I think God is allowing me to have trouble sleeping at night, so He can better use me for whatever purpose He has in mind. I seem to consistently have trouble getting through the early morning hours. It's not that I'm not tired enough to sleep, but that my mind seems to be more rested than the rest of my body. I hate to just lie there in bed, desperately waiting for sleep that is apparently not available, so I usually get up, watch a little T.V., and if that doesn't make me sleepy enough, I frequently think of something to write about in my blog. That usually polishes off a couple of hours, or so, after which I am ready to go back to sleep, just as the rest of the world around me is getting up.
This morning was no different. I couldn't sleep, so I tried desperately to find something interesting on the T.V. That's not easily done at 3:00, or 4:00 in the morning. Weeding through the endless stations of "infomercials", I finally settled on a History Channel tribute to the June 6th, 1944 "D-Day" Normandy Invasion of Nazi-occupied France. After watching several minutes of the show, and listening to the statistics of what the allied invasion force overcame, as well as the concern for what they very well could have faced, but by the Grace of God didn't have to, it became clear to me that this was "the finest hour", not only for the American troops, but for all the allied forces. I am convinced that this generation was no better than our own, but they knew the stakes were so high against them that the only way to defeat the world's most evil empires (both Nazi Germany and Japan) was their own selfless sacrifice on the battlefield. I don't think they were made of "better stuff" than we are, just that they had no choice but to measure up, or perish. Fortunately, enough of them decided to "measure up".
Which brings me to my point for today. What if there was no one to "measure up"; not in America, Britain, Free France, Poland, Australia, New Zealand, India, etc. No one! Bible prophecy talks of a time when there will be a World-wide evil Government that will make Nazi Germany look like pre-school. I think there is enough prophetic evidence to expect that Jesus will have already "Raptured" the Church (world-wide), and there will be no one to resist this evil, except for those who knew of the Gospel before the "Rapture", but did not ask Jesus into their hearts, to save their souls, until it was too late. They are apparently left with no choice but to refuse the Antichrist's "mark of the beast" system, which means they will face slow starvation, or arrest and execution as a consequence. Eventually, when the Lord determines that all who are pre-destined to be "Martyred" in this manner have been executed, He will determine that it is time for His final judgment of the whole earth. Apparently, His judgment will be so complete that He will not need any troops to die on a "D-Day-like" invasion. He will merely speak the Word, and the "Mountains will be brought low, and the valleys will be lifted up", probably like a giant farmer tilling his soil, and guess who He's going to use as fertilizer for the whole earth? That's right, everyone else left on the earth, who thought it was more convenient to accept the Antichrist's system, than to resist. Boy are they in for a big surprise! The sad thing about it is that these same people are probably alive today! They are probably the very people who ridiculed you, and me, when we tried to explain what the Bible prophecies say is soon to happen. It could literally happen at any moment, and we'd be gone, and they'd be left with the most bitter of choices: Stand up to the Antichrist"s system, which will carry a death penalty, with ultimate salvation, or wait comfortably for Jesus' ultimate judgment, and His permanent, eternal damnation! What a difficult choice, but one which will have to be made because when it's too late this time, it will be eternally too late!!!
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