When I get gas these days, I just wave or tap my credit card at the pump to pay for it. Yesterday I saw a commercial for a machine that reads your palm to receive payment. I see the videos of AI robots doing amazing things, or of the World Economic Forum making its global pronouncements. It’s very easy to believe that the age of the anti-Christ is being ushered in. As a pre-triber I’m not too concerned about those 7 years, but the birth pangs could get rough; and NOBODY but the Father knows the “when.”
The Apostle Peter in the first of his two letters clearly believed the age was coming to an end sooner rather than later. He doesn’t tell us to run for the hills,* or stockpile food and weapons. He tells us to pray. To love each other. To take care of each other. And to keep using our gifts to glorify God! (1 Peter 4:7-12)
Of course, he wrote that as an old man. The younger Peter grabbed a sword! And many of us feel the need, in light of these changing times, to channel our inner warrior (or worrier). David the Warrior King wrote many of the Psalms during turbulent times. Let’s look specifically at Psalm 46.
The Earth Roaring.
Mountains Crashing into the Sea.
Streams Overflowing their banks.
Nations of Heathen raging!
Neither Joshua’s sword, nor David’s sling, nor your 12 gauge will stand a chance against earthquakes, floods and heathen hordes… but God’s got you, too!
Psalm 46:9-10 Emphasis Added
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; (an M-4 wouldn’t give Him a problem)
He burns the chariots with fire. (and the tanks and the fighter jets…)
“Cease striving (stand at ease) and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
*Yes, in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24-25) Jesus says to flee for the hills; but that is when you see the Abomination of Desolation (24:15-16); which is the desecration of the Temple that happens at the midpoint of the Tribulation. I believe that He knows He is talking to the Nation of Israel that will go through the Tribulation.
Grace Notes 