Mystery of the Ages.PDF - Blow the Trumpet

first six thousand years. God purposed that man must lean his lesson, and comevoluntarily to accept God's way and character.For nearly six thousand years mankind has been writing that lesson. But even atthis late hour he has not yet learned it. He has not yet given up on his own self-centeredway and come to accept God's way to his ultimate happiness. God is letting the law ofcause and effect take full toll. Man's society, deceived and misled by Satan, has not evenyet brought man to admit failure of his course of self-sufficiency.Today man's world is reeling on its last legs. Wars, violence, destruction,terrorism engulf the entire world. Half the world exists in ignorance, illiteracy, poverty,living in filth and squalor. The developed half is sick with ill health, disease, mentalstress, fear, frustration, wracked with crime, alcoholism, drug abuse, perverted andmisused sex, broken homes, hopelessness in frustration.Mankind is nearing the end of his rope. But even now, God will not intervene tosave this defiant humanity from itself until man is finally brought to the point where ifGod delayed longer in intervention, man would annihilate himself. God will not interveneand usher in the next world under the kingdom of God until the remnant of mankind hasbeen brought to fully realize human inability to solve problems or bring worldwide peacein happiness and joy. Man must be brought to realize his helplessness and futility withoutGod.At last the weapons of mass destruction have been invented and produced that canerase all life from this planet earth. In these last days of mankind's last gasping ofbreath, Jesus foretold how it would all end. After Jesus' gospel had been suppressed,replaced with a false gospel of men about a different Jesus, he said, "This gospel of thekingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shallthe end [of this world] come."This gospel now has been preached into every nation. During its 50 years ofproclamation, nuclear energy has developed with capacity for the first time in history todestroy every human alive on earth. Next, Jesus foretold the great tribulation--a time oftrouble so great that, unless God does intervene, no human being would be saved alive.But, for the sake of his Church, God will intervene supernaturally before total destructionof humanity. Mankind will be brought to acknowledge human insufficiency without God.Immediately after, Christ will come in the clouds in supreme power and glory to unseatSatan, and start God's own new civilization toward utopia (Matt. 24:14, 31-41).These are the very last days of Satan's evil world. God's utopian civilization willbe started with the present generation.CHAPTER V