Another Time Like No Other

      In the preceding blog series, we saw how God’s appointed times (chronos) always have corresponding signs (kairos). Each time period in His prophetic plan is unique. Each time period has a specific purpose.
      The majority of Revelation features the last Day, particularly the first 3½ years of the 1,000-year Day known as the wrath of that Day, which is so crucial to understanding of the end-times. As the firstfruits harvest at the start of that Day, the completed Church shall stand before Christ’s Bema Seat and receive our crowns and rewards. Each believer shall receive their ruling assignment as seen in the Parable of the Talents. We shall direct and assist the saints on the earth as needed, overseeing the well-being and spiritual growth of those on the earth.
        When the Battle of that Great Day of God Almighty ends, any new believers are at most only 3½ years old in the faith. As Christ’s disciples, they continue the great commission, along with the revived Jews, to take the Gospel into all the world and make disciples.        Yet these new disciples are not fully perfected because they have not overcome death through resurrection. They will still have to deal with their flesh and renew their minds according to God’s Word (Rom. 12:1-2).           
      End-Time Lesson: There are three factors that distinguish this part of the last Day. First, we know that the first ruling from the heavenly court shall send the archangel Michael and his heavenly army to war in the heavenlies (Rev. 12:7-9). As a result, Satan and his evil forces shall be ejected out of their sphere of influence and cast down to the earth. This is why Rev. 12:12 warns, “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea!” Why? Because the devil and his evil forces have come to the earth, having great wrath, because Satan knows his time is short.
        When the Antichrist and his forces are defeated, Rev. 20:3 tells us that Satan shall be cast into the Pit temporarily. Rev. 18:2 tells us that every foul and unclean spirit is imprisoned in some way, stuck in a cage so that they cannot move about freely.
       Second, because of the latter rain outpouring and our heavenly intercession and guidance, the relatively new saints on the earth will likely grow quickly in their knowledge of the Lord and His ways.  Third, with a godly and just government in place, the gospel message can go forth unhindered.
       What will not change is that mankind will still have a will and that those born during this time will have a fallen nature. The apostle John described it this way: “For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world” (1 John 2:16).  Mankind will still have to decide whom they shall follow and worship. As always, this decision must be by faith. Which is another reason why Jesus is not ruling on the earth with His Body, all of whom are in their glorified state. We reign together with Him from Heaven, the place of ALL AUTHORITY.