SHOFAR #3 - DAY 3 OF 10 DAYS OF AWE

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

9/27/14

SHOFAR #3

(DAY 3 OF 10 DAYS OF AWE)

WHAT DOES THE DAY OF JUDGMENT LOOK LIKE?

The various religions give us an array of mental vision as to just what this day looks like.  Some envision an old white bearded and white haired God sitting on a throne with some 50 billion people standing in line to be judged according to their deeds on earth.  Is this really what it will be like? 

Those who rule the nations of this earth,  and have withheld knowledge from those ruled, know very well that there is a day of judgment coming as I will show you. 

But will this be an interminably long line waiting for eternity to be judged by one judge?  Not at all?  If we look in I Corinthians 6:2, we see the apostle Paul saying in this letter to those living in Corinth, "Know you not that the saints shall judge the world?"  We need to understand that these are not "political saints" canonized by the Vatican, but rather those who have learned in this life to live according to the laws, statutes, precepts and judgments laid down by the Creator.  The laws and statutes are found in Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5 and Leviticus 23.  The precepts and judgments are found throughout the scriptures. 

One of the purposes of mankind's tour of duty on this earth is to learn judgment although we are told by those in ruling positions today that we need not trouble ourselves with this because we have judges, ministers, lawyers, etc to do our thinking for us.  And, of course, this is why the world is in the mess it is in today!

We have a candid look at what judgment is going to look like as it is applied to America and Israel first and then to the rest of the world.  We get this look in the book of Revelation chapter 6 beginning in verse 12.  "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and lo, there was a great earthquake:"  Has anyone noticed the increased number and intensity of earthquakes just in the past year?  Continuing in verse 12, it says, "…and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood;"

13  "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." 14  "And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together;  and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." (This is not the end of the world but may seem so.) 15  "And kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man hid themselves in the rocks of the mountains." 16  "And said to the mountains and rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb."
 17  "For the great day of His wrath has come and who shall be able to stand?"

So you can see these folks know there is a day of judgment and those of you familiar with the weekly Commentaries know that it is very near. 

The judgment of America and Israel will be on that day and both will be destroyed as nations.  In Revelation 18, you can see that America's (Babylon's) fate will be determined in one hour.  You can see in Isaiah 13:9 that this is a day of His great wrath and the verses that follow it will show how it is vented. 

If this is indeed the year of that judgment, then it would seem we will see it in seven more days.  If this isn't the year, then we will repeat this exercise again next year and each year at this time until that year does arrive. 

It is by acting out this plan for the replacement of planet earth's god (Satan) on a yearly basis that we learn to understand things such as the book of Daniel is now opened and that America is the image of the Roman beast of Daniel 7.