The King is Calling, Crushing and Coming

You may not recall a sadder Saturday since the one between the cross and the tomb.

Yesterday, Good Friday, the day death thought it’d won, reports the highest daily death toll in our country for COVID-19 at 2,035.

The last highest daily death toll was a few days earlier, around Passover. You remember, Passover, that’s when death struck the homes of those not covered by the blood of the Passover Lamb.

Is death making a statement? striking back, lashing out, in this time of sorrow, this time of fear, this time of need?

The timing can’t be denied.

There are arguments about the origin, the cause and the cure; but, no one can deny the timing.

God, lives outside of time. He doesn’t operate by clock or calendar; but in the fullness of time.  He does what He does, when the time is right.

The primary way God speaks to us, is through His Word. For those who watch and listen, He reveals what He’s doing. He allows us to see, coincidence and Providence, meet. When situations line up in such a way that there’s no explanation other than Divine orchestration. It may be simple things. So simple in fact that if not watching, listening, they could easily be missed. For example, a simple girl and boy having a baby, in a manger, because there was no room for them in the Inn.

What’s happening in the time in which we live is beyond mere coincidence; deeper than a conspiracy theory. Just as John the Baptist’s voice, “REPENT!” echoed in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord just before Jesus stepped onto the scene. Once again, His Voice is shaking the earth as it echoes through the wilderness of every heart on earth, “REPENT!” In Bible language that’s also translated: “WASH YOUR HANDS!”

As we sit here this sad Saturday, between the cross and the tomb, consider that Jesus was gone for two days. Two days, but then, He returned, He rose. Did you know we’re at the very threshold of His being gone for two days? Two thousand years to the day and minute is quickly approaching.  

The parallels are unprecedented. The events are unparalleled. The timing, undeniable.

It appears, death has come with great wrath, knowing his days are numbered.  

However, for those who know that God is good and that it’s not His will that any perish, but all come to repentance, we fear not. We see the serpent writhing as God is crushing his head. We hear our Father’s Voice calling with great love and patience, sending out one last shout, one last trump, “Get ready your King is coming.”

 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

The Day of the Lord

 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 2 Peter 3:8-10

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.  Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time. Revelation 12:9-12