AS BOYS LEAVE A MESS IN THEIR ROOM
FOR MOM TO CLEAN UP
SO MEN HAVE MADE A MESS OF THIS WORLD
FOR GOD TO CLEAN UP

     When our Premier Parents, Adam and Eve went against GOD’S instruction for their perpetual tranquility and joy they became incapable of being good stewards over the life on Earth that they were given the dominion of. And as their children expanded on the false concept: “Every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Jud.21:25), crime and violence filled the land, and there was no one to check it’s progress.

     Of this early time in Earth’s history it is written: "And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them…And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth." Gen.6:7,13.

     After the great flood, while Noah was still alive, Nimrod became the first man/god, who after his death sun worship was first introduced, whose religious traditions have been carried even to this day. He lived in the time when men were reaching the same point as before when GOD would be forced to repeat His removal of men from the brutal violence, the perversion, and their hatred of all that is “holy, and just, and good” (Rom.7:12). So to prevent the global judgment of GOD against men who stood united in their rebellion against the dignity of life the LORD came down and and divided the single language into multiple languages, and thus the global union of men in sin was thwarted. (And that division of languages remains with us today, thus, validating the truth of the Scriptures).

     Millenniums pass, and then came the One of Whom it was told from the beginning would deliver those who had a heart for the ways of GOD. Jesus Christ came to show men how to live in peace. But we know what men did to Him: they murdered their own Creator, Deliverer—Peacemaker. But death could not hold Him, for death can only hold sin (Rom.6;23) of which Christ had none (Heb.4:15)!

     More millenniums pass, and here we are today, with all the same old injustices, the same old violence of war and crime, the same old abuses of rape and insatiable lusts—and hatred of all that is “holy, and just, and good.” But there is a key difference between our generation and those who came before us. Modern, “civilized” men are trashing the entire world with chemical toxins. Man pollutes everything! And this technology is merely accelerating man's extinction. The psalmist wrote how man so readily will “shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.” Ps.106:38-40.

     To the love that GOD has shown in His great forbearance for His wayward children that He created to live forever in perpetual harmony and tranquility, man responds to heaven's love by giving GOD 'the finger;' or as the Bible says: “they put the branch to their nose” (Eze.8:17).

     So, man has chosen a course that guarantees his own destruction. This is why the Bible teaches that the path of sin is the path to suicide. And yet, in this dreadful outcome, GOD bears the responsibility in both His Foreknowledge and His Sovereign Will allowing for man’s choice to destroy Himself. But in the midst of man's abuse of GOD'S eternal gift of freewill He is calling on the hearts of men, women, and children to simply pray, "Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings" (Ps.17:8). Those who understand the origin and destiny of sin do not want to perish with this world, as the prophecy of Isaiah 24 describes the coming fate of this present world:

“Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down [flipping the poles], and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof……The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away [like a withering flower], the haughty people of the earth [those who live their lives in sinful pride] do languish. The earth also is defiled [polluted] under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws [openly violated the Sacred Law of GOD], changed the ordinance [altered and removed the Sacred Precepts (Dan.7:25)], broken the everlasting covenant [denied the method GOD ordained for the salvation of man]. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left....The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard [wobbling on its axis], and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again [in its present sinful state].” Isa.24:1-6,19-21.

     As events unfold, and sin rises to its crest, (as in the days of Noah), the waning life of Earth will experience "the seven plagues," having at that time reached its lowest ebb of man's moral integrity. At that moment the 2nd Advent of Jesus Christ takes place. But none need be caught off guard, as Paul said, "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief." I Thess.5:4.

     Jesus urges us: "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." "Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not." Lu.21:36; 12:40. All of this must take place because the prophecy will be fulfilled one day soon: “And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.” Rev.11:18.

     From that moment forward, all who have stood faithful to their calling, allowing GOD to live in them, lead them, and guide them, in accordance with the light of their understanding, however great or small it may be, the Apostle Paul gives us assurance and comfort, and we can take his words to heart: “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” II Tim.4:8.