15 minutes after sulfur and fire...
God gave me a powerful dream during a nap once.
The
dream was of real estate signs in Sodom about 15 minutes after the following:
"Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD
out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground." (Genesis 19:24-25
ESV)
Think
about it... how much was the land worth before God judged the city? How much
was it worth after?
This
world RIGHT NOW is no different. Many of us are renting space in Sodom, and it
is assessed value now, but judgement is coming, and 15 minutes later to dust
and ashes that remain will be worthless. And it will be all many investors
have, and even that memories.
What
will be standing after Judgment Day? The Church of the Living God will be
standing! The Saints hidden in Christ Jesus! All that is sealed by the Spirit
will be standing! The Word of the Lord will stand forever! Love will NEVER pass
away!
Do
we have property in those places? Are we citizens of what will last? Is our
hope of joy planted in these eternal fields?
15
minutes after sulfur and fire, Sodom was not worth a plug-nickel.
One
day God is going to set fire to all creation. Whew! If leveling Sodom and
Gomorrah is a shock, and to me it is, then how about the whole world? WOW!
I
like how the paraphrase called "The Living Bible" puts 2 Peter
3:3-13.
3
First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will come scoffers who
will do every wrong they can think of and laugh at the truth. 4 This will be
their line of argument: “So Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is
he? He’ll never come! Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has
remained exactly as it was since the first day of creation.”
"5-6
They deliberately forget this fact: that God did destroy the world with a
mighty flood long after he had made the heavens by the word of his command and
had used the waters to form the earth and surround it. 7 And God has commanded
that the earth and the heavens be stored away for a great bonfire at the
judgment day, when all ungodly men will perish.
"8
But don’t forget this, dear friends, that a day or a thousand years from now is
like tomorrow to the Lord. 9 He isn’t really being slow about his promised
return, even though it sometimes seems that way. But he is waiting, for the
good reason that he is not willing that any should perish, and he is giving
more time for sinners to repent. 10 The day of the Lord is surely coming, as
unexpectedly as a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a terrible
noise, and the heavenly bodies will disappear in fire, and the earth and
everything on it will be burned up.
"11
And so since everything around us is going to melt away, what holy, godly lives
we should be living! 12 You should look forward to that day and hurry it
along—the day when God will set the heavens on fire, and the heavenly bodies will
melt and disappear in flames. 13 But we are looking forward to God’s promise of
new heavens and a new earth afterwards, where there will be only
goodness."
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