If everyone could turn to Genesis 7, which is a chapter that we have learned a lot about over the last few years. It is one of many chapters that the Lord is highlighting at this time of the end. We really see the great importance of everything that God has told us in the Bible, especially in Genesis 7.
Lord willing, I hope that we can get through the whole chapter, especially verses 17 through 24, because this is something that I would like to look at that we have not really looked at before. This is when the flood had come. The flood covered the earth 15 cubits above the highest mountain of that day. Of course, in the last verse, in Genesis 7:24, we read:
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
This is five months and we know how important five months has become because God has revealed to us that beginning on May 21st in 2011, there will be five months of judgment. The whole five-month period is the “day of the LORD” upon everyone who is left behind, and this fits in perfectly and it helps us understand the character and the nature of this five-month period, when we look at these last verses in Genesis 7.
But let us begin with Genesis 7:1, which says:
And JEHOVAH said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
God is declaring that Noah is righteous, that he is justified, we would say, in God’s sight. Actually, the word “righteous,” if you look in the previous chapter, in Genesis 6:8-9, it says:
But Noah found grace in the eyes of JEHOVAH. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man…
This word “just” is the same word as “righteous” in Genesis 7:1. He was:
…a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
We can see how the Lord is really describing a sparkling character: Noah was just and perfect; he found grace. This is definitely saying that he was a child of God because everything that God says of Noah fits each and every child of God.
When we experience the salvation of God, only by the Grace of God, then we become righteous in God’s sight. “By the obedience of one,” Romans tells us, “shall many be made righteous.” This is referring to each child of God.
We also become perfect, believe it or not. We become perfect in our soul existence. Our soul is without sin, according to 1st John. But we still have to admit that we sin because we are in the physical body, even though the Lord looks at the believer as being perfect and without sin because all of their sins have been paid for in Christ from before the foundation of the world. This is why He can say this of Noah or of many people in the Bible—Job was “perfect”; others were “just” or “righteous,” like Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth—it is all a result of the work that Christ did to pay for the sins of His people.
Then in Genesis 7:2-4, it says:
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
We have learned about Genesis 7:4, that this was an historical statement. God said to Noah, “You have seven days and then I am going to bring the flood and destroy the world.” This was a literal week, 168 hours, which is 2 x 84. God gave them a seven-day period. Noah, being a “preacher of righteousness,” or a preacher of Christ, would have shared this information with the people of his day.
The ark itself was a testimony to everyone around because it was witnessing to the truth that God had given, which was that He was going to destroy the world with a flood. This, in itself, was a gigantic declaration to the inhabitants of the world of Noah’s day that their time was short.
By the way, Noah and all of the people of his day would have spoken the same language. It was only one language. It was not until much later at the towel of Babel that God confused the tongues. This means that he would have been able to potentially share with anyone in the world this information that God had given him, that they would have at least been able to understand the language; they would have at least been able to understand what he was saying.
We see the problem that we have today with a world that has so many languages with so many nations. This requires a great work to translate the Gospel into the languages of the world and it takes a lot of time. Yet the Lord made preparation for this over the years; and now with a ministry like Family Radio, the Gospel goes out into all the world in many, many languages. Probably just about everyone in the world understands one of the major languages that Family Radio broadcasts the Gospel in.
But in that day, at that time, the people spoke one language. I do not know what it was, but it was only one language. Also, they would have pretty much been in one location because the world was not divided until the days of Peleg, which was about 3100 B.C. It was almost 1800-2000 years later when the continents would have drifted and God would have divided the world into the present form that we have it in now with the different continents. Therefore, this means that Noah would have had access to the peoples of the world or that they would have had access to him as they were all living pretty much as people live today in a society. So the witness of Noah would have been widespread to the people of that day.
Now, in Matthew 24:36, we find the verse that is so popular today:
But of that day and hour knoweth no man [or no one], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
People go to this verse in order to disprove or use it to dismiss the information about the date of the rapture being May 21 in 2011. They go to this to prove that nobody can know the time of the end, except they are failing to take into account that God had sealed up the Word “till the time of the end.” The implication is that at the time of the end, He would open the seals, which is exactly what He has done in order to reveal truth to people. This is not of ourselves. We now know because God has given us understanding concerning end-time events that are unfolding in relation to time and judgment.
Let us look at this carefully in Matthew 24:36-37:
But of that day and hour knoweth no [one], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe [Noah] were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
God, the Lord Jesus, is saying, “No man knows the day or hour, and here is an example in history that tells you what I am talking about.” Okay. Well, that is good. So let us keep reading. Matthew 24:38-39:
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Well, we are in trouble. They are right. No man knows the day or hour. God gave us a historical example of the days before the flood. Look: it took them all by surprise. They were eating and drinking. Nobody knew until the flood came. Like “a thief in the night,” they were caught off-guard.
Is this true? Yes, it is true, but for whom? It is true for the ungodly, as 2 Peter 2 tells us. Let us just quickly look at this. 2 Peter 2:5:
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world…
Now, if it had stopped there, we would have to agree, but it does not:
…upon the world of the ungodly;
This is speaking of the unsaved. As 1 Thessalonians 5 says, Christ will come “as a thief in the night…but ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.” You see, God is distinguishing between those “in the light” and those “in the darkness,” the “wheat” and the “tares”: the truly saved and those who are not saved.
Christ gives us the example and He puts it right in the context of no one knowing the day or hour and then He says, “Now look at Noah and look at the days leading up to the flood. Nobody knew. It came on them unexpectedly, except for Noah and his family.” Except for Noah and his family, because God had told him a hundred and twenty years prior so that he could begin building the ark. Then the Lord came to him seven days before the actual flood and told him precisely the year, the month, and the day: “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month,” the flood came.
This shows us that we had better not be too quick to point to a verse that says, “No one knows the day or hour,” and then feel that this dismisses all the information that we are finding today. It does not. It supports it. It supports exactly what we thought, that “the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” It supports the truth that God will give His people discernment concerning “time and judgment.” This is exactly what He is doing, as He said in Daniel, “none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.”
Going back to Genesis 7, we know that the historical week, or the seven days that God gave Noah, also relates to the time pattern of seven thousand years as 2 Peter 3 tells us. From 4990 B.C. until 2011 A.D. is that seven-thousandth year, as “one day is…as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,” but we are not going to look at that today. Let us continue reading in Genesis 7. Genesis 7:5-10:
And Noah did according unto all that JEHOVAH commanded him. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
So the week passed, just like whatever time we have left right now will certainly pass. They will pass just like that. God said it and then the seven days were over. Well, shortly, seven thousand years will be over and the Lord will bring to pass exactly what He has told us in the Bible, which is the day of the rapture and the resurrection to life for His people who will then be taken out of the world and then He will bring the five months of torment upon all of the unsaved who remain.
There is not much time left. There is not much time left for dealing with God in the matter of salvation; that is, going to Him, beseeching Him for our own salvation or maybe for others whom we care about and whom we love. Actually, the Bible instructs us to love our neighbor and our fellowman, so this has to be everyone whom we come into contact with. We would desire that they do become saved.
Now, Genesis 7:7 is significant because it tells us:
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
The flood occurred on the same day that Noah and his family found refuge. It was simultaneous, just like we understand the rapture of God’s people to be simultaneous. The rapture will begin the five-month period and “the day of the LORD’S wrath.”
Here in Genesis 7, God is fulfilling His Word once again. This is because if you look at Genesis 6:18, when God was giving Noah instructions on building the ark, which we would think would have been one hundred and twenty years earlier, He said:
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
The Lord told him beforehand whom He was going to deliver, who was going to go into the ark with him. The Lord had shown him this one hundred and twenty years prior.
Of course, we can see God’s election. The Lord has already predestinated whom He intends to save from “before the foundation of the world,” as Christ has already paid for the sins of His elect people. Now it is just a matter of the history of the world’s time elapsing and the last generation, which is us, to be fulfilled. Then God will save that “great multitude” and He will bring each and every one of His elect into Heaven through the deliverance that the Lord Jesus has provided for them.
This is the only reason why the world is continuing right now and that the “day of salvation” is possible. This is because the Lord is going to save everyone whom He has named in the “Lamb’s book of life,” just like God told Noah when He indicated eight souls.
I said earlier that Noah was a “preacher of righteousness,” and yet God told him, “You are going into the ark, your wife, your sons and their wives.” He did not name anyone else and no one else went into the ark, just like the Lord has told us that His elect will enter into Heaven. We do not know who they are and so we share the Gospel with everyone.
It was the same with Noah. Even though the Lord had told him that his family would be delivered, he was still preaching the Gospel. He was still a “preacher of righteousness” to the world of his day because the Lord did not say that it was only the people whom He indicated. Therefore, Noah would have continued to witness to others, hoping that maybe there would be someone else whom God might save. Yet the Lord fulfilled His Word exactly in bringing these people into the ark.
Then in Genesis 7:11, it says:
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Who knows why May 21st, 2011 is so significant? What day is this in the Hebrew or Biblical calendar? It is the seventeenth day of the second month of the Biblical calendar.
Think about this: “one day is…as a thousand years.” If we go from the flood, seven thousand years lands on 2011, which happens to be the 23rd year of the Great Tribulation.
No one tried to make this fit, because we had been understanding this for some years prior to even recognizing the time path in Genesis 7. Yet people began studying and wondering, “Well, what day will the Great Tribulation come to an end?” We knew that it would have to be May 21st because that is an even 23 years. It is the 8400th day and the number 84 has everything to do with Great Tribulation.
So it had to end there, but there was the Feast of Tabernacles that also had to be fulfilled because it was the third Feast where the Lord required all males to go to Jerusalem. We knew that the Lord had fulfilled the Feast of Passover with Christ being the Passover Lamb. He had fulfilled Pentecost in Acts 2 as “Pentecost was fully come”; this pointed to the sending out of the Gospel to bring in the firstfruits, which were all those saved during the church age. But the third Feast was Tabernacles or Ingathering and there had been no fulfillment.
So believers were looking at the date in October and realizing, “Well, how can this work? How can the Great Tribulation end on May 21, 2011 and that final Feast not find fulfillment?”
Then there was a correction made when we understood that the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles was an eighth day that the Lord had provided for travel. This nudged October 20 over to the 21st. Eventually we could see that May 21 to October 21 was a period of five months. Five months.
If we had gone to the Bible to study five months and not found anything, then it would have meant nothing, but there is five months spoken of in the Bible. Coincidentally, it is right in Genesis 7. Keeping in mind that the Lord had said, “one day is…as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,” we read in the last verse, Genesis 7:24:
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
This is a period of five months. Five months. Then Revelation 9 spoke of five months of torment and this torment, as we read the Bible, came after the door was shut. And if we read Luke 13 or Matthew 25, there is “weeping and gnashing of teeth” once the door is shut. And May 21, 2011 is the equivalent date to Genesis 7:16, which says:
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and JEHOVAH shut him in.
This is the day. May 21, 2011 is the day when the Lord will shut the door and Christ is “the door.” He is the only way of entering into Heaven. He is the door, the entrance, the portal, the opening, the narrow gate, as the Bible speaks of this in many ways. It is only through Him, “none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” It is only through Jesus.
Let us move on to verse 17, Genesis 7:17-20:
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Then verse 24, Genesis 7:24:
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
What stands out in these verses that we just read? What stands out? “The waters prevailed.” At first, the ark was lifted up. The waters caused the ark to go up. It was taken up, which reminds us of the rapture.
The Lord is describing what is going to happen on May 21, 2011 because this is the day when the door is shut and this is the day when He begins to pour out His wrath—it is the very same day—and the same water here in Genesis 7 that lifts up the ark is the water that is suppressing everything else in the world, pushing it down.
This is why we have the fossils of the dinosaurs that we find today. This is because of the tremendous pressure that was put upon them, as there would have been great mudslides and the animals would have been caught in the deluge that came on all the world.
There was no safe place. There was nowhere to run because “all the high hills…and the mountains were covered.” The word “hills” is the word “mountains,” so “all the high [mountains]…and the mountains were covered.”
God had brought His waters upon the earth and the waters accomplished two purposes: they lifted up the ark and they put down man. They put down the whole world that had rebelled against God, that world that did “only evil continually.”
The world of Noah’s day doing “only evil continually,” we do not know anything about this in our world do we? That is a joke. That is a joke because that was one or two million people who were sinning constantly, but imagine six billion, eight hundred million.
I looked at Wikipedia and as of May 31st, 2009 [note: the speaker inadvertently said “2011” here when he intended to say “2009”], there are six billion, seven hundred and ninety-two million people on the earth. We are almost a month past that, so it is probably six billion, eight hundred million people. We are getting close to the number seven billion. More than likely in 2011, the seven-thousandth year from the flood, the world will reach that number of seven billion people and God will take out that little remnant. It is a “great multitude,” probably 200 hundred million, but it is going to leave huge numbers of people behind. Billions of people will probably even survive the earthquake of May 21st and will have to live some portion of that five-month period here on earth.
Well, you see, the emphasis here is that the “waters prevailed.” I wrote down a few verses, so let us go to Exodus 17 and read just one verse. Exodus 17:11:
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Let us also go to Psalm 12:3-4:
JEHOVAH shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
One more verse. Isaiah 42:13:
JEHOVAH shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
There are other verses, too, that speak of prevailing with a mighty hand or prevailing with great strength. “Prevail” is a word that really indicates “victory” and “triumph.” It is the Lord’s triumph against His enemies, against all the rebels who dare rebel against the great King of Heaven: little, tiny, finite man who dares to shake his hand at “the King of kings, and Lord of lords” and thinks that he can get away with it and thinks that his life is his own and that he has no obligation to obey or to serve the Creator. But God is saying, “No so; not so.” His Word will prevail.
Notice that I said “Word,” but it was the waters that prevailed. “The waters prevailed…upon the earth.” Yes, but what does “water” represent in the Bible? “Water” represents God’s Word. For instance, let us go to Habakkuk 2:14:
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of JEHOVAH, as the waters cover the sea.
This is the knowledge of God, which only comes through the Word of God. At this time, we are sharing information with people in every way possible. God’s people are going to be even more imaginative, even more desirous to get this Word out. People are having their vans designed with information about May 21, 2011 and they are riding around town. People are putting up billboards.
Keep in mind that God does not need much of His Word to save and a billboard is an excellent tool for sharing information. This is why there is such a big advertising business in the world; they realize that advertising works. This is in the business world and we do not want to get into that, but we do want to advertise the information that May 21 is going to be the rapture. Tracts are going out into the world and there is word-of-mouth on the Internet. It is spreading.
Daniel 12:4 speaks of the Word being sealed “to the time of the end” and then he says “knowledge shall be increased.” It is true that this has to do with an understanding of God’s people, as the Lord gives us the ability to understand end-time things, but I think that it also relates to this verse in Habakkuk: “The knowledge of the glory of JEHOVAH” is going to cover the earth “as the waters cover the sea.”
The Word is going to get out to all the world, to all of the world over the time that we have left. It will go into every country and every city and all of the people of the earth are going to hear. The Word of the Lord is declaring this.
When May 21, 2011 comes, God takes up His people out of the world—there will be a worldwide earthquake and the resurrection of His people—and everyone will know. Everyone will know that what they have been hearing was the truth. The Word of God was true and faithful. The Word of God was proven right. The Word of God is then glorified during that five-month period and this is what is in view with the waters covering the earth.
If we go to 1 Peter 3, it speaks of Christ preaching to “spirits in prison” during the days prior to the flood. Spiritually, it is saying that God preached to the unsaved who are in a spiritual dungeon of their own making through their sin, as well as being captives of Satan. Christ preached through Noah, as he was “a preacher of righteousness.” Then it says in 1 Peter 3:20:
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
They were “saved by water,” because it is the Word of God. This is typifying the Word of God. The water lifted them up. It delivered those in the ark at the same time that it destroyed the rest; it condemned the rest of the world.
Look at verse 21, 1 Peter 3:21:
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us…
The figure of baptism is the washing of water. As it says in Ephesians 5:26, it is “the washing of water by the word.”
So God is likening the flood to His Word, to His Gospel. His Gospel has the power to save and the power to condemn and destroy.
Or go to Revelation 12:15, as this is describing Satan’s attempt to destroy the people of God. I will read verse 14 into 15. Revelation 12:14-15:
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place…
And she represents the believers.
…where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
“Water as a flood” is what? When Satan comes as “an angel of light,” he comes looking like Christ and developing false gospels that are false teachings. It is using the Word of God in a wrong way. He throws that out there in church after church after church in order to trap and carry away the ungodly. His hope is to finally destroy one of God’s elect, but this cannot happen and it will never happen. Yet here we see that the “water as a flood” does relate to the Word of God; it relates to the Bible.
Let us go back to Genesis 7:19-20:
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills…
Again, “hills” are “mountains.”
…that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Why does God make a point of telling us this? He wants us to know that the whole world was flooded, that the flood was so great that everything in the world was covered. If you cover the mountain that is way up there and the water is fifteen cubits above the mountain peak, then you have covered everything else and the whole earth is covered.
But the high hills and the mountains also represent something in the Bible. They represent the Kingdom of God. It could be the eternal kingdom, as the Lord speaks of the “holy hill of Zion” and uses language to describe coming to His mountain, which relates to salvation, but there are also verses that tie in with the corporate churches and congregations.
For instance, let us go to 1 Kings 16:24 where it says:
And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
And the word “hill” is the same Hebrew word as “mountain.” It is number 2022 in Strong’s.
So Samaria was built on a mountain; it was built on a hill, and look at what the Lord says in Amos 6:1:
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria…
Are some people trusting in a mountain? They are trusting in what that mountain represents today, which is the church; it is the churches and congregations. The churches and their leaders are being trusted.
Let us say that there is a poor soul who is already in trouble because he is in the church when God has finished using the churches and congregations and anyone who remains in the church on the last day will be destroyed, but there is a poor soul who somehow hears the information that the rapture is coming. He goes to his pastor and his pastor says, “Do not worry about it. The source that you are hearing this from, I could tell you a lot about how wacky they are.” Then the pastor says, “Remember, the Bible says, ‘no man knows the day or hour.’” So this member of the church pauses and thinks, “Yes, the Bible does say that no man knows the day or our. You know what? I do not have anything to worry about. I am going to listen to my pastor and I am going to listen to my church. I am just not going to bother with checking this out any further.”
Well, he trusted in his pastor and he trusted in his church and on that day of May 21 when the Word of God prevails and the Lord makes it clear that, yes, this was coming from Him, that these things were coming out of the Bible—just as much as the message that God gave Jonah to give to the Ninevites came from God Himself—then there is going to be a situation like we read in Isaiah 2:10-17, which says:
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of JEHOVAH, and for the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and JEHOVAH alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of JEHOVAH of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and JEHOVAH alone shall be exalted in that day.
This is the “day of the LORD”: May 21, 2011. You see, God is bringing everyone who exalted themselves down, just like the waters suppressed everyone in the world. It brought them low and the Word of the Lord prevailed. The Word of the Lord was glorified and lifted up.
We also find this language in Revelation 6, which we know deals with the five-month period because it speaks of “the sun became black…the moon became as blood… the stars of heaven fell,” which Matthew 24:29 tells us happens “immediately after the tribulation.” Then it says in Revelation 6:14-17:
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
You see, the Lord is telling us that the people of the world are going to run to the churches and they are going to desperately seek spiritual help, they are going to desperately seek some answer for what has happened and a covering for themselves in that awful day, and yet there is no covering. There is no hope; there is no salvation possible.
It is only now; it is only at this time and for a short while from now that God has the door to the ark opened, we could say, as the ark represents Christ and there is only safety and refuge in Him. It is at this time that a person can experience God’s grace and mercy and not at any other time (after May 21, 2011).
Let us go back to Genesis 7:20 for one last thing:
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
And 15 is made up of two numbers: 3 x 5. It is God’s purpose that the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed and will bring His people into Heaven. At the same time, those whom Christ did not atone for their sins, those who did not have a Saviour, will be destroyed after the five-month period. Actually, during that five months, they are going to experience the terrible anger and wrath of God for as long as they live during that period. Then the Lord’s salvation plan will be completed and finished, and it is His purpose that all of these things are going to take place. His Word will then be glorified.
Let us stop here.