www.TheBibleBrowser.com (God Intervenes)

Micah 1:2-4 New International Reader's Version

2 Listen to me, all of you nations!
      Earth and everyone who lives in it, pay attention!
   The Lord and King will be a witness against you.
      The Lord will speak from his holy temple in heaven.

The Lord Will Judge Samaria and Jerusalem

3 The Lord is about to come down
      from his home in heaven.
      He rules over the highest places on earth.
4 The mountains will melt under him
      like wax near a fire.
   The valleys will be broken apart
      by water rushing down a slope.

It is a crisis that character is revealed.... The great final test comes at the close of human probation, when it will be too late for the soul's need to be supplied. (32)

God keeps a reckoning with the nations. Throughout every century of this world's history evil workers have been treasuring up against the day of wrath against the day of wrath; and when the time fully comes that iniquity shall have reached the stated boundary of God's mercy. His forbearance will cease. When the accumulated figures in heaven's record books shall mark the sum of transgression complete, wrath will come, unmixed with mercy, and then it will be seen what a tremendous thing it is to have worn out the divine patience. This crisis will be reached when the nations shall unite in making void God's law. *(Humans priests try to substitute the true Saturday Sabbath with the day of the Sun, Sun-day and try by force of human law of man to enforce Sunday by forbidding buying and selling to those who choose Saturday as their day of worship.)

The days will come when the righteous will be stirred to zeal for God because of the abounding iniquity. None but divine power can stay the arrogance of Satan united with evil men; but in the hour of the church's greatest dangers most fervent prayer will be offered in her behalf by the faithful remnant, and God will hear and answer at the very time when the guilt of the transgressors has reached its height. He will avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bears long with them." (33)

The substitution of the false for the true is the last act in the drama. When this substitution becomes universal, God will reveal Himself. When the laws of men are exalted above the laws of God, when the powers of this earth try to force men to keep the first day of the week, know that time has come for God to work. He will arise in His majesty, and will shake terribly the earth. He will come out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the world for their iniquity. The earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. (34)