- A Supernatural Transfer
This time, there will be no question in people’s minds. When God shakes loose the world from Satan’s control, shakes it loose from the rational scientists and the expedient politicians, shakes it loose from the pleasure lovers, He will turn it over to the One to whom it belongs—Jesus Christ! And He will do this in such a way that it will say to everyone on the earth: “This is a supernatural manifestation! This is the God of the entire universe speaking!” When God is finally ready to refine and restore the earth, everyone in heaven and on earth and in hell will know that no human laboratory could compound the fire that will be poured out on the earth. God has promised that He will not hide His wrath forever. He is prepared to speak. And when He does, men will know that Oak Ridge scientists or Russian technologists could not produce these woes. But before we come to God’s judgments on our world, I need to make an important observation concerning the prayers of the people of God. Frequently I have heard Christians admit, “I am discouraged. I have prayed and prayed—and nothing has happened!”
John sees an angel with a golden censer standing at the heavenly altar. He was given “much incense,” which he offered” with the prayers of all the saints” on the golden altar before the heavenly throne (Revelation 8:3). And “the smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel’s hand.”
It is right and proper that we who are the people of God should be giving ourselves to prayer. In Matthew 6:9-10, we read that Jesus taught His disciples to pray: Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Ever since, the believing saints of God have been praying the disciples’ prayer: “Your kingdom come.” That prayer cannot be answered— God’s kingdom cannot come on earth—until God has shaken loose the usurpers who hold this world in their power and control. But in God’s time the world will be restored to Jesus Christ who created it and bought it back with His own precious blood.