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About Jesus - Steve (Stephen) Sweetman Terrified By Wrath
The following is an excerpt from my book entitled "Terrified By Wrath," subtitled, "end of the age prophecy as seen in Psalm 2."
The
political leaders of the nations meet together (Psalm 2:2) in an
exclusive, high-priced mountain-top retreat hidden away in the French
Alps. After an extremely long
and frustratingly difficult day of deliberating their fight against God
that they believe they can win, they spend a relaxing evening cracking
off-colored jokes around hot tubs and a swimming pool.
While sipping away on their fine wine and gulping down their exotic
cocktails, they fixate their lust-filled eyes upon voluptuous
short-skirted waitresses returning to the bar to refill their glasses.
Little do these politicians realize that while they are laughing
away in feverish frivolity, the God enthroned in heaven is laughing
hysterically at their arrogant stupidity, all the while ridiculing them
before the angelic host (Psalm 2:4). If
there was ever a time when God would fall to the floor, so to speak, in
hysteric laughter, this would be that time.
The
next day it's decided. The war
with God begins (Psalm 2:3). Immediately,
CNN has breaking news flashing across everyone's HD 12k televisions
screens. It's seen on all of
their high tech devices. Social
media is ablaze with fear and trembling from all corners of the human
community (Psalm 2:5). The
stock market report is abruptly interrupted.
All trading is halted. All financial
accounts are suspended. In
real time the world is in shock as its population sees the American
president falling to his knees. In
a moment of embarrassing weakness, he is forced to finally confess that
there is an authority higher than him, and it is King Jesus.
Before
the president can rise to his feet, Fox News announces breaking news from Iran. The Supreme Ayatollah is
slammed face first to the floor. In
a foggy daze, he attempts to focus his eyes upward.
Expecting to see Allah or the Twelfth Imam coming to his defense,
he sees the King of the Jews preparing to rule his beloved theocracy.
Terror, frustration, and anger accompanies his admission that
Jesus Christ really is Lord. How
could he have been so horribly wrong?
After
the Russian president utters all kinds of unrepeatable obscenities, his
newly-purchased limo crashes into a tree.
He too makes his uncomfortable confession. He
is not the ultimate authority as he perceived himself to be.
The North Korean dictator reaches for his cell phone.
He is bent on placing the call to strike.
His phone is dead. His
nuclear missiles are immobilized. He
points his pistol to his head, makes his confession, and drops to the
floor in deadly defeat. China
is in economic chaos. As its
president stutters his confession, a massive heart attack steals his life.
It's all over. The
nations lose the war before it begins, a war in all ridiculous arrogance
they were convinced they could win (Psalm 2:8 - 9). There's
breaking news all over the planet. Leaders
of all political stripes, nationalities, colours, and religious
affiliation, fall to their knees in confused astonishment.
News networks around the world can't keep up with what's happening,
and then it happens. All
television screens go wacky. Reporters
and cameramen trip over each other as their microphones, video cameras,
and ear buds fly in all directions. Earthquakes
and tsunamis kill millions (Revelation 16:18).
Heart-wrenching screams are heard from every corner of the planet
as people's hearts fail them for fear of all that is transpiring
(Luke 21:26). People
try to hide, but there's no place to hide (Revelation 6:15).
All of creation is immobilized as King Jesus lights up the sky with
something like brilliant flashes of electromagnetic energy that plunges
the world into a dreaded darkness (Matthew 24:27).
Human
history as we have known it comes to an excruciatingly scary end.
God will give His Son the nations as an inheritance, and the ends
of the earth for His possession (Psalm 2:8).
All nations will fall to the ownership and rule of the Lord Jesus
Christ who will rule with an iron scepter (Psalm 2:9) from Jerusalem (Luke
1:32).
There are no nation-wide television debates, no diplomatic
haggling, no backroom deals, or no saying one thing and doing another.
It's zero tolerance. What
Jesus says goes. If any nation
rebels, it will experience the immediate consequences (Zechariah 14:17 -
18). Jesus will rule the
nations for a prolonged period of time until the last great battle ends with
the White Throne Judgment, the Lake of Fire, and then, a brand new heaven
and earth. Through
it all, the saints are heard crying out to their Lord and their God, "Come Lord
Jesus, come."
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