Isaiah
29:18
18 And in that day [yowm] shall the deaf [cheresh]
hear [shama`] the words [dabar] of the book [cepher], and
the eyes [`ayin] of the blind [`ivver] shall see [ra'ah] out of
obscurity ['ophel], and out of darkness [choshek]. KJV-Interlinear
18 In that day the deaf shall
hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the
blind shall see. ESV
Before people see and hear and understand, they will come
under tremendous punishments and sufferings.
Often times people are so stubborn and so self-absorbed that the only
way to get their attention is to hit them hard.
And that is what we have and will have in these end times.
People do not want to take the time or make the effort
in digging out the truth from Bible doctrine.
They expect someone else to do it for them, or they see no need for
doing anything themselves. And this is
the epitome of spiritual laziness.
Even the threat of destruction brings comments in
words, but no real or genuine change in attitude.
When Jesus first came into this world, the Jews were
expecting a dynamic Messiah, one who would ride up on a stallion, carrying a
flaming sword and cut down the Romans with a single blow. Then set up His
kingdom with them in His government, of course.
But that was not so.
When Jesus arrived on the scene, no one saw the
fulfillment of prophecies, from the star, or the change of government to Roman
rule, to the virgin birth, to the innumerable miracles He performed, and so
forth.
After those days, centuries have passed, and still,
people do not see their role in history from 2000 years ago, to today’s extreme
technology changes. Most of which have occurred in just the last few decades
versus the thousands of years of human history where knowledge remained at a
virtual standstill by comparison.
And still the attitude of humanity has remained
unchanged in the face of many things that are going on in history. History just seems to not have any impact on
human understanding. And worse than
that, people just do not seem to care, except superficially.
But time keeps moving forward. The end times will give way to the final
days, and then all hell will break loose on planet earth.
We are in the end times now. The end times is defined as our
dispensation. From the comments of John
and Jesus, we are in the end times. We
have been in the end times for well over 1900 years now and with each passing
day, our times are getting closer to the completion of our era.
With the Rapture, the end times will end, and the
final days will begin. The final days,
is of course the final seven years of the Tribulation.
Our era is the preparation for the Tribulation. When
our dispensation ends, everything will be in place for the events of the
Tribulation.
This includes a world full of spiritually negative
people. With the removal of all
Christians at the Rapture, who are the preservative of the world, for the time
being, then all deterioration of the world will rapidly begin, and will accelerate
during the Tribulation.
The horrors will be so great, because the stubbornness
of not listening to truth, will be likewise so great.
Both Paul and Jesus stated that the times of the great
changes will not occur until there is a great apostasy, and looking around, we
are certainly getting closer and closer to that attitude around the world.
You need not look too hard, to see evidences stated in
the Bible. But then, other than making
occasional comments, who is really looking anyway?
But once judgment has been completed, then those who
survive, and there will not be many survivors, will hear and see and
understand, probably as never before in all of history.
In the Tribulation there will be great resistance toward
truth, despite great pressures. And yet
in our current day, there is tremendous resistance toward truth, despite a
world that has nothing anywhere near the pressures that will exist in the Tribulation.
