For Everything There is a Season
We live at the confluence of two ages, the old called “The Last Days” and the new called “The Day of the LORD.” The Last Days lasted for two days, that is, two Biblical days of one thousand years each. The Day of the LORD lasts for one day, the millennial 1000 years prophesied in Scripture. This means that the Day of the LORD is not just one literal 24 hour day. We live at the beginning of this Day and, just as God began all seven of his creation days with evening, so this Day begins with darkness and smoke.
The Day did not arrive as most of us expected. We were not “raptured” into a glorious heavenly kingdom before it began. Some say that we are now into the second year of seven years of famine; they may be right. It may well be we will see a full seven years of gathering blackness before the light finally begins to dawn. I hold out hope that the “rapture,” what I call the glorification of the sons of God, will occur sometime during these dark years. I believe this must occur else no light can ever come.
Two thousand years have proven that the Church, those who believed upon Jesus the Christ during the last days (the last two thousand years), could not bring God’s light to the earth. All organizations and institutions fell into sin and debauchery during these years. The once Christian West now stands naked, destitute of all semblance of truth and morality. She no longer possesses the will to survive and Islam stands at her doorstep ready to devour her. Inside her men seek to further pollute and defile her. No, no hope remains that Christianity can save the world. She herself rides the beast that rules it. No “revival” can change this. God must, and will, do something new in the earth.
Jesus died and rose again so many years ago that now his memory is becoming myth. For years now we have heard Christ’s name used in vain constantly and have had to endure blasphemous artwork. But one can only mock and despise what one has no respect for. Those who abuse Jesus and his name simply do not believe in Jesus the Christ, God in the flesh. Why not? Because he has become myth. And the further removed from the date of his death we get, the stronger the myth becomes.
So, the time has come for a new season, a new day, a day when some (the glorified sons of God) will see Christ face to face and will begin to rule in his kingdom on earth.