Isa
26:3, 21 (ESV) You keep him in perfect
peace
whose
mind is stayed on you,
because
he trusts in you.
…
21 For behold, the Lord is coming out from his
place
to
punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity,
and the
earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and
will no more cover its slain
2 Peter
2:6-10 (ESV) … if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he
condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen
to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued
righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked 8 (for
as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his
righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); 9 then the Lord
knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under
punishment until the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who indulge in
the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
NOTE: The chapter in
Isaiah refers to the end times, the judgment and the resulting millennial
kingdom. God is coming to judge this world's sins. His righteousness will
prevail upon the earth. His holiness will be revealed. And we will be destroyed
as a people. We deserve it, as does every single nation on the earth. The
nations will survive but only as remnants of their original size and glory. And
all the nations will head to Jerusalem to serve a new king who will reign with
peace and true justice. Then we will have what verse 3 promises, perfect peace.
No matter how bad things are or are getting, God is coming to judge the world
and to make it the way he had always planned. The time is coming--it is not far
off. The gospel has reached almost the entire world and the world has rejected
its' savior. The church is engaged in apostasy and has lost its' witness. The
time is very ripe.
Lot let himself get
trapped in the culture of his time. He made bad choices. It says that his soul
was tormented by the lawless deeds he saw and heard. That is where the true
Christian is today. Our hearts hurt as we look over a world dedicated to destroying
itself. When will we wake up? When will we open our eyes? When will we repent?
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