- Confirmed By Prophets And Apostles

Students of the Bible are aware that the Old Testament prophets and the writing apostles of New Testament times foresaw and proclaimed God’s coming day of judgment—the consummate settling of accounts between the sovereign God and His rebellious and sinful creation.

Throughout the centuries, saints whom God has touched with the heavenly fire from His altar have woven this concept of accountability and judgment into a discernible tapestry. In our day, we have seen the vision dimly, and we can only confess that we do not understand it all. I have said it before. Let us not get involved in trying to decipher all the minute details of God’s plans. The great central truth is what matters: When God gets enough of this world’s sin and violence and rebellion, He will do something about it!

God intends to restore the unity of His creation. He will sort out good from bad. He will halt the infection of evil. He will balance the scales of justice.

Jesus Christ revealed to John the broad outline of God’s wrathful judgment. We sense a progression in the breaking of the seals, in the sounding of the trumpets, in the pouring out of the vials, in the appearance of the four horsemen. We do not need to know the details. God has said He will use every means to shake loose the rebellious forces that have laid claim to His earth.

How desperately we would like to believe that in the face of such worldwide judgments, all lost men and women will cry out to God, “We have been wrong! We repent! We confess our evil deeds! We want to join those whose faith and trust is in God!”

I repeat: We would like to believe that judgment will bring unbelievers to God. But such will not be the case. “The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent” (Revelation 9:20).