I'm Getting My Rest - I Think

     I was just reading an article in the paper about how the snowplow operators were so tired and run down after working grueling hours plowing, re-plowing and re-plowing again several back roads in their battle against “mother nature”. The Lord showed me something while I was reading. He said, “This is how it will be during the tribulation period after I take my church back with me during the rapture. Many people will seek and end to the tribulation but they won’t find it. Many people will seek rest from all of the sheer chaos that’s going to happen here on earth after I remove My Spirit from the earth. But they won’t be able to rest, they won’t be able to close their eyes for fear of another tragedy coming.”


     We need to understand that judgment is not ours to do but rest assured judgment is coming to the earth eventually and it will come from God. This will be the result of all of the times we refused to believe God or believe that He sent His Son to this earth for us to receive Him so we may be rescued from the coming destruction. During the first half of the tribulation period many will seek death but they won’t find it. Revelations 9:1-6 (NIV) says, “The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them”.

     Just like those snowplow workers who battled a relentless foe (mother nature), so it will be for those during the tribulation period. But there will be one big difference. The snowplow workers eventually found rest when the storm ended. During the tribulation period, the storm won’t end. There will be a brief time of peace for those who survived the first half when the anti-christ shows himself. But eventually the final judgment will come and the Lord’s armies will rise up and cast all into the lake of fire and brimstone. I’m not making this up. It’s in the Bible. And if we’re going to believe the bible, then we have to believe ALL OF IT. Revelations 20:11-15 (NIV) says, “Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire”.

     Don’t wait until the storm comes. By then it will be too late. God doesn’t want to lose any of His children. He said in His word, “Your Father in heaven feels the same way. He doesn't want to lose even one of these simple believers”. (Matthew 18:14 MSG)

Choose Jesus today, because unlike the snowplow operators, there will be no rest when the storm comes.

God bless you!
Robert T Sells
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