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Sound the Alarm
Is God about to do something
extraordinary? We should be pondering
this question if we desire to be a part
of the prophetic fulfillment of the
times before the Second Coming of
Christ—the Day of the Lord. As the
prophet Joel declares, we are to sound
the alarm and warn all that the Day of
the Lord is at hand. Now is the time to
make ourselves ready as His instruments
of righteousness.
Joel 2:1-2 Blow
the trumpet in Zion and sound the alarm
in My holy mountain! Let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble; for the
day of the Lord is coming, for it is at
hand: 2 A day of darkness and
gloominess, a day of clouds and thick
darkness, like the morning clouds spread
over the mountains.
In Peter’s
great sermon following the healing of
the lame man at Solomon’s Porch in the
book Acts, he says Jesus won’t return
until the restoration of all things
happens, and everything spoken by the
mouth of the prophets is fulfilled. The
above passage is a prophetic statement
concerning the times we are entering.
We are at a point in time when our
worldly climate demands we make
ourselves ready. The trumpet has begun
to sound the alarm warning the
inhabitants of our world to get prepared
for what God is about to do. We are
entering into a season of urgency,
wherein we must first make sure we
clothe ourselves in the Lord Jesus
Christ by putting on our wedding
garments.
Will we be among those
who have prepared ourselves for the
great wedding day, or will we be caught
unaware suddenly when the day comes on
us? Preparing ourselves for how to be
used in this season is an important
question we should all be pondering.
Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and
rejoice and give Him glory, for the
marriage of the Lamb has come, and her
wife has made herself ready.
Romans 13:13-14 Let us walk properly, as
in the day, not in revelry and
drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust,
not in strife and envy. 14 But put on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no
provision for the flesh, to fulfill its
lusts.
The trumpet sound
emanating from the throne of God is a
wake-up call for the Church. We must
wake up from our slumber and realize the
alarm is sounding. We have a grave
responsibility to be watchmen on the
walls to warn the world, our friends,
and loved ones of the impending disaster
that is coming on all the inhabitants of
the world, lest their blood is upon us.
We must open our hearts and spirits to
the alarm sounding throughout the
world's landscapes and allow the Holy
Spirit to speak in a way we understand.
As the prophet Ezekiel warns us,
God made us security guards for His
house. We are to warn the world's
inhabitants to save them from their
wickedness. He says their blood will be
upon us if we fail to do so. It is
evident;
Paul was well versed in the words of
Ezekiel. When speaking to the leaders of
the Ephesus church, he said, “I am
innocent of the blood of all men.”
During the whole of Paul’s ministry, he
was motivated to sound the alarm and
boldly proclaim the gospel to everyone
he met. How motivated are we to sound
the alarm to those we meet and know?
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