GOD WILL JUDGE NATIONS

Obadiah 15 “The day is near when I, the LORD, will judge the godless nations!  As you have done to Israel, so it will be done to you.  All your evil deeds will fall back on your own heads.”  NLT

       The more history unfolds, the more attention we need to pay to this warning from the Lord.  Although this warning was addressed to a different people at a different time, I believe it is very relevant to our times.  We read the prophetic Scriptures and we realize that there is indeed coming a day in which all the nations of the earth will be judged according to their godlessness and how they have treated Israel.  It’s not a matter of “if”, it’s a matter of when.

      There is coming a day of justice for all nations.  God is going to come down hard on the world.  He is going to bring the world to her knees.  A day is coming in which every knee will bow before Him and declare that He is Lord, the God of all creation. 

       We cannot change the course of history.  We are moving closer and closer to that day.  Sin is blatant in the public arena.  The sacredness of life is quickly fading away.  People are treating one another cruelly with very little respect or concern.  People are chasing after the world’s offerings and the pleasures of sin.  People are blatantly denying God and that sin even exists.

       However, we may be able to help some.  We need to faithfully and diligent share the Gospel message.  We must pray faithfully and diligently for the harvest field and workers in it.  We must encourage one another and spur one another to greater faithfulness and service.  We must work together instead of majoring on that which divides us.  There are still souls who will be saved.  God is not willing that any of them perish and neither should we be. 

       Time is running out on the world very quickly.  Let us be about the Master’s business while we can.  Today is the day of salvation.  Tomorrow may very well be the Day of Judgment.