Moment in the Word

Daniel 12:4, 9 & 13 - But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.... Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end... As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.

 

At the end of Daniel's vision, God told his prophet to close the book and seal the words until the End of Time. After Daniel died and was buried, many things would happen before the Final Resurrection fulfilled what he predicted. Much time remained before the end.

 

Daniel's ministry occurred thousands of years ago, but unlike God's commandment to Daniel, we read a totally different order to John at the end of Christ's Revelation, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is near. Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy." (Revelation 22:10-11)

 

A day is quickly coming when no time will remain for redemption because St. Paul said that only a certain number of Gentiles were chosen to be saved before God's Grace would return to Israel after "the full number of the Gentiles has come in." (Romans 11:25)

 

Much like the days of Noah, who preached 120 years and only rescued eight members of his immediate family (Genesis 6:3, Matthew 24:37-39, 1 Peter 3:20), the time is coming when no amount of preaching will convert the lost who have sinned away their opportunity to be saved.

 

Do not fret and do not worry about the horrible evil occurring around us because God told John, "Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile."

Why?

 

St. Paul said, that since "they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, He will give them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not natural or normal." (Romans 1:28)

 

According to the apostle, God, Himself, is sending these vile individuals "strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 - Consequently, these brute beasts are already consigned to Perdition without realizing it yet.

 

As we currently witness the utter depravity and madness that consumes our nation and our world, we must not "close the Book," because the time of supernatural deception is here, happening before our very eyes! Regardless of the crazed mobs' debauchery, God ordered John, "Let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy."

 

Whatever happens, do not abandon your faith or your godly integrity to join the hopeless rabble on their way to a burning Hell. The Final Age is upon us, and Jesus said, "The one who endures to the end will be saved." (Matthew 24:13)