Given the various governments established today that are entrenched in power throughout the world, it is, indeed, difficult to image them all swept aside as they are forced to fold. Kings and presidents, dictators, warlords, prime ministers, all existing heads of all existing states, in excess of two hundred governmental entities will come to an abrupt end. None shall be able to stand against the long-absent but returned King of Kings and Lord of Lords. All their mighty armaments of war, their nuclear devices, their high-tech sophisticated weaponry will come to naught when confronted with the One who has but to speak to subdue them all. And, when He is installed upon His holy mount, they will all appear before Him who is to be their ultimate Judge. There will be no panels, tribunals, or the like… only this one supreme Potentate. Nothing can escape His scrutinizing and discerning eye.
Matthew spells it out in the 25th chapter of his gospel, “When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: and before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.” Matthew 25 text continues to describe the final disposition of the nations and their people, whom the righteous Judge sentences. Other passages correlating to this magnificent event can be cited at Isaiah 9 and 11, Jeremiah 23, Ezekiel 37, Daniel 7, Hosea 3, Micah 4. Add to these the testimony of the psalmist in the 50th, the 77th, and the 96th, culminating in the finality described in Revelation 19 and 20.
It all sounds so very improbable, perhaps impossible, maybe to some as completely fanciful. We can understand the reluctance or even the refusal of the world to place any credence in these end-time apocalyptic events. They do not fit our present order. They do not fit the past order. They do not fit any order. They are, in many ways, simply unfathomable, yet, we have the sure word of prophecy as to the certainty of their coming to pass. Be reminded, the most compelling reason for asserting the future coming and judgment of Jesus Christ is the undisputed historicity of His first coming and serving as God’s sacrificial Lamb. This all loudly proclaims the biblical assertion that history is going somewhere. It is not circular but linear. There is an end game. There is a point to which all of humanity is progressing, and this is that point: Jesus Christ is coming again. “And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which was the Book of Life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the book, according to their works.” Revelation 20 is there for your reading.
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