Good Morning Friends,
The movie “Armageddon” came out a number of
years ago and told the story of a giant meteorite hurtling toward earth. When
it hit, it would be a global killer. All life on earth would perish.
Another movie came out a few years ago that
told the story of a great ice age that blanketed the earth and wiped out most
of mankind.
“I Am Legend” came out a few years ago and
its story was of a deadly virus that nearly decimated mankind.
Since the nuclear age began during World War
II there has been the threat of nuclear holocaust. In a battle between
superpowers that escalated beyond control it was possible that the entire world
would be destroyed by a nuclear blast and its residual effects.
How will the world end? Will it end by man’s
destructive power? Will end by a natural disaster that we cannot stop? Will a
virus kill all mankind?
We can answer that question definitively. After
God destroyed the world by the flood, Noah came out of the ark and built an
altar to worship God and to thank Him for preserving him and his family.
“Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and
taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt
offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, ‘Never
again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of
his heart is evil from childhood. And
never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the
earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and
night will never cease.’” (Genesis 8:20-22)
That is a promise from God. Life on earth
will never again be destroyed like it was in the flood. That’s a promise you
can count on. Nuclear holocaust will not destroy man. A meteor will never hit
the earth as a global killer. A virus will not wipe out mankind. An ice age
will not blanket the earth. Life will go on until God brings it to an end with
Jesus’ Second Coming.
That’s the promise of God. It is not that
mankind will never again deserve to be wiped from the face of the earth.
Rather, it is the promise of God’s grace. God will be patient toward mankind until
He is ready to usher in the eternal age.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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