriptures, and it is the “wise man” who is mentioned in verse 5, Ecclesiastes 8:5:
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
God has given wisdom to His people in order to discern these two things: time and judgment. When Jonah went to Nineveh, he cried out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” His warning contained two elements: time (40 days) and judgment (coming at the end of that forty-day period, if the Lord had not spared them). Likewise, God is saying that “a wise man’s heart” is able to discern or understand these two things.
If you turn over to Ecclesiastes 10:2, we read:
A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.
Why does God say this? He says this because of what we read in the parable of the sheep and the goats. Remember, the Lord puts the sheep at His right and the goats at His left. This is what He is doing with this language of “wise” and “foolish.” The “wise” are His children and they are “at his right hand”; they are like the “sheep.” The “goats” are the “foolish,” the unsaved of the world, and they are “at his left.”
So this is where “a wise man’s heart” is and the Lord, at the proper time, will open up the understanding of this individual whom He has saved to see these things, like the prophet Elisha said to his apprentice, “Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see,” and the Lord opened his eyes and “the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire.”
You see, if God would only open up our eyes to comprehend the time that we are living in, it would have a tremendous impact on our lives. For the next just under two years, we would live in a very different way than we have been living. And God does plan to reveal these things to the “wise” who are His people.
If we look at Luke 21, which is the chapter dealing with the Great Tribulation, parallel to Matthew 24, it says in Luke 21:15:
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
He is going to give us a mouth to declare this, which relates to sharing tracts or however the message is declared. He will give us “a mouth and wisdom” because “a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.”
If we go back to Daniel 12 (some of us are familiar with this), God speaks of “the book,” the Bible, in verse 4, Daniel 12:4:
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
There will be increased understanding and increased wisdom of the Word of God.
Look down in verse 9, Daniel 12:9-10:
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand…
Wow! None of the wicked! The flood came upon “the world of the ungodly.” They were caught “as a thief.”
Anyone who insists, “No man knows the day or hour; Christ is coming as a thief and I do not want to hear any of this,” is sealing their own fate. Their only hope of deliverance is to recognize these things so that they can go to God, in the great danger that they are in, and cry to Him.
Yet God tells us that if anyone is wicked, they are not going to understand, because this has to be spiritually discerned and natural men have carnal minds. They do not have a spiritual mind. They cannot see it. They just cannot see it.
With the declaration to Noah, “For yet seven days” and 2 Peter 3 that relates this to “a thousand years,” this is the timeline of history from the Bible. It is all from the Bible. Yet they respond, “I do not get it. Actually, I do not want to get it. I do not want to get it. Let me go on with my life. Let me continue on.” But it is only out of love and concern that we would want to share this with them and to share this with others, to share with the young as well as with the old that this is going to happen.
So what makes us special? Why do we know this? Look here in Daniel 12:10:
…none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
It is as simple as that. “My sheep hear my voice.” The goats do not. It is simple as that. It comes down to this.
The true believer, the child of God, is given insight because Christ is able to do this. He is able to open our understanding so that we can comprehend teachings from the Bible. But unfortunately and tragically for someone who is not one of His elect, they will not understand.
There is another good verse about this in Nehemiah 8. Do you remember Ezra? We read in Nehemiah 8:5-7:
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people…
The Book is unsealed; it is open. This is relating to our time, to our day. It continues:
…and when he opened it, all the people stood up: And Ezra blessed JEHOVAH, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped JEHOVAH with their faces to the ground. Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
How many names were mentioned? Thirteen names were mentioned because this is relating to our time, as we are 13,000 years from the creation of the world and it is at this time when God opens up the Book and He gives the sense and reveals to His people a right understanding.
And look at verse 8, Nehemiah 8:8:
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
This is all in God’s hands. This is all in the Lord’s hands. He has to have “mercy on whom he will have mercy,” but we do not know who that is and so we pray.
Fathers and mothers really should be praying for their children, “O Lord, open up their eyes that they might see these things,” because parents can see the way that their children are going and their interests. It becomes pretty obvious if they are thinking about college when that is several years off. They are thinking about a future occupation, which is never going to happen. They are thinking about things past this date.
It would be good for any parent to nicely say, “Now, hold it a second. Have you forgotten? May 21st, 2011 is the end. It is not going to come. It is not going to come.” And we could say to them, “I love you. I love you very much and I would really desire for you to have a life in this world, a family and children. I would like to be a grandparent. I would like to see these things. I would like to see you progress in a field of occupation, and all of this, but I have to tell you the truth because I do love you. This is not going to happen. It is not going to happen.”
God has told us what will happen. To many people, this is a terrible tragedy. But we do not know if the Lord might save one of the people whom we love, and so we can pray that God would open their eyes and that they might begin to see.
You know, it is a great blessing when a little child comes to you and says in tears, “I am really worried about May 21st, 2011. I am afraid.” This is a wonderful blessing for a parent, and it would be great if all parents could experience this.
Well, let us go to Matthew 25. We will finish with this. It says in Matthew 25:1:
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Who is the bridegroom? He is Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible is clear about this.
Matthew 25:2:
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
This is just as God looks at mankind. He sees the wise and the foolish.
Matthew 25:3-4:
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
What does the “lamp” represent in the Bible? It represents the Word of God. “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,” it says in Psalm 119. Also in Proverbs, God connects the lamp to the Bible.
In the world today, do people who are saved have Bibles as well as people who are not saved? The wise and the foolish both have Bibles. In many churches today where God’s Spirit is not, they have a Bible in the pulpit. They have the “lamp.” In Christianity, everyone has the lamp. Maybe not personally, but their pastor or their elder has the lamp; they have the Bible.
It goes on in Matthew 25:5:
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
We will not get into this, but this is pointing to the church age and how God had sealed up His Word so that it could not be known. Many of the details and teachings of the Bible could not be known.
Then in verse 6, Matthew 25:6:
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
“Midnight” is a reference to the Great Tribulation. It is during this time that we are receiving the cry that He comes, “Thy kingdom come”; “Come quickly, Lord Jesus!” Well, the prayer has been answered. The Bridegroom is coming. He is coming.
Then verse 7, Matthew 25:7-8:
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
The oil represents the Holy Spirit. If someone has a lamp, they have the Bible. In their vessels if they possess oil, they can light their lamp. That is, they can see: “The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness.” They can understand what the Bible says because it is being illuminated by the Spirit of God, typified by the oil.
However, if an individual has the Bible, the lamp, and he does not have any oil, he does not have the Holy Spirit in him. He could then read the exact same verses that the believer is reading and it will be dark. He cannot light the lamp.
God did not write the Bible to make it easy to be understood but to make it very complex and difficult to be understood. No man, of his own, can understand the Bible unless God gives him of His Spirit and opens up his eyes to truth.
Then it says in verse 9, Matthew 25:9-10:
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came…
One other thing that we see here in Matthew 25:6 is:
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh…
Yet He did not come right then. He did not come immediately, which you would think would be different if it will be as the church says it will be and that He could come at any time. If the cry is made, then He should be there right then, but there was a period of time from the announcement of His coming. In order for these virgins to have their discussion and for the foolish virgins to go to seek out oil for their lamps, there was a space.
But that is not the purpose of this parable. This parable is letting us know that this fits with God warning Noah before the flood, with God warning Lot before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, with God warning the Ninevites before their (possible) destruction, with God warning Israel before their destruction in 709 B.C., and with God warning Judah before their destruction in 587 B.C. It fits with everything that the Bible tells us. There will be a warning in advance, a forewarning, in order for individuals to be moved with fear, those whom God is dealing with, so that they can cry out to God. If God is pleased to do so, He can save them.
But they go to buy oil, and the wise say here in Matthew 25:9:
…go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
Why did they not just give them of their oil?
Can you or I share the Holy Spirit or salvation with another person? We cannot do that. That is impossible. But we can tell them to go to the One who can give it, which is God Himself, the Triune God. Go “to them” who buy and sell, as God likens Himself to a merchant in Isaiah 55.
So while they are going, they did not go to the right place. They did not go to God. They went to others who they thought had the truth.
Continuing in Matthew 25:10:
…the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
This will be on May 21st in 2011.
So it comes down to wisdom, which is “the principal thing.” And God tells us, “If any of you lack wisdom,” and the majority of the world lacks wisdom, “let him ask of God.” That is, we can go to Him and we can go to Him exactly where we are. We are hearing these things, but maybe we do not see it. So we pray, “O Lord, give me wisdom so that I might see and so that I might understand.”
The Bible also tells us that the Scriptures are “able to make thee wise unto salvation” in 2 Timothy 3:15. If we have this wisdom, Christ indwells us and then we will begin to understand. We will begin to see exactly where we are in history.
It is as if the world has built their cities and their houses on a train track and there is a locomotive or a super-powered train that is coming down the tracks. It is going to destroy them, yet there are a few people who can see the rails vibrating and they can hear the sound of the whistle and so they are trying to tell other people, “Get off the track! Get out of the way! It is going to come and destroy you and destroy everything that you possess!” But in blindness, in deafness, they do not hear and they do not see and they continue going on as though it is going to be this way forever, yet it is not. It is not. The day is fast coming.
Let us stop here.