Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Every morning when you log on to Yahoo! or Google, you get a glimpse of what they consider to be the most important news story of the day (or maybe it's the biggest headline in your morning paper). But what does our heavenly Father, the God who says He is "love" (agape), tell us is the great News behind the news? It's the central message of the Book of Revelation: "the everlasting gospel" being proclaimed to "every nation, tribe, tongue, and people" (14:6, 7). The purpose of this most highly acclaimed activity is to prepare people for the most climactic event of all history--the second coming of Jesus (vss. 15, 16).
Is this message getting through to the people of the world, or is it being buried under an overwhelming mass of confusion published by the media, or even by a similar mass of confusion known as "organized religion"?
The answer does not depend on mere human observation, for Jesus said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation" (Luke 17:20). In His day, what served as "the media" tried to ignore the greatest News of all time, but the Holy Spirit was working quietly, surely, in what Jesus was doing. So today, the "everlasting gospel" proclaimed by those three angels of Revelation 14 is getting through in different ways.
The best way to know for sure is to consider the character of God Himself--He is "love" (agape); that is, He will not permit the final, cataclysmic events of earth's history ("the seven last plagues" of Revelation 16) to come until people have had a reasonable chance to prepare. And that means, they must hear the message of Good News, of His "much more abounding grace." You can't believe that "God is love" (agape) if you think He has gone to sleep. You must recognize that every angel in heaven is intensely active, moving upon the hearts of human beings everywhere.
God's "office" in heaven is the central command post of the vast worldwide war between Christ and Satan, as real as the war between them when Jesus was here on earth 2000 years ago. It will not be recognized "with observation," but it's the most newsworthy event happening today. Read about it in Revelation 14-19; let the same Holy Spirit that inspired the Book speak to your heart in its pages.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: March 20, 2005.
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