"The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." (Joel 2:31, NIV)
"The Lord spoke to Job out of the whirlwind," implies to me that the Lord God was putting an end to the longest running debate/speculation in the Bible. Could it be that through the Lord Jesus, Word of the Father, the Godhead was/is saying to not only Job and the other four "theologians," but also the entirety of humanity, "Enough! You do not know of what you speak."
Our text which I read yesterday tells the human race that its life style, its rejection of the Reign of Jesus Christ is coming to an end. The final hours of this age will be marked by what our Lord Jesus tells us, "Immediately after the distress of those days 'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'" There is, however, with most on Planet Earth, and even in many church-goers, the attitude, "Yeah, yeah, yeah-- heard it over and over."
And we will hear it over and over, "until that Day." And, you and I are waiting for what Joel later says, and Peter said on the Day of Pentecost, "And everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord [Jesus] will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors whom the Lord [Jesus] calls." I pray that you and I are of, "the survivors."
"Even so, Come, Lord Jesus." Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
