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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Anyone who watched the president’s bruising (and being bruised) post-election press conference can think of the words of Jesus: “on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity” (Luke 21:25). The plural (“nations”) can include “the coalition.”

 

A “blue House” will find the Iraq tragedy as perplexing as it has been for the “red.” Jesus said that people’s hearts will be “failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth” (vs. 26). His “fear” embraces more than our modern terrorism; now there is the deeper fear of dictatorship in the land that once prided itself on its love of liberty in law, under a precious Constitution that terror-induced fear would vitiate.

 

What could metamorphose this lamb-like, liberty-loving second “beast” of Revelation 13 into a fearsome “dragon” that reproduces the terrible tyranny of the Dark Ages (vss. 14-17)? The next chapter of Revelation answers:

 

(a) Just after the 1260 years of papal oppression finally end in 1798, a new interest in Bible truth emerges. One small example: the unquestioned love of Christ that motivated the early Church of England missionaries to Uganda. Theirs was genuine spiritual life.

 

(b) Then comes the spiritual disaster of the fall of “Babylon” (14:8), the “fall” primarily of Protestantism (“the church of Sardis”) which had “a name that you are alive but you are dead” (Rev. 3:2). The “fall” was the ceasing of Protestantism to protest, in the rejection of the “everlasting gospel” of the first angel’s “advent message” of 14:6, 7.

 

(c) The abandonment of “the everlasting gospel” is the root problem. The horror of “9/11” signals the loss of the invulnerability we had always thought our two oceans provide us. The “fear” Jesus spoke of is now becoming intense.

 

But “fear” or terror is not an option for a child of God; “we will not fear,” says the inspired psalm (46:2). The “will” is significant: you can’t “fear” unless you “will” to do so (“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid,” John 14:27). Whatever time of trouble comes, if we understand that “everlasting gospel,” we see it as an opportunity to reveal the message to the world. So, what’s to many as fear-inducing is to God’s people a privilege.

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