I’ll Tell You What’s Harsh!

There are two futures for two groups of people, according to God’s prophetical word. His offspring will dwell in the light of healing and righteousness. But the unbelievers will in the end be trodden down as “ashes under the soles of the feet of the righteous” (Mal. 4:3).

Is this prophecy harsh? Some would say it is. But the prophet wrote this down under the inspiration of the Spirit of God. Harsh? No, I will tell you what’s harsh. Crashing the dollar, prosecuting stupid wars, running up the national debt to over 37 trillion dollars. That’s $37,000,000,000,000—37 with twelve zeros, a number too big to fathom, much less pay back with interest.

It is harsh, when international bankers and their patsy political cronies destroy the economies of the world. Harsh is when you trash the dignity of the common man and woman, when you make them peasants with pocket computers, ripe for the picking. That is harsh!

Nevertheless, some will become the ashes, and some will be walking on those ashes. A glimpse of the ashes can be seen in James 5:1-6. “Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you…”

What kind of miseries? “The kings of the earth shall bewail” the destruction of the Babylon world system, “when they shall see the smoke of her burning…” There’s your ashes. The world system is coming down to utter destruction (Rev. 18:9-20). God has reserved a few heavenly hailstone visitors with fiery intentions to create the ashes. This is when God will have avenged us on the world system. He said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.”

We must remain, therefore, patient and content to grow into Christ, with the bread of life as our food (Ephesians 4:15). If we do this, then the harsh stench of judgement won’t come around our door.  kwh