But when the Day of God's Judgment does come, it will be unannounced, like a thief. The sky will collapse with a thunderous bang, everything disintegrating in a huge conflagration, earth and all its works exposed to the scrutiny of Judgment. 2 Peter 3:10 The Message Bible
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The Peace and Safety Cry "Everyone's after the dishonest dollar, Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will... see in the union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium or 1,000 years.
little people and big people alike.
Prophets and priests and everyone in between
twist words and doctor truth.
My people are broken—shattered!—
and they put on Band-Aids,
Saying, 'It's not so bad. You'll be just fine.'
But things are not 'just fine'!
Do you suppose they are embarrassed
over this outrage?
No, they have no shame.
They don't even know how to blush.
There's no hope for them. They've hit bottom
and there's no getting up.
As far as I'm concerned,
they're finished."
God has spoken. Jeremiah 6:13-15 The Message Bible
They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say,
when there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14 Today's New International Version
I don't think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen. You know as well as I that the day of the Master's coming can't be posted on our calendars. He won't call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would. About the time everybody's walking around complacently, congratulating each other—"We've sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!"—suddenly everything will fall apart. It's going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 The Message Bible
When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3 The Amplified Bible *26
When the reasoning of philosophy has banished the fear of God's judgments; when religious teachers are pointing forward to long ages of peace and prosperity, and the world is absorbed in their rounds of merrymaking, rejecting God's warnings and mocking His messengers - then it is that sudden destruction comes upon them, and they will not escape.
Reference: 1 Thessalonians 5:3)
Like the dwellers in the vale of Siddim, the people are dreaming of prosperity and peace, "Escape for your life," is the warning from the angels of God; but other voices are heard saying, "Be not excited; there is no cause for alarm." The multitude cry, "Peace and safety," while Heaven declares that swift destruction is about to come upon the transgressor. On the night prior to their destruction, the cities of the plain rioted in pleasure and derided the fears and warnings of the messenger of God; but those scoffers perished in the flames; that very night the door of mercy was forever closed to the wicked, careless inhabitants of Sodom. God will not always be mocked; He will not long trifled with. "Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. Reference: Isaiah 13:9
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The great mass of the world will reject God's mercy, and will be overwhelmed in swift and irretrievable ruin. But those who heed the warning shall dwell "in the secret place of the most high." and "abide under the shadow of the Almighty." His truth shall be their shield and buckler. (27)
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Genesis 19:15-30 (The Message)
15 At break of day, the angels pushed Lot to get going, "Hurry. Get your wife and two daughters out of here before it's too late and you're caught in the punishment of the city."
16-17 Lot was dragging his feet. The men grabbed Lot's arm, and the arms of his wife and daughters—God was so merciful to them!—and dragged them to safety outside the city. When they had them outside, Lot was told, "Now run for your life! Don't look back! Don't stop anywhere on the plain—run for the hills or you'll be swept away."
18-20 But Lot protested, "No, masters, you can't mean it! I know that you've taken a liking to me and have done me an immense favor in saving my life, but I can't run for the mountains—who knows what terrible thing might happen to me in the mountains and leave me for dead. Look over there—that town is close enough to get to. It's a small town, hardly anything to it. Let me escape there and save my life—it's a mere wide place in the road."
21-22 "All right, Lot. If you insist. I'll let you have your way. And I won't stamp out the town you've spotted. But hurry up. Run for it! I can't do anything until you get there." That's why the town was called Zoar, that is, Smalltown.
23 The sun was high in the sky when Lot arrived at Zoar.
24-25 Then God rained brimstone and fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah— a river of lava from God out of the sky!—and destroyed these cities and the entire plain and everyone who lived in the cities and everything that grew from the ground.
26 But Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
27-28 Abraham got up early the next morning and went to the place he had so recently stood with God. He looked out over Sodom and Gomorrah, surveying the whole plain. All he could see was smoke belching from the Earth, like smoke from a furnace.
29 And that's the story: When God destroyed the Cities of the Plain, he was mindful of Abraham and first got Lot out of there before he blasted those cities off the face of the Earth.
30 Lot left Zoar and went into the mountains to live with his two daughters; he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his daughters.
Note: Go to Video Bible Tours and see why the Dead Sea is dead. The Dead Sea is the area around the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The above verses (Genesis 19: 15-30) give the bible account. There was no escape for the wicked when God rained down fire and brimstone on that day. That event in Sodom and Gomorrah was/is a warning for out day about immorality. There was a way of escape for Lot and his family!
Bible Verses from BibleGateway.com
Source: Maranatha: The Lord Is Coming, Compiled from the Writings of Ellen White, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Page 260, (1976) Washington, D.C., USA 20012 Bookstore Online: http://www.AdventistBookCenter.com/