Jesus, Please Get Out of the Car

 

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

Isa 13:10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. 11 "I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the LORD of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.

“In the Day of His fierce anger…..”Judgment Day!” No one escapes except those found in Jesus. When He returns and re-enters our universe with the dearly departed saints, those who are alive will rise up and meet him in the air. Good thing too, because you don’t want to be hanging around the earth when the stars start tumbling down.

 

Isaiah’s words here are echoed in   Re 6:12-16, “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. 13 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.

 14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and 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 who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

 

What’s going on here? I’ll tell you what’s going on here! The holy Lord Jesus Christ will “re-enter” our world, our universe if you will, and these heavenly bodies will be like Isaiah was when he was ushered into the presence of God…..he became undone and that’s what’s happening to all these celestial lights!

 

They have no choice in the presence of the Holy Son of God. Remember that song, “Jesus Take the Wheel?” If we really understood the holiness of Jesus we would change that to “Jesus, Please Get out of the Car!”  It’s what Peter did when He realized he was in the presence of Jesus. Lu 5:8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!"

 

Oh the mercy of God! I am such a sinner, yet I can be in the presence of Jesus on that Last Day and forever beyond because of what He did for me on Calvary!

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.