A Few Words from Clark Wade
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In Revelation, we know of a time when that “old dragon, Satan, the Liar, and Accuser” will be cast out of heaven to this earth: “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the Liar-Slanderer (the Devil) has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.” Catch that last line: “Knowing he has only a short time.” It can be what triggered his hellish anxiety was when Israel became a nation again in 1948. That was a momentous event as a harbinger of his “midnight hour.” He’s going down, and all of his co-conspirators, the leaders of this fallen world’s system who are in a war against the God of Creation, to wipe out His name on the earth (See Psalm 2).
We’re told that in the “Last days, grievous times will come.” I believe that term “last days” refers to the end of the church age, but the time of the “Great Tribulation” referred to in Daniel and Revelation, and throughout the Prophets and the Psalms is called, “the End of Days,” the “Day of God’s Wrath,” “the Day of the Lord,” etc. We are, I believe, in those “last days” as described as so grievous, but what terror awaits this fallen earth in the coming of the “end of days” after the rapture of the church. To those who love God, who eagerly wait for the return of Christ, I read these words in Proverbs the other day:
“Don’t allow the actions of evil men to cause you to burn with anger. Instead, burn with unrelenting passion as you worship God in holy awe because your future is bright and filled with a living hope (the hope/anticipation of His return, as an anchor of the soul) that will never fade away” (Prov. 23:17-18).
We must remember, and its becoming ever more evident/obvious, that “the whole world lies in the Wicked One” (1 John 5:19) and that “Satan is the god of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4), and his reach, while ubiquitous, is on a “timer” that is about to run out of sand. A burning fuse. “Tick-Tock Devil!”
Soon, the church of God, will co-reign with Christ, even, as we are told, will “judge angels” who neglected their first estate, who rebelled against God (1 Cor. 6:3).
Chapter 14 in Isaiah descries Satan’s rebellion against God in Heaven, and his subsequent fall. This chapter also describes those who will gaze on him in contempt:
“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the [b]lowest depths of the Pit.
16 “THOSE WHO SEE YOU WILL GAZE UPON YOU,
And consider you, saying:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
17 Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’
We are living in a season where it appears the wicked are thriving and having their way, but we must consider their end as well. God’s timetable is not our timetable, but his timing will be perfect and his true justice/judgment will prevail, when there will be “nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open” (Luke 8:17).
