A Failure To Embrace The Work Of The Holy Spirit! (Conclusion)

I have proposed the aforementioned reasons for judgment. God will bring all unforgiven sin into judgment. He will judge apostasy in the Church and He will judge the nations that abandon Israel. However, I am convinced that the Holy Spirit is revealing a difference between the judgment we are experiencing now and the wrath of God which is yet to come. The Day of Wrath referenced by the Old Testament Prophets and in Revelation is speaking about the wrath of God poured out in the Great Tribulation or “Jacob's Trouble.” Rev. 6:17, “For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” The judgment the world is experiencing now is the result of the scriptural principle of the “law of sowing and reaping.” Gal. 6:7, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”

The disobedience of all mankind has laid up an unrighteous reward to the extent that the place of containment is overflowing. God will not constrain His judgment any longer and has begun to unleash His reward for the unrighteous. What we are seeing in our world is the result of ages of sin, corruption, and moral decay. This is only the beginning of sorrow!

Matt. 24:5, “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All these are the beginning of sorrows.”

Mark 13:5, “And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you: 6For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 7And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. 8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.”

At one point in my encounter with the Lord, He said to me that “this judgment is as natural as breathing.” In light of these scriptures in Matthew and Mark, I am convinced that the Holy Spirit is connecting the “natural as breathing” to the birthing process. The term “beginning of sorrows” is associated with childbirth and literally means the beginning of travail-pangs. The birthing process has begun and will increase exponentially until new life is brought forth. (The Message: A Critical Review Of End Time Events, p 50-52, available at Amazon.com)