Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
It was the annual twilight Memorial Day twilight concert on the Mall in Washington, D. C., with the National Symphony Orchestra, where there was sober reflection on the sacrifices and horror of war. Documentaries on World Wars I and II [and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan] renewed the prayer from many an aching heart, "O Lord, please, never again!" We who lived through most of the 20th century have lived in the bloodiest, most cruel century of human history, and yet "we" live in the wealthiest, most godless, pleasure-oriented time since the days of Noah before the flood.
For sure, it was never, and it is never, God's will that the world suffer another horrible world war. Christ "came not to judge the world, but to save it" (see John 12:47). It was never His will that the Holocaust take place. The horrors depicted in the Book of Revelation are not presented as something HE wants to inflict on humanity, but as warnings of what Satan purposes to bring on the world. And God would prepare us and teach us how to escape the hell Satan wants. Revelation would encourage us that we are not his helpless captives; through all the "hail and fire" of the seven trumpets of chapters 8-11 there is the constant ministry of the "angel" with His "golden censor" filled with the "much incense" of Christ's righteousness, that "He should offer it with prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which [is] before the throne" (8:3, 4).
The tornado winds of human passion are represented as being restrained by "four angels" whose mission is to "hold" them that they should not devastate "the earth" until the "angel ascending from the east" can "seal the servants of our God in their foreheads" (7:1-4). But while we pray ever so piously for God to "hold" those tornadoes of human evil, shouldn't we cooperate with Him by proclaiming the Good News of the sealing message? Wherever there is trouble, there is where the reconciling message must be proclaimed. There is nothing Satan hates worse than the pure Gospel; let's not be cowards and let him have his way again!
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: May 29, 1998.
Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
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