A World Without God

"A WORLD WITHOUT GOD"
Revelation 13

On Easter Sunday morning I sat in my office staring out of the window into the darkness. The lightning was flashing and booming thunder shook the house and rolled across the darkening landscape.  The surreal sounds of thunder mixed with the sound of wind and raindrops set a scene that could be described as terrifying, it was reminiscent of a loving parent scolding his child.  It seems as if the heavens were angry, I eagerly await the relief of the first light.  There is a strangeness throughout the land, Things are happening that have never happened before.   
   
For a moment I closed my eyes and tried to visualize what a world without God would look like.  That didn't work too well.  Have you ever tried to visualize a country, even a world where churches are closed down and the police are raiding church services, on the day set aside to celebrate the resurrection of Christ?  It is mind-blogging.   Many of us don't remember when our president said, America is no longer a Christian nation and set about to establish laws that were contrary to the word of God.  Next on the horizon, a presidential candidate implied that the church must change its views on many issues in order to remain a relevant entity in a modernist society?   Do you remember when the world rejoiced and the church said, "Amen?"  

Now take a close look at us, and the world.  We are a confused entity, consumed by media-driven hatred.  Hate is infectious and any attempt to expose it causes it to grow, leave it alone and it withers and dies.  We hate our country, we hate our president, we hate each other if they don't think the same as we do.   The world, not just this country is being driven by a hate-filled agenda that many refuse to acknowledge.  We have empowered our youth in the name of freedom of expression to deny the existence of God, and by example, we have taught them to hate.  Now look at us, do this look like a world where the love of God is abounding?  Maybe the wrath of God is upon us and we are running to and fro trying to hide from the wrath that has befallen us.  Is this the change that we bargain for?  

Trying to visualize a world without God goes against the teaching of many Christians because we are indoctrinated into a belief or concept that God is everywhere and he is always present.   Believing this gives Christianity a type of balance that allows us to believe that God is always working things out even while we are asleep.  Without this belief, we would be adrift in a sea of confusion, lost and alone, desperately searching for something to hold on to.  Yet, even with this assurance, there are moments in our life when we are forced to entertain the question of, "where is God."   The question of where is God during this pandemic should cause us to pause and rethink our relationship and position.

Whenever there is a school shooting, where young children are killed, the media becomes fascinated with the cries of grieving parents.  Wealthy and influential pastors, prophets and preachers take to the airways and podiums across the nation and the world in a vain attempt to explain where God was in the midst of the tragedy.  Many of them do more damage than good.  For that reason, I use the word vain because many God-fearing Christians are left wondering, but are ashamed to ask because of our indoctrination.  The influential ministers have stated that it is a sin to question God and God always knows what he is doing.  

There are those who feel empowered by what is described as the failure of God to act, use they use this platform to promote their idealogy that God is an irrelevant and impotent entity in a modernistic society.  There was a time when if a person or group choose to stand against God judgment was swift.  God often displayed his anger and brought judgment upon his chosen people. Man inability to adhere to the word of God 

A cloud of doubt began to emerge as bad actors stepped forward whose objective was power.  The church began to evolve as a business, each one promoting his own brand of salvation, competing against each other.  Somewhere between the meetings, the pomp and the pageantry God became an irrelevant standing at the door knocking.  "Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hears my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me," Revelation 3:20.  With the number of churches springing up it soon became an irreconcilable fact, "God did not need these so-called churches.        

Over a year ago I prided myself as being a religious blogger and published author of more than eight books on the subject of searching for God, The understanding of the Word of the Bible, the justification of sin and the evolution of church.  My latest work was to be an in-depth study of the Book of Revelation.   Suddenly,  I ceased to function in that capacity, I entered a self-imposed habitat.  A number of my readers contacted me wanting to know why I stopped writing and posting to the International Bible Study Group, a group that I once headed up.  In a rambling sort of manner, I tried but I failed to provide a coherent answer that was satisfactory to me and my readers.   

After the publication of the first chapters of my in-depth study of the book of Revelation, "The Five Judgments" I realized that my study of the book of Revelation had evolved into a "soapbox type" type of message and was used by prophets, preachers, and pundits to gain attention and to promote an alien agenda.  In the middle of my study of Revelation, my belief and faith in God grew exponentially while my faith in modern-day religion was shattered.  Like Jonah and many other Biblical figures knowing can be a curse.  Standing as John stood, in Revelation 1:1, I was able to see the world, the Church and the people changing in such a manner that was frightening.

Revelation 13:1  

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

What is that noise that many are hearing? Are the trumpets of Revelation sounding? We could just explain it all away, but there are many of us who believe the Trumpets mention in the Book of Revelation is sounding around the world. These sounds alone can be dismissed, but together with the earthquakes in uncommon places, same with tornadoes, snowstorms in the desert and cities, floods here, droughts there, uncontrollable fires, pestilences and volcanoes everywhere, and these strange sounds on top of that, you have too many variables hitting the mark at the same time. 

Revelation 8:13 And I beheld and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! 

And just like that the world as we know it shut down, church doors closed


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