BBD 05.21.21 Judgment is Coming (Classic)

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Classic from 2003

The Burning Bush Devotional

21 May 2021

Judgment is
Coming

I looked
when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and
the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And
the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when
it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is
rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. -
Revelation 6:12-14.

And as it
is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. - Hebrews 9:27.

Ben
Rogozensky had a court date and didn’t know it. He was trying to escape from
jail by crawling through a ceiling crawl space when he fell through the
ceiling. It happened in the DeKalb County courthouse, which is close to
Atlanta, Georgia. Rogozensky must have felt the hand of God when after hitting
the floor he looked up to see the judge. Rogozensky tried to escape but was
soon recaptured. He tried to escape from his day of judgment but was unable. He
must have thought he had it made when he found a stool in the bathroom and used
it to climb into the crawl space. But he was wrong! Judgment is rapidly
approaching for this man and apparently, there is no escape.

Judgment
is rapidly approaching for mankind as well. You catch a glimpse in this passage
of the great wrath and power of God. There was a great earthquake. The
life-giving rays of the sun turned to black, and the moon turned to blood. The
stars of heaven fell to earth like the late figs of a fig tree shaken by a
great wind. You have to wonder if this is the dreaded time many scientists have
feared when asteroids will actually collide with the earth? The power of this
event is such that every island and mountain was moved out of its place. Where
can man go when judgment comes? There is nowhere to run. For it will be too
late.

As we
consider those around us that we come into contact with on a frequent basis -
there are some that we know are lost. How much time do they have? Unless they
turn to God, judgment is rapidly approaching and when judgment comes, there
will be nowhere to run. Do you have any compassion for the lost? Do you really
care that the lost are perishing?

Do you
have any personal responsibility for their fate? The Book of Ezekiel seems to
indicate that we have some responsibility. Ezekiel 3:16-19, “Now it came to pass at the end of seven days that the
word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Son of man, I have made you a watchman
for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them
warning from Me: When I say to the wicked, "You shall surely die,” and you
give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save
his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will
require at your hand. Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from
his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you
have delivered your soul.’”

Now I
am somewhat like a preacher I once heard who said when asked about this passage
in Ezekiel
whether he understood it or not said that he had never fully understood it. But
he said, “I understand enough that it scares me.” We should never be unconcerned about the lost. Yes, judgment is
coming but it is in our own best interest to run a rescue rowboat to
within an inch of hell to rescue the lost before it is too late. Yes,
I think that when we stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ (Romans 14:10; 2 Corinthians 5:10) we will be
glad we had compassion for the lost.

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa
Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Shonda Hutson
(fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a problem
with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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Classic from 2003

The Burning Bush Devotional

21 May 2021

Judgment is
Coming

I looked
when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and
the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And
the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when
it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is
rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. -
Revelation 6:12-14.

And as it
is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. - Hebrews 9:27.

Ben
Rogozensky had a court date and didn’t know it. He was trying to escape from
jail by crawling through a ceiling crawl space when he fell through the
ceiling. It happened in the DeKalb County courthouse, which is close to
Atlanta, Georgia. Rogozensky must have felt the hand of God when after hitting
the floor he looked up to see the judge. Rogozensky tried to escape but was
soon recaptured. He tried to escape from his day of judgment but was unable. He
must have thought he had it made when he found a stool in the bathroom and used
it to climb into the crawl space. But he was wrong! Judgment is rapidly
approaching for this man and apparently, there is no escape.

Judgment
is rapidly approaching for mankind as well. You catch a glimpse in this passage
of the great wrath and power of God. There was a great earthquake. The
life-giving rays of the sun turned to black, and the moon turned to blood. The
stars of heaven fell to earth like the late figs of a fig tree shaken by a
great wind. You have to wonder if this is the dreaded time many scientists have
feared when asteroids will actually collide with the earth? The power of this
event is such that every island and mountain was moved out of its place. Where
can man go when judgment comes? There is nowhere to run. For it will be too
late.

As we
consider those around us that we come into contact with on a frequent basis -
there are some that we know are lost. How much time do they have? Unless they
turn to God, judgment is rapidly approaching and when judgment comes, there
will be nowhere to run. Do you have any compassion for the lost? Do you really
care that the lost are perishing?

Do you
have any personal responsibility for their fate? The Book of Ezekiel seems to
indicate that we have some responsibility. Ezekiel 3:16-19, “Now it came to pass at the end of seven days that the
word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Son of man, I have made you a watchman
for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them
warning from Me: When I say to the wicked, "You shall surely die,” and you
give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save
his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will
require at your hand. Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from
his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you
have delivered your soul.’”

Now I
am somewhat like a preacher I once heard who said when asked about this passage
in Ezekiel
whether he understood it or not said that he had never fully understood it. But
he said, “I understand enough that it scares me.” We should never be unconcerned about the lost. Yes, judgment is
coming but it is in our own best interest to run a rescue rowboat to
within an inch of hell to rescue the lost before it is too late. Yes,
I think that when we stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ (Romans 14:10; 2 Corinthians 5:10) we will be
glad we had compassion for the lost.

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa
Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Shonda Hutson
(fighting cancer); and please pray for my wife, Jeanie, who is having a problem
with her heart.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

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the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a
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