Differences.  The way that the world is behaving is misaligned with scripture and the directions of God.  I am sorry that men, collectively have chosen to go astray.  It certainly would be better if everyone was conscious of their own behavior and willingly determined to seek congruence with God’s prescribed Will, but that is not the way things are.  This sadness, depression, mourning is it truly about the world or am I also grieving the Holy Spirit through my own actions or inactions?  After all, my own alignment with scripture is that for which I have any true influence or leverage.  Is my example consistent with God’s Glory?  Am I bringing honor or dishonor to His redemptive Grace?

We see that there are two sides forming, those for God with a measure of repentance and those who are aligning themselves with doubt, mockery and sometimes challenging God’s Sovereign Authority directly.  I do not speak of those in the middle as being a separate group for the Bible is very clear what happens when a man refuses to make up his mind for whatever reason.  There after all are two sides.  God knows every hair on every head that will be included among the redeemed.  They have chosen to have God write His Word upon their hearts and face the coming judgment armed with the security of their passing this plane to eternity.  Many will be led astray, but I also see God’s plan for their redemption born from tribulation.  I will not argue with those who seek to convince or justify their position by producing a better argument than my own.  For even if they were to convince me of the folly of my argument, judgment will still come to each of us, for it is with the Sovereign Word of Almighty God that they tussle.  There is no evidence which may be produced to overturn His Rightful and Promised Judgment, for He is a Righteous and Holy God who cannot void His own promises.

Where will I be found on that great day or rapture, happily looking to the heavens from whence my salvation comes, preparing my heart and mind for His coming or will I be found asleep, unaware, ill-prepared for His Imminent Arrival, as promised.  I could say it is of no consequence, but that would be false for each person mattered enough to God that He came and took up humanity in order to offer His perfect life as sacrifice so that every man, woman or child could be saved.  It mattered enough for God to humble Himself hanging on a tree for the likes of you and me, people who were complicit in the punishment by death of an innocent man to save us from the truth which He spoke.  It mattered enough to God that He would stand the mockery, disbelief and ridicule of a disobedient creation just so that they would have the time to make up their minds and be convinced of their own sin unto repentance.  The short of is that it mattered, to Him, and that is all that matters.

In His will I walk, believe, convince, teach and proclaim the coming judgment and the awesome Good News of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, unto a world that would hear it not.  Praise Jesus, the King.