Prophecy
Thumbs Down to the Unrepentant
Prov.5:22; Ezekiel Chapter 32; John 3:18;
Acts 7:57-60; Romans Chapters 4&5;9:17-22; I Tim.1:13; I Pet.5:8
Taken from my book: God's For-BEAR-ance With Bullies
For two thousand long years I have witnessed the murder and torture going on in societies where Christians are viciously persecuted. My wrath has had a long time to simmer against men of Belial who boast that THEY, not the God of heaven, are in control, and they need fear no punishment for their wickedness. Volcanoes may lie dormant for centuries, but the day comes when the necessary eruption must take place. My wrath is about to explode throughout all the earth as I return to punish the world for its iniquity.
Bullies come in all forms, from the lone “thorn in the flesh” who makes his victim’s life a misery, to a lynch mob who kills a person based on skin color or other point of prejudice. At the dawn of the Church Age I beheld a snarling pack of religious wolves murder Stephen, a kind, caring, decent man who only wanted to serve Me and feed the poor, as a living testimony to His heartfelt faith in Christ His Redeemer. Those rabid dogs who tore this righteous man apart knew that THEY, not the living God, were the kingpins, and they were the ones who ruled their society with an iron fist. Deep in their hearts they KNEW they did not truly represent the God who delighted in compassion and mercy. Those vicious hypocrites only used Me as a cloak to justify their cruelty and get rid of what they perceived as their competition in the religious meat market. Saul was one of the few who honestly THOUGHT he was serving Me by putting Christians to death. He obtained mercy because he did it “ignorantly and in unbelief”.
Stephen forgave those wicked men, but the vast majority of that lynch mob never made it into the Kingdom of God. Most failed to repent of stoning My son Stephen. There were literally thousands of other sins I laid to the charge of his persecutors, which were more than enough to send them to hell. ONE SINGLE SIN IS ENOUGH TO SEND SOMEONE TO HELL! Christians only make it to heaven because the merits of My dear Son Jesus are posted to their account through repentant faith in His atoning Blood, and I view these souls not as other men do, but only through Jesus’ precious Blood. But unrepentant, defiant, arrogant souls have no covering to protect them from My wrath. They want to be spared hell, but only on their own terms.
I remember vividly the courage with which My people faced roaring lions and tigers in Roman arenas. I remember the terror, the shrieks and the way My people huddled together, forming a chain of defense around vulnerable believers, shielding pregnant women, children and babies with their own bodies. Many Christian believers bravely offered themselves to the lions, hoping against hope that by eating them first, the appetite of the cruel beasts would be satisfied enough to leave the weaker saints alive to survive another day. Such sacrificial love among the persecuted saints left a lasting impression upon any spectator who had any vestige of conscience left.
A few strong Christian men tried to fight the beasts bare-handed to prevent their loved ones from being ripped apart. But whenever some brave Christian man was presented to the crowd as a hero and the crowd was asked whether he should live or die, the answer was invariably: “DEATH!” with the thumbs of the crowd turned down, consenting to the Christian’s further torment and destruction. The refusal of faithful believers to renounce their own God and worship heathen Roman Gods or the Emperor would enrage the spectators and fan further bloodlust in them.
A very few spectators would be moved to tears of sympathy and repentance by the sight of the love and courage displayed by the brave believers. But their protests would be drowned out by majority consensus that violence was cool, and only the toughest and meanest deserve to survive. I remember many spectators staggering home through filthy alleys and vomiting, because they were so drunk on wine and psyched up by the heady thrill of the bloody spectacle they had just witnessed. The bravery and consecration of the Christians were wasted on such degenerate swine, who couldn’t wait to see an even more thrilling show the next time.
Ah, the arrogance of fallen man! Once the bones and torn remains left by the hungry lions were cleared away, Roman legionnaires blind to My eternal Majesty and ignorant of the hidden mysteries of My will would crack jokes about what a puny deity the poor Christians served. The soldiers would shake their heads and say that it was a pity that the God of the Christians had raised up His Son from the dead, only to be powerless to save his own people from being eaten alive by lions! And these wicked soldiers would strut with overblown confidence that because the God of the Christians couldn’t beat them, their mighty empire would surely endure for another thousand years. Surely the almighty Roman Empire would live so long as the earth endured, with no real threat from within or without. But Rome DID collapse, and her moral decay was the very catalyst of her destruction. Weakened by debauchery, the Romans were unable to fight off invading tribes from the north who destroyed their pompous capital city. Ungodly Roman tyrants ended up in the same place of punishment as former tyrants of earlier empires. They were vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction.
All bullies, whether the bully on the bus or the predatory boss in the workplace, boast that they alone are king of their own little domain and no one can protect their victims. They boast of being THE power to end all powers. These cowards care only about themselves and the misery they can wring out of others. Pain is cool, so long as it isn’t their OWN pain! The very IDEA of repentance is a joke to them! Being sorry is for losers, they think, and losers don’t last long in a world where only the toughest and the roughest survive.
But these fools are already bound by the cords of their own sins. Sinners weave their own nooses and give the devil the other end of them to do with as he pleases. During their lifetimes bullies are led about on a leash like the dogs they truly are. Once satan tires of leading them on he will end up killing them and leaving them in a pool of the vomit of their own wickedness. The righteous leave a legacy of honor to inspire future generations, but bullies leave only a rotten stench. As the bully served the devil on earth, so the bully serves satan in hell as an object of ridicule and derision, tormented forever where the fires never go out and the worms never die.
I say: “Thumbs UP!” to everyone who turns to me in true repentance and genuine faith in My Son. And by true repentance I don’t mean just feeling a little bit sad for a while and then turning back to the cesspool of sin. I mean, to TURN AROUND to go in the other direction, away from hell and toward eternal life, made possible through the blood of My dearly Beloved Son shed on the Cross of Calvary. Genuine faith in My Son involves a heart change from dependence on the deeds of the flesh to faith in His righteousness alone, and trust in His redeeming blood to wash away the filth of fallen human nature.
I already know who will end up finally rejecting Me and My offer of mercy through the precious blood of My dear Son. These souls are condemned ALREADY to a devil’s hell. They are already lost to eternal life and are doomed to everlasting torment in eternal darkness. Satan the lion seeks those whom he may devour, and so many wicked sinners laugh with glee as they place their heads in his jaws. To them I say: “THUMBS DOWN!”
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