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Some time ago I decided to have a
glass of warm milk. I put the milk
in a pot and turned on the heat.
Having gone into my study, I forgot
about the milk. Hearing an unusual
sound and going to the kitchen I saw
the milk had boiled over onto the
stove. The problem was not the heat
that caused it to boil over, it was
because I was not watching it! Had
I been watching the milk heating up,
I would have seen the signs of it
about to come to a boil.
Even though God reminded His people
of a lack of bread (Amos. 4:6), they
failed to see it was a judgment of
God due to their sins. Then He
caused a drought and there was no
water, it was not mother nature; He
sent pestilences, but they thought
it was just a happening; He then
let the young men be killed, it was
not because the enemy was stronger
or better equipped, it was the
simmering of God’s anger. Today we
are witnessing the simmering of
God’s anger against man’s sin. Like
Judah, we do not recognize the
happenings of God using nature to
call man to repentance. Alas, no
matter what God did, Judah lived in
disobedience to God until when
judgment was about to fall, Amos
proclaimed, “Prepare to meet thy
God”
(Amos 4:12).
Across the world man is blatantly
rebelling against God’s moral law,
denying His warnings from Sodom and
Gommorah, the flood in which the
unrepentant were killed.
In the Roman epistle, God reveals to
man the process of how His anger is
revealed. It is not as yet by some
catastrophic event. It is by
letting man reject the laws of God
and live proclaiming freedom, when
in reality, God is judging by
letting man reap the consequences of
man’s sin.
The process begins when man
refuses
to bow to God’s perfect authority
and with satanic deception wants his
freedom, freedom that brings man
into the bondage of sin. As sin
increases in its grip over humanity,
humans become more degrading until
God gives them over to a reprobate
mind (Rom. 1:28), that is, a morally
useless mind. The result is
humanity is marked by
unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness, envy, murder, debate,
deceit, malignity, whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without
understanding, covenant breakers,
without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful (Rom.
1:29-31). David, a shepherd boy,
wrote in Psalm 2:3 of humanity
seeking to live without the loving
curtailment of God’s laws.
Man’s freedom today is the slaughter
of babies, freedom to tattoo our
bodies until they are positively
demonic, freedom for men to have
sexual relations with men, and a
woman to be a thing used in base
movies and speech. God informs man
that, in letting man fulfill his
desires, He (God) is at the same
time executing judgment on mankind.
He is giving man up and in time his
conscience is no longer
uncomfortable with sin. It is
accepted and celebrated. Every
earthquake, tornado, flood, or any
other catastrophic happening is the
manifestation of God’s simmering
anger and sinful man does not see
it, nor does He want to see it.
The leaders of this world see the
crisis and proclaim a New World
Order. For years they have been
looking
for a person who will be
the embodiment of that which they
are in themselves. Humanity is
looking for a man who apparently
will be able to bring about a world
of peace, order of financial
equality, zero pollution and
equality for every individual.
God-given distinctions will be
virtually wiped out. The man of sin
will arrive on the scene. He does
not need to be voted into a
position, Hitler never won an
election. Almost imperceptibly he
will come to the fore proclaiming
peace and himself as a great victor
over the problems and upheavals of
the world.
When man deems to have universal
control over every nation and
people, the Lord will come. Even
in the face of the Lord and the
moral absolute of His judgments, man
will not repent, but in paganism
pray to the roads etc to cover them
from the wrath of the Lamb. “And
the heaven departed as a scroll when
it is rolled together and every
mountain and island were moved out
of their places” (Rev. 6:14). The
angry God will vent His righteous
fury on wicked humanity and do so
without mercy.
Wise is the individual who lives
with true priorities, putting God
first.
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