Do you feel the tectonic movement as if something in the undercurrent has switched polarity?  Have relationships changed, has there been introduced a new dialectic that challenges quite soundly the previously untested theories and policies of a history-changing minority?  Why have persecutions come to the United States a place where we overwhelmingly believe in a God that created, oversees and cares what happens within that conception?  Are the challenges and persecutions to be welcomed as they obviously produce character, purification, clarity and solidify faith?  Don’t we wish to be as immoveable as the early church, displaying adherence to faith even in the face of potential loss to property, reputation or life?

What has changed?  We must ask ourselves what has occurred to create such controversy?  What catalyst inspired such inquiry?  Why now, why not twenty years ago or hence?  Is it as palpable to all of you as it is for me?  I feel as if I can almost taste it on the wind, something has changed. The foretold signs are evident in the news, in the coffee houses, newspapers, churches and hearts.  But there is something more which struck me just today and that is a “gut feeling” that things will soon surpass mortal control.  I do not fear because the Lord God is in control of all that was, is and shortly will occur, but it’s as if humans suddenly became supporting cast in a play founded by titans, kings and the unseen hand of immortal agents.  Akin to looking at a digital display on an explosive device, which had previous stood silent only to notice that the timer had indeed started counting down toward zero.  We had best be prepared because our choice, safety and destination are soon to be beyond our control or decision.

I doubt anyone will ask me to explain this because each of us feels the same climate change.  Not just a weather anomaly or phenomena, rather that somehow the stakes had just been raised and things which previously were innocuous had been assigned new value and importance.  Love of a child, mother or wife, dedication to a noble undertaking, renewed concentration on things of Eternal perspective.  We all feel it, it is just that I have an insight through the Holy Spirit to put it into Words.  Prophecy is unfolding, if the scrolls have not been opened then Jesus’ fingers will soon be upon those seals He alone is worthy to loosen.  Have you lived like tomorrow is coming or abandoned all sense to soak up your last days of sunlight, sin and treasure?  Do you feel compelled to face the coming storm with your eyes welcoming the light or are you searching for a dark place to rest in a peace you somehow know will never come?  This world is about to change for all time, it is about to turn the corner toward eternity leaving behind man’s history as faint memory.  The Lord Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, but soon He will rise to come to sit on His Throne as The Rock Eternal on which all our hopes solidly rest.  Praise You Lord in all Your Ways.  Amen.