By: Generals James & Deborah Green
“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.” Matthew 24:7
These truly are perilous times and we are seeing men as grass growing one day and withering the next. Now as never before, let us labor with diligence for the redemption of mens’ souls as all around the world, tragedy after tragedy befalls and men perish without the knowledge of Christ. Many go through the painful throes of starvation, victims of famine…suffering in this life, they face suffering in the life to come. Christless and destitute, they wander waiting for death to enfold them, for dying is more pleasant than living in the daily misery of their lives. Oh, but we must labor and fight, for their souls are indeed precious to the Lord. Let us rip the callousness from our hearts and let our eyes run down with tears for the untold multitudes who are daily dying and being given to the caverns of hell. No price is too high for the redemption of souls, no sacrifice too great, no danger too looming, for truly the hour is at hand when God’s judgments are befalling humanity and we must work for the redemption of souls while there is yet time. This is not the hour to argue doctrine, to strain at gnats and swallow camels, but this is the hour to give ourselves to travail and intercession for souls. Let us bow before the God of Heaven and earth and beseech Him to show us where and how to proclaim who He is. For the count of the dying is growing daily…and their agonizing screams will forever ring in our ears if we do not make use of the time that we have upon this earth. Oh, that we would fear to be sinners in the hands of an angry God and that we would keep our hearts with diligence as we labored without ceasing for the souls of others.
Many of the great nations are going to be stripped of their glories in the days ahead, and they shall howl in their nakedness, for who shall save them from the wrath of God and who shall stop His judgment hand. We need to shake ourselves from frivolity and drunkenness, from compromise and comfort and wade out into the sea of humanity, declaring Christ with every breath we yet have. For when we stand before Him, we will give an account, and it won’t be our bank account, but it will be the account of how we used the precious commodity which He has committed to us, the truth of eternal life through Jesus Christ. Let us rend our hearts that we can feel, bear, and live the burden of the Lord…let us never be satisfied again with selfish “Christian” living. Let us throw out the seminars on how to get rich, and let us become poor that we may give to others, that is become poor because we have given to others, for when we do, many will be made rich in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Frail and diseased bodies all around the world tremble and shudder with the pain of their daily existence…do we dare to live fat in the abundance of our wealth or shall we lay our lives down, as He laid His down for us?????